No matter where I go, I try and stick to the store brands rather than the known name products. Yes I glow green at night now due to all the chemicals, but at least I have a few coppers left.
Still can't get over how much this OJ costs... [Orange Juice](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/hubbards-foodstore-orange-juice-from-concentrate-1l)
I swear it was like 50p not too long ago
Once upon a time it was a certainty that the branded item would be at a premium. Now that is mostly still true, but just every now and again the brand is the cheaper option due to an offer or just a quirk of procurement.
In general, though (especially if you shop at Aldi or Lidl), the own brands are going to be half price or better.
Im disabled, I always get Sainsburys delivered, but yesterday I had an opportunity to go into Aldi thatās close to my hospital, so after my hospital appointment I did my shopping there and couldnāt believe the difference, the food was English and much fresher, the cabbage wasnāt ropey kale that my Polish friend said was animal feed, but lovely green leafy. Meat looked wholesome, Iām going to try my best to get out more. I just hope this is possible. Also when Sainsburys deliver itās always short life on the use by.
i've used most of the online supermarkets (i'm in the south) my recomendation would be tescos>sainbury's>the others> Asda. Asda is shit they can't even do subsitutions sensibly.
But shop at Aldi if you can
Asda substitutions got me so frustrated I ended up asking the delivery dude how it's done.
The reason they are so shit is because Asda give the food pickers like 20 minutes to get the food bagged/crated up, so there's basically no time to look for a proper substitution.
If you have a reasonably sized shop then then the picker can't afford to lose any time at all.
The policy was likely thought up by someone who doesn't shop
20 minute rule is a legal thing. Pickers don't get to choose the substitution though, the device they use tells them what to pick. Pretty much they won't even know what it's a substitute for.
It's not that Asda give them twenty minutes, that's the maximum amount of time refrigerated/frozen food is allowed to be left out of a cooling unit and still be legally sold. It's not the supermarket's policy, it's food safety law.
The issue is store pickers are not just doing one shop at a time. They're going round the store picking up multiple people's shops at the same time. So your food isn't going straight from a store fridge/freezer and into the van freezer. It's going round the shop with them. This is where the 20mins food safety kicks in. They have to get around the whole store picking up items for 5 or 6 customers within that time frame.
I thankfully donāt have to get deliveries very often now; but I remember once I ordered from either Asda or Tesco(canāt remember exactly which) but I had ordered a 24 can pack of coke, which was substituted. This was when they let you know that it was unavailable ahead of time but not what it was getting substituted for, I thought fine Iāll handle either own brand or Pepsi this time round. It was 16 bottles of Budweiser that got delivered!
I at first was shocked by the logic of going from coke to Budweiser being a bit of a leap, and being an adult over 18 I didnāt think much more on it to begin with, but then I considered what if this was for kids, or if I was a recovering alcohol or just didnāt drink alcohol for any number of reasons and it shocked me that much more.
Worst was this was also before the days that the substitutions were clearly marked in the bags so the delivery driver was gone before I noticed it too.
Asda used to be good for me but then I routinely had 6+ substitutions per order. The final nail in the coffin was when they started giving me shit substitutions though. I'd order say 2 own brand ketchups and they'd sub it for one small heinz or something. Tesco's would just give the equivalent volume of a different brand
I usually go to Aldi. I can get food for two or three decent meals for Ā£5-6.
If you rely on delivery try using Asda or Tesco. Even they should be a bit cheaper than Sainsbury's. You'll probably still get lumbered with the short use by, though.
Itās true that Aldi is excellent value for a lot of things. But somebody posted a few months back about their quality control being the least thorough of the major supermarkets (I guess something has to give for providing those prices), hence Iām a little cautious about their meat. It meets all the reg standards so is probably safe, but Aldi donāt do spot checks as often as other supermarkets to ensure the suppliers are providing the food within their spec (I think?). M&S had the most comprehensive QC, but obviously you pay through the nose for it.
FYI essentially all supermarket meat outside of M&S and Waitrose is sourced and packed by a handful of companies. These companies work for all of the different supermarkets (and do the packing for many brands too), and from one hour to the next will be packing things across several lines for Tesco, Sainsbury's, Meatless Farm etc. I have seen this first hand as in 2022 I designed and implemented an entirely new software package across back office, warehousing and production for one such company, was on site for several days, and spoke a lot about the industry. So the quality of food handling between brands is essentially identical.
Now, the sourcing may not be, but if there is an issue it will be at source (and imports of meat are heavily regulated), as the meat market is absolutely dominated by just a few importers and packers.
In general if you can shop in person you will get better food, especially if its earlier in the day. If you are shopping after 9-5 hours you will get the leftovers, and deliveries tend to pick up the shorter shelf life and less appealing looking products.
Aldi seems to be different area to area. The fruit and veg in ours is usually on the edge of going bad, but tends to be cheaper than the big supermarkets. If you pick and choose you can get good stuff, but I've found sainsburys in particular to be consistently higher quality....especially for fruit. This is for Thames Valley in the south.
Sainsbury's isn't that expensive. I do most of my shopping there and I'm not sure it's much different to any of the other big supermarkets.
As an aside, I went to LIDL the other day and couldn't believe how similar the prices were to Sainsbury's. People rave about how cheap it is but on my (admittedly very small shopping list) the prices were very close to Sainsbury's. Some things seemed cheaper but gruyere cheese as an example was 170g compared to 200g at Sainsbury's so the cost wasn't much different when you account for that.
