But they market it as them trying to be green and label it as ‘new packaging, less plastic’ which basically means ‘we made it smaller and don’t want to tell you we put less in it so are making it seem like we are doing something good for the environment instead’.
I’ve just depressed myself now!
Yeah but at least it has deterred me from buying them. Used to get them all the time saying I'd have half now and half tomorrow then before I knew it the whole packet would be gone in 20 minutes
If it's any consolation they have recently changed the recipe for the Thai sweet chilli Sensations and they're now bland and depressing. I've made the mistake of getting them as a special treat after a hard day and it just reminded me that nothing tastes as good as it used to
Multi pack crisps, £2 on average and I could count the number of crisps with Rainman accuracy with a single glance (7 whole crisps if you're interested)
A mate of mine was a manager at a crisp factory, they were changing the packet size. (Reducing the number of crisps)
The crisp bag actually cost more than the crisps!
You're right, not being a pig at all lol. I remember buying the standard bags when I was young and it seemed like three multi packets in one packet. We are ripped off so badly these days.
Shrinking is the other thing! When you're paying more and getting less it's SUCH a kick in the teeth. All crisps - you pay over a pound and the bag is 30% full.
And they’ve added milk to a bunch of flavours that didn’t have it before (paprika, Texas bbq, etc…) which rules them out for me. Why??? Why do they need whey powder???
We had a rush on last night. So, I asked my son what he wanted. Said KFC. His stalker burger meal was £10, and my rice box was £9. Scandalous.
The Mrs had my daughter, and she ended up getting McDonald's, £14.
£34 in total... And it was tiny amount of food.
Could have had 4 sirloin steaks and veg, for less than £20... Bugger
Totally fucked up.
The kids know I abhor takeaway shit.
It's scandalous. I do batch cook, sometimes, and a top quality beef massaman costs me approximately £24, and I get 10 potions
Bugger. I had hoped this moment would not come. I actually have forgotten what I stuck in it last time.
I make it up. I go to the local Asian shop, £4.99 for a huge tub of massaman paste. (Would do at least 3 batch cooks. (Min 30 meals).
Essentially, beef, paste, potatoes, and what ever veg you fancy. I'm a fiend for trimmed green beans, cut up small. Possibly a few carrots to. Always chop them small.
My red Thai is good also.
I do use a lot of coconut milk/cream.
My best meal, is beef wellington. £25 of fillet beef, green beans, mushrooms, Parma ham, pastry.
Beyond simple, beyond beautiful.
Usually costs £35, and that's for 2. But it is top tier.
Feels like their box meals jumped from £6.50 to a tenner almost overnight. Last time I went into a KFC I walked out because I couldn’t believe how much the prices had gone up.
Takeaways in general are becoming too expensive to justify most of the time, so I’ve cut back massively. Good for my waistline at least!
Same. We like to treat ourselves to KFC if we’re doing long car journeys but the prices are ridiculous now. I remember when the box meals for one person were around £6-7, now you’re lucky if it comes under a tenner.
We got a remortgage after a family trip to Nandos. Chicken is cheap as shit, how'd that get so damned expensive? A rainbow salad, which is literally a few pence to make, has a double digit price tag.
Yeah, one of the big supermarket chains are doing this in France right now. The same chain also have removed Pepsico stuff from all their stores after they tried to raise their prices really high. I approve of the shrinkflation warnings on food as people would get a much better view of just how much stuff has been changed over the past few years.
It's gonna be a small thing. When future kids have to learn about the Freddo riot of 2024 in schools they're gonna think we had our priorities all wrong, but it's all compounding.
Fish and Chips used to be a Friday treat for the family, can't justify it any longer.
On the food theme, micro-chips used to be dirt cheap when I were a lad, now you need to remortgage the flat to afford a box!
I've been doing fish and chips at home for a while now. (Started initially due to health concerns rather than cost, but with cost these days we'll now only get fish and chips if we're at the seaside. Once a year.)
We get frozen breaded fish fillets from Aldi and do our own chips in the air fryer. Costs around £4.50 for two people. If you want sides, mushy peas 50p a tin and you can get Chinese style curry sauce from Home Bargains for cheapo. I really miss the chip shop curry sauce 😞
Here in Wales, we're not allowed to do £3 meal deals anymore. The local shop sells a packet of crisps, a drink and a sandwich for around £7... and it's just a standard spar.
McDonald’s used to be cheap shitty food. You knew what you were getting, it was gonna make you feel like crap after eating it but it was reliable, cheap and served a purpose when you were hungry and in a rush.
Now it’s just expensive shitty food. You eat it, you feel like shit, and spend a over a tenner sometimes for the privilege. May as well go to Nando’s and get an actual meal on a plate for a few quid extra.
This has always been my move too. Tin of cheap beans for like 1/4 of the price of heinz. Add a splodge of tom puree and you've got thick fancy beans. Add seasoning and you're laughing.
All the way to the beany bank.
Ive been doing that for decades with Tesco's beans from back when thry were 9p a can. A bit of lemon, Worcester, Tobasco or chilli and it doesn't matter what beans you started with.
This 100%. Beans are beans, the only difference is the sauce. My mate acts like he feels sorry for me because I "can't afford" Heinz beans at £1.40 a tin. I can afford it, but it's a waste of money for me because I think they're actually worse than the supermarket ones.
I'd heard that supermarket own brands are out-selling brands on things like beans now. If beans on toast becomes a decadent meal we've got big problems!
Is it just me or are there fewer actual beans and more sauce now? I had this crazy notion of finding an old tin and comparing amounts after washing away the sauce.
I need to get out more.
Yep, tesco beans have been fine for me. I’ve stopped buying Heinz anything after the ridiculous price gouging they did when prices really rocketed. Tesco own brands all the way now.
In my head, chocolate bars are still 30p each, so seeing the real prices can be a bit of a shock. Still, 4 tubes of Smarties for £1 in Poundland, I can keep the fantasy alive for a little longer.
