Excuse me but HOW is this a £28 shop???

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I bought like 8 items … in ASDA? And I spent £18 on fruit and eggs in M&S shortly before which will probably last about 3 days.

Granted it’s a nice establishment but fruit elsewhere is shockingly bad and you pay like 80% of the price anyway so you may as well get the nice stuff.

Regardless £46 for a couple of days and I didn’t even get anything for me. I probably just won’t eat to be honest, maybe have some leftover egg bites and nuggets.

Literally, how are you all doing out there?

If you take out the toilet roll and the clothes roller, what did you buy that’s actual food ingredients for meals (not snacks)?

But yes, life is expensive now.

That's all branded stuff. Shop down a brand if you can, most stuff is the same if not better.

Well food does cost a lot now. But that shop is mainly toiletries, not food. We don’t buy toiletries in food shop, so they are not in ‘ how much food shop’ costs.

About £160 a week here for 2 adults and 3 year old. But stuff like premium child’s farm toiletries, toilet roll, roller thing, and other shampoo etc etc would be included separately

We're averaging £240 a week at the supermarket for a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 toddlers) and 2 cats. A weekly shop used to cost us literally half of that!

If you switched to supermarket brands and cut out things like crisps it would be cheaper

That's not food? Things have gone up, but if you're bothered by it why buy nonsense?

It look like it’s all brands and mostly expensive things like shampoo, meat and cooking oil so I’m not sure why you’re surprised? How much less would the same stuff have actually cost a few years ago?

I know the prices are awful a family of four spending £200 a week sometimes more. X

It's a scandal how much food prices have gone up. If it's any help I got a lint roller from Poundland. However the price of mince has trebled so it's not a surprise but it's really annoying and also unnecessary.

That's what I was thinking. I get chicken dippers as an easy meal on a weeknight and I assume that's frozen veg underneath, but I don't even know what an apple in a box is?

I try and buy supermarket own stuff. Add a nectar/clubcard and staff discount card and we can manage £100 for a week for a family of four. Sometimes more if we need loo roll/cleaning stuff.

Because you have to pay someone to process all of that. Try buying more single ingredient foods.

@AvengedQuince those are organix bars for toddlers. About £3 for 6

Is that the expensive children's toiletry brand in there?

You've bought brands! Of course it's pricey!

Ella's kitchen is expensive
Cuselle loo roll is expensive
Can't even see what the rest is.

That's like buying caviar and complaining it's expensive for tinned fish

Ah yes - child's farm

I’d say the baby snacks are now really pricey so that plus the non-food items will add up

We spend £200 a week minimum for a family of three adults and four teenagers. Used to be able to do it with £80 about a year ago. We will be back queuing at the food bank at this rate, and we both work fulltime 😱

That Organix apple thing and Ella’s snacks, plus non-food items, are the issue here. I mean there is obviously a huge issue with the cost of living at the mo but your post doesn’t exemplify it imo.

For £46 you can buy 6 apples, 6 bananas, some frozen fruit, seasonal veg, porridge oats, four pints of milk, 12 sausages, eggs, bread, cheese, pasta, sauce, a pack of biscuits and still have change.

Fry light oil when you could just buy normal oil.
And a lint roller.

Nah, I'm not surprised at all that cost £28

You could get a bag of actual apples for half of that!

Child’s Farm shampoo (I think I can see) is £5 in Tesco.

So I buy own brand for literally a fifth of the price!

it’s an expensive shop because you’ve chosen expensive things.

Child's farm and baby snacks are really expensive.

I feel like a lot of people here are missing the point! Yes I agree a lot of these things are more expensive branded products but they didn’t used to cost anything like this. People are allowed to buy brands if they want to! And the prices have gone up massively. We shouldn’t all be relegated to buying the cheapest things on the shelf because nobody can afford anything else. And the cheapest things on the shelf have gone up too anyway!