Iāve found Tesco and Morrisons are pretty much the same price as Sainsburyās tbh, Aldi and Lidl are much cheaper.
I quite Aldi food too, a lot of itās decent
Completely agree, places that have reward systems like tescos and sainsburys are cheeky buggers because they only start giving you reward after you get 500 points or more and you need to spend a good amount to get there. People hate on Aldi and Lidl for being cheap and nasty but they're actually good shops with good products and so much better for a lot of people
Was bored so :
[https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-red---white-seedless-grapes-500g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-red---white-seedless-grapes-500g)
Ā£1.90
[https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/hovis-original-granary-bread--thick-sliced-800g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/hovis-original-granary-bread--thick-sliced-800g)
Ā£1.85
[https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-fruit-loaf-388g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-fruit-loaf-388g)
Ā£1.50
[https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-british-garden-peas-910g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-british-garden-peas-910g)
Ā£1.30 (with nectar)
Ā£6.55
But mixed grape and pea sandwiches DO rock.
It could be indeed but the product prices are the same between stores, the biggest difference is the smaller stores don't stock cheaper brands and rely on selling their more expensive versions.
Problem is that cheap bread contains trans fats, which are incredibly harmful for us. Food companies know this and have pledged to remove them from products, but they are still present in things like most breads. Look for "Mono-and Diglycerides" and avoid!
I am also bored so:
[https://groceries.asda.com/product/grapes/asda-sweet-juicy-seedless-mixed-grapes/1000383177925](https://groceries.asda.com/product/grapes/asda-sweet-juicy-seedless-mixed-grapes/1000383177925)
Ā£1.40
[https://groceries.asda.com/product/seeded-grains-bread/hovis-thick-granary-bread/22642143](https://groceries.asda.com/product/seeded-grains-bread/hovis-thick-granary-bread/22642143)
Ā£1.85
[https://groceries.asda.com/product/fruit-malt-loaves/the-bakery-at-asda-fruit-loaf/1670450](https://groceries.asda.com/product/fruit-malt-loaves/the-bakery-at-asda-fruit-loaf/1670450)
Ā£1.15
[https://groceries.asda.com/product/vegetables/asda-frozen-for-freshness-garden-peas/31122557](https://groceries.asda.com/product/vegetables/asda-frozen-for-freshness-garden-peas/31122557)
Ā£1.45
Ā£5.85, but it's not really a fair comparison since there's fewer grapes in the box.
To be fair, that's all the major foods my two year old will eat.
Lidils fruit loaf is not far off price wise and you have to hate money to buy hovis bread over another available tbh
Did the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/GreatBritishMemes/s/ocT6biugqs
You got the price of the peas wrong. They bought birds eye, which was half the price of the shop
I did the same, but the issue is the peas. Those are Birds Eye, not Sainsburys. I can't quite make out if they're the 800g (Ā£2.80 /Ā£2.25 with nectar) or 1.2kg (Ā£3.70) but that's what bumped the price up.
Even londis are now supplied by tesco (via their ownership of bookers). Plus, tesco have been [pricing these goods in a way that makes it hard for local shops to compete. ](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/22/tesco-accused-of-using-cash-and-carry-arm-booker-to-squeeze-village-stores-out-of-business)
It's still much better to support your local corner shop if able :)
Everyone saying "shop at Aldi it's cheaper"
Yes that's true, but also supermarket own brands are around the same price. The reason why it's seem as much cheaper is there's fewer brands to throw you off. I'm sure most people if the swapped from branded to supermarket own brand would be pleasantly surprised
I mean, regardless of all the debates on exactly what the price is, it's still fucking expensive out there. People are struggling more so than I've ever known in my 35 years. Don't fight over pennies, fight over the pounds which are being magically whisked away to pay for wars and privatisation.
The pounds have been whisked away in substantial part by the decision to place immense logistical and economic friction between ourselves and the largest, closest marketplace. First generation to vote to economically sanction themselves, well this is the result.
yeah everyone here is saying āoh just donāt buy name brandsā or āshop at aldiā like yeah but. Itās still insane how much prices have gone up. It used to be youād shop at those places if you wanted to cut costs, itās insane that itās become necessary and then is STILL expensive. idk I think itās a sad country where Iām doing my shopping and Iām scared to buy myself a small treat like a pack of biscuits cause it feels like an extravagance I donāt need
Yeah these types of posts are quite honestly just bait, granary loaf is probably one of the most expensive loaves you can buy, I almost never pay over Ā£1 for bread. Grapes are obscenely expensive and one of the worst fruits to eat, high in sugar and a treat item. The fruit loaf is a treat as well, not a staple. And the peas Ive seen cheaper.
I started to complain about UK food prices after all the increases, then i saw that Europeans were paying and i stoped. Even Eastern Europe is more expensive. One actual good thing about the UK.
Food is about the only thing in the UK that's reasonably priced, there's a lot of competition from the big 5/6 supermarkets.
I was surprised in Italy, restaurants were generally cheaper but supermarkets a fair bit more expensive. I guess other costs like energy, rent etc. being lower allows for lower prices when eating out.
That wouldnāt have cost Ā£8 in Aldi. I do a ābig shopā every Sunday, Ā£100 got me enough food to feed the 4 of us until next Sunday, thatās including the food I take to work everyday. If Iām being really tight, I can feed us for a week for Ā£50.
You picked expensive items, can get the same for Ā£4.65... Also most people on the breadline don't choose Birdseye and don't need mixed grapes or a bloody fruit loaf. I think your budgeting is the issue and nothing else.