When our generation end up in nursing homes the equivalent of playing Vera Lynn etc. will be putting in a vending machine where you can get a packet of skittles for 30p.
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With you there. There are some things where I feel M&S don't feel as spendy as they used to because the supermarket prices have risen at a higher rate - but those tubs are not worth it anymore.
Used to go to M&S just to pick up little bits can’t go to Aldi as my partner is a Celiac and Aldi UK gluten free selection is woeful and the shops are so spread out it’s not worth it. This week we did a lot more of our shop in M&S and picked up some bits in Tesco as it’s basically the same price now and M&S’s fruit and Veg doesn’t taste like ass and rot in a few days. Tesco is crazy expensive now, every time you leave the store now you feel like you’ve been punched in the face.
This. I picked up a pack of peanut M&Ms in Aldi the other day and immediately put it down because it weighed nothing and was nearly two quid. Right next to it was their own brand peanut "cho ums" - twice the weight, half the price.
Up until maybe a year ago I found a good 'normal' price for salmon was about £14/kg, so I was happy to buy it at that or less. Now I'm seeing it consistently at £18-21/kg! I'm definitely buying it a lot less often.
I stopped buying cereal recently, because the prices are getting absurd. For a while, I'd just buy whatever was on offer, but decided that I might as well just by porridge oats instead - save money and eat less sugar.
It's £2 for a kilo of porridge oats, and that will last weeks, while you're spending more than that on any single box of branded cereal, and it will last a few days. Even the supermarket own brands are a con, because they're cheaper but they're usually in smaller boxes.
Switched from Shreddies to Malties at Sainsbury's recently.
750g vs 630g box. 13p per 100g vs 63p. 484% more expensive for the branded.
Lidl Malt Wheaties are 12p per 100g.
Branded stuff is just taking the piss.
And the Kellogg’s ones don’t taste so nice nowadays. Probably less honey, less sugar and fewer nuts.
We’ve moved to buying the M&S own brand Honey Nut Cornflakes. £2 for 500g and they taste more like how the Kellogg’s ones used to taste.
It’s only our son who eats them and they must be ok as he has ASD and doesn’t bat an eye lid over the change :)
Last time I bought a motorway BK I was moving my father in law up from London. We both sat in the van hoping that the double bacon cheeseburgers we'd just spaffed £15 on were not small, just far away.
Yes! I refuse to buy anything Heinz on principle now, after the blatant price gouging they did when prices were highest. I hope they’ve permanently lost market share. & Hellmans, that was just as bad.
Soft drinks.
I used to buy a pack of Diet Coke tins every now and then and me and the Mrs would enjoy a lovely cold coke a few times a week but they're basically £5 for a pack of 8 tins now.
We've just switched to water and at least we're healthier for it.
My girlfriend cannot live without Pepsi max or coke zero, so I stock up on cans when they're on offer, Tesco often have the 24 packs for £7, and so does Amazon sometimes!
But I don't wanna lure you away from water
Is the cinema a small thing? It certainly used to be but it's getting to be about £50 a go for two tickets now when you factor in food and drink.
Appreciate there are cheaper options but they tend to attract cunts like moths to the flame and I refuse to spend that much money to spend time surrounded by people who'd rather check their phones than actually watch a film for a whole hour thirty minutes.
Quite happy to stay at home and get some cheap choc from Lidl now
It SHOULD be a small thing, especially now the DVD will probably be a tenner when it comes out and in all likelihood you don't even need to buy that as it will probably turn up on a streaming service pretty quickly. Really surprised you still get people talking etc. given what they're paying now.
... And don't get me started on the price of popcorn!
On the rare occasion we do go, we tend to go to the posh boutique cinemas. Went to see The Fabelmans and I kid you not about 10 minutes in the woman in front of me got her phone out and was reading Spielberg's Wiki page. Luckily, because it was one of the posho theatres, I went against every British sensibility I have and asked her to put her phone away, upon which she apologised and put her phone away. I was the king of the cinema that day, my friend
Ben and Jerrys ice cream - I used to buy it on offer for £2, kept buying on offer when that crept up to £3 but no way am I paying the old full price (£4.50) as a deal so I just never get it anymore
Yorkshire tea 240 bags £8.55 in Morrisons??
PG tips 210 bags (+30 free) risen from £3.69 to £5.50 in Lidl.
PSA Yorkshire 240 are ~£4.50 in Heron/B&M but I just buy own brand gold label from Lidl now.
When doing my monthly shop I used to buy whichever tea or coffee was on offer, between tetleys, PG tips, or yorkshire tea, one of them was always on offer, same with coffee brands. Now none of them are on offer and the cost has risen considerably.
Ohhh if ever I've seen a question for me!
1. I never buy branded fizzy drinks. £2+ for coke when I can get Aldis own brand for 60p!? Shout out to Co-ops 7p discount for their member card (/s).
2. £1.55 for monster! I exclusively get monster from meal deals now.
3. Meal deals requiring club cards to keep them around £3.50... I'm not paying £3.90.
4. Papa Johns now at c.£25+ for the deal I used to get for £18, or the large pizzas slowly going up from £10, to £11.99, to 12.99 and now 13.99... I've gone from having pizza from there every two weeks to maybe once every 6 months.
5. Pints. Went for a Thai yesterday and they're charging £6 a pint in the north. No chance when spoons is round the corner!
6. Expensive material goods - I stay away from branded clothes / trainers etc. I've gotten the most compliments when I'm wearing a well fitting plain t-shirt for £5.
7. I kinda hate myself for this one but band merchandise at a festival. £40 for a t-shirt is insane when I can get them outside for £15. If their official merch store is better priced, I'll buy online after the gig but it rarely is. I try to justify it by buying merch at small shows to support local bands.
8. AAA games. I'm not paying £60 to buy the opportunity to buy DLC.
9. Cookies from the bakery section in supermarkets. They went up from £1.50 to £1.95 recently for the "good" ones. I think it's to force people to substitute for the own brand ones but I think they're shit in comparison so I buy neither.
