Cost of Living - Spending Insights

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Price of cod everywhere. Due to shortages and rising costs.

Supermarket packs pushing £7 only down to £5 when on offer.

Chippys phasing it out too.

we've started to use Basa a lot more, it tastes fine and can get two fillets for less than 2 quid in Aldi

[egg]

7 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

https://bradleysfish.com/love-cod-here-are-5-alternatives-to-try/

You can add Ling to that list. At least as good as cod, but a bottom dweller so not easy to fish. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 hours ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Price of cod everywhere. Due to shortages and rising costs.

Supermarket packs pushing £7 only down to £5 when on offer.

Chippys phasing it out too.

Wow. A quick check shows the online price of a fish supper at my local chippy to be £12. I always go in, so will diligently research in shop prices this weekend. £12 has smashed that magic £10 barrier! 

[egg]

6 minutes ago, Turkish said:

we've started to use Basa a lot more, it tastes fine and can get two fillets for less than 2 quid in Aldi

Basa is great. Very good as a smoked fish too. There's loads of alternatives. I remember years ago regularly eating hoki. That was when we were trading more with new zealand, and it seems to have disappeared.

[egg]

1 minute ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Wow. A quick check shows the online price of a fish supper at my local chippy to be £12. I always go in, so will diligently research in shop prices this weekend. £12 has smashed that magic £10 barrier! 

Yep. We rarely buy it now. Fish and chips for 2, with peas and a curry sauce, costs us north of £30. Difficult to justify when we can get a feast from an Indian takeaway for that sort of money. 

The owners will talk of the overheads which have gone through the roof, but they're pricing themselves to closure. There's a chippy in Shirley which does alunchtime/afternoon menu. Chips, sausage, fish cake (home made, delicious), peas, curry sauce, and a few other things, all at 99p an item. It's crazily busy, and the owner says he makes money at those prices. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 minutes ago, egg said:

Yep. We rarely buy it now. Fish and chips for 2, with peas and a curry sauce, costs us north of £30. Difficult to justify when we can get a feast from an Indian takeaway for that sort of money. 

The owners will talk of the overheads which have gone through the roof, but they're pricing themselves to closure. There's a chippy in Shirley which does alunchtime/afternoon menu. Chips, sausage, fish cake (home made, delicious), peas, curry sauce, and a few other things, all at 99p an item. It's crazily busy, and the owner says he makes money at those prices. 

From my local's menu regular chips £4.20 and large chips £6.20.

There's plenty of local non chippy competition, that also stay open later. I'm just a bit hard wired into going there. Particularly from local football. 

Now here I am, counting the calories from my half time pie (that the local club notice if I don't buy one every match) and knowing I can get much cheaper, healthier fish based meals from the Iceland 3 doors down from the chippy.

[spyinthesky]

44 minutes ago, Turkish said:

we've started to use Basa a lot more, it tastes fine and can get two fillets for less than 2 quid in Aldi

I'm with you there.
Particularly like the chilli flavoured option.

[spyinthesky]

5 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

I'm with you there.
Particularly like the chilli flavoured option.

Whilst enjoying Basa Fillets, consumption of this type of fish needs to be approached with a degree of caution.
It is farmed mainly in the Mekong Delta where there are contaminants in the water and some of the owners of the Fish Farmers there use chemicals to promote growth.
As a consequence of this, the import of Basa fish is controlled by UK Health Authorities.
Hopefully that provides some protection for those of us who like eating the fish but maybe this may explain the reason for the growth of what seems to be a fin on my back!!

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

https://bradleysfish.com/love-cod-here-are-5-alternatives-to-try/

Shame my wife only likes cod. 😐

Personally they all taste similar to me! The last one I have not tried though.

Edited 10 hours ago by JohnnyShearer2.0

[Turkish]

40 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

I'm with you there.
Particularly like the chilli flavoured option.

i tend to get them plain fry them at home with a few spices at home, have it with a salad and rice for a quick, cheap and easy lunch

[egg]

14 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Shame my wife only likes cod. 😐

Personally they all taste similar to me! The last one I have not tried though.

Pollock is very similar. I reckon she'd be hard pushed to notice the difference. 

[egg]

11 minutes ago, Turkish said:

i tend to get them plain fry them at home with a few spices at home, have it with a salad and rice for a quick, cheap and easy lunch

Yep. Grilled or shallow fried, sometimes with just a squeeze if lemon, and the jobs a fish as they say. 

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, spyinthesky said:
Hopefully that provides some protection for those of us who like eating the fish but maybe this may explain the reason for the growth of what seems to be a fin on my back!!

Be careful that the old bill don’t force you into the away end v Pompey!

[badgerx16]

When I was much, MUCH, younger, we used to catch bass, whiting, eels, and mackeral when fishing in the docks.

Edited 6 hours ago by badgerx16

[whelk]

5 hours ago, egg said:

Yep. We rarely buy it now. Fish and chips for 2, with peas and a curry sauce, costs us north of £30. Difficult to justify when we can get a feast from an Indian takeaway for that sort of money. 

The owners will talk of the overheads which have gone through the roof, but they're pricing themselves to closure. There's a chippy in Shirley which does alunchtime/afternoon menu. Chips, sausage, fish cake (home made, delicious), peas, curry sauce, and a few other things, all at 99p an item. It's crazily busy, and the owner says he makes money at those prices. 

I daren’t ask what is in those sausages and fish cakes at that price

[egg]

43 minutes ago, whelk said:

I daren’t ask what is in those sausages and fish cakes at that price

Sausages I haven't risked, but the fish cakes are homemade so no ultra processed rubbish, and contain a decent amount of actual fish. That there's a profit at those prices is remarkable, but volume pays I guess. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

5 hours ago, egg said:

Pollock is very similar. I reckon she'd be hard pushed to notice the difference. 

I always found them hard to swallow.

Just setting out my credentials for the next IQ slagging match. 🙂

[Farmer Saint]

4 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I always found them hard to swallow.

Just setting out my credentials for the next IQ slagging match. 🙂

[trousers]

19 hours ago, Turkish said:

Energy bills to go up 20-25% in January then. Meanwhile all the big companies are posting billions of pounds of profit per quarter once again

 

I'll see your 25% and raise you a 60% increase for my domestic heating oil...

Why the f*** does the government regulate one source of household energy but not another...?

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by trousers

[trousers]

Still, looking on the bright side... One of the benefits of the "cost of living crisis" is there's not so many riff-raff cluttering up my local Waitrose supermarket these days... #everycloud 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

11 minutes ago, trousers said:

Still, looking on the bright side... One of the benefits of the "cost of living crisis" is there's not so many riff-raff cluttering up my local Waitrose supermarket these days... #everycloud 

"Still, looking on the bright side... y'cant, 'cause the powers been shut off."