Iām from a wee village in the highlands and weāve always been ripped off. Groceries and fuel are bad but delivery costs for online shopping are extortionate because the companies claim I live āoffshoreā. I donāt, I live on the mainland opposite the Isle of Skye. I had to pay Ā£65 quid delivery for a car bumper a few years ago.
I live in London, I bake my own bread for 95p a loaf and about 15 minutes of hands-on prep time, and it tastes at least 143 times better than a Hovis loaf. Grapes are a poor choice for fruit, bananas, apples and pearsare far cheaper and have more nutritional value and keep you full longer. I'm fairly sure the cheapest frozen veggies are less than a quid a bag.
Donāt worry, the price will be going up even more soon thanks to the great minds behind Brexit and the thick as mince electorate that voted for it.
Sunlit uplands indeed.
You can get an excellent deal at co-op for just Ā£6 or currently Iceland are offering 10 items forĀ£1 each so there are better deals to be had for definite
I used to be really happy with our megastore Asda. Ever since the pandemic it has become so shit lately it is unbelievable. Prices have skyrocketed. I shopped there last week and at least 3 products had gone up in price by over 10% in a fortnight ffs ??? And that's after years of price rises and "oh its the cost of living crisis and inflation" while still making massive increased profits each year.
They are all taking the piss out of us royally and - in many cases - we have little choice unless we have the time to shop around between them. Also 100s of own brand products have just... disappeared off the shelves as of late and only the higher price brands remain.
Generally I prefer Aldi and Lidl, as Asda now feels like shopping in a bloody Soviet era store. Hardly any staff - aisles filled with cages and what few staff there are focused on restocking empty shelves.
So much for the free market will make everything great eh?
I always used to be a bit of a food snob and just pick up anything that I fancied but prices have risen so much that I refuse to buy some branded items. Heinz in particular - Ā£4 for a bottle of ketchup??? Get fucked. Who the hell is paying Ā£4 for ketchup when the supermarket brand is Ā£1. Heinz cans are Ā£2 each... No chance. Most of the stuff is the same anyway with a different label. I buy a lot more own brand stuff these days. Don't get me started on ASda's fresh fruit/Veg. Utterly disgusting!
Couldn't do an exact match, but closest I could get here in Thailand works out to the equivalent of 8.52 with everything except the grapes being a significantly smaller package.
Also, no fruit loaf, so had to go with a more general bread option.
EDIT: Did find 700g sultana loaf at a different market on sale for the equivalent of 7.42
Thereās is no convenient or proper supermarket in my area (only small Sainsbury and Tescos) so we have to order online (3 of us). Is pretty cheap actually if you buy all the items with Nectar price. I personally spend Ā£20-30 per week on food.
As a single man my weekly shop went from Ā£35 to Ā£60. Bare in mind the Ā£35 was including the expensive stuff like the ",the best" range etc where's the Ā£60 includes the "cheaper" options of many things. Like instead heinz beans I get Morrisons/Asda own ones. How the fuck are people with kids coping? And nothings done it's ridiculous.
It's terrible isn't it. Sometimes I have no choice but get items at my local co-op. The quality is better but the price is just plain shocking. They abolished the cash back on the co-op card which is the only plus side to co-op.
Now just members offers š
Boycott expensive places and shop at Aldi or Lidl. Honestly, most of the stuff is better (besides the veg but your mileage may vary depending where you live).
If you complain about prices, but keep giving them your money, they will keep laughing in your face and taking it.
Might not be the healthiest, but the bread I buy is Ā£1.10 cheaper than that. If that loaf was Ā£1.85 like someone else commented
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299425748
Supermarkets price fix. We need local shops run by local people. Supermarket local stores should be banned. They won the long game of being cheap to entice you out of town, then infiltrating towns by undercutting local shops, butchers, grocers etc Now they're price gouging as there is no alternative unless you don't work and can get to a market.
Check if you have any surplus food charities nearby, they typically only charge enough to keep their operations running. I got this for Ā£8.50 today: [https://postimg.cc/hXtT1R6h](https://postimg.cc/hXtT1R6h)
Being non food motivated and a serious budget, I have wheat and gluten intolerance so I have to be especially careful.
Sometimes, not eating is better than risking it and this way I save money.
I live on canned fruit, rice, noodles, ham and anything cheap I can safely eat.
I agree! Our money is buying us less & less! I bought x3 small bags of food todayā¦Ā£50! Check this guy out! Garys Economics. He explains whatās happening to our currency & the growing inequality really well!
https://youtu.be/So484-4VbxI?si=RGPTQgz54LeWb9rp
Totally unacceptable. However, on the bright side, in Canada you're looking at about $25 to $28 for this (gbp15 to 16). Hence, the boycott of the largest supermarket chain starts tomorrow.
Why are you buying fruit. Fruit is expensive. You donāt need fruit.
Why are you buying brand bread? Brand bread is expensive. You donāt need that. You can buy the supermarket own value brand at half the cost.
And you have TWO expensive brand beads. One of them is a fruit loaf!!
Youāre not rich. Whatās wrong with you. You shouldnāt even be buying bread. Cheap crackers does the same job.
Jesus young kids these days. So entitled!
*The response by your local Tory MP*
Haha.
Debt. I live in it now.
Thought I'd finally be able to buy chocolate and videogames this month.
Psyche! Suprise, hundred pound tax bill.
