Is this Mr Potato Head?
(He's in the public eye, speaking here at the Hay Festival in 2017, so I don't feel compromised by sharing this pic.)
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Never shop pre-menstrually or you'll end up with a trolley full of carbs and have to go back for actual dinner ingredients.A very useful tool, thanks.
Also: always shop with a list (not a stupid quarterhack nonsense) and never shop for food on an empty stomach.
https://giphy.com/l2Sq3YeO2DEyVz8ha Off to nursery, somewhere in Walthamstow in 1994.By the time her mememoir comes out she’ll have had to cross the sodding Himalayas on an elephant to get to school. Or was it the Alps? I’m getting my mountain ranges muddled.
All good points @ForgettyBettyI've found price increases to be very variable, and not especially tied to basic vs expensive ranges.
I think it's a combination of fixed costs disproportionately affecting cheap items, and certain food sectors eg dairy having additional cost issues.
Eg sains spaghetti was 28p /500g
Hubbard (their rebranded basics) spag now 56p per kilo ie no change. The fancy Barilla tortellini my son loves were 2.40, now they're 3.50
The biggest increases in my shopping list have been
cream cheese 49p>95p
cat food pouch 179p>319p
cat food pate 22p>39p
Close on doubled.
Surprised* that Jack hasn't picked up on that considering she has a cat and a dog that live with her.
I’m hoping I can just lure in enough amazon drivers to reduce my petfood bills atm…we don’t have pets but keep getting hopeful random scrawny wildlife critterlings turning up opportunistically.I've found price increases to be very variable, and not especially tied to basic vs expensive ranges.
I think it's a combination of fixed costs disproportionately affecting cheap items, and certain food sectors eg dairy having additional cost issues.
Eg sains spaghetti was 28p /500g
Hubbard (their rebranded basics) spag now 56p per kilo ie no change. The fancy Barilla tortellini my son loves were 2.40, now they're 3.50
The biggest increases in my shopping list have been
cream cheese 49p>95p
cat food pouch 179p>319p
cat food pate 22p>39p
Close on doubled.
Surprised* that Jack hasn't picked up on that considering she has a cat and a dog that live with her.
Mmmmmmm, stolen sweaty underpants cheese, yummmmmI’m hoping I can just lure in enough amazon drivers to reduce my petfood bills atm…
Cheese prices seem to have gone absolutely crazy recently. I think I’m going to have to go to the park and wait for a dealer to pop up.
I'm still confused by the bodyguard reference unless she thinks everyone with a shaved head is a hard man in the same way that tv directors think working class women aggressively chew chewy at all times. This was around the time she was talking about her rolodex of muscle wasn't it, the beggy desperado.Wow, h
Wow, he looks like an actual human being in those other photos.
Called nob cheese round my way, the girls are only busy here near pancake day with the fanny batter. Although some do battered fish .Mmmmmmm, stolen sweaty underpants cheese, yummmmm
Have we had “The Beggy Desperado” for thread title yet? It feels like we should.I'm still confused by the bodyguard reference unless she thinks everyone with a shaved head is a hard man in the same way that tv directors think working class women aggressively chew chewy at all times. This was around the time she was talking about her rolodex of muscle wasn't it, the beggy desperado.
My friend's daughter will only eat one specific pasta shape that is only available in the premium brands (won't say specifically becauseI've found price increases to be very variable, and not especially tied to basic vs expensive ranges.
I think it's a combination of fixed costs disproportionately affecting cheap items, and certain food sectors eg dairy having additional cost issues.
Eg sains spaghetti was 28p /500g
Hubbard (their rebranded basics) spag now 56p per kilo ie no change. The fancy Barilla tortellini my son loves were 2.40, now they're 3.50
The biggest increases in my shopping list have been
cream cheese 49p>95p
cat food pouch 179p>319p
cat food pate 22p>39p
Close on doubled.
Surprised* that Jack hasn't picked up on that considering she has a cat and a dog that live with her.
Recipe pls!"Beany Pie" is still a staple favein my and my children's houses!
What about her private adhd meds she buys every month, though?Not the pursuing of it but the spending of donations on it. I can't see ppl who think they subscribe to her to help food poverty having such a broad definition of it that it'd include private elective medical help. All complete speculation but it'd explain where loads of it's gone. She's made no secret of her desire to have another.
Ivf is heavy dough compared with private prescriptions though. I don't know if it's different rules for different health authorities but my mate had successful ivf on NHS so she wasn't entitled to any further rounds- she'd have had to pay. So I don't know if she'd even get it on the NHS with already having had a child.What about her private adhd meds she buys every month, though?
Theres no way she wouldn’t breadcrumb her basal temp stats or summat, show a pineapple with clear blues and pink sticks in it, ask “for a friend” about hormone injections. Nah. And she’d let people believe it’s on the NHS.
Grunking, but.... It would probably need to involve pitchforks. Either so everybody has an allotment and we reduce food miles (suspect some of the uplift in prices involves diesel for deliveries and farming), or we all go a bit Guy Fawkes in Westminster and Whitehall. There may be other options.... Obvs.Still thinking about supermarket pricesif there is a diagnosed gifted Frau who knows about this I’d love to know more. Is it inevitable that price increases will affect those on lowest incomes the most? Because anyone who is currently making more expensive retail choices has the option to trade down to basics and cut things out, but those who have already done that have no choice left but to bear price increases. If that’s the case what is the VBI meant to do? What policy could change that situation?
How would she even know if the expensive ranges are going up if she never buys them and hasn't asked/researched those who do?Basically yes, the lowest income people will always be disproportionately affected but I think the VBI is built on the idea that if you take an item eg pasta, Jack claims the essential range has risen by whatever but there's not been the same price increase on Barilla thus the poor are being targeted/double disadvantaged.
And that's the bit that fundamentally isn't true in many cases. All the ranges are rising and across ranges and supermarkets the rises seem broadly equal for similar products. There may be one or two outlier products that it's true for, but basically the headline really is "Everything is going up".
This is 100% how I shop. Great advice.It's nigh on impossible to shop in a way that finds all the best prices and beats the supermarkets -- a lot of their game is befuddling the consumer. So, prices may stay the same but packages shrink in size. Or they'll have a value range but the number of products available will vary or decrease, or they'll suddenly rebrand it so you can't find it anymore.
My mum was a very good household manager and she taught me a couple of things which stand me in good stead:
1. Anything that's on display at the end of the aisle or near the checkout are probably not good value. The store is literally flooding you with those products.
2. Always look at the products stocked either low or high on the shelf because everything that's at eye level is likely the one the shop wants you to buy.
3. Bulk buy if you can, but only if you will use the stuff before it's out of date and you have space for it.
4. Don't look at the price tag but the price by weight. Because that helps you figure out what's lowest price, even though the packages of different brands might also be different sizes.
Look for pasta, for eg, and Barilla will be £0.60/100g and Sainsbury's Own will be £0.40/100g.
It's hard work, initially, but you get used to it and it works both in the shop and online.
Monroeing?What’s the opposite of a grunk? Where you just skip a few pages, hope for the best, and just dive on in (ir)regardless(ly) with your mithering (pronounced ‘mithering’)?
I feel it needs a name.
Has no expert ever pulled her up on this absolute whopper of a mistake?Ah but she has a thrifty tip, buy 110volt electricity and use that to power your fridge freezer, 230v - 110v equals an over 50% energy saving
Next week - the gas in radiators and its household uses, from running your car to spicing up your showers
Radiators ahoy!Did everyone hear that?
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