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Feb 4, 2021 19:03:11 GMT
Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 4, 2021 19:03:11 GMT
Over the past year I've been doing my grocery shopping online. This week, for the first time I got an email from Asda telling me that prices have been hiked on 12 of the items on my list. The cheese spread I ordered has gone from 79p to £1.48. Butter from £2.50 to £3.70...the butter was'on offer' when I odered it but most of the other things...fresh fruit, eggs and dairy products weren't...most of it from Asda's European suppliers. I dont blame the EU. I blame Brexit.
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Feb 4, 2021 19:30:20 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 4, 2021 19:30:20 GMT
Lurpak?
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Feb 4, 2021 19:56:55 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Feb 4, 2021 19:56:55 GMT
Sarajevo, Lurpak butter (unsalted), 200g, my local supermarket - one pound fifty four (GBP). www.konzumshop.ba/#!/products/60123647/butter-200gr-lurpak Link doesn't seem to go direct to it, but copy and paste does.
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Feb 4, 2021 21:06:30 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 4, 2021 21:06:30 GMT
Lurpak seems to have veered between £2.50 and £3.70 for ever...
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Feb 4, 2021 21:52:25 GMT
Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 4, 2021 21:52:25 GMT
The cheese spread is made in France, the butter UK (Anchor for the chaps, Lurpak for me). The fruit and veg is from Spain and France I think.
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Feb 5, 2021 10:09:31 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 5, 2021 10:09:31 GMT
Just had a quick look in the fridge. Grapes from Namibia, tomatoes from Morocco.
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Feb 5, 2021 12:53:18 GMT
Post by tod2 on Feb 5, 2021 12:53:18 GMT
Lurpak seems to have veered between £2.50 and £3.70 for ever.. Lurpak is the one butter that is hugely expensive here. Normally around R75.00 which is 3.65 BP sterling but today the 250gr. Lurpak is 2 packs of 250gr for R120.00 (4.75 pounds ?) Our normal "homegrown" butter is around R49 - R59. I go to a farmers shop where I buy some of my meat and get farm butter for R49 per 250gr pack. I even think it is superior to Lurpak but my son is a Lurpak fan.
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Feb 5, 2021 13:56:57 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 5, 2021 13:56:57 GMT
Lurpak in Sainsburys today £2.75.
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Feb 5, 2021 14:36:09 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Feb 5, 2021 14:36:09 GMT
Lurpak isn't sold in France, but I see that its principal market is the UK. (It isn't sold in Sweden either -- don't know why.) I usually see Lurpak only in airplanes.
In France, I saw that a premium brand like Président sells for about 2 euros for 250g. There is a sale at Carrefour at the moment with 500g for 2.71 euros. A normal quality store brand is 1.79€ for 250g.
I don't think that the price of butter is going to make or break Brexit since it can be stored for a long time or even frozen. It is the fresh products that can spoil which must remain under scrutiny.
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Feb 5, 2021 15:08:20 GMT
Post by fumobici on Feb 5, 2021 15:08:20 GMT
I like Kerrygold and the extra cost is insignificant to me given how long a box of butter lasts me. Because of that, unsalted butter is out of the question, as it will spoil on me and wind up in the bin. I can get French butter labeled as a store brand for pretty cheap here, strikes me as odd.
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Feb 5, 2021 16:02:23 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Feb 5, 2021 16:02:23 GMT
Lurpak is the one butter that is hugely expensive here. And Philadelphia cheese?
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Feb 5, 2021 16:38:39 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2021 16:38:39 GMT
unsalted butter is out of the question, as it will spoil on me Fumobici, I buy fresh unsalted butter all the time from the dairy stand in the market. I keep the butter out on the counter, only putting it in the fridge if it's taking me too long to use it up. If I buy it & put it directly into the refridgerator or freezer, it seems to last forever.
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Feb 6, 2021 8:01:52 GMT
Post by tod2 on Feb 6, 2021 8:01:52 GMT
I never knew unsalted butter went off. I only buy salted butter for no reason at all except thats all I've ever used even when a recipe calls for unsalted butter. Our butter stands in a glass container on the table. Only when I see it slowly dissolving around the edges to I stick it in the fridge to stop it completely ending up as a liquid.
Mark - Yes Philadelphia cream cheese is on the expensive side but so is Boursin which I love to spread on toast.
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Feb 6, 2021 12:16:20 GMT
Post by bjd on Feb 6, 2021 12:16:20 GMT
I only ever buy unsalted butter but it keeps for ages. I even bought some that was weeks out of date by accident and it was fine. I do keep it in the fridge though.
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Feb 6, 2021 16:42:00 GMT
Post by fumobici on Feb 6, 2021 16:42:00 GMT
Unsalted butter is pretty stable, but it might take me six months or more for me to go through a pound of butter and I've had to throw it out.
That plus I really have no use for unsalted butter, I can't think of a single use case where I prefer it to salted. The times I've bought unsalted were by mistake.
