£1.15 for a Flake

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I'm never buying one again. I cannot waste my money.

If it's a government plan to encourage healthy eating, I think it works.

This last quarter prices have really tipped upwards again. What insane prices have you seen?

A flake in Ireland is £1.65 - we’ve unfortunately had these prices for the last year or so, the government used to talk about sugar tax, now very few people can afford to buy anything other than multipacks on deal, and actually the pound shops have much less choice. I wouldn’t buy in a garage unless I was nearly on the floor with hunger now- I’d guess a lot of people will lose weight because of the price of everything now

Today 4 not 6 like there used to be in a packet of freedom frogs for £1.25, and they have shrunk.
Also £4.50 for small tub of countrylife butter, !!!🤬

Fiver for butter in Ireland

Freddo frogs, not freedom frog's 🤣

@PerkyGreenCat I can completely relate to your description of feeling that when you enter a shop these days you may as well be dancing down the aisle burning £20 notes 🤣🤣 It’s not funny but you did make me laugh so thanks for that!

If you have a Farmfoods near you, chocolate is much cheaper. My sister dragged me there yesterday as her dh had bought chocolate in tesco, and the price was horrendous.
(Tesco's meal deal I used to buy. £12 for a main, dessert, sides and drinks. It's now £15. An increase of 25%).

A green pepper from Sainsbury’s
69p
!!!
🫑 💰
Used to be able to get a whole basket of salad for that.

The increase in dairy milk is absolutely ridiculous isn't it

I'm so annoyed by it..so noticeable

Every year I buy the huge bars of Galaxy for my US friends and send it over. It's always about £3 - £3.50. This year the cheapest I could find in any shop, was £5.75!!!

I saw a curly wurly on sale for £1 the other day. Shocking.

King size Twix are currently 2 for £2.50 in our local BP petrol station. I eat them in singles though.
I can never find grapefruit locally especially yellow and never for 30p!
I definitely agree Home Bargains or B and M are best for stocking up on crisps and I buy nowhere near as much chocolate as I used to.
I’ve eked out a proper tin of Quality Street since Christmas but it was about £18 I think. John Lewis pick and mix.

Most grab bags are only about a quarter full though, nowhere near a full bag. They are more like the regular packs of crisps back in the day. A regular packet of crisps now from gives you about 12 crisps, a small handful.

I honestly wouldn’t mind the price increases so much if they just kept everything the right fucking size 😤 feels totally
duplicitous and scammy. I buy Mars ice creams and had one recently, felt like it was half the size they used to be.

I don’t buy so much crap these days, like someone said about crisps, I used to just buy a couple of packs of something that was £1 for 6 bags and now it seems the cheapest of anything is £2.50 for 6 bags and they’re not crisps anyone here would eat.

I was going to treat myself to a bar of chocolate when I needed to pop into the co-op. But all the single bars were minimum £1.50. So I didn’t. Not because I can’t afford it, but it’s bloody ridiculous!!!! Suppose it helping people’s waistline 😂

I used to buy the boxes of Lindt Lindor and have a ball or 2 each day. In Tesco they used to be around £4.50 for a box and maybe £3 or 3.50 on a deal. Then they went up to £5, £6 , £7.50 , I even saw a box for £8 at a station! Now the "special offer price" is about £6.

I am in another country and I have always thought food in UK is way cheaper. I am not so sure now.

I am only going on these two examples, so it could be that it might just be for luxuries. I have checked the prices (from a normal supermarket not a budget store) as at today and converted:

Flake 32g =. 79p

Lindt (red) 75g box - 3.98 gpb

It is ridiculous, I agree OP.

Seeing a £1.50 sign for a can of coke recently in Sainsbury’s was my “wtf is going on?” moment. Yet in Poundland that is 75p.

The supermarkets go on and on about extra costs they’ve incurred but they know they’ve got us where they wants us and so every year, like clockwork, they announce huge profits.

Lidl this week, 29p

The twirl has been reduced in size

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14478423/amp/cadbury-criticised-shrinkflation-chocolate-product.html

Same for cocoa, prices have risen very fast for similar reasons.

I used to buy a pack of cheap chocolate sponge roles, 10 in a pack for 85p. They're now £1.90..

Insane, my cheap lunchbox staple is a ridiculous price.

Ah. So perhaps it is just luxuries.

As I have done another conversion now for grapefruit. Bear in mind we grow them here and they are seasonal and in season as it's winter here now.

2kg bag from a normal Tesco's type store = £1.35

1 loose grapefruit from higher end store (Waitrose type) = £1 !!

Bear in mind they are out of season for you now, so what is available to you is so much cheaper.

I know they are no flake 😂 but just showing a pricing example in a different food group.

Has anyone had Cadbury's Chocolate Chip Brownies? They were in the biscuit aisle, six in a box, about £1.50 I think. I think they've stopped making them, I can't find them anywhere. I am bereft 😭

I don’t think there is any chocolate bar in Ireland you can get for under €1.00.

Brilliant, thank you , I will go and stock up, 😁 is that the normal price (not a Lidl shopper) ?