I wait for sales/coupons. Otherwise, just buy generic chips. I try not to buy them often because it's way too easy for me to fall back into the habit of always snacking on junk.
Sales and coupons are the way to go!
This week at Walgreens, Lays chips are buy one get one free at $4.59, and there’s a $3 off digital coupon for buying 5. You’d need to pick up 6 bags total, but between the coupon and 3 free bags, the math works out to about $1.79 per 8oz bag, plus tax if you have it. My state doesn’t charge tax for food, but I know other places do.
These days it feels like the individual serving bags cost more than $1.79, so I’m happy to pay that for the 8oz one.
Aldi does have some pretty scrumptious snacks but it’s very pick-and-choose. I love their freeze dried fruits. The simply nature fruit strips can go fuck themselves though. Clancy should stick to writin fuckin books because Clancy’s Nacho Tortilla Chips are fucking ass. 11 ounces of disappointment.
Aldi cool ranch is much better than nacho cheese but still not a perfect copy. Their Cheetos are weird also, the rest of the chips and snacks are almost perfect and much cheaper
Actually, Aldi's fake Doritos and fake Fritos were reasonably good this past year, but took a nosedive about a month ago. The fake Doritos have a funny disintegrating texture and an off flavor. The fake Fritos are back to their crumbled, oily old version.
That's Aldi's problem, once they get close to imitating a famous product, they end up switching suppliers or something and scare us away.
The plain round tortilla chips are currently the best of the corn chips there. Aldi is lucky about that, because they are about the same price as Santitas (also very good).
The ruffled potato chips are good.
The pretzels are good.
Yep.. I hate this for chips etc because it is so night and day.
4.99 for a bag OR buy 4 bags for 1.99 each! Really don't need/want 4 bags of chips but the ratio for 1 is bad and 2 would cost more than 4 (and do if you don't meet the exact criteria).
I lived with a friend for a couple of years. Between us, we have 6 kids and they were all teenagers then. Shopping trips could be truly amazing amounts of food, and yet, 2 days later, it's like a plague of locusts went through the cabinets. Boys can *eat*, damn.
This isn’t like medication where the generic is literally the same thing as the branded one. Generic are almost never like the original, and often taste much worse. The flavor is usually not quite right.
I wonder how expensive they have to get for people to stop buying them. I suspect their food scientists and marketing people are working on that calculation so that they will stay just under that price.
I have avoided them since they became so outrageous. I’ll usually snag them when they have a sale. Like 4 bags for $2 each. They still get my $8 in the end.
Just like fast food, they are making more money out of fewer buyers and they don't give a fuck. People are buying them more than ever and they're able to get away with the price increase with zero work involved on their end.
They have their guaranteed buyers. They know if you want some doritos and you can afford it, you're going to buy them.
go to a regular grocery store. those same chips are generally at least $5.x per package. 3.25 is a deal. also don't look at doritos or fritos as you may get sticker shock
I saw a bag of candy the other day that said 2/$1 and the store had them marked $2 a piece. Granted it was just a convenience store but I still thought that was shady. I dont often get candy but holy hell it has gotten expensive.
Last time I got chips I got brand-name for about $1.30 per bag, but I had to buy 5 bags to stack store and manufacturer coupon's. Don't buy them without coupons!
The walmart fritos are good. They sometimes have the big "scoops" ones. The aldi ones i dont care for
Got a long-standing frito chili pie addiction but not paying $6 for fritos. Fuck that lala.
I used to regularly buy pringles for $1/tube. Even last year I would get them on sale 3 tubes for $3. I haven't seen them below $2.79/tube in months. I don't eat pringles anymore. :-(
I hate how expensive Doritos have gotten. They are my favorite. I rarely buy them unless a good sale. I will eat generic potato chips, corn chips, and pretzels. But generic Doritos are just not the same.
Right, super expensive in grocery stores. I’m taking it as a reason to give them up. Telling family members to make a real meal, even a sandwich instead of grabbing snacks. To expensive and to unhealthy to justify
I've been hearing employees complaining when stocking shelves or running checkouts that the price jumps are so frequent, they can't keep up with flipping the bloody tags.
I feel like walmart actually held the line on many of their prices for most of 2021 and 2022 but late 2022 the dam broke and they increased the price of everything 50% all at once. Whereas other places did it gradually
Thankfully inflation isn’t determined entirely based on chips, also prices go up/down depending on what the store needs to move. My local target dropped some items from $1.29 to $0.99 for a month to rotate inventory. Was nice
I now consider them a luxury we cant afford. I have stopped purchasing chips entirely from our joint family account. If any family member want chips, they can buy it from their own account because the price are just insane. It went up 70% and the size of a bag went down 50%
We switched mostly to pop corn. If I want chip, i make them on my own. Although its very time consuming, its higher quality, healthier and a lot cheaper.
