Interesting article in this Sunday's Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... s-increase
If the figures are anything like accurate, it suggests that "convenience" food may have been rumbled for what it is.
Forward to the past?
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Lets hope people are really starting to wake up to the constant brainwashing of the television and advertising.
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next to the porrage oats , 58 p a kilo, is plastic pots of microwave porrage, 40 gms of oats just fill pot with milk and microwave also 58p ( or thereabouts) sorry convienience food is live and well in rural somerset.
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"There is also evidence that people are shopping more carefully. According to a report by marketing consultant Futurelab for budget supermarket Aldi, 43% of shoppers have started taking a list with them, and 29% have started using coupons. Many have also returned to doing one big shop a month"
Why shop so frequently? Just checked my credit card accounts - 21/10, 04/12, 22/12 (even we last minute shopped for Christmas) and 04/02, mind you we need to go this week. We find they don't always have enough stock of the basics we want in bulk like bread flour and long life milk. If you want to complain about convenience food prices look at one of the originals, tea bags. We keep getting posts asking if they should be cut open for composting, why buy them, more expensive and you use more so it gets you twice.
I don't believe the soup saving figure, I know Covent Garden soups are ludicrous prices (wouldn't it give such joy for somebody like them or one of the costalot coffee chains to fail) but spending £40 a week to be able to save it seems tricky.
Are the convenience foods being discounted to try and shift them while the basics are going up? I suspect the inflation figures still reflect the old buying habits that's why G Brown could lie on You and Yours about food inflation, the stuff we buy seems to be rising very rapidly.
Of course we write shopping lists, when I have the time price them up online at Tesco then go to Lidl or Aldi to see if we can beat the prices!
Why shop so frequently? Just checked my credit card accounts - 21/10, 04/12, 22/12 (even we last minute shopped for Christmas) and 04/02, mind you we need to go this week. We find they don't always have enough stock of the basics we want in bulk like bread flour and long life milk. If you want to complain about convenience food prices look at one of the originals, tea bags. We keep getting posts asking if they should be cut open for composting, why buy them, more expensive and you use more so it gets you twice.
I don't believe the soup saving figure, I know Covent Garden soups are ludicrous prices (wouldn't it give such joy for somebody like them or one of the costalot coffee chains to fail) but spending £40 a week to be able to save it seems tricky.
Are the convenience foods being discounted to try and shift them while the basics are going up? I suspect the inflation figures still reflect the old buying habits that's why G Brown could lie on You and Yours about food inflation, the stuff we buy seems to be rising very rapidly.
Of course we write shopping lists, when I have the time price them up online at Tesco then go to Lidl or Aldi to see if we can beat the prices!