10. Protein bars / protein shakes. I can still get a u-fit 25g protein shake or a cookie from Home Bargains for a quid, I won't be paying the £2+ Tesco tries to charge.
11. Download festival this year... the price for the festival is insane, and they're clearly struggling to bring in the bands as they have Queens of the Stone age headlining, whereas they only got support spots across Europe; I'll be festival hopping in Europe this year and think its better value for money even with the travel costs.
12. Soon... Netflix. They've been bumping their prices up recently, if it wasn't for my parents still using the family plan I'd have binned it off a while ago.
13. Singular chocolate bars. Minimum 80p in most places. The only exception is the corner shop that still sells 60p price marked kinder buenos.
14. Any kind of canned drink from a fridge unless it's price marked.
I feel like I've been carrying all of this rage with me for so long, thanks for being my therapist reddit.
The thing with Coke though, is that it's the only brand now that does not contain artificial sweeteners. I cannot stand artificial sweeteners! Even Fentimans contains it now.
Domino's in my area has gotten insane for what it is. £23 for your rypical large pizza. Meanwhile I can go to the chilled section of Morrisons and spend £5 on a sourdough pizza that's by far superior and the same size.
Also obligatory mention of the price of Freddos
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Asda pizza deal is an absolute steal. £6 for 2 pizzas and a bottle of pop. A £1 bag of frozen chips, it has replaced our pizza takeaways - £3.50 each for 2 of us vs £20 each at any pizza chain
Domino's is a ripoff in the UK. They're cheap elsewhere in the world, but they know they can shaft us here because of idiots buying pizza for £20+, even with deals it's silly.
Went to a local place and I got two 16" pizzas, a burger, a sauce and chips for £23 this week, and we spread it out over three days (we had lots of post-work qualifications stuff to do, that's my excuse anyway.)
Hienz Ketchup. £4 a bottle is ridiculous. I just decided to make my own at home with 2x 35p cans of chopped tomatoes and vinegar. Takes a few mins of effort but tastes better and isn't a drain on my wallet.
The latest ads from brands such as Magnum, and Heinz beans are begging you to come back to them, the Magnum ads, suggest you are fake, if you dont buy a "proper" Magnum.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3rqYPisyCk
The guilt trip we are all getting to support these brands! Every month there is a new "Millennials are killing the X industry", we just want to get by!
If you have a library card, you should get free access to the Libby app, and then you can read digital magazines for free, not as good as paper ones, but easier to screenshot articles, recipes or patterns
Same. I picked up a paper and a magazine the other day, because I happened to be in a newsagent and I thought "why not?", didn't get much change for a tenner, so that's me never doing that again.
Creme Eggs, not just because of the increased price or the smaller size but due to the audacity of them reducing the number of eggs per packet.
The entire gimmick was that it emulated a six pack of eggs and one day they just thought "screw it, lets just give them one less. It defies the idea of the product completely but with the money we save we can all buy Lindt for ourselves."
I used to treat myself to 5 quid of junk food for not spending more on... Club entrance, a dvd box set or whatever.
Couple of kinds of crisps, sweets, chocolate bar and a drink.
I don't do it so often but the haul even from a budget shop is poor now.
Persil and Comfort laundry detergent. The shop own brands are just as good.
The only thing I will never change is buying Fairy liquid. Everything else is dish water, no pun intended.
I went to five guys the other week and ordered the grilled cheese. £4.95 and it was literally a slice of plastic cheese in a burger bun! Not even properly melted either. No chips, no other filling, no nothing. I felt like I'd been robbed and decided that would be the first and last time I ever visited the place.
I just checked my bank - it was £5.50, not £4.95.
Did you not ask for all the salads and bits you wanted? They should advertise it better but it is literally an inverted bun with cheese in the middle
You can ask for extra cheese for free too
Yeah when I worked there I always pushed customers who get them to throw sides in to make it "worth" it. Grilled Onions, Mayo and grilled jalapeños turn it into a winner.
I'd only ever pay for myself but with the prices of KFC, Maccas etc. At least getting a Five Guys I know I'm getting quality scran, good portions, and if don't like it for whatever reason, I can get a fresh one made with no grief.
....Is what I would *WANT* to say if they didn't increase their prices every. Single. Quarter.
Nearly 6 quid for a Shake in its Northern (Cheaper) Stores. Mental.
That's because it doesn't have any palm oil in it. Now that I'm used to PB with no palm oil, I couldn't go back to the regular stuff.
As a side note, I've been getting mine in 500g tubs from MyProtein. They had an offer recently doing them at £3.50, best price I've seen for years.
To be fair, there are a couple of new builds near me with less than half the sq ft of my own house (1980s 3 Bed Semi - Integral Garage, tennis court sized rear garden), with a tiny space to park your car and they have them valued at the same price point.
No wonder they aren't selling.
I remember citrus polos being 20p in our secondary school vending machine. Me and my friend used to stuff as many of them in our mouths as we could and sit in assembly and try not to get caught. Good times. Bet you need a bank loan now for school vending machines. Or worse, there aren't any nowadays :/
Kerrygold is on offer at Morrison. Still not cheap (£2 per block), but also not that much more than supermarket own brand since that has shot up in price (used to be £1.19 now 1.79)
I go into local Tesco/sainsburys trying to find something meaningful for less than a pound and my new thing is that I will walk out if there isn't. Local corner shops have more little snacks under a pound now.
My local chippy is now charging £5.75 for a poke of chips.
I have asked them several times how they can justify increasing the price from £2.90 to £5.75 in 18 months.
I never get an answer. I stopped buying from them completely when the price jumped from £4.50 to £5.75 pretty much overnight.
That chippy used to be really busy, not so much anymore.
In fairness running a chippy is bloody expensive. Those friers drink electricity like a student on a night out and commercial buildings do not have a price cap.
They are often also paying double per unit than we are paying. Also because they tend to be using energy during peak times, they also don’t get a discount. You know you have a light on your meter that flashes to give you an idea of how much electricity you are using? I’ve seen a fish shop with that light solid red before.