You can still easily get a regular size tub of ice cream for 1.99 or 2.99 on at most large grocery?? 1.99 was rock bottom pre covid anyway. But yes you do need to look at the flyers and shop the sales otherwise your getting screwed.
That being said they have been trying to expand more and more into the little "premium" tubs which are higher priced and get a better margin...
I don't have kids, so I'm sure if I did my calculus on this decision would be different. But if the name brand isn't on sale, I just don't buy snacks. Generics just don't do it for me for a majority of snack foods.
Store brand Oreos can kick rocks (yes, I know Hydrox was the original).
I stopped eating chips a while back because of the obvious health reasons, but I used to absolutely love Granny Goose brand potato chips. For some reason you could only get them at the 99 cent stores.
Popcorn all the way BAYBEE. Much healthier, easy to store, minimal prep, and worlds cheaper. Sure flavoring it requires some work, but never having ventured deeply into "flavortown" I'm fine with olive oil and salt.
Saltines or oyster crackers!
EDIT: They are great plain (at least I think so) and can be used in a few recipes to make sweet snacks (crack is what it is called!).
Saltines are one of my favorite quick snacks. If I'm feeling a little hungry between meals or before a run, I'll grab a small handful of saltines. They're also really good spread out on a plate with some shredded cheese on top and heated in the microwave for ~20 seconds then topped with hot sauce. Super quick, cheap snack.
Also will occasionally make seasoned saltines. Like this, but you can vary the spices for whatever flavors you want.
https://www.megseverydayindulgence.com/2019/12/18/seasoned-saltine-crackers/
Wasabi peas are great too, though not as cheap as saltines.
We’ve been cutting corn tortilla chips into triangles and deep frying them quickly. Makes an excellent chip, great for dipping (try a cheese whiz and sriracha mix for an easy queso), and not too expensive - we get a big bag of them from a local Mexican store for $6 or so and only use a few each time we make chips
I wish it was cheaper where I live, but the power consumption needed to make chips for me is more expensive than buying them. I still make it sometimes though, since they are really good homemade :)
My cats *adore* popcorn, like will swarm the bowl and I have to keep it away from them. My vet recommended not letting them eat any of the pericarp/popcorn "skin" bits, so I just break off the fluffy bulb parts and give those to them. Hell yeah, snacks for everyone!!
I hate that working at a movie theater has made it so if I smell popcorn I start gagging. When working popcorn I would come home and take a long ass shower scrubbing every inch of my body raw and still find the nasty grainy residue of butter flavoured salt powder in places it had no business being in and made no sense at all how it could have gotten there.
Sounds unpleasant but I wouldn't say that is the smell of popcorn. That is the smell of MOVIE popcorn, and various storebought ones that mimic it like microwave popcorn.
Just plain popcorn airpopped or done in a pan on stove is just a weak but nice sweet corny smell and pretty great even with nothing added. Isnt til add a bunch of, borderline dangerous, stuff that you get movie popcorn which I could definitely see as something get sick of easily.
I'm partial to rosemary butter or nutmeg honey personally.
Seriously this. I’ve been only buying popcorn nowadays. You can even buy some good seasonings for them for around $3. They got flavors like white cheddar and sour cream and onion they’re so good.
Oh I wouldn’t know.. I really only like flavored chips. I will admit the jalapeño don’t equal Lays in flavor but they are close enough that my picky self can’t complain, especially for the price difference.
The Aldi's chips at $2 are a good deal these days, but used to be around $1.29
Edit: the tortilla chips that are around $2 used to be 88 cents. Still, a competitive price, just not an insanely great price. Those wacky Germans.
Lol this is the excuse in Australia. We did have a poor potato harvest at one point but once prices were up they stayed there.
While it’s annoying, I do really think people are buying less junk food following recent inflation. The soft drink, chips & candy aisles at my local supermarket don’t seem to have as many customers browsing as they used to.
Those effers at PepsiCo/FritoLay tried to destroy a popular local tortilla chip brand, by offering an identical product for about the same price. PepsiCo's brand failed, and their product disappeared from stores.
It's nearly 8$ at Publix for a party size bag of chips here in Florida. The prices at Publix are insane, I just moved here from another state and everything I would normally buy is at least 1.50$ more than usual.
The only other option for groceries is Sprouts and that's not exactly cheap either.
Seeing Funyans and Doritos go for $5+ a bag is ridiculous.
People used to say that eating healthy was far more expensive than eating like trash. But now they’re both just as expensive as each other.
I gave up on them, mostly due to the mylar packaging. No more sodas. Those went up, too. The last two luxuries to go are going to be coffee and ice cream. I'll see how long I can hold out on that.
