How Much????

Milk from £1 at Christmas to £1.49 today
Newspaper 90p to £1.20

I now use my bus pass, and take a free Metro, just for one stop and walk back, good exercise and saves me £1.20 which, according to some Tory MP idiot equals my days meals (some hope!)

M & S still sell 2 pints of milk at 95p, and white and wholemeal loaves at 60p ( 65p until recently ). Lossleaders of course, but keeps me buying them meantime.

Paid £3.20 for a black coffee and £3.30 for a sparkling water this morning. So expensive. Lidl ice creams/lollies are delicious and very cheap.

Large cod and chips for £9 !!! Blimey
It’s about £5.50 here

A lot of the supermarkets rip us off. I bought the large catfood this morning and the small lable said something like £4 per kilo but when I checked the small size it was about£7 per kilo. Im sure many people never check and compare.

So many people don’t know how to cook simple nutritious meals nowadays and rely on ready prepared or takeaways.
When I twas a child in the 1930s although from a well off family I can never remember having a meal out in a restaurant. Once a month we went to a matinee performance of an opera and afterwards went the express Dairy for a piece of cake and a yogurt.
When I came back to England in 1989 I was getting 13% on my savings now 0.08!

Ice creams bought away from home have always been dear. Out with a granddaughter some years ago, she was insisting on having a white Magnum and foolishly, I caved in, paying £2.80. Outside the shop said granddaughter managed to drop uneaten Magnum onto the pavement whilst opening it. I was not amused.

If out as a family, we buy ice creams in a supermarket. If any are spare, we offer them to members of the public, generally very happy to accept.

Aren't we are doing super good after Brexit. Saving all this money we pay to Brussel. this is what Bozo are saying every day, it will be better. But it is not. Why all prices of goods, electricity, everything, are rising? Why we should pay more and more for everyday? This doesn't make sense.

I'm a bit confused whether we are talking about luxuries or just the every day cost of living here? If it is the treats like puppies, manicures, ice creams, coffee and cake, toys from the museum shop etc then people will have to factor those in. There will always be those who can afford them, (some without batting an eyelid).
Necessity items like food, heating, fuel are a different matter (and there have been a couple of threads about this).

My car cost £80 to fill a year ago - it is now £110. I saw a tube of toothpaste in the supermaket - just ordinary stuff, not speciality/teeth whitening, and it was marked as £5.00. A block of butter was over £5.00 too - it really is becoming frightening, and although I do have a 'cushion' it isn't very big. I feel for those who are having a real struggle right now, as we are told prices are going to be even higher. I read that the energy companies are being investigated for taking too much by direct debit in order to ease their cash flow; a friend has been told her debit needs to go up to over £900.00 each month, from £200. 00. She was beside herself, and cannot possibly pay this ridiculous amount.

Love it, Petera!?

They got rid of the "two meals for £8.99" deals they used to have in a lot of pubs then??(not been since before pandemic) Now the cheaper meal deals in shops-They are making it so we have no choice but to buy everything at dearer, higher prices- everywhere- no cheap 'deals' allowed at all- and yet they (gov't) said we must support shops, pubs, businesses- How do they expect us to do this exactly if we can't afford to???

A good site to go on is toogoodtogo.co.uk/en-gb/. Lots of restaurants, coffee shops, supermarkets etc will put food on here that they have either cooked to much of or ordered to many.
We have had some nice bits from it and DS and DIL have had some lovely meals. You have to pay some but last time I used it, it was very little though I suppose they may have had to put prices up

The gov't will be having another go at the 'pasty tax' again soon maybe??

The 'trollies piled high" could have been folk buying more as soon as they've been paid (working or not) so they can buy them in before prices rise yet again! Also, folk on legacy benefits could be doing a big shop before being forced onto UC if they don't know how long it will be till they are paid again, or if they're money will drop in amount? Or the folk already on UC as they get paid once a month.?

And i read other day that 'someone' had called on the cheaper shop/supermarket meal deals be stopped- (the ones where you can get a sandwich/drink/snack for £3.25--£3.45-ish) Who called on that exactly?It must have been the government,again, as how else will lots of working people, students etc be able to afford a cheap mid-day meal??