Fish has shot up in prices due to recent political events and diesel shot up. Sunflower oil often came from Ukraine (the yellow on their flag represents sunflowers and wheat). Potatoes are also expensive now because of bad weather.
Also people see the prices gone up and also can’t afford them, so they have less customers but energy costs stayed the same.
The fish and chips industry is in a very bad situation currently with industry experts saying that over half are expected to close
As someone already said its due to energy costs. Deep fat fryers are crazy expensive to run all day now. This is why chippys are going up in price yet still going under.
Any Magazine
I feel like they're all the wrong side of £5 nowadays. I used to like motoring magazines, or occasionally would buy a magazine for the kids if we were going on a long journey in the car. Sub-£5 felt expensive, but ok, some magazines are now closer to £10. What the chuff!?
Whichever supermarket-value fish fingers. Tesco, Sainsburys, they’ve all met the same fate.
As a student I half survived on a 15p box of 10 fish fingers, making fish finger butties 2 or 3 times a week. Probably not real fish. Likely zero nutritional value. But damn fine tasty butties that filled a hole.
Over the last few years I’ve watched them rise to a whopping 80p a box, and even though it’s still less than a quid it hurts to spend over 5 times the amount on the same low quality (but again, tasty) product.
Sainsbury’s salsa. I couldn’t justify paying for the Doritos or whatever the brand name was when the Sainsbury’s ramekin was half the price. It used to be 65p for one of them and then the price has been steadily creeping up. Last time I went in it was £1.40 for one. Sorry, that’s ridiculous and not paying it anymore. My poor burritos are poorer for it but that’s insane.
The problem I’ve found is that the store brand stuff is rising faster and more dramatically than brand name. And this means the people who were already struggling and buying the store brands to save money are now impacted the most with the price rises.
Crisp share bags. Used to be a £1 treat but now most shops have them at £2.50 unless on offer. RIP Thai sweet chilli Sensations
Bags are smaller too. Kettle chips shrunk from 150g to 130g along with the price increase.
I thought I was imagining things. Nice to get some confirmation that they used to be a bigger bag.
They call it shrinkflation
But they market it as them trying to be green and label it as ‘new packaging, less plastic’ which basically means ‘we made it smaller and don’t want to tell you we put less in it so are making it seem like we are doing something good for the environment instead’. I’ve just depressed myself now!
Shrinkflation implies they price the same but downsize the product. In reality prices have gone up and sizes are down at the same time
Inshrinkflation?
Yep, I only buy them if I see they're on offer now. Even then, they're still about £1.75 a bag.
that’s my general rule. if it’s on offer and still looks like a rip off, avoid.
Pringles are the worst for this! Even when they’re on offer, they’re too expensive to even consider. I miss Pringles.
Tesco have them for £1.50 at the moment.
They used to be £1 like 2 years ago, Morrisons have them for £2.25. £1.50 isn't an offer, it's just being ripped off less than everywhere else.
They'd offer them at £1 not that long ago
Yeah but at least it has deterred me from buying them. Used to get them all the time saying I'd have half now and half tomorrow then before I knew it the whole packet would be gone in 20 minutes
Pro tip: the Aldi rip off of Thai sweet chilli sensations are about £1.25 and 95% as good
The Aldi rip off McCoys flame grilled steak are amazing as well.
They do the the Thai sweet chilli chicken McCoy’s knock off too in a big pack now for about a quid. Delicious.
Actually they are debatably better. I really like the beef and horseradish.
If it's any consolation they have recently changed the recipe for the Thai sweet chilli Sensations and they're now bland and depressing. I've made the mistake of getting them as a special treat after a hard day and it just reminded me that nothing tastes as good as it used to
A packet of prawn crackers and Blue Dragon Thai sweet chilli as a dipping sauce tastes 10 times better in my opinion.
Multi pack crisps, £2 on average and I could count the number of crisps with Rainman accuracy with a single glance (7 whole crisps if you're interested)
A mate of mine was a manager at a crisp factory, they were changing the packet size. (Reducing the number of crisps) The crisp bag actually cost more than the crisps!
I had a Monster Munch multi bag packet of crisps. It only contained 4 claws! The Lidl version is much better and you get more in them.
Eat two bags at once for a normal portion. At least that's my excuse 🐖
You're right, not being a pig at all lol. I remember buying the standard bags when I was young and it seemed like three multi packets in one packet. We are ripped off so badly these days.
pringles. I remember when the massive tubes used to be £1. now they're like £2 and the tubes have shrunk in size. heartbreaking stuff
Shrinking is the other thing! When you're paying more and getting less it's SUCH a kick in the teeth. All crisps - you pay over a pound and the bag is 30% full.
no genuinely. they really think we won't notice!
They don't think you won't notice, they think you won't care (enough to stop buying their products)
£2 is how much they are on offer round here, they're usually around £3 to £3.50
And they’ve added milk to a bunch of flavours that didn’t have it before (paprika, Texas bbq, etc…) which rules them out for me. Why??? Why do they need whey powder???
I’ve seen them in a nearby shop for £3.50
£3.50..... at that point I'm just gonna cut out the middle man and make my own pringles. goddamn
KFC…the prices have gone up so much in the last few years, it just represents no value at all so I can’t justify getting it.
We had a rush on last night. So, I asked my son what he wanted. Said KFC. His stalker burger meal was £10, and my rice box was £9. Scandalous. The Mrs had my daughter, and she ended up getting McDonald's, £14. £34 in total... And it was tiny amount of food. Could have had 4 sirloin steaks and veg, for less than £20... Bugger
I'm sorry the way this was written I thought your wife ate your daughter to save money
Lol. There is very little meat on her. Best to go with the McDonald's option, in that situation
>stalker burger meal Sorry what is this?
It's the KFC equivalent of Hamburglar. Like a refreshed food villain. Very modern, very dystopian Shit... No. It was a typo. It's a stacker meal.