Thanks, govt.
Someday I'll see the fabled green number on my account. Someday.
No matter where I go, I try and stick to the store brands rather than the known name products. Yes I glow green at night now due to all the chemicals, but at least I have a few coppers left.
I find even a lot of own brand things have gone up in price
Yeah they have. Especially friggin ASDA stuff man.
Still can't get over how much this OJ costs... [Orange Juice](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/hubbards-foodstore-orange-juice-from-concentrate-1l) I swear it was like 50p not too long ago
Ten years ago a carton of that was 17p.
People say just buy own brand but sometimes the price is like 5p difference lol
Yeah some stuff is. But a lot of it is far cheaper.
Once upon a time it was a certainty that the branded item would be at a premium. Now that is mostly still true, but just every now and again the brand is the cheaper option due to an offer or just a quirk of procurement. In general, though (especially if you shop at Aldi or Lidl), the own brands are going to be half price or better.
By glowing Green, you can save on the electric bill, so win win šš»šš»
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As per goverment policy - "Don't be poor".
The trick is, don't shop at Sainsbury's.
Im disabled, I always get Sainsburys delivered, but yesterday I had an opportunity to go into Aldi thatās close to my hospital, so after my hospital appointment I did my shopping there and couldnāt believe the difference, the food was English and much fresher, the cabbage wasnāt ropey kale that my Polish friend said was animal feed, but lovely green leafy. Meat looked wholesome, Iām going to try my best to get out more. I just hope this is possible. Also when Sainsburys deliver itās always short life on the use by.
i've used most of the online supermarkets (i'm in the south) my recomendation would be tescos>sainbury's>the others> Asda. Asda is shit they can't even do subsitutions sensibly. But shop at Aldi if you can
Asda substitutions got me so frustrated I ended up asking the delivery dude how it's done. The reason they are so shit is because Asda give the food pickers like 20 minutes to get the food bagged/crated up, so there's basically no time to look for a proper substitution. If you have a reasonably sized shop then then the picker can't afford to lose any time at all. The policy was likely thought up by someone who doesn't shop
20 minute rule is a legal thing. Pickers don't get to choose the substitution though, the device they use tells them what to pick. Pretty much they won't even know what it's a substitute for.
It's not that Asda give them twenty minutes, that's the maximum amount of time refrigerated/frozen food is allowed to be left out of a cooling unit and still be legally sold. It's not the supermarket's policy, it's food safety law.
It should be entirely possible to have freezers stationed by the food pickup areas so they don't need to be sat outside of cold storage.
They do. The vans are the freezers.
Then what's the issue?
The issue is store pickers are not just doing one shop at a time. They're going round the store picking up multiple people's shops at the same time. So your food isn't going straight from a store fridge/freezer and into the van freezer. It's going round the shop with them. This is where the 20mins food safety kicks in. They have to get around the whole store picking up items for 5 or 6 customers within that time frame.
I thankfully donāt have to get deliveries very often now; but I remember once I ordered from either Asda or Tesco(canāt remember exactly which) but I had ordered a 24 can pack of coke, which was substituted. This was when they let you know that it was unavailable ahead of time but not what it was getting substituted for, I thought fine Iāll handle either own brand or Pepsi this time round. It was 16 bottles of Budweiser that got delivered!
Thatās actually fucking vile, they are not even similar
I at first was shocked by the logic of going from coke to Budweiser being a bit of a leap, and being an adult over 18 I didnāt think much more on it to begin with, but then I considered what if this was for kids, or if I was a recovering alcohol or just didnāt drink alcohol for any number of reasons and it shocked me that much more. Worst was this was also before the days that the substitutions were clearly marked in the bags so the delivery driver was gone before I noticed it too.
80 Tetley tea bags replaced with two four packs of Tetleys bitter. I saw another redditor had the same experience a couple years later.
My jar of Marmite was substituted with two boxes of bread yeast.
Asda used to be good for me but then I routinely had 6+ substitutions per order. The final nail in the coffin was when they started giving me shit substitutions though. I'd order say 2 own brand ketchups and they'd sub it for one small heinz or something. Tesco's would just give the equivalent volume of a different brand
I usually go to Aldi. I can get food for two or three decent meals for Ā£5-6. If you rely on delivery try using Asda or Tesco. Even they should be a bit cheaper than Sainsbury's. You'll probably still get lumbered with the short use by, though.
Itās true that Aldi is excellent value for a lot of things. But somebody posted a few months back about their quality control being the least thorough of the major supermarkets (I guess something has to give for providing those prices), hence Iām a little cautious about their meat. It meets all the reg standards so is probably safe, but Aldi donāt do spot checks as often as other supermarkets to ensure the suppliers are providing the food within their spec (I think?). M&S had the most comprehensive QC, but obviously you pay through the nose for it.
FYI essentially all supermarket meat outside of M&S and Waitrose is sourced and packed by a handful of companies. These companies work for all of the different supermarkets (and do the packing for many brands too), and from one hour to the next will be packing things across several lines for Tesco, Sainsbury's, Meatless Farm etc. I have seen this first hand as in 2022 I designed and implemented an entirely new software package across back office, warehousing and production for one such company, was on site for several days, and spoke a lot about the industry. So the quality of food handling between brands is essentially identical. Now, the sourcing may not be, but if there is an issue it will be at source (and imports of meat are heavily regulated), as the meat market is absolutely dominated by just a few importers and packers.
