Cost of Living - Spending Insights

[Turkish]

Just got a chippy tea for the first time in ages. 2 x regular fish and chips, kids fish and chip and a sausage a chips £30 FFS. I swear a year ago that was more like £20. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

8 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Just got a chippy tea for the first time in ages. 2 x regular fish and chips, kids fish and chip and a sausage a chips £30 FFS. I swear a year ago that was more like £20. 

Mine is £9.70 for a fish supper. And that's battered, rather than breadcrumbed. It went up in leaps and bounds in the last few years, rather than smaller inflation based ones. It's been that price for a little while. But once the £10 is finally breached...

[Challenger]

13 hours ago, Turkish said:

Just got a chippy tea for the first time in ages. 2 x regular fish and chips, kids fish and chip and a sausage a chips £30 FFS. I swear a year ago that was more like £20. 

Brexit innit, those French fish, German sausages and Irish spuds all cost more to import these days.

[Turkish]

18 minutes ago, Challenger said:

Brexit innit, those French fish, German sausages and Irish spuds all cost more to import these days.

I blame the lefties. Had we not had an open door immigration policy then there would be far fewer foreign take aways like kebab shops meaning more people would use traditional British chip shops thus driving higher demand, more bulk buying and therefore lower prices passed onto customers. 

[egg]

14 hours ago, Turkish said:

Just got a chippy tea for the first time in ages. 2 x regular fish and chips, kids fish and chip and a sausage a chips £30 FFS. I swear a year ago that was more like £20. 

That's cheap. That's £35 round here, and the Millbrook Chippy... Millbrook...will charge £35.50 for that order BEFORE you get to the kids fish and chips. Mental money for spuds and a bit of fish. 

[Turkish]

7 minutes ago, egg said:

That's cheap. That's £35 round here, and the Millbrook Chippy... Millbrook...will charge £35.50 for that order BEFORE you get to the kids fish and chips. Mental money for spuds and a bit of fish. 

That’s mental. Got to be the cheapest take away around surely?

coffee is the same now. I unfortunately had to go to a Starbucks yesterday too, usually avoid them and costa much prefer a locally run one in town. £22 for two cappuccino’s an espresso and a strawberry refresher thing to take away. 
I’d say our coffee machine at home was better

[egg]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

That’s mental. Got to be the cheapest take away around surely?

coffee is the same now. I unfortunately had to go to a Starbucks yesterday too, usually avoid them and costa much prefer a locally run one in town. £22 for two cappuccino’s an espresso and a strawberry refresher thing to take away. 
I’d say our coffee machine at home was better

I find Indian is the best value. A tandoori chicken shashlik, with salad, yoghurt sauce, and fresh naan or rice is cheaper than fish and chips. Just nuts. 

Coffee is crazy. We had 2 iced latte's at an independent in Stockbridge yesterday. They cost me £10.80. No syrup or any of that, just coffee/cold milk/ice in a cup. For contrast, we were paying less than €6.00 for the same in Belgium last month, and Belgium isn't cheap. 

[Turkish]

32 minutes ago, egg said:

I find Indian is the best value. A tandoori chicken shashlik, with salad, yoghurt sauce, and fresh naan or rice is cheaper than fish and chips. Just nuts. 

Coffee is crazy. We had 2 iced latte's at an independent in Stockbridge yesterday. They cost me £10.80. No syrup or any of that, just coffee/cold milk/ice in a cup. For contrast, we were paying less than €6.00 for the same in Belgium last month, and Belgium isn't cheap. 

Coffee has become very fashionable so they’ve hiked the price up. Along with that  the woke nonsense like chia latte and the soft millennials needing oat or almond milk due to their intolerances it’s become a gravy train which they milk (pun intended). I only really drink espresso these days, couple at home when working from home on the morning or get one at the train station if travelling. 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Going to the cinema hurts these days too.

Can still reasonably priced tickets at Vue. However add some popcorn and slushie it's another £14!

Best bit is, Vue have done away with the small slushie cup (in Eastleigh at least). So you buy the regular for £6.95 and they try and upsell to a large for another 80p.

[egg]

32 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Going to the cinema hurts these days too.

Can still reasonably priced tickets at Vue. However add some popcorn and slushie it's another £14!

Best bit is, Vue have done away with the small slushie cup (in Eastleigh at least). So you buy the regular for £6.95 and they try and upsell to a large for another 80p.

I'm an unashamed tight sod and take snacks and a drink with me. I'm not paying cinema prices. The cinema ticket is usually a freebie from the bank as well. 

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, egg said:

I'm an unashamed tight sod and take snacks and a drink with me. I'm not paying cinema prices. The cinema ticket is usually a freebie from the bank as well. 

I’m definitely getting tighter as I get older. Tend to look at the prices of stuff a lot more than I used to. Don’t eat out anything like we used to, mainly because I object to paying best part of £100 for very average pub food. I’ll go somewhere if there is a deal on but tend to avoid it. I know people say the hospitality industry is really suffering but it’s a vicious circle where the price has gone up hugely whilst the standard has gone down which forces the price to go up as it’s a lot quieter than it used to be. 

[Turkish]

40 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Going to the cinema hurts these days too.

Can still reasonably priced tickets at Vue. However add some popcorn and slushie it's another £14!

Best bit is, Vue have done away with the small slushie cup (in Eastleigh at least). So you buy the regular for £6.95 and they try and upsell to a large for another 80p.

Last time I went to the cinema properly was to see Top Gun Maverick, decided to make a night of it and go to the Everyman, tickets, couple of drinks and a few snacks and spent over £80 for 3 of us