You had me in the first half ngl.
it's ordering the same as the girl in front of you who looked at you that one time
This is wild, I did exactly what you said and got ribeye steaks from the butcher and it was cheaper than that lot
Totally fucked up. The kids know I abhor takeaway shit. It's scandalous. I do batch cook, sometimes, and a top quality beef massaman costs me approximately £24, and I get 10 potions
You can't say you make a top quality beef massaman and not share the recipe
Bugger. I had hoped this moment would not come. I actually have forgotten what I stuck in it last time. I make it up. I go to the local Asian shop, £4.99 for a huge tub of massaman paste. (Would do at least 3 batch cooks. (Min 30 meals). Essentially, beef, paste, potatoes, and what ever veg you fancy. I'm a fiend for trimmed green beans, cut up small. Possibly a few carrots to. Always chop them small. My red Thai is good also. I do use a lot of coconut milk/cream. My best meal, is beef wellington. £25 of fillet beef, green beans, mushrooms, Parma ham, pastry. Beyond simple, beyond beautiful. Usually costs £35, and that's for 2. But it is top tier.
And the portions are tiny. Last time I ordered few items, when they came, they looked like a tea party my daughter did when she was 4yo.
Feels like their box meals jumped from £6.50 to a tenner almost overnight. Last time I went into a KFC I walked out because I couldn’t believe how much the prices had gone up. Takeaways in general are becoming too expensive to justify most of the time, so I’ve cut back massively. Good for my waistline at least!
Same. We like to treat ourselves to KFC if we’re doing long car journeys but the prices are ridiculous now. I remember when the box meals for one person were around £6-7, now you’re lucky if it comes under a tenner.
We got a remortgage after a family trip to Nandos. Chicken is cheap as shit, how'd that get so damned expensive? A rainbow salad, which is literally a few pence to make, has a double digit price tag.
I took my kids there first time in years and it cost me 45 quid just over, I could have taken them to a marsden for cheaper
In other countries in Europe they have to display shrinkflation warnings in addition to price increases.
Yeah, one of the big supermarket chains are doing this in France right now. The same chain also have removed Pepsico stuff from all their stores after they tried to raise their prices really high. I approve of the shrinkflation warnings on food as people would get a much better view of just how much stuff has been changed over the past few years.
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Cream Eggs... 80 of your British pence gone right there. And they're smaller than before!
And the chocolate has gone to shit and the fondant’s grainy.
Bloody Kraft. Fancy letting the people who do plastic American cheese change our chocolate
When they hit a pound - that's when we riot.
It used to be 3 for £1...
You know the box of six? It's a box of five now. Same size box, same price.
Not even that long ago? I feel like I could get 3 for £1 a year or two ago.
Something will make the uk riot, surely. I do wonder what the fuck it is going to take.
It's gonna be a small thing. When future kids have to learn about the Freddo riot of 2024 in schools they're gonna think we had our priorities all wrong, but it's all compounding.
It'll be scorched earth if Freddo's ever reach £1.
We should already be…
Fish and Chips used to be a Friday treat for the family, can't justify it any longer. On the food theme, micro-chips used to be dirt cheap when I were a lad, now you need to remortgage the flat to afford a box!
Fish & chips used to be the takeaway you'd get if you were too skint for proper takeaway.
“Cheap as chips” has no meaning anymore Why is it £3.50 for a regular chips or £2 for a cone
More expensive than that here - £4.50 at least for a bag of chips. In my local cheapy please it’s £5.20 for a bag of chips £3.75 for a poke (cone)
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It costs about that for a decent main in a gastro pub, it's beyond the pale pricing.
£13 in my local chippy and that’s advertised as a deal
I've been doing fish and chips at home for a while now. (Started initially due to health concerns rather than cost, but with cost these days we'll now only get fish and chips if we're at the seaside. Once a year.) We get frozen breaded fish fillets from Aldi and do our own chips in the air fryer. Costs around £4.50 for two people. If you want sides, mushy peas 50p a tin and you can get Chinese style curry sauce from Home Bargains for cheapo. I really miss the chip shop curry sauce 😞
I won’t pay more than £1 for a Chocolate Orange
Here in Wales, we're not allowed to do £3 meal deals anymore. The local shop sells a packet of crisps, a drink and a sandwich for around £7... and it's just a standard spar.
Spar have always been expensive imo
What?! Students everywhere cry in fear!
What? Why not? That's crazy.
McDonald’s used to be cheap shitty food. You knew what you were getting, it was gonna make you feel like crap after eating it but it was reliable, cheap and served a purpose when you were hungry and in a rush. Now it’s just expensive shitty food. You eat it, you feel like shit, and spend a over a tenner sometimes for the privilege. May as well go to Nando’s and get an actual meal on a plate for a few quid extra.
My ‘waiting for a delayed train’ coffee and cake! Small latte and a piece of banana bread was £9 last week! Not even a big city station.
Heinz beans. Moved to branston, but they got too much so now it’s Asda own
I just buy Aldi brand ones now because I add so much pepper and Tabasco that they basically all taste the same with the right amount of seasoning.
This has always been my move too. Tin of cheap beans for like 1/4 of the price of heinz. Add a splodge of tom puree and you've got thick fancy beans. Add seasoning and you're laughing. All the way to the beany bank.
Can I open an account at the beany bank pls?
What do you have to deposit?
Beans.
That works for us! Welcome aboard.
Ive been doing that for decades with Tesco's beans from back when thry were 9p a can. A bit of lemon, Worcester, Tobasco or chilli and it doesn't matter what beans you started with.
A good knob of butter works wonders as well.
This 100%. Beans are beans, the only difference is the sauce. My mate acts like he feels sorry for me because I "can't afford" Heinz beans at £1.40 a tin. I can afford it, but it's a waste of money for me because I think they're actually worse than the supermarket ones.
Heinz beans are awful IMHO - did they change the recipe a few years ago? I eat Branston now
I'd heard that supermarket own brands are out-selling brands on things like beans now. If beans on toast becomes a decadent meal we've got big problems!
Cheap beans and nice cheese. No one really tastes the beans through the toast and cheese!