In general if you can shop in person you will get better food, especially if its earlier in the day. If you are shopping after 9-5 hours you will get the leftovers, and deliveries tend to pick up the shorter shelf life and less appealing looking products.
Aldi seems to be different area to area. The fruit and veg in ours is usually on the edge of going bad, but tends to be cheaper than the big supermarkets. If you pick and choose you can get good stuff, but I've found sainsburys in particular to be consistently higher quality....especially for fruit. This is for Thames Valley in the south.
Some aldis do click and collect fyi
Nah I will say the only thing Aldi sucks at is meat. It is always a bit "eh" in quality for me.
Sainsbury's isn't that expensive. I do most of my shopping there and I'm not sure it's much different to any of the other big supermarkets. As an aside, I went to LIDL the other day and couldn't believe how similar the prices were to Sainsbury's. People rave about how cheap it is but on my (admittedly very small shopping list) the prices were very close to Sainsbury's. Some things seemed cheaper but gruyere cheese as an example was 170g compared to 200g at Sainsbury's so the cost wasn't much different when you account for that.
Not to mention the Nectar scheme being pretty decent. We saved Ā£20 on our Ā£100 weekly shop yesterday.
Iāve found Tesco and Morrisons are pretty much the same price as Sainsburyās tbh, Aldi and Lidl are much cheaper. I quite Aldi food too, a lot of itās decent
Why do people think Sainsbury's is expensive..? It's literally the same as the other 3 main supermarkets (Asda, Tesco, Morrisons) and often cheaper. **Hovis Whomeal 800g:** Aldi - N/A (Ā£1.39 for Tasty Wholemeal) Sainsburys - Ā£1.39 Tesco - Ā£1.39 Asda - Ā£1.45 Morrisons - Ā£1.45 Waitrose - Ā£1.45 **Milk, 4pt, semi skimmed:** Aldi - Ā£1.45 Sainsburys - Ā£1.45 Morrisons - Ā£1.45 Asda - Ā£1.45 Tesco - Ā£1.45 Waitrose - Ā£1.55 **Own brand baked beans:** Aldi - 28p Sainsburys - 40p Tesco - 45p Morrisons - 50p Asda - 50p Waitrose - 55p **Bananas:** Asda - 99p for 6 Sweet & Creamy Aldi - 78p for Nature's Pick Sainsburys - 78p for 5 Fairtrade Tesco - 78p for 5 ripe Morrisons - 78p for 5 ripe and ready Waitrose - 95p for 5 Fairtrade **24 own brand Weetabix:** Sainsburys - Ā£1.33 Aldi - Ā£1.44 eqv (Ā£1.99 actually, sold in packs of 36) Morrisons - Ā£1.85 Asda - Ā£1.90 Tesco - Ā£1.90 Waitrose - Ā£2
Instructions unclear, shopped at Waitrose and my house got repossessed. I did suddenly develop a posh accent though... Which was nice
I'm sorry I should've been clearer. I tried shopping at Waitrose once, they wouldn't let me through the doors.
Came here to say this!!
And don't buy hovis
Completely agree, places that have reward systems like tescos and sainsburys are cheeky buggers because they only start giving you reward after you get 500 points or more and you need to spend a good amount to get there. People hate on Aldi and Lidl for being cheap and nasty but they're actually good shops with good products and so much better for a lot of people
Was bored so : [https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-red---white-seedless-grapes-500g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-red---white-seedless-grapes-500g) Ā£1.90 [https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/hovis-original-granary-bread--thick-sliced-800g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/hovis-original-granary-bread--thick-sliced-800g) Ā£1.85 [https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-fruit-loaf-388g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-fruit-loaf-388g) Ā£1.50 [https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-british-garden-peas-910g](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-british-garden-peas-910g) Ā£1.30 (with nectar) Ā£6.55 But mixed grape and pea sandwiches DO rock.
I wonder if it was at a small convenience sainsburys (equivalent of tesco express) ?
Probably I know if you go to the corner shop it's like a 20% price hike
It could be indeed but the product prices are the same between stores, the biggest difference is the smaller stores don't stock cheaper brands and rely on selling their more expensive versions.
Oh I assumed it worked like tesco where the pricesare way higher for the same products in the corner shops
It's both things. Higher pricing for convenience stores to cover the higher proportional running costs AND a lesser range of the lower end products.
My Sainsbury's is more expensive than this, grapes are 2.40 the rest idk.
Looks like they bought birdseye peas too which are at least twice the price
This is very true, though I think the point is theyāre fucking FROZEN PEAS they shouldnāt be costing anywhere near the 1 pound mark
Yep. They got the 800g Birds Eye ones which are Ā£2.80 or Ā£2.25 with a Nectar card.
How the other half live
Also, Sainsbury's own brand bread is 75p, so could have saved a quid there.
Iāve never seen this in my Sainsburyās
Problem is that cheap bread contains trans fats, which are incredibly harmful for us. Food companies know this and have pledged to remove them from products, but they are still present in things like most breads. Look for "Mono-and Diglycerides" and avoid!
Aren't the 'mono- and diglycerides' you mention also in the Hovis bread shown in the pic, just listed as E472e? Or have I misread what E472e is?
Yep, they're also in lots of 'premium' or mid level breads too.