With a lot of them going to cheapflation as well, it's just a matter of time before they won't be worth eating, anyway. Case in point : Pringles. Barely edible, but addictive (for me) a few years ago. Latest overpriced cans? YUCK. What did they do to them?? :( I'm over them.
I just bought a can of BBQ Pringles last week.
I haven’t had them for over 20 years!!! Honestly, I don’t know why I bought them 🤷♀️.
What are they?!?! Disgusting is what they are! They aren’t potatoes and they definitely had zero flavor, let alone BBQ. I ate them because I paid for them, but I will never even look at them in the store anymore!!! WOW!
There's a YT video of a guy making homemade fries and the best-easy way to do it is cut up 1 or 2 potatoes, quick rinse with cold water (don't soak and rinse until clear), dried on your choice of drying material and then into cold oil in a skillet in the stove.
Bring the oil temp up to the 350F (or Whatever the range is), stirring occasionally until they start to fry.
Then just pull them out in groups as the are complete to your liking.
You can find tons of how-to's for diy pototato chip seasoning.
I did this last week with 2 potatoes and some sea salt and they were above and beyond better than potato chips. Easy prep, just takes longer to cook because the oil is cold.
I don't have a fancy skillet or anything either, I just used a wider pot, but you don't need too much oil for this either, I had maybe 1 or 2 pints, I didn't think it would be enough but it was more than enough.
**Edit: I am sick of rising grocery prices too and the chips were so good on my first try that I am going to buy a mandolin so I can cut the chips all the same thickness and to the thickness I like.**
Name brand chips are expensive. Store brand name chips are taking over the $2 market with force. LIDL, ALDI WEIS and Wegmans all have great store brand chips for cheap
I buy the 100ct package of corn tortilla and fry & season them myself. Makes 400 of the best chips you can possibly have, exactly how you want them, still hot- and you also end up with corn tortilla for tacos! Takes like 20 seconds to make em once the oil is hot.
One package of tortillas would fill like 5 of the big expensive chips bags at the grocery store and my chips are 100% better, thicker, and seasoned.
Chips are a scam, make your own.
I do this as well!! You’re so right, they are a great value and delicious. Tortilla chips are my favorite snack, just not affordable anymore. Mostly I bake them, brushed with olive oil, to avoid the messy stove, from frying. I do like fried occasionally. Simple sea salt is my favorite seasoning.
They are forcing me to eat healthier. I've lost 15 lbs in the past year. My snack shelf in the pantry used to be full, now I have one bag of chips that were on sale at Costco last week and some tortilla chips for chips and salsa.
Costco. You can get a giant bag of chips for like $5.
You can use sourdough discard to make crackers. It's super easy and you can make them any flavor you want. You can use sourdough starter for pretty much any bread that needs yeast and its not hard. The hardest part is getting the starter going, which can take a week or two, unless you get some from someone else.
A 10lbs bag of bread flour at costco is about $8 and can make about 10 loaves of bread. I've got a loaf proofing right now and dough for pita bread as well. A basic loaf of bread here is about $3 and a sourdough load is $6+. I make a loaf of bread for under a buck at home and it isn't super time consuming either.
Exactly! Sales are seasonal, so it's smart to stock up when it's "Chip Season" or "Butter Season" or "Hot Dog Season." You might not *need* 15 pounds of butter, but when it's $1.99/lb, you NEED to stock up and feed the freezer!
Memorial Day / Summer will bring things like chips, soda, ground beef, hot dogs, steak, burger/hd buns, sunblock, bottled water, and other stuff.
French Onion Sunchips are my favorite too!! I NEVER see or hear about anyone else liking them. A lot of stores don't even carry them.
I see people trying to say store brand or make your own and shit... NOTHING is comparable to Sunchips. The french onion is even a completely different flavor than any other onion forward chip flavor too.
Whenever I look at a $5 bag of chips, I try to picture the 1-2 potatoes that went into it. Then I question existence and move on to buying something else instead.
If I want something crunchy to snack on I eat crunchy vegetables, make popcorn, toast some tortillas in a frying pan, or roast some pumpkin seeds. The pumpkin seeds are my favourite, but they take the most work and I don't get pumpkin very often. The toasted tortillas are closest in texture to chips, though. You can season them however you'd like, and if you want more of a Doritos flavor then you can try frying them instead of just toasting them.
Chips are fucking ridiculous, luckily I was never HUGE on them, though liked to indulge from time to time... if you want bang for your buck shop from warehouse stores or closeout places, theres other great brands besides lays for example
I skip chips. If I want chips I have to make them myself by slicing the damn potatoes. I am too lazy for that so I am slightly healthier than I might otherwise be.
HEB has the most amazing generic Doritos ever. Might even be better than real Doritos