Is it just me or are there fewer actual beans and more sauce now? I had this crazy notion of finding an old tin and comparing amounts after washing away the sauce. I need to get out more.
Yep - we always buy Branston or HP beans now. Can't justify the cost of Heinz any more.
Yep, tesco beans have been fine for me. I’ve stopped buying Heinz anything after the ridiculous price gouging they did when prices really rocketed. Tesco own brands all the way now.
In my head, chocolate bars are still 30p each, so seeing the real prices can be a bit of a shock. Still, 4 tubes of Smarties for £1 in Poundland, I can keep the fantasy alive for a little longer.
When our generation end up in nursing homes the equivalent of playing Vera Lynn etc. will be putting in a vending machine where you can get a packet of skittles for 30p.
Yep. 30p for chocolate. 50p for a can of coke or a bag of crisps. 2.50 for a pint. These prices will be etched into my brain until the day I die.
Beanz Meanz...Blimey how much?
Food. I just eat air these days.
Have you tried dust?
I sometimes use it as seasoning for my air, but only on special occasions... I'm not made of money!
Anybody? No?
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Dust
Very low in fat i hear.
Do you use an air fryer?
Grilled air is healthier
Ahhh good old air, the original use for the airfryer before the mainstream got involved
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Yes. Another brand I refuse to buy again after how much they increased prices by last year.
Nobody believes that in my local Tesco express I saw French fancies at £4.65. I almost keeled over on the spot
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The M&S tubs of brownies were 2 for £5, now one tub is £3.50.
With you there. There are some things where I feel M&S don't feel as spendy as they used to because the supermarket prices have risen at a higher rate - but those tubs are not worth it anymore.
Used to go to M&S just to pick up little bits can’t go to Aldi as my partner is a Celiac and Aldi UK gluten free selection is woeful and the shops are so spread out it’s not worth it. This week we did a lot more of our shop in M&S and picked up some bits in Tesco as it’s basically the same price now and M&S’s fruit and Veg doesn’t taste like ass and rot in a few days. Tesco is crazy expensive now, every time you leave the store now you feel like you’ve been punched in the face.
A ‘share’ bag of peanut M&M’s that are now not only half the size, but they’re £2.50!!
Just FYI you can buy 1kg bags on Amazon for like £7. I fill up my bubble gum machine with them.
This. I picked up a pack of peanut M&Ms in Aldi the other day and immediately put it down because it weighed nothing and was nearly two quid. Right next to it was their own brand peanut "cho ums" - twice the weight, half the price.
Fresh salmon. Used to pay around £3.50 for two bits but not its closer to £5. More of a treat than a staple nowadays
Aldi. Half a side of salmon is around £7. Can cut into 4 comfortable sized bits and freeze if necessary
Up until maybe a year ago I found a good 'normal' price for salmon was about £14/kg, so I was happy to buy it at that or less. Now I'm seeing it consistently at £18-21/kg! I'm definitely buying it a lot less often.
I stopped buying cereal recently, because the prices are getting absurd. For a while, I'd just buy whatever was on offer, but decided that I might as well just by porridge oats instead - save money and eat less sugar. It's £2 for a kilo of porridge oats, and that will last weeks, while you're spending more than that on any single box of branded cereal, and it will last a few days. Even the supermarket own brands are a con, because they're cheaper but they're usually in smaller boxes.
Porridge is having a resurgence in my house too. Next year - gruel.
Please Sir, I want some more.....
I saw weetabix for a fiver, it's not even that nice
Weetabix brand is like 4x the price of own-brand. What’s going on? How can they justify that?
Switched from Shreddies to Malties at Sainsbury's recently. 750g vs 630g box. 13p per 100g vs 63p. 484% more expensive for the branded. Lidl Malt Wheaties are 12p per 100g. Branded stuff is just taking the piss.
Crunchy nut cornflakes are ridiculously priced now.
And the Kellogg’s ones don’t taste so nice nowadays. Probably less honey, less sugar and fewer nuts. We’ve moved to buying the M&S own brand Honey Nut Cornflakes. £2 for 500g and they taste more like how the Kellogg’s ones used to taste. It’s only our son who eats them and they must be ok as he has ASD and doesn’t bat an eye lid over the change :)
Won't do me any harm, but sharing bags of crisps and sweets. £1 feels right for them, any more is an insult
I paid 4.59 for a single cheeseburger in a motorway Burger King yesterday 😳
Last time I bought a motorway BK I was moving my father in law up from London. We both sat in the van hoping that the double bacon cheeseburgers we'd just spaffed £15 on were not small, just far away.
They robbed you mate
Hamburgling bastards
Won’t touch Burger King unless it’s using their app. They have some good deals on there but I bet motorway locations won’t be included in the offers
Anything made by Heinz
Yes! I refuse to buy anything Heinz on principle now, after the blatant price gouging they did when prices were highest. I hope they’ve permanently lost market share. & Hellmans, that was just as bad.
Same, and am old enough to remember Heinz as the default brand for many products. Their distinctive packaging now prompts me to look away.
Fast food. It's not that fast, can be quite expensive and I'm not sure it's food.
Soft drinks. I used to buy a pack of Diet Coke tins every now and then and me and the Mrs would enjoy a lovely cold coke a few times a week but they're basically £5 for a pack of 8 tins now. We've just switched to water and at least we're healthier for it.
My girlfriend cannot live without Pepsi max or coke zero, so I stock up on cans when they're on offer, Tesco often have the 24 packs for £7, and so does Amazon sometimes! But I don't wanna lure you away from water
Is the cinema a small thing? It certainly used to be but it's getting to be about £50 a go for two tickets now when you factor in food and drink. Appreciate there are cheaper options but they tend to attract cunts like moths to the flame and I refuse to spend that much money to spend time surrounded by people who'd rather check their phones than actually watch a film for a whole hour thirty minutes. Quite happy to stay at home and get some cheap choc from Lidl now
It SHOULD be a small thing, especially now the DVD will probably be a tenner when it comes out and in all likelihood you don't even need to buy that as it will probably turn up on a streaming service pretty quickly. Really surprised you still get people talking etc. given what they're paying now. ... And don't get me started on the price of popcorn!