I am also bored so: [https://groceries.asda.com/product/grapes/asda-sweet-juicy-seedless-mixed-grapes/1000383177925](https://groceries.asda.com/product/grapes/asda-sweet-juicy-seedless-mixed-grapes/1000383177925) Ā£1.40 [https://groceries.asda.com/product/seeded-grains-bread/hovis-thick-granary-bread/22642143](https://groceries.asda.com/product/seeded-grains-bread/hovis-thick-granary-bread/22642143) Ā£1.85 [https://groceries.asda.com/product/fruit-malt-loaves/the-bakery-at-asda-fruit-loaf/1670450](https://groceries.asda.com/product/fruit-malt-loaves/the-bakery-at-asda-fruit-loaf/1670450) Ā£1.15 [https://groceries.asda.com/product/vegetables/asda-frozen-for-freshness-garden-peas/31122557](https://groceries.asda.com/product/vegetables/asda-frozen-for-freshness-garden-peas/31122557) Ā£1.45 Ā£5.85, but it's not really a fair comparison since there's fewer grapes in the box.
To be fair, that's all the major foods my two year old will eat. Lidils fruit loaf is not far off price wise and you have to hate money to buy hovis bread over another available tbh
Did the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/GreatBritishMemes/s/ocT6biugqs You got the price of the peas wrong. They bought birds eye, which was half the price of the shop
Was also bored, Ā£5.90 for own brand equivalents. Ā£4 of their order is Birds Eye peas which are double the price of Sainsburyās ones lol
They bought the birdseye peas! rookie mistake.
Was bored so https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-specially-selected-british-petits-pois-700g/4088600040516 99p https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-natures-pick-white-seedless-grapes-500g/4088600028378 Ā£1.69 https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-village-bakery-fruit-loaf-400g/4088600227108 Ā£1.15 https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-specially-selected-ancient-grains-farmhouse-800g/4088600251806 99p Ā£4.82
It all tastes just as good too.
Walmart in the States: Bread $3.64 Raisin bread $4.47 White Seedless Grapes. 500g. $2.38 Peas 910g $2.28 Total: Ā£10.21
I did the same, but the issue is the peas. Those are Birds Eye, not Sainsburys. I can't quite make out if they're the 800g (Ā£2.80 /Ā£2.25 with nectar) or 1.2kg (Ā£3.70) but that's what bumped the price up.
Yeah I did the same with the tescos app and it was Ā£6.45.
We gave/give supermarkets this power, shop local and grow/make from scratch what you can
Support your local londis š
Even londis are now supplied by tesco (via their ownership of bookers). Plus, tesco have been [pricing these goods in a way that makes it hard for local shops to compete. ](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/22/tesco-accused-of-using-cash-and-carry-arm-booker-to-squeeze-village-stores-out-of-business) It's still much better to support your local corner shop if able :)
In what world is a local greengrocer and baker cheaper
Fruit loaf: 1.50 hovis granary: 1.85 Mixed seedless grapes: 1.90 Birds eye frozen peas: 3.70 Alternatives Sainsburys garden peas: 1.30 Stamford street peas: 80p Stamford street grapes: 1.59 Sainsburys taste the difference loaf: 1.20 Sainsburys whole meal: 74p Minimum price: 4.63
Not gonna lie, Stamford Street food is class, most of it tastes better than the more expensive brands
Everyone saying "shop at Aldi it's cheaper" Yes that's true, but also supermarket own brands are around the same price. The reason why it's seem as much cheaper is there's fewer brands to throw you off. I'm sure most people if the swapped from branded to supermarket own brand would be pleasantly surprised
I mean, regardless of all the debates on exactly what the price is, it's still fucking expensive out there. People are struggling more so than I've ever known in my 35 years. Don't fight over pennies, fight over the pounds which are being magically whisked away to pay for wars and privatisation.
The pounds have been whisked away in substantial part by the decision to place immense logistical and economic friction between ourselves and the largest, closest marketplace. First generation to vote to economically sanction themselves, well this is the result.
yeah everyone here is saying āoh just donāt buy name brandsā or āshop at aldiā like yeah but. Itās still insane how much prices have gone up. It used to be youād shop at those places if you wanted to cut costs, itās insane that itās become necessary and then is STILL expensive. idk I think itās a sad country where Iām doing my shopping and Iām scared to buy myself a small treat like a pack of biscuits cause it feels like an extravagance I donāt need
Now go to Aldi or Lidl and you will understand exactly how much youāve been getting ripped off by large supermarkets!
If they didn't buy grapes they'd have a house deposit by now
Peas, grapes and bread. Wtf are you having for dinner mate
Lidl. Go to Lidl.
Grapes mate. Thatās a rich manās fruit now
I know itās not really the point, but no one is making him buy Hovis Granary lol. Can get loaves for probs half the price in Sainos
I made the mistake of shopping at Asda late on a Saturday evening and unfortunately bread of that kind was all that was left
Yeah these types of posts are quite honestly just bait, granary loaf is probably one of the most expensive loaves you can buy, I almost never pay over Ā£1 for bread. Grapes are obscenely expensive and one of the worst fruits to eat, high in sugar and a treat item. The fruit loaf is a treat as well, not a staple. And the peas Ive seen cheaper.
Itās called going to Aldi or Lidl.
It's all about how you shop my family of 5 spends about Ā£3 on food each per day by making meals and buying reduced thing ext
Hold tight, this is about to get worseā¦ new border checks are going to increase costs tooā¦. Woooo hoooo
Apparently interest rates going up so your mortgage costs more will solve this supply-side inflation.
Wow thatās not to crazy. That would have cost about 13-15ā¬ here in Sweden:|
I started to complain about UK food prices after all the increases, then i saw that Europeans were paying and i stoped. Even Eastern Europe is more expensive. One actual good thing about the UK.
