How much?!

[Theonewhogotthecake]

i was looking to make a Cherry Bakewell pudding but I’ve seen that 250g of ground almonds is £4.20, £6.50 for 500g! So that’s a no!

Anyone else had to change their meal plans recently?

You don't understand that a poor harvest also = less crops for human consumption and therefore price rises?
Yields are hugely down in many areas after this summer.

I no longer buy the Persil or Ariel washing pods at around £12 a bag. I pick up the Surf liquid for £2.95. Does the job just as well

Bloody hell, I've not been to Morrisons for ages because they are expensive but that takes the piss - £4.99 in both Tesco and Asda, and I think even that's expensive!

Meat is crazy prices. I fancied to make a lamb rogan josh the other night till I realised the meat alone would cost £16.
Lentil dahl it is.

Pecans ... recipe said 250g. 4.95 per 100g. 200g sufficed.

Check the yellow sticker areas this evening. Found loads of joints in my Tesco earlier , about £5 down at the time - first reduction - they will be a lot cheaper later. No one is buying joints in this weather - and I mean a lot and when looking at the shelves there’s a lot more with sell by this week so if the weather holds , should be worth popping in each evening.

I’m similar Suki1964 but I like good coffee and chocolate and of course both have doubled in price 🤦‍♀️

almonds are another thing impacted by climate change

as a pp said / the weather / climate is driving price rises

it will get much worse and will affect those who changed their behaviour as well as those who didn’t

We never eat fish or shellfish as its too expensive. Same with lamb and beef,other than minced beef occasionally which I bulk out with beans or lentils.
Buy yellow stickered stuff whenever I can. Stopped buying individual flavoured yoghurts. Buy own brand ketchup,beans,cereal.
Am eternally grateful I no longer have a young family to feed!

Supermarket birthday cakes...not the ones you order, just literally the ones sitting on the shelf. £18! It wasn't even particularly big...just a standard round sponge with icing and some sprinkles.

We buy the crosta mollica pizza base...it already has the tomato on top...I think it costs just over £2...I buy a value ball of mozzarella and top it with that. Means you get quite a decent tasting pizza for about £3.

This is true.

How will people survive? It’s a real worry.

The price of nuts has increased a lot.
For a bakewell ish hit, I make muffins flavoured with almond essence and put a spoon of cherry jam in the middle.

@Theonewhogotthecake ground almonds 99p per 100g yesterday in Aldi

Poundland sell lovely fake Pringles.

Eaten fish twice this week

Sardines - £3.99 a kilo in the freezers at lidl

Yes you have to gut and take their heads off ( pair of scissors, takes about 5 secs a fish ) - but 4 mins on the bbq - the bag fed 4 adults with salads and bread and butter

"fresh raw prawns " YS use by that day - reduced to £2 - fed two of us, stirred into spaghetti with a creamy chilli sauce ( made with dairy lea and a splash of chilli sauce and pasta water ) and a bag of spinach

I always buy fish YS, even if I dont need it, if it's reduced enough I buy and stick it in the freezer. A packet of pie mix, a small portion of prawns, a couple of hardboiled eggs - supper for 4 - 6

My body cream has gone up 33% since May. I'm spectacularly annoyed by this because it's the only one that's rich enough for me with no major skin irritants and I get through x26 of them a year. Yes, I've tried absolutely every combination on the market over the last 34 years.

If you're mug enough to pay full price, they would now set me back £207 a year. As it is, there's usually always a BOGOHP, so it's gone from £116 a year for me to £155. I usually buy a year's worth at a time to minimise faffing but because I'm in a smaller house this year, I did not.

I really, really don't know why the ONS bothers publishing monthly inflation figures when it never represents what people actually have to spend money on that is not the basics of food shopping. Other recent irritants (due to the % increase):

Alarm clock - £5.99 beginning of July, £8.99 middle of July when I ordered it ( 50%), travel fridge, £93 mid July, £105 end of July when I ordered it (12).

And I really cannot justify ordering an outdoor bench that I paid £169 for in 2021 that is now £269.

It's never just 50p anymore, is it? And it absolutely never is what the government claim the rate of inflation is - so why do they even bother?

Options hot chocolate used to be around £2 for the jar and I was shocked yesterday to see it at £6 in the coop

Youth Hostel Assciatiin went over to dynamic pricing a few years back. I was looking for a bed for two nights fellwalking - £90 a night in a SHARED DORM.

That's awful. I always thought they priced low in order to help people.

I bought a secondhand sofa for £200 in 2023. I had to give it away when we moved. A few days ago I saw the same secondhand sofa for sale in a different county being sold by the British Heart Foundation for £295.

Apparently the sofa's followed me from one county to the next and has appreciated in value by almost 50% in two years.

This ain't no oil painting, beautiful antique type sofa either. It's just a sofa. And now it's even more secondhand than the secondhandness it was when I bought it.

I find the BHF's prices to be eye popping these days. They've been going that way for a few years.

Cadbury’s Brunch Bars were £1.25 for 5 and have now had a ‘rebrand’ and shrinkflation - £1.50 for 4!

Youth hostels became expensive when people stopped mucking in and making do

now they help by providing free trips to children and families in need as far as I understand

My cat visited the vet today as he's been off colour. He has to be sedated to be examined because he's a bad tempered bastard,so that does put the price up but even so! Examination, bloods,teeth scaled and antibiotics prescribed...£540!
I dithered about renewing his pet insurance earlier this year because that had rocketed too,but I'm glad I did. However I'm.sure the small print will avoid them paying out on as much as possible!

And I'm now correcting myself, mince in Tesco today was £5.39, so that's a 40p jump in a week !