There is so much doom and gloom being talked about in regard of all the prices that are rising. I totally can agree as I see the prices in the shops every time I go in them. The thing is people seem to be spending money nevertheless. I see trolleys piled high with food in the supermarket. A friend of mine had her hair and nails done last week and was saying the bill only came to £140 pounds so that was reasonable. My dear brother went to view a tiny new born Yorkshire Terrier yesterday and gave the lady £150 pounds to secure the one he has chosen. The total cost of the puppy is £800 pounds and yet my brother is always saying everything is so expensive now. Next time I hear him say that I'll remind him
that paying all that money for a puppy is tres extravagant.

Personally I think we are being taken advantage of, everyone is using Covid to not only add a £1 or 50p onto everything but pretty much either doubling prices or at least adding a third on and I think eventually people will not and cannot afford to pay these extortionate prices and the shops, restaurants, pubs etc will come a cropper through their greediness. It was my birthday last Sunday and DS and DDL took us out to a pub for a roast dinner, I couldn’t believe my eyes at the menu, £18.95 for roast beef, pork or lamb with only hard cold Savoy cabbage with it. 3 small potatoes and a large Yorkshire, if you wanted any extra veggies it was another £4. The roast beef was supposed to be topside, it was awful, chewy and inedible and to cut a long story short both my DH sent our dinners back 3 times due to being cold and tough meat. In the end I decided to have the nut roast after sending mine back for the 3rd time (wished we had walked out at that point) the nut roast consisted of a handful of Paxo stuffing with a few cashews chucked in….yuk disgusting! I didn’t have desert as I wouldn’t let them pay £6.95 for a small desert each either. It turned out to be a disaster for us, luckily for them my DS & DDL had burgers so they said theirs was ok, but with all the messing about sending ours back they finished at different times to us and had to sit and watch us struggle to eat a vile expensive meal. My DH is right when he said not only have prices gone up but standards have gone down with a lot of these pubs. In future I’ll cook my own I think.

I’m dreading the school holidays. We haven’t had the heating on at all for the last two winters. Where will it end?
I think we will be going to the park a lot or doing crafts for the summer. Mine have seven weeks off! It will be more like hell than a holiday?‍♀️
I don’t think my disability benefit will rise to reflect price increases.
The powers that be are completely clueless to the struggles of poor families. I fear we may even need to use a food bank.

I think Rachel MacLean was on tv- when asked what those who cannot work should do (including those who are disabled but can't still work) she suggested they claim the "Household support fund" - i looked that up- its a one-off £144 grant from council (mainly paid in emergency/urgent situations, and currently martin Lewis is telling folk to claim it if they're home is not in A-D council tax band, for the £150) so if the council is paying it out for that reason, probably not going to fork it out for other 'lesser' reasons like not affording food then.('lesser' in their opinion,not mine)?

Two new medium grade tyres for our small car this week. £200.

Had to get new tyres this morning and the garage was SO busy. A constant stream of customers, mostly women.They must be making a fortune with the prices they charge but that hadn't stopped the customers.Also the cars looked pretty top range.

We were never able to take our two children into cafes or restaurants when they were young. Just didn't have the money (70 s/80s). Mortgage rate went up to 17% at one point and dont think it was ever under 10%.
Now we have a bit of savings our return is 0.01% , we have lost out both ways.

I was shocked yesterday at the price of garlic bread. 99p when I last bought it £2.40 yesterday and I left the £5.00 Sourdough loaf on the shelf.
In response to the post about regular pay rises during previous inflationary times, I don’t recall that at all but I do remember the struggle when we bought our first home. Interest rates were 8% initially but within a very short period of time reached 15%. I learnt 1000 ways with mince and egg and chips was a regular tea as we tried to live within our means.

Haven't bought ice creams or lollies since pandemic started, unless its a carton/pack with a supermarket shop occasionally (but rarely)- but even those have gone sky high.Its like shops don't know where to stop now with their prices- who in fairness is going to pay seven pounds plus etc for a tub of ice cream when folk need to buy a main meal?A lot of places/vendors/smaller businesses will suffer, as people can't afford necessities, never mind the odd treat.?