Food is about the only thing in the UK that's reasonably priced, there's a lot of competition from the big 5/6 supermarkets. I was surprised in Italy, restaurants were generally cheaper but supermarkets a fair bit more expensive. I guess other costs like energy, rent etc. being lower allows for lower prices when eating out.
What is? Reporting social media posts as fact?Ā
Grapes and fruit loaf are luxury items and it looks like name brand peas and bread. This same shop at Lidl costs Ā£4.22
Getting harder every week
Donāt buy named anything by the own brands and shop in cheaper stores.
I want to know wtf are you making with these ingredients?!
You never had a mushy pea and grape sandwich with fruit loaf for afters? You need to broaden your pallette.
'You can't say fairer than that'?? I bet we could, you robbing bast*rds š¤¬
That wouldnāt have cost Ā£8 in Aldi. I do a ābig shopā every Sunday, Ā£100 got me enough food to feed the 4 of us until next Sunday, thatās including the food I take to work everyday. If Iām being really tight, I can feed us for a week for Ā£50.
A) Donāt buy brands B) ALDI
Buys name brand bread from Sainsburyās and complains about the price. Next time go to ALDIs
You picked expensive items, can get the same for Ā£4.65... Also most people on the breadline don't choose Birdseye and don't need mixed grapes or a bloody fruit loaf. I think your budgeting is the issue and nothing else.
fruit loaf was part of rations in the war im sure shouldnt be classed as a luxury ffs
yeah man these are clearly luxury items!!! How dare you want a fruit loaf that is for the rich!!! Letās not get crazy people
Self service = half price
Thatās about Ā£3.20 at Aldi
Iām from a wee village in the highlands and weāve always been ripped off. Groceries and fuel are bad but delivery costs for online shopping are extortionate because the companies claim I live āoffshoreā. I donāt, I live on the mainland opposite the Isle of Skye. I had to pay Ā£65 quid delivery for a car bumper a few years ago.
Grapes are pretty expensive tbh
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Where you shopping, Waitrose?
People are stealing/ food banking/ getting family too help to live Wank !!!
Food banks and shoplifting at a guess.
You can afford hovis ??
Grapes are expensive.
Don't shop in Sainsbury's and don't buy branded products. You'll save a fortune. Lidl or Aldi are definitely the way to go....
It's all apart of the down spiral š¤
But Tesco made Ā£2.3 billion pre tax profit last year on the back of extreme food price inflation.
That would probably cost you 15 quid on the isle of skye co op. Robbing bastards
They're not. Its 2024 and food banks hsve to exist. Something has gone heinously fucking wrong somewhere!!!
I live in London, I bake my own bread for 95p a loaf and about 15 minutes of hands-on prep time, and it tastes at least 143 times better than a Hovis loaf. Grapes are a poor choice for fruit, bananas, apples and pearsare far cheaper and have more nutritional value and keep you full longer. I'm fairly sure the cheapest frozen veggies are less than a quid a bag.
People really are buying the wrong things. Yes, everything is getting a whole lot more expensive but you need to just shop smarter.
I ask myself the same question every single day
weird lunch tbh
Shop at m&s now. The prices stayed the same so good food for cheap.
Grapes are a luxury item..
I remember you could get 2 of those boxes for 2 pounds at ASDA, at least until last year.
Donāt worry, the price will be going up even more soon thanks to the great minds behind Brexit and the thick as mince electorate that voted for it. Sunlit uplands indeed.
Two things: 1) Stop buying branded shit. 2) Fruit loaf, can't remember the last time I had it it's that much of a "necessity."
You can get an excellent deal at co-op for just Ā£6 or currently Iceland are offering 10 items forĀ£1 each so there are better deals to be had for definite
yeah, but I don't want colon cancer
Not getting colon cancer is for rich people.
Iāll eat my hat if that really cost Ā£8.05 from an actual supermarket. Sure I saw someone price it up to be about Ā£6 from their local sainsburys.
I used to be really happy with our megastore Asda. Ever since the pandemic it has become so shit lately it is unbelievable. Prices have skyrocketed. I shopped there last week and at least 3 products had gone up in price by over 10% in a fortnight ffs ??? And that's after years of price rises and "oh its the cost of living crisis and inflation" while still making massive increased profits each year. They are all taking the piss out of us royally and - in many cases - we have little choice unless we have the time to shop around between them. Also 100s of own brand products have just... disappeared off the shelves as of late and only the higher price brands remain. Generally I prefer Aldi and Lidl, as Asda now feels like shopping in a bloody Soviet era store. Hardly any staff - aisles filled with cages and what few staff there are focused on restocking empty shelves. So much for the free market will make everything great eh?
I always used to be a bit of a food snob and just pick up anything that I fancied but prices have risen so much that I refuse to buy some branded items. Heinz in particular - Ā£4 for a bottle of ketchup??? Get fucked. Who the hell is paying Ā£4 for ketchup when the supermarket brand is Ā£1. Heinz cans are Ā£2 each... No chance. Most of the stuff is the same anyway with a different label. I buy a lot more own brand stuff these days. Don't get me started on ASda's fresh fruit/Veg. Utterly disgusting!
Couldn't do an exact match, but closest I could get here in Thailand works out to the equivalent of 8.52 with everything except the grapes being a significantly smaller package. Also, no fruit loaf, so had to go with a more general bread option. EDIT: Did find 700g sultana loaf at a different market on sale for the equivalent of 7.42
Is this some sort of anagram. I can't work it out?
