Price of Tesco Noodles SKYROCKETED - is this our future?

[EileenAlanna]

Was in Tesco on Wednesday & as usual went to get a couple of packets of their 14p Curry/Chicken Noodles to add to my stockpile. They've gone up to 24p. 24p!!!!! Needless to say I didn't buy them. I'm already on the verge of being priced out of the Pound Shops, will there be anything still in my price range after Brexit?????

I too have noticed quite a few increases here and there.

Unicorn food is still quite reasonable though. Stocking up on that before everyone needs to buy it.

I'm interested to know what you can buy if 24p noodles are too expensive. What food would you buy instead that is cheaper?

I'm interested to know what you can buy if 24p noodles are too expensive.What food would you buy instead that is cheaper?

Quite a lot of something it would seem;
"hauling a full shopping trolley behind me"

I would imagine she means that the shopping list is carefully budgeted to the penny and sharp increase in the price of one item could mean that it simply won't add up.

Are you sure they haven't changed the packaging? I'm currently living off instant noodles (I'm pregnant and it's my most bizarre craving....) and I've been doing them rounds trying all the noodle brands. Tesco do their own brand which is 85g at the 24p and then there is another brand at 14p which is 65g. I know this because I've become quite interested in the cost difference across various brands of what is essentially the same product (super noodles being an outrageous cost of close to a pound but can't recall their weight).

Of course ignore me if you're talking about pot noodles - I haven't tried any of them.

One interesting little anecdote I read about;

Eswatini (Swaziland) grow peaches.They also have a successful canning industry (tinned fruit/chutneys etc) and they export tinned peaches to the EU. However, because of EU tariffs on peaches, it's cheaper for Eswatini to import peaches from Greece, can them and then ship them back to Europe.

Made in China and imported on containers, nothing to do with Brexit. I suppose at a push it could be down to currency fluctuation, I sense more of a profiteering motive though....... putting up the price, and blaming Brexit seems a possibility.

Can you think of another reason the economy is fucked right now?

Hi @Idontwanttotalk It cuts down an already limited choice if my cheap stuff gets so expensive. A packet of noodles has flavouring already in it & I add chick peas to bulk it out for protein etc. so not much more cost wise going into making that meal. The next cheapest I have is spaghetti (20p for 500g). This needs much more added to it than the noodles. Rice is the same, 45p for a kilo but requiring more ingredients overall. I don't have much meat - not really by choice - & depend a lot on things like the 650g packs of cooking bacon from the Pound shops, I get 4/5 meals from those, & bags of cheap sausages too. Any other meat depends on what's in the reduced section, usually mince, & how big the reduction is. Haven't had steak/lamb/pork joints etc for years now.

I get what I can each week from the fruit & veg market at the end of the day when they're selling it off cheap & that obviously varies so what I eat is a bit of a pot luck rather than planned & it's pretty basic. I've a 49p cabbage here I'll be boiling tomorrow with some bacon, then frying the left overs the day after with a bit more of the bacon.
So, a long way round of saying I can't really buy anything/much that's cheaper lol.

@Clavinova my shopping trolley is full because I go to Aldi once every 2-3 weeks for things like cheese, coffee, large packs of frozen peas, buttery type spread, a few tins of Corned Beef recently as they have them for £1.35 at the minute, jars of cheap pasta/curry sauce & a few other types of things that constitute my "bulk buying" trips. It's a shopping trolley not the Tardis. It doesn't take that much to fill it.

Hi @zaffa yes, it's the 65g "Hearty Meal" noodles that have increased from 14p to 24p. Stock up on the noodles, you don't want to be running out of those while you're craving them. Congrats on the pregnancy (these flowers were bought reduced to 52p from the Co-Op. Gladiolas, very pretty)

EileenAlanna
It's a shopping trolley not the Tardis.

"hauling a full shopping trolley behind me" does conjure up a certain picture!
Do you have an M&S food hall nearby? Some bargains to be had there at certain times of the day.

Yup, I shop at the "smart price" end of the price range as well, and the increases have been really really noticable, much more so than more mainstream items. Also lots of lines seem to have disappeared.

I guess with branded products there is more room to absorb price shocks, but that the bottom, the margin is low. If price shocks have already been absorbed into mainstream products tho, any future price shocks will impact heavily.

I found same thing other night as went to get the usual 14p noodles as kids live on them not literally lol they love them and most disgust at the price increase by ten pence. I know it's not massive increase but if you buy lots like me then that's a pricey difference.

lol @Clavinola I'm just glad you can't see the picture I present irl with my shopping trolley. I've become one of those weird old women that used to be commonplace when I was young but not so much now.
Yes, I've a M & S & they do great reductions at times. I've my "route" round all the nearby shops (with my trolley) & peer into all their nooks & crannies looking for their bargains.

The packets of things are all getting smaller too. Super Noodles have very recently shrunk. Shreddies got smaller last year. Lots more. Pick things up and they are smaller. But not cheaper. Cheers Brexit.

Do you have a Morrisons supermarket near you? Bread is usually sold off for 9p at the end of the day.

@mumpet68 that's terrible. Yes, you're really going to get significantly hit with this kind of a price rise for something you use a lot of with kids.

No Morrisons, @Idontwanttotalk. I'd a Waitrose that did the best reductions of them all, seriously good bargains, but it closed & a Co-Op took over. Whatever happened to them? The Co-op was where we mostly got stuff when I was a child & the dividend was a lifesaver. Once they changed it to those stamps it just went downhill from there. There's practically nothing I can get there now, just way too expensive.

EileenAlanna

🙈 well they are only €0.12 here in Ireland or £0.10 British pennies so...yeah brexit and all that you guys have screwed over your own nation

Was just doing my online Tesco shop and there seemed to be less washing powders and fabric conditioners to choose from? I'm in Ireland too. Are people stocking up on these items creating a shortage?

lol @KarenBlackpool1997 well I am poor so there's that. I suppose what prompted me to start the thread was the jaw-dropping percentage increase of what's a staple for me. There are huge numbers just like me who are being really badly impacted even at this early stage & it's a bit of a worry what's going to happen in the medium-long term.
There are c. 60m people in the UK & if even 10% are at my level financially (I'd say there are more) then that's about 6 million people being left unable to afford even crappy cheap food for an unknown period of time. I suppose it's something I thought should be aired & of interest to politicians etc because we're their worst nightmare I gather - the millions of poor people deciding enough's enough bringing the whole lot down in a big bloodbath a la French Revolution.

Can you seriously not afford 24p?

Are you a tory?

Funniest thing I’ve seen on MN this week 😂 😁