PRODUCTS - Farleys now HEINZ Nurture...PRICE INCREASE!!!!

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I know from reading the message boards that there are lots of unhappy mums out there , due to the increase price, per tin of £3.30 that has been added to the Heinz nurture milk, which was formerly known as FARLEYS. I have twins, this is a MASSIVE increase for us & we should come together to do something about this, to show HEINZ that consumers DO still have power! The thing that annoys me the most is this price increase could have been notified, as the change of tins was notified. It's not ok to just change our babies formula over, this can cause stomach upset, constipation, vomiting. Heinz try to tell us they care for our babies, CLEARLY, they are all about PROFIT ...so let's hit 'em where it hurts!!!
We should boycott Heinz products for a week, all of their products, for one week. Believe me, they will notice the decrease in sales. Get all your friends to do it too, even if they have NOT been affected by this sly price increase. Please, let me know by answering this thread, if you think, collectively, as mumsnet mummies, that we could arrange this.
best regards, ANGRY MUM of twins x

If Heinz wasn't constipating a baby, then the Nurture is giving them runny poos, I feel pretty sure that the reason for this is the modified vegetable oil (Betapol) they have added to it that is doing so.

Surely if you added a tablespoon of cooking oil to your 3 meals a day you would find that your bowels also loosened up. And babies more than 3 bottles of formula a day. This is a rough analogy but there you go.

Heinz is charging you nearly £8 for the luxury of giving your baby diarrhea.

What's the normal price for Hipp Organic?
I'm sure it was under £5 per tub when this thread started, but also sure in Asda last night that it had gone up to £5.50!

Co-incidence?

I am fuming about this and im glad to see i'm not alone! I was under the impression they were just going to change the name. I was expecting a price increas of 50p or so but it has almost doubled in price. We buy our milk from Asda's and a tin of Farleys was £4.87 it now costs £8.99 for Nurture.
I wrote a letter to heinz saying how disappointed we felt about the increase in the cost just for changing the name and mention their slogan "committed to low prices' and how they clearly aren't committed at all, and we got a snotty letter back from them stating that they have also changed the ingrediants that's why it has increased in price. I thought they were meant to be 'experts' in infant nutrition so surely they realise that this can cause stamach upsets and constipation.
We simply could not afford this increase as we are a young family living on a very strict budget especially with the increase in fuel, food and gas. It would have cost us an extra £18 per month which we dont have. We switched to SMA but it made him sickly then we tried c&g and this gave him a rash and he was even more sick.
We are stuck now? has anyone got any suggestions to any other milks?
I certainly wont be buying anymore heinz products. Please lets all stick together and boycott their products - Hit them were it hurts.
Surely there is a food standard agency for infant milk that we can write to, to complain? This shouldnt be allowed.

Delighted to say that have managed NOT TO BUY ANY HEINZ products, at all, for the whole of this month ...nearly slipped up over the chicken soup but hubby reminded me & put the other, well known, condensed variety in trolley instead, lol!!!!
I have every intention of boycotting heinz for ever now - my boys are still not right, they went from contented, happy twins to being two nightmares at feed time & I only have heinz to blame, I could happily harm people for this!
Hope some more of you are joining me in the boycott - would be good to get a list of names going, just to send to the muppetts at heinz, so they can see that yes, consumers do STILL have a voice!

If anyone is trying to find some, our local Lidl has MASSES of Farley's first and second milk in still - might be worth looking if you've got a Lidl locally?

[Hmm] , after reading most posts, what happened to "Bond"? i think that she WAS an "inside job" and has scarpered cos she's been rumbled!!! lol ... anyhoo, i too have emailed Heinz many times regarding Farleys and have also received....erm.... NO REPLY! They are obviously not too bothered about the consumers feelings or the credit cruch, and how a majority of us all now are cutting back because everything is going up apart from our wages, so to add £3 or more onto a jazzed up tin it shows they are just more worried about lining their own pockets with big fat profits and bonuses.

Im still annoyed about this!
Ive told all my friends and family about it alot of them wont be buying heinz products - that'll teach em!
Why couldnt they have kept the farleys and also brought out the nurture so there was an option for ppl on low incomes or just ppl that were getting along perfectly fine with the farleys.

Cant believe these companies, been into sainsburys and Asda and both these now selling Hipp organic at almost £1 dearer. think i agree wiv jiffybaby "big fat profits and bonuses" to hell with us sufferin families out there.
I currently have 3 tins of good old farleys left and was planning to give hipp a go, but by the time I do it that will be the same price as the rest of em.
Anyway my boycott is gong well, not bought ANYTHING Heinz at all. We all need to keep it up!!!

Cereal prices have gone up on a worldwide basis due to a combination of increased production of biofuels, droughts and increased consumption of cereals in china and asia, if those are not the real real reasons then some spectulators are making a fast buck aswell off those assumptions.

Whereas supermarkets can keep other food products low and cut their profit margins to keep people coming through the door, they KNOW that they don't need to because YOU ARE A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE the only issue for them is concern about switching brands.

This is my main concern about formula companies, they don't care about you struggling to afford this shite, they don't care about your babies digestion, they don't care there have been copious amounts of research saying that formula feeding is detrimental to babies health. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS THEIR PROFITS.

Sorry went into mega rant before getting to the point. Basically, cereal prices increase, oil prices increase..therefore cows eat cereal, milk prices increase, transport costs increase...your food prices increases.

I found an eyelash in my tin of Heinz Nurture the other day.