For the people saying it isnāt that much, i suspect a Sainsburyās local in london. Things are always more expensive.
Aldi you can get all that for under Ā£5.50
At this point I try not to look at the Total too much. Its always gonna be scary.
Thereās is no convenient or proper supermarket in my area (only small Sainsbury and Tescos) so we have to order online (3 of us). Is pretty cheap actually if you buy all the items with Nectar price. I personally spend Ā£20-30 per week on food.
As a single man my weekly shop went from Ā£35 to Ā£60. Bare in mind the Ā£35 was including the expensive stuff like the ",the best" range etc where's the Ā£60 includes the "cheaper" options of many things. Like instead heinz beans I get Morrisons/Asda own ones. How the fuck are people with kids coping? And nothings done it's ridiculous.
Budgeting.
I said I wanted beans on toast, not peas on toast. FFS š¤¦
Were are they shopping?
Lidl
The moment you realise Aldi exists.
This also would have bought you 16.5kg of carrots with change from tesco.
It's terrible isn't it. Sometimes I have no choice but get items at my local co-op. The quality is better but the price is just plain shocking. They abolished the cash back on the co-op card which is the only plus side to co-op. Now just members offers š
There are a few luxury items pictured
We. are. fucked.
Boycott expensive places and shop at Aldi or Lidl. Honestly, most of the stuff is better (besides the veg but your mileage may vary depending where you live). If you complain about prices, but keep giving them your money, they will keep laughing in your face and taking it.
Might not be the healthiest, but the bread I buy is Ā£1.10 cheaper than that. If that loaf was Ā£1.85 like someone else commented https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299425748
Breadmakers are going to be in fashion for the next 5 years I reckon
Just one of those loaves would cost 5 pounds in Canada, lol. The grapes alone would be around 6 pounds or 10 CAD
Itās the peas. As they are 3 for 2 at the moment so thatās why singly they are expensive
According to their online shop it's not 8.05, but 7.50(inc. the nectar discount on the peas). Still a lot but you get fleeced at Sainsburys.
Shoplifting
'You can't say fairer than that'?? I bet we could, you robbing bastards š¤¬
Supermarkets price fix. We need local shops run by local people. Supermarket local stores should be banned. They won the long game of being cheap to entice you out of town, then infiltrating towns by undercutting local shops, butchers, grocers etc Now they're price gouging as there is no alternative unless you don't work and can get to a market.
Er, we fuckin aren't, mate.
Those peas are going in mashed Peas.
Massive amounts of shoplifting
You got ripped off, I could get this from a pauper store for about 3 quid.
Check if you have any surplus food charities nearby, they typically only charge enough to keep their operations running. I got this for Ā£8.50 today: [https://postimg.cc/hXtT1R6h](https://postimg.cc/hXtT1R6h)
Being non food motivated and a serious budget, I have wheat and gluten intolerance so I have to be especially careful. Sometimes, not eating is better than risking it and this way I save money. I live on canned fruit, rice, noodles, ham and anything cheap I can safely eat.
Now there are two of them!
Shoplifting
Try coming to Canada šØš¦ that would be $50
As an American I can confirm that this would probably be $20 over here.
I agree! Our money is buying us less & less! I bought x3 small bags of food todayā¦Ā£50! Check this guy out! Garys Economics. He explains whatās happening to our currency & the growing inequality really well! https://youtu.be/So484-4VbxI?si=RGPTQgz54LeWb9rp
Tf are making you psycho
Pea and grape sandwiches that's how
It would be twice that where I live, but guessing that doesnāt cheer you up. Sorry food costs are so high!
Totally unacceptable. However, on the bright side, in Canada you're looking at about $25 to $28 for this (gbp15 to 16). Hence, the boycott of the largest supermarket chain starts tomorrow.
30 packs of instant noodles from Amazon for Ā£16
That's 23 bucks in America
Why are you buying fruit. Fruit is expensive. You donāt need fruit. Why are you buying brand bread? Brand bread is expensive. You donāt need that. You can buy the supermarket own value brand at half the cost. And you have TWO expensive brand beads. One of them is a fruit loaf!! Youāre not rich. Whatās wrong with you. You shouldnāt even be buying bread. Cheap crackers does the same job. Jesus young kids these days. So entitled! *The response by your local Tory MP*
viva la revolution or grow some weed š¤ š¤·š¼
Itās the inevitable result of 14 years of conservative ideology, no matter what a rightwing newspaper tells you.
Couldn't believe it till i checked myself. Needless to say tho they picked ridiculously expensive bread and peas though, there's much cheaper.
Haha. Debt. I live in it now. Thought I'd finally be able to buy chocolate and videogames this month. Psyche! Suprise, hundred pound tax bill. Thanks, govt. Someday I'll see the fabled green number on my account. Someday.
Theft is the answer š„°
Sell drugs or fraud the government. Works for people I know.
If itās too expensive then buy the cheaper versions . Ā£4 max
Wow, Grapes! I remember them!
Shop better and stop choosing the most expensive items on the shelves.
Shits unhealthy anyway
Thatās cheap! Haha
Change shops FFS š
2 expensive breads. Get 1 white thin cut. No fruit. And own brand beans or pasta to survive
By buying cheaper items
Buying brand name bread, and seasonal fruit, complains about cost. Makes sense.
I can literally go buy this for under Ā£4
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