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Feb 6, 2021 17:12:18 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Feb 6, 2021 17:12:18 GMT
I used to keep butter until it turned rancid. I have no idea how long that takes or if the length of time has changed over the years. But now I cook with butter quite a bit, probably even more than with olive oil, so the butter no longer has time to get old.
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Feb 6, 2021 17:21:08 GMT
Post by tod2 on Feb 6, 2021 17:21:08 GMT
A man after my own heart Kerouac. I can hear someone groaning......don't see anyone - Oh wait I just realised it was my arteries. Sorry chaps. can't start making thin watery sauces now.
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Feb 6, 2021 18:52:36 GMT
Post by lugg on Feb 6, 2021 18:52:36 GMT
I buy unsalted butter only occasionally, just for some recipes and also if I am making something for Enzo ...otherwise I buy salted.
I am doing an internet shop for the next few weeks tonight .. it has been a while since my last supermarket shop , so I will be interested to see if prices have risen.
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Feb 14, 2021 11:29:37 GMT
Post by mickthecactus on Feb 14, 2021 11:29:37 GMT
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Feb 16, 2021 20:26:39 GMT
Post by bjd on Feb 16, 2021 20:26:39 GMT
I got my January bank statement today. I discovered that since January (and total Brexit) the book I ordered from the Book Depository, paid in euros, now has 2 euros added in bank exchange fees, as does the 6€ I donate to the Guardian every month.
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Feb 17, 2021 6:38:46 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Feb 17, 2021 6:38:46 GMT
Haven't seen that at Amazon UK.... yet.
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Jul 10, 2021 8:56:59 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 10, 2021 8:56:59 GMT
Do you know, there still seems to be people on here unhappy about Brexit and the affront to the beloved EU.
It’s happened. Get over it.
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Jul 10, 2021 10:01:15 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Jul 10, 2021 10:01:15 GMT
Do you know, there still seems to be people on here unhappy about Brexit and the affront to the beloved EU. It’s happened. Get over it. It will take time. Mers el Kebir is not yet fully healed for the French after 80 years, so this last betrayal will take time to be gotten over.
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Jul 10, 2021 10:35:05 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Jul 10, 2021 10:35:05 GMT
Things will be much nicer when the UK pays the 47.5 billion euros that it still owes to the EU. But only 6.8 billion is scheduled to be paid this year because it appears that the country has hit some road bumps.
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Jul 10, 2021 10:49:16 GMT
Post by mossie on Jul 10, 2021 10:49:16 GMT
Typical EU, all take and no give, we shouldn't be paying them a penny
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Jul 10, 2021 14:35:41 GMT
Post by bjd on Jul 10, 2021 14:35:41 GMT
Nonsense, Mossie.
"In the run-up to Brexit, the UK paid net annual membership fees of £8.1bn-£10.7bn (€9.5bn–€12.5bn) a year, which opened access to the European single market – an arrangement the government ceded in the name of sovereignty.
The Brexit divorce settlement consists of bills for EU infrastructure and social projects agreed by previous British governments, as well as pension and healthcare costs for retired EU staff, which accrued over the UK’s 47 years of membership."
"The £35bn-£39bn range was presented by British officials during the Brexit negotiations, while the government’s fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, put the bill at €41.4bn (£37.1bn) in 2018.
Despite the outbreak of tensions, the commission said the UK had already begun to pay its bill. “There was one payment that was done in June … and there will be one in July, August and September. And then in September we will be sending another bill,” a commission spokesperson said. “So far everything that had to be done was done, so we have no indication whatsoever that the overall figure will be contested.”
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Jul 10, 2021 14:59:15 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Jul 10, 2021 14:59:15 GMT
I'm afraid that some of the Brexit voters here failed to read the terms and conditions of Brexit before casting their ballots. Perhaps they can file a complaint with David Cameron.
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Jul 10, 2021 16:55:08 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Jul 10, 2021 16:55:08 GMT
😄
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Jul 11, 2021 6:50:06 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Jul 11, 2021 6:50:06 GMT
But only 6.8 billion is scheduled to be paid this year because it appears that the country has hit some road bumps. That's one interpretation of why we are paying in instalments. Not shown to be the correct interpretation but also as a tease, only three out of ten for that. It as always understood that on leaving the EU our exports, so 'money in' to the country, especially to the EU, would take a large hit as all the agreements we had negotiated became void, sort of. But it seems the UK as a business isn't doing too badly now at all. For example, one quote - "Britain's Office for National Statistics said goods exports to the European Union, excluding precious metals, rose to 14.0 billion pounds ($19.4 billion) in May on a seasonally adjusted basis, their highest since October 2019 and almost twice January's level." The you have a dip due to the 2021 cut off, but things seem to be picking up nicely -
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Jul 11, 2021 7:31:38 GMT
Post by mickthecactus on Jul 11, 2021 7:31:38 GMT
Ha! So there.
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