Cost of living crisis and your diabetes?

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grovesy said:
They have not started to sprout the ones I am on about, they have black flesh.
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Ah - that sounds like either a fungal infection or poor storage/lack of oxygen (they are, after all, alive and need to breath) I keep the ones I buy for my husband in a small bucket where they are in the dark but warm, dry and can breathe.

As things which I don't buy seem to be the most affected by shortages, I have not been too badly affected, but Lidl has had a lot of empty shelves recently - so much so that I have taken to going shopping on my mobility scooter so that I can call in at several supermarkets to seek out the things on my list. I damaged a knee slipping on loose pebbles and find that just the extra strain of walking across carparks makes a big difference to the number of shops I can visit. If I need to go to 4 or 5 shops in the car, I am exhausted and my knee is throbbing for the rest of the day, and stiff for 24 hours.
 
grovesy said:
They have not started to sprout the ones I am on about, they have black flesh.
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Could be blight. That’ll kybosh spuds in no time.
 
grovesy said:
Well these are commercially grown supermarket spuds, and not just the one.
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We had blight on tomatoes in the garden - it just blew in on the air. they just went black and manky on the plants and didn’t ripen.

I guess commercial growers would have potential trouble with blight as well as garden growers. it certainly caused chaos in the Irish potato famine.
 
I put in a wood burner this year and the cost including the price of a winters supply of logs works out cheaper than a years electric at todays prices.
I always look in the bargain food dept of any supermarket I shop in.
Have a new mentality when shopping now................ which is do I want it or do I need it. If I want and don't need then it's left behind. Never buy single portion items as cheaper to buy family size or bulk buy and freeze stuff which wont keep.
 
Pumper_Sue said:
Never buy single portion items as cheaper to buy family size or bulk buy and freeze stuff which wont keep.
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You have to be a bit careful with this (though mostly it’s sound advice)

Our local supermarket is sneaky for chopping and changing the prices of things week to week, such that sometimes the ‘family pack’ next door to the smaller packages actually works out MORE expensive by weight when you buy the larger pack. 😱

On the shelf labels they have to list price per 100g (I think it’s a legal requirement?), and it can be quite illuminating to give those a check before making the choice!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
You have to be a bit careful with this (though mostly it’s sound advice)

Our local supermarket is sneaky for chopping and changing the prices of things week to week, such that sometimes the ‘family pack’ next door to the smaller packages actually works out MORE expensive by weight when you buy the larger pack. 😱

On the shelf labels they have to list price per 100g (I think it’s a legal requirement?), and it can be quite illuminating to give those a check before making the choice!
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Just bought some mouthwash.
250ml, £1.25.
500ml, £3.50.

Buy two smaller ones, save £1.

But twice the plastic waste.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
You have to be a bit careful with this (though mostly it’s sound advice)

Our local supermarket is sneaky for chopping and changing the prices of things week to week, such that sometimes the ‘family pack’ next door to the smaller packages actually works out MORE expensive by weight when you buy the larger pack. 😱

On the shelf labels they have to list price per 100g (I think it’s a legal requirement?), and it can be quite illuminating to give those a check before making the choice!
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I always check the price of the Kg and more often than not makes me change my mind on what I'm about to purchase :confused: some deals that look good are not really that good after all when you look at the overall price per kg 😱
 
Nige13 said:
I am pretty sure you can make your own natural mouth wash at home for a fraction of the cost - youtube it ... lol :rofl:
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It's one of the few things I actually use a brand on, the same as the toothpaste and the tooth brush.
 
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everydayupsanddowns said:
On the shelf labels they have to list price per 100g (I think it’s a legal requirement?), and it can be quite illuminating to give those a check before making the choice!
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Oh I already do that 🙂 It's amazing what you can save by checking labels 🙂
 
Pumper_Sue said:
Oh I already do that 🙂 It's amazing what you can save by checking labels 🙂
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Ha! Sometimes it almost feels like a game. I get such a big grin on my face saving 26p by buying 2 small packs rather than the big ine with “Family Value“ plastered all over it in big red letters!
 
travellor said:
Just bought some mouthwash.
250ml, £1.25.
500ml, £3.50.

Buy two smaller ones, save £1.

But twice the plastic waste.
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If you have a Lidl nr you it's only 42p in there 🙂
 
travellor said:
Just bought some mouthwash.
250ml, £1.25.
500ml, £3.50.

Buy two smaller ones, save £1.

But twice the plastic waste.
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Haha! You WIN! (but the planet loses) o_O
 
Years ago there I was telling skint stepdaughter and ditto eldest granddaughter to read what it said on the 'edge of shelf' labels whilst able to ignore em myself - now I'm having to take my own advice and not enjoying it thanks. We shouldn't have to do this after working hard for 40 odd years and investing as wisely as we could manage both in pensions and otherwise.
 
Leadinglights said:
A pub at lunch time charged a friend £14.80 for 4 pints of orange squash and lemonade. That is outrageous!!!!!!
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Even in Wetherspoons squash is 80p for a pint and lemonade is £2 a pint so £2,70 each. So being a pound more expensive somewhere nicer doesn’t seem that outrageous
 
Leadinglights said:
A pub at lunch time charged a friend £14.80 for 4 pints of orange squash and lemonade. That is outrageous!!!!!!
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Sorry but I couldn't help hearing "That is outrageous!!!!" in Liz Truss' voice from the infamous "That is a disgrace!" cheese video
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
You have to be a bit careful with this (though mostly it’s sound advice)

Our local supermarket is sneaky for chopping and changing the prices of things week to week, such that sometimes the ‘family pack’ next door to the smaller packages actually works out MORE expensive by weight when you buy the larger pack. 😱

On the shelf labels they have to list price per 100g (I think it’s a legal requirement?), and it can be quite illuminating to give those a check before making the choice!
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Yes! I never use the 're-order' button when I shop online o_O
 
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