Food prices that piss you off

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  • SomeNights246
    SomeNights246 Posts: 807 Member
    PB2. I'm addicted to it. But $5 seems a lot to pay for peanut butter. :(
  • LividMuffin
    LividMuffin Posts: 47 Member
    Not sure about the situation in the US but here in London all the meat substitutes are so expensive! I have been vegetarian for 14 years but since I'm tracking my macros and my student budget is very limited I had to start eating chicken every now and then to get the protein in and not going bankrupt. It's against all my beliefs and principles but the desire to achieve my goal is stronger..
  • SomeNights246
    SomeNights246 Posts: 807 Member
    This is a huge pet peeve of mine! I don't like the tap water here, so I buy water bottles... the cheapest per quart are the 16oz bottles... WHY???? I go through 3-4 a day, it adds a lot of recycling, but I end up spending twice as much if I want the 1 liter bottles... and the gallon bottles are not exactly handy to keep on my desk and have a sip from.

    It's DUMB.
    Can't you just fill smaller bottles from the gallon bottle?

    Or like, buy those reusable cups/bottles and fill them from the gallon? That won't waste as many bottles, either.
  • Majda_
    Majda_ Posts: 32 Member
    In my country, all healthy food, if you find any, are expensive since they are imported. I pay around 7$ for 1L of Almond Milk I find that ridiculous !
  • MissBabyJane
    MissBabyJane Posts: 538 Member
    In my country, all healthy food, if you find any, are expensive since they are imported. I pay around 7$ for 1L of Almond Milk I find that ridiculous !

    Yes, I live in Europe and healthy foods are so expensive! OUCH.
  • xxsophster
    xxsophster Posts: 9 Member
    Walking into Morissons and seeing jaffa cakes 50p a box, penguin chocolate bars £1 for 12 instead of 9, cadbury big bags of chocolates NOW ONLY £1!! Arghhhh!!!!! Why cant they do offers like these on fruit and veg?!?! No wounder the majority of the population is obese! :explode:
  • marshallexi
    marshallexi Posts: 162 Member
    In my country, all healthy food, if you find any, are expensive since they are imported. I pay around 7$ for 1L of Almond Milk I find that ridiculous !

    Yes, I live in Europe and healthy foods are so expensive! OUCH.

    Nut milks have only just started being reasonably priced in the UK over the last year. When I first discovered my dairy allergy in 2011 I was paying £3 ($5+) for a litre of the stuff. I couldn't afford a dairy allergy!

    Thankfully, now they've taken off and dairy-free alternatives are available everywhere for half the price or less. It can just take time.
  • dammitjanet0161
    dammitjanet0161 Posts: 319 Member
    Whole Earth peanut butter used to be a similar price to all the other peanut butters, about £1.20 - £1.50 a jar. Then about 2 years ago someone somewhere twigged that they could charge "organic" prices for it because it has no sugar and other additives added, so overnight it seemed to jump to about £3+ a jar. Wheareas you can still get the sugary ones like Sunpat for about £1 to £1.50 a jar.
  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,120 Member
    This is a huge pet peeve of mine! I don't like the tap water here, so I buy water bottles... the cheapest per quart are the 16oz bottles... WHY???? I go through 3-4 a day, it adds a lot of recycling, but I end up spending twice as much if I want the 1 liter bottles... and the gallon bottles are not exactly handy to keep on my desk and have a sip from.

    It's DUMB.
    Can't you just fill smaller bottles from the gallon bottle?

    Or like, buy those reusable cups/bottles and fill them from the gallon? That won't waste as many bottles, either.

    I have a Brita Filter. I filter my water and I have two water bottles that hold about 3 cups each and I fill those with the filter water and take those to work with me.
  • jmt08c
    jmt08c Posts: 343 Member
    Almond butter...$8-$9 for a 12 oz jar wtf
  • kaaaaylee
    kaaaaylee Posts: 398
    Fage. It just went up to $7 at my store. I only buy it if it's on sale, otherwise I buy the store brand, or whatever else is on sale. Also, Quest bars. I miss Quest bars! :sad:

    $7 FOR YOGURT? WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

    I want to mail you some, jesus.
  • anushkadey
    anushkadey Posts: 7 Member
    Salmon!!! Insanely expensive..
  • yungibear
    yungibear Posts: 138 Member
    In my area, blueberries and avocados. I just can't afford a tiny baby box of blueberries for 4 bucks. . _. And avocados here are around 1.50 per fruit. o _o It's strange because I live in California, and we grow that stuff here to export to other states. Maybe my idea of "expensive" is different from other people's?
  • yungibear
    yungibear Posts: 138 Member
    Whoops, I meant to edit my post but ended up quoting it! *slinks away*
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    Avocados, asparagus and strawberries. I would eat them every damn day if I could afford it. :sad:
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    Whole red snapper. I love grilling whole fish, and red snapper is so super tasty, but I have to drive to the next town and buy from Whole Foods, and they only carry large ones, so they end up about $30 for one fish.

    See also, lobster and crab. Way too expensive, way too tasty!
  • xmusicloverr
    xmusicloverr Posts: 100 Member
    Did someone say salmon? Because SALMON! I'd inhale it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if I could afford it
  • SymphonynSonata
    SymphonynSonata Posts: 533 Member
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  • pita7317
    pita7317 Posts: 1,437 Member
    Wild Caught King Salmon. $17.99 a pound !
  • Cthulhu1974
    Cthulhu1974 Posts: 30
    Chicken. Being on disability makes it VERY tough to afford even something as simple as chicken.
  • xmusicloverr
    xmusicloverr Posts: 100 Member
    and cashews! My gosh I love cashews, they're the peanut's more attractive sister
  • bobcooks920
    bobcooks920 Posts: 27
    Greek yogurt. $1.25 for a cup of Chobani?
  • CipherZero
    CipherZero Posts: 1,418 Member
    Peanut butter without added sugar, why are you harder to find and cost more?
  • SymphonynSonata
    SymphonynSonata Posts: 533 Member
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  • alasha07
    alasha07 Posts: 9 Member
    Hey, for steak try and find a good local butcher. You can normally get really good quality meats there for cheaper then the stores.
  • andreagrace129
    andreagrace129 Posts: 1
    Pretty much everything is way too expensive. Gotta love economic inflation. What really bugs me though, is that the price of buying fresh/organic food is astronomic compared to buying pre packaged junk food.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Brussel sprouts - over $5 per lb in my area. Even in season. I sitll buy them, but it's ridiculous.
  • sue_ham3
    sue_ham3 Posts: 10
    Organic almond flour...impossible to find unless you buy bulk from a grower...usually mail order. Too expensive for me.
  • sue_ham3
    sue_ham3 Posts: 10
    The prices that really piss me off are:
    $18.99/bag of cup4cup gluten free flour. (Not optional, I have a celiac kiddo

    Start mixing your own gluten-free flours. You can control the ingredients (organic, certified for celiac, etc.) and make mixes that are good for certain things like soft bread. Yep, that cup4cup is super expensive.

    I'm not eating grains right now, so baking with almond flour and coconut flour which is also expensive, especially non-GMO and organic.
  • sue_ham3
    sue_ham3 Posts: 10
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    Whole roasting chickens!! - between $15-$20 per chicken.

    Where do you live?

    I can get a whole chicken for like $6

    I pay $18 for Mary's organic air-chilled whole roasting chickens from Whole Foods in Pasadena, California.
    Regular defrosted chickens are in the $6 range.

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