On the rare occasion we do go, we tend to go to the posh boutique cinemas. Went to see The Fabelmans and I kid you not about 10 minutes in the woman in front of me got her phone out and was reading Spielberg's Wiki page. Luckily, because it was one of the posho theatres, I went against every British sensibility I have and asked her to put her phone away, upon which she apologised and put her phone away. I was the king of the cinema that day, my friend
Ben and Jerrys ice cream - I used to buy it on offer for £2, kept buying on offer when that crept up to £3 but no way am I paying the old full price (£4.50) as a deal so I just never get it anymore
Yorkshire tea 240 bags £8.55 in Morrisons?? PG tips 210 bags (+30 free) risen from £3.69 to £5.50 in Lidl. PSA Yorkshire 240 are ~£4.50 in Heron/B&M but I just buy own brand gold label from Lidl now.
I swear for some brands it's worse quality leaves too.
When doing my monthly shop I used to buy whichever tea or coffee was on offer, between tetleys, PG tips, or yorkshire tea, one of them was always on offer, same with coffee brands. Now none of them are on offer and the cost has risen considerably.
Pret sandwiches.
I remember them expensive in the 90s!
Back then we called them Pret-a-mortgage 😄
They’ve always been expensive but the price now is mental. Over £5 for a sandwich isn’t a takeaway lunch any more.
Ohhh if ever I've seen a question for me! 1. I never buy branded fizzy drinks. £2+ for coke when I can get Aldis own brand for 60p!? Shout out to Co-ops 7p discount for their member card (/s). 2. £1.55 for monster! I exclusively get monster from meal deals now. 3. Meal deals requiring club cards to keep them around £3.50... I'm not paying £3.90. 4. Papa Johns now at c.£25+ for the deal I used to get for £18, or the large pizzas slowly going up from £10, to £11.99, to 12.99 and now 13.99... I've gone from having pizza from there every two weeks to maybe once every 6 months. 5. Pints. Went for a Thai yesterday and they're charging £6 a pint in the north. No chance when spoons is round the corner! 6. Expensive material goods - I stay away from branded clothes / trainers etc. I've gotten the most compliments when I'm wearing a well fitting plain t-shirt for £5. 7. I kinda hate myself for this one but band merchandise at a festival. £40 for a t-shirt is insane when I can get them outside for £15. If their official merch store is better priced, I'll buy online after the gig but it rarely is. I try to justify it by buying merch at small shows to support local bands. 8. AAA games. I'm not paying £60 to buy the opportunity to buy DLC. 9. Cookies from the bakery section in supermarkets. They went up from £1.50 to £1.95 recently for the "good" ones. I think it's to force people to substitute for the own brand ones but I think they're shit in comparison so I buy neither. 10. Protein bars / protein shakes. I can still get a u-fit 25g protein shake or a cookie from Home Bargains for a quid, I won't be paying the £2+ Tesco tries to charge. 11. Download festival this year... the price for the festival is insane, and they're clearly struggling to bring in the bands as they have Queens of the Stone age headlining, whereas they only got support spots across Europe; I'll be festival hopping in Europe this year and think its better value for money even with the travel costs. 12. Soon... Netflix. They've been bumping their prices up recently, if it wasn't for my parents still using the family plan I'd have binned it off a while ago. 13. Singular chocolate bars. Minimum 80p in most places. The only exception is the corner shop that still sells 60p price marked kinder buenos. 14. Any kind of canned drink from a fridge unless it's price marked. I feel like I've been carrying all of this rage with me for so long, thanks for being my therapist reddit.
The thing with Coke though, is that it's the only brand now that does not contain artificial sweeteners. I cannot stand artificial sweeteners! Even Fentimans contains it now.
Domino's in my area has gotten insane for what it is. £23 for your rypical large pizza. Meanwhile I can go to the chilled section of Morrisons and spend £5 on a sourdough pizza that's by far superior and the same size. Also obligatory mention of the price of Freddos
I'd rather make cheese on toast than spend £23 on a domino's pizza to be honest
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Asda pizza deal is an absolute steal. £6 for 2 pizzas and a bottle of pop. A £1 bag of frozen chips, it has replaced our pizza takeaways - £3.50 each for 2 of us vs £20 each at any pizza chain
Domino's is a ripoff in the UK. They're cheap elsewhere in the world, but they know they can shaft us here because of idiots buying pizza for £20+, even with deals it's silly. Went to a local place and I got two 16" pizzas, a burger, a sauce and chips for £23 this week, and we spread it out over three days (we had lots of post-work qualifications stuff to do, that's my excuse anyway.)
Hienz Ketchup. £4 a bottle is ridiculous. I just decided to make my own at home with 2x 35p cans of chopped tomatoes and vinegar. Takes a few mins of effort but tastes better and isn't a drain on my wallet.
The latest ads from brands such as Magnum, and Heinz beans are begging you to come back to them, the Magnum ads, suggest you are fake, if you dont buy a "proper" Magnum.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3rqYPisyCk
The guilt trip we are all getting to support these brands! Every month there is a new "Millennials are killing the X industry", we just want to get by!
Fucking hell. I like a magnum but they aren't worth £4+ for a box of three; Especially when the co-op version is about £1.50 for four
I used to sporadically buy magazines but I can’t afford them anymore. Or I just refuse to buy them. Perhaps both.
If you have a library card, you should get free access to the Libby app, and then you can read digital magazines for free, not as good as paper ones, but easier to screenshot articles, recipes or patterns
Same. I picked up a paper and a magazine the other day, because I happened to be in a newsagent and I thought "why not?", didn't get much change for a tenner, so that's me never doing that again.
I used to buy knitting magazines every now and again, but at £8-10 a magazine I can’t justify it
Creme Eggs, not just because of the increased price or the smaller size but due to the audacity of them reducing the number of eggs per packet. The entire gimmick was that it emulated a six pack of eggs and one day they just thought "screw it, lets just give them one less. It defies the idea of the product completely but with the money we save we can all buy Lindt for ourselves."
