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By *gent Coulson OP Man
over a year ago
Secret hideaway in the pennines |
My average food shop for the month was about £55, there is nothing fancy, no splurging, just what I need to fill my store cupboard and freezer.
Yesterday for near enough the same shop was £65, and because of shortages, some items couldn't get bought, so it would have cost even more.
Currently that's £120 increase per year, and I live on my own.
With basic food cost increasing on a daily basis, have you cut back on what you spend or do you just fill your trolley up without even thinking about how much your shop has increased by.
Have you cut back on certain luxuries and treats that you would normally slip into your basket |
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Yep. Only buy what we need.
Shop more at lidl than the big supermarkets.
Buy own brand items rather than luxury brands.
Heinz beans in Tesco are now £1.20, Branston 90p and Tesco 40p.. .big difference. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've cut back a bit on going out - one night out (food and drink, etc) less a month covers any basic price increases and I don't really notice the difference. |
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Realised early after Brexit the food going up and selection down. Now even more so. And I’m not skint but noticing the cost so high. So…example buying Tesco own rice I stash or uncle Ben but thst means shortage of cheaper goods. And…buying for food bank is getting more of an issue….sad sad days in uk |
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Some items have gone up a bit but some have also almost doubled. It's hard out there for people who are struggling and no sign of getting any better. No doubt you will get those popping in telling everyone to manage with what they have and cam afford but for some people it has become almost impossible on top of all other increases, energy, mortgages, transport and so on. Saad really  |
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By *gent Coulson OP Man
over a year ago
Secret hideaway in the pennines |
"How the hell do you feed yourself on so little?!
I was thinking the same. That’s £2.16 a day   "
I have a vac packer, so meats, yellow label fruit and veg gets portions into single serve portions for the freezer.
I make my own soups,stews, casseroles, chilli and curry they get vac packed.
I scratch make my own bread, pies and cakes/deserts.
I have an app that tracks supermarket prices, so I can always buy the lowest priced items |
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We started on our store cupboards ages ago and it's now worth more than double what we paid for it ?? but sad days indeed and a very sad state of affairs but then we sort of saw the utter shit show coming and now it's been sped up by various other factors so we did our boy scouts thing and alreaady cut back on stuff but sadly only going to get a whole lot worse and quite shocking how little control our Government has on anything that really matters now and the chickens are coming home to roost ??? |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
It's not so much the cost of the bigger shops that shocks me, it's going to get milk or bread and a few other bits and how much that has increased. The cost of milk alone has almost doubled in the last year |
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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago
Reading |
I spend on food about £50 a week . Perhaps a bit less. Did shopping this morning. If take out couple items that do not buy weekly or even monthly. Spent £ 23 . I am lucky as have a wholesaler card. Get all meat from there. Last shop cost £90. This after dividing up , some cooking and again dividing up. Gave me 45 meals. So about 6 weeks meals. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I spend about 100 a week but that’s for me and the daughter and 2 cats
Includes cleaning stuff and toiletries too "
That's roughly what we spend too for 2 adults and one cat. Our shopping budget has gone up slightly however we have just adapted what we buy but we don't go without anything. |
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I saw two onions in a wrapper for £1.30 yesterday. That is 65p an onion! Literally next to those “packaged” onions were a box of open onions for £1 a kg (basically 25p an onion) for the _same_ onions.
Everyone was taking the wrapped ones and then complaining about the price. Of course the wrapped ones are expensive - they are well over double the price for the same thing!!!
I worry about people’s ability to compare apples and oranges - or in this case onion and onions. |
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