Supermarket excessive price increases not in line with inflation of 3or4%

She sent him to buy a leg of lamb and that is just what he did!

I don't think it would have been packaged that way if it was from the butchery counter M0nica. I was chuckling at that ad last night Kim.

Yet more reason to move to the two well known cheaper chains with whom our own well known ones are 'partially' competing in price. There is a splendid tv advert ridiculing this practice. Love the obvious logic of it!

Tesco do not just sell bottom of the market cheap stuff. This could well be a decent leg of English lamb bought at the butchery counter.

Ah yes - breaking things every time I wash up syndrome?

Perhaps that was his cunning plan?
My father had helplessness down to a ‘T’ - Mum fell for it every time

Poor chap! I feel for him - but it might have got him out of doing the shopping for the foreseeable.

At least she hasn’t frozen it so she can whack him over the head with it should the need arise. ?

Maybe watch this space!

MayBeMaw

Has anybody mentioned the £30 leg of lamb from Tesco yet?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/womans-fury-over-husband-buying-26027392

Thanks , Maw, That’s made me chuckle.

At least she hasn’t frozen it so she can whack him over the head with it should the need arise. ?

Nowhere near.

Tesco is not the same as a good local farm shop though is it.

If he bought a top quality leg of lamb from a good local farmshop, he could expect to pay that - and it would be worth it.

I love lamb and, may be once a year when the family come down I will splash out and buy a leg of lamb like this and pay this kind of price, but we need treats in life and when something costs this much, it is a real treat.

I bought a leg of lamb like this last September. It fed 7 people on the weekend I bought it, provided a Sunday roast dinner for two for two more Sundays. The rest was curried and I made some stock from the bone. In total that lamb provided Sunday lunch for 13 and a stock for a portion of soup each. that works out at just over £2 a portion, considerably less than the cost per person for a decent steak.

Has anybody mentioned the £30 leg of lamb from Tesco yet?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/womans-fury-over-husband-buying-26027392

Casdon my girls usually have Forthglade and I think it worth the cost. I checked out Naturo then Langhams in case I wasn't shopping at a Forthglade stockist. So happy for them to have that if necessary. Buy cheap food for ourselves though

There were two intersting links on the BBC newsite today explaining some of the reasons behind a lot of the price rises

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59982702 www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60082564

We always buy own brand childrens calpol, ibuprofen and antihistamine, works out so much cheaper and products are identical.

@vickymeldrew

I used to be a cat breeder and am still registered as such with Royal Canin, so I actually get the best possible price on my dog food. It comes in 18kg bags and there's very little difference in the price of my 18kg and the 12kg bags that are available from any other seller.
Thank you for suggesting it though.

@GillT57

I agree that Jack Monroe's comments are both pertinent and interesting. Some basic food stuffs have gone up quite dramatically percentage wise, others have kept the same prices but lowered the pack size.

And many have done both, as was demonstrated by Jack Monroe with a bag of rice that in January 2021 was 45p for 1kg but is now 500g for £1.00 - half the quantity for more than double the price.

@lilypollen

Yes, I am aware of these codes on per food too, but unlike on medicines they don't mean that they are exact in composition.

Companies are, most of them, not raising prices to make a bigger profit but because their material, transport and fuel costs have risen.

Food prices have been low for a long time - and people have generally adjusted accordingly.

Loss leaders (goods sold at a loss, such as milk, bread, eggs and alcohol) are used by supermarkets, just to get shoppers in through the door.

They're usually at the back of aisles for good reason. They know once people are there, they'll usually relax and buy a lot more - all the junk, profitable stuff.

It's so much easier to buy online and avoid their marketing ploys.

Calpol was £2.80 and is now £3.50 in my local Tesco. I feel like I should have taken out shares.

as prices have increased i have started to go over to the supermarket at night to get some yellow sticker items, i can usually get some veg reduced that i sort and freeze, been making more soup and having that and a sandwich for evening meals. being on my own i can get by on ready meals from farm foods and using value sausages can make slow cooker meals. the oven never gets used and my heating is just a single heater in my living room, i live on benefits due to illness and it is unlikely i will ever go back to working so i have just tried to cut back and adapt to what i can afford, never have been bothered about brand names so that makes things easier, i don't drink but i do miss my pepsi...lol.

Thanks lilypillen. I use the allaboutdogfood site, and I checked out the Langhams, which was rated 61%, that’s better than many more expensive brands. My spoilt boy has Forthglade, but I shop around, and buy stocks when it’s on offer

Harmonypuss it was the code numbers I saw on the dog food that led me to the manufacturer. I think it is for an own brand product there has to be a trail to the manufacturer that holds the licence to produce that product. This doesn't have to be evident to the consumer though.

M0nica excellent, clear posts Friday 14.24 and 22.54. Thank you.

Food price increases seem to be around 20% now. There were several items I bought the week before Christmas which jumped up the first week of January. An example is a tin of baked beans going up from 70p to £1 - that's a big rise. This week my favoured bread has gone up 20p. We can live without luxury food items such as leg of lamb or steak but these things are basics.

The problem with going to Aldi and Lidl for more than a few items is that they don't do delivery so impossible for us non drivers.