Bloody hell.
£2.75 for a jar of jam.
Half way round Sainsberry and well into triple digits. Go on, tell me what it'll be at the checkout...
Fatty Arbuckle
£17k
£175
if you can afford sainsbury's you are a well off fella......... ;o)
Misery. Shocking. ****. How much!
Thank god it's not Waitrose.
Lidl / Aldi next week
I watched the Simon reeve programme in South America. I think it was Argentina were folk stock piled loo roll as an investment as the price kept spiralling
…have you got to the booze aisle yet? That could swing it well over £200! 🤣🍺🍷🍾
£72, dont hang around looking at the wines too long, the prices will rise before you can get to the till
OP - you could be buying this - only £1.25 and it’s good stuff too…
https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-specially-selected-classic-strawberry-jam-340g/4088600090849
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People buy jam (especially at this time of year?) when there’s been free fruit everywhere for the last two months. We can’t move for jam in this house. Cost so far about £5 of sugar and some lemons.
A similar moan to the OH after he's done his shopping at sainburys. The £1.25 strawberry jam aldi sell is very nice so I refuse to pay inflated prices. (edit, look see another aldi jam fan)
People buy jam (especially at this time of year?) when there’s been free fruit everywhere for the last two months. We can’t move for jam in this house. Cost so far about £5 of sugar and some lemons.
Plus whatever energy your cooker used making it. So approx £lots at current energy prices. Oh, goody.
That Aldi jam is like crack.
Price of second hand Lego is dropping at the moment so not all bad.
Aldi for the win, pretty good food and cheap, combine with a few choice treats from Booths and it's win win.
Edit: £146.78
£2.80 seems to be the price of jam when looking.
£500 + VAT
Without seeing your shopping list?
Plus whatever energy your cooker used making it. So approx £lots at current energy prices. Oh, goody.
Plus thermometer, jam pan and jars....
(We keep any jars we buy, have had the pan and thermometer for 20 years, so now it costs sugar, lemon, maybe pectin).
Half way round Sainsberry
Mmmm...sainsberries are delicious, though. 🙂
Depends which half you've done. Have you hit the booze aisle yet?
Don't go past the butcher, as you'll be dropping off a kidney to pay for it all.
Most of our shop is done in Aldi but somethings you can't get. Luckily sainsburys is literally over the road for the few things. Those few things often come to the same as the 5 bags if stuff from Aldi.
Will have to check that Aldi jam out, don't stop buying jam there as what was on offer was full of corn syrup.
£165? If you think it’s expensive, trying living on an island where we get “convenience store” pricing - came out the other day with 2 carrier bags of basic staples, no booze for £76! We go to Oban once a month, spend about £200 and the savings more than pay for the £45 ferry fare.
Thank god it’s not Waitrose.
Bonne Maman Strawberry £2.35.
£291.69
Son1 is having a bbq tomorrow apparently...
But he's going to buy bread and meat on his way home from school. And charcoal too apparently 🙂
But I've bought him lettuce, tomatoes and onions, so at least that's most of it.
Not.
Coulda bought a bloody bike for that
Etc
Is that before a kidney or two ?
The trick is to use Sainsbury's bags for life but go shopping in Aldi/ Lidl so the neighbours know you are still living the dream.😁
We always have Range Rovers etc in our Aldi, I have you know. Probably all broken down again !
Really glad I'm back comuting to work. Saving £10 a day. I had given it up after breaking my spine 6 years ago. Mainly off road now.
£8.80 for a couple of haddock fillets in Asda earlier 😱
Thank god it’s not Waitrose.
Bonne Maman Strawberry £2.35.
But, but but... I paid £2.75 in sainsberry 🙂
It was the pretentious sloppy low sugar version though.
Why were you buying jam for a BBQ?
New Zealand....
£6 for a cabbage apparently
To put on the toast obviously Frank...
People buy jam (especially at this time of year?) when there’s been free fruit everywhere for the last two months. We can’t move for jam in this house. Cost so far about £5 of sugar and some lemons
Time is the issue. I love homeade jam. Love making things but jam is well down the list!
trying living on an island where we get “convenience store” pricing
I bet it's horrific price wise. I always image myself in situations like that like living like some of these people in super rural Canada or American where it's 4hr to the supermarket and how big a freezer I would need! Gallons of frozen milk etc
Plus whatever energy your cooker used making it. So approx £lots at current energy prices. Oh, goody.
wowsers so for about less than £2 electric (even at current prices) I have 5 litres (at least of blackberry and apple jam.
Fine stick to buying it. Also Rhubarb and ginger jam is like rocking horse shit in the actual shops and ours tastes better anyway. Suit ya self 😉
Mickey - I'll have a litre of blackberry'n'apple please and as much rhubarb'n'ginger as you're willing to sell!
You're dead right about cost and taste.
One off spend on jam pan or other suitable receptacle, possibly jars also; after that - fruit (home grown, foraged or farm shop), sugar, lemon juice, pectin, minimal spend on energy, patience.
Then there's the unquantifiable enjoyment of home made.
I've recently made 2 litres each of damson gin and vodka; cheapest spirits you can find, farm shop damsons, golden caster sugar, kilner jars.
Bottle after 6 months; drink 12 months later; sweetened, residual alcohol infused damsons then give you a great base for desserts!
Mmmm.
a few choice treats from Booths and it’s win win.
we ramraid Booths every year in November when we (family of 5) have a weekend in the Lakes self-catering. Genuinely terrified this year…
Then there’s the unquantifiable enjoyment of home made
This ^^^^^
We absolutely re-use jars. I think we bought some once,maybe?. As for time it really doesn’t take long at all.
More importantly, who has bbq days when the temperature is in single figures. And its forecast to rain all day,. And it gets dark at 4.30pm.
Standing outside in tge dark when you can't see if its raw or burnt . Cooking for for the other 5 who think this is better than the cinema, oh hang on for a minute.... There's lady's involved
Fine stick to buying it. Also Rhubarb and ginger jam is like rocking horse shit in the actual shops and ours tastes better anyway. Suit ya self 😉
I don't buy jam. I'm just pointing out that energy isn't free, and it's also got rather expensive recently.
No-one else "skip-diving" in the managers specials spot where close to sell by date stuff is reduced? Bargains to be had in there and immediate savings plus the challenge of some mystery meals made up of odd ingredient combos.
Where are all these free strawberries to make the jam with?
In the garden. The blackberrys, plumbs, apples, wild raspberries, elder/other berries are/were everywhere. It’s been a bumper year for them.
Of course I don’t have wild rhubarb and ginger ooop north, but it’s still a shed load cheaper (even including energy costs 1 ring on a hob for a little while 😉 ) than buying the stuff at the mental normal shop prices.
In Carrefour, Strawberry conserve is 99c.
Probably 99% suger, 1% Strawberries...
Ooo Bon Mamam Rasberry jam Shirley is God's spunk. If anyone can make it like that, I'll buy it even if I have to hold my nose and go to Aldi.
And yes, the supermarket run has become very expensive and what's with all the missing stuff? When did the Soviets take over?
