Prices!!

[diamond lil]

Beeglie wil only eat Royal Canin persian kibble, and I bet that goes up too

[Arzosah]

I had a huge stock of tomato puree I'm really not quite sure why, but as I got down to my last half dozen, I thought I'd better buy some more. Last time I bought, it was 55p for 200grammes. Now, the very cheapest I could find in my regular supermarket was £1.20 for the same amount and most of the brands were £2. Asda Online.

[hobo]

Sainsbury’s tomato puree 59p 200g Better stock up while it’s cheap - I’m on my last squeeze!

[jennyjj01]

I had a huge stock of tomato puree I'm really not quite sure why, but as I got down to my last half dozen, I thought I'd better buy some more. Last time I bought, it was 55p for 200grammes. Now, the very cheapest I could find in my regular supermarket was £1.20 for the same amount and most of the brands were £2. Asda Online.

Tesco's own 65p
Asda's own 75p
Sainsbury's own 59p

Granted, these don't claim to be 'Double Concentrated'

Note this is one of the very few items of mine that have gone 'bad', even before reaching stated BBE date. The canning process leaves air in the tube and it oxidises and goes brown and runny.

[Kiwififer]

I can’t remember how much I paid for them but when did folk start selling their first born to buy stock cubes?

I swear it’s the small stuff that is grinding my gears just now.

[jennyjj01]

I can’t remember how much I paid for them but when did folk start selling their first born to buy stock cubes?

I swear it’s the small stuff that is grinding my gears just now.

Since they became too poor to buy tins of soup for > two quid
Certainly since they (we) saw the mahoosive rises in the price of dining out.
The small stuff that we buy has rocketed, probably because it's low turnover. An expensive box of Oxo won't make us shop elsewhere.
I noticed with jelly. How can that cost a quid for enough to make just a pint.

[Medusa]

See also Yorkshire teabags, managed to order them a few weeks ago at just over £26 for 1040 and havent seen them cheaper than £28.30 since. I am sure that I used to pay much less. The thought of having to buy a cheaper brand horrifies me, we drink a lot of tea in our house.

[Arzosah]

I had a huge stock of tomato puree I'm really not quite sure why, but as I got down to my last half dozen, I thought I'd better buy some more. Last time I bought, it was 55p for 200grammes. Now, the very cheapest I could find in my regular supermarket was £1.20 for the same amount and most of the brands were £2. Asda Online.

Tesco's own 65p
Asda's own 75p
Sainsbury's own 59p

Granted, these don't claim to be 'Double Concentrated'

Note this is one of the very few items of mine that have gone 'bad', even before reaching stated BBE date. The canning process leaves air in the tube and it oxidises and goes brown and runny.

Damn! Thanks for this, Jenny - doing an online search, rather than going to the online shelf, has really bitten me in the bum on that one lesson learned.

[Frnc]

I use Sainsbury's tomato puree to make pasta sauce and baked beans (with butter beans). It is very concentrated. It's good, and dead cheap. I get about 5 portions of pasta sauce from a tube, and about 5 portions of beans from half a tube.

[GillyBee]

Another shout here for the Sainsburys tubes and small tins or tomato puree. We use these along with garlic powder or frozen cubes, frozen or garden basil and a bit of oil and sugar to make our own pizza topping.
Meanwhile Mr Gillybee has forgiven me for storing chocolate bars in the freezer (This is the only way to stop me eating them) after seeing a TV chef advise doing exactly that. Apparently the cocoa harvest position is such that he is recommending buying now and making your own Easter Eggs next year unless you are a millionaire.
Since chocolate is already heavily up in price, it is not nice to hear it is likely to get worse.