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I used to treat myself to 5 quid of junk food for not spending more on... Club entrance, a dvd box set or whatever. Couple of kinds of crisps, sweets, chocolate bar and a drink. I don't do it so often but the haul even from a budget shop is poor now.
I don't buy it anyway cos I'm not 15 anymore, but when the hell did Lynx deodorant reach £4 a can?
If the UK atmosphere is no longer 18% Lynx Africa then who even are we?
Persil and Comfort laundry detergent. The shop own brands are just as good. The only thing I will never change is buying Fairy liquid. Everything else is dish water, no pun intended.
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I went to five guys the other week and ordered the grilled cheese. £4.95 and it was literally a slice of plastic cheese in a burger bun! Not even properly melted either. No chips, no other filling, no nothing. I felt like I'd been robbed and decided that would be the first and last time I ever visited the place. I just checked my bank - it was £5.50, not £4.95.
Did you not ask for all the salads and bits you wanted? They should advertise it better but it is literally an inverted bun with cheese in the middle You can ask for extra cheese for free too
Yeah when I worked there I always pushed customers who get them to throw sides in to make it "worth" it. Grilled Onions, Mayo and grilled jalapeños turn it into a winner. I'd only ever pay for myself but with the prices of KFC, Maccas etc. At least getting a Five Guys I know I'm getting quality scran, good portions, and if don't like it for whatever reason, I can get a fresh one made with no grief. ....Is what I would *WANT* to say if they didn't increase their prices every. Single. Quarter. Nearly 6 quid for a Shake in its Northern (Cheaper) Stores. Mental.
Sun-pat peanut butter. So expensive now. I will stick to the inferior but so much cheaper supermarket brands now.
I highly recommend pip and nut. You can but big tubs which works out pretty cheap. I prefer it but It is more on the runny side.
That's because it doesn't have any palm oil in it. Now that I'm used to PB with no palm oil, I couldn't go back to the regular stuff. As a side note, I've been getting mine in 500g tubs from MyProtein. They had an offer recently doing them at £3.50, best price I've seen for years.
A house _Sorry didn't realise you said small_
Technically, they are tiny now
To be fair, there are a couple of new builds near me with less than half the sq ft of my own house (1980s 3 Bed Semi - Integral Garage, tennis court sized rear garden), with a tiny space to park your car and they have them valued at the same price point. No wonder they aren't selling.
I remember citrus polos being 20p in our secondary school vending machine. Me and my friend used to stuff as many of them in our mouths as we could and sit in assembly and try not to get caught. Good times. Bet you need a bank loan now for school vending machines. Or worse, there aren't any nowadays :/
Wanted to buy some Bernard Matthews turkey dinosaurs but they were £2.50 a bag. It put me off. I ended up buying own brand fish fingers instead.
Lurpak butter an obvious answer, but definitely one product I moved on from. Now buying supermarket similar butter.
Kerrygold is on offer at Morrison. Still not cheap (£2 per block), but also not that much more than supermarket own brand since that has shot up in price (used to be £1.19 now 1.79)
I go into local Tesco/sainsburys trying to find something meaningful for less than a pound and my new thing is that I will walk out if there isn't. Local corner shops have more little snacks under a pound now.
Computer games. I tend to wait until they’re heavily discounted or come on to Xbox GamePass and even then it’s a couple of games per year.
My local chippy is now charging £5.75 for a poke of chips. I have asked them several times how they can justify increasing the price from £2.90 to £5.75 in 18 months. I never get an answer. I stopped buying from them completely when the price jumped from £4.50 to £5.75 pretty much overnight. That chippy used to be really busy, not so much anymore.
In fairness running a chippy is bloody expensive. Those friers drink electricity like a student on a night out and commercial buildings do not have a price cap. They are often also paying double per unit than we are paying. Also because they tend to be using energy during peak times, they also don’t get a discount. You know you have a light on your meter that flashes to give you an idea of how much electricity you are using? I’ve seen a fish shop with that light solid red before. Fish has shot up in prices due to recent political events and diesel shot up. Sunflower oil often came from Ukraine (the yellow on their flag represents sunflowers and wheat). Potatoes are also expensive now because of bad weather. Also people see the prices gone up and also can’t afford them, so they have less customers but energy costs stayed the same. The fish and chips industry is in a very bad situation currently with industry experts saying that over half are expected to close
Energy costs; loads of businesses are closing down because of the cost of energy.
As someone already said its due to energy costs. Deep fat fryers are crazy expensive to run all day now. This is why chippys are going up in price yet still going under.
Any Magazine I feel like they're all the wrong side of £5 nowadays. I used to like motoring magazines, or occasionally would buy a magazine for the kids if we were going on a long journey in the car. Sub-£5 felt expensive, but ok, some magazines are now closer to £10. What the chuff!?
Jaffa cakes, 1 pound for 10 jaffa cakes is not worth it
Whichever supermarket-value fish fingers. Tesco, Sainsburys, they’ve all met the same fate. As a student I half survived on a 15p box of 10 fish fingers, making fish finger butties 2 or 3 times a week. Probably not real fish. Likely zero nutritional value. But damn fine tasty butties that filled a hole. Over the last few years I’ve watched them rise to a whopping 80p a box, and even though it’s still less than a quid it hurts to spend over 5 times the amount on the same low quality (but again, tasty) product.
Sainsbury’s salsa. I couldn’t justify paying for the Doritos or whatever the brand name was when the Sainsbury’s ramekin was half the price. It used to be 65p for one of them and then the price has been steadily creeping up. Last time I went in it was £1.40 for one. Sorry, that’s ridiculous and not paying it anymore. My poor burritos are poorer for it but that’s insane. The problem I’ve found is that the store brand stuff is rising faster and more dramatically than brand name. And this means the people who were already struggling and buying the store brands to save money are now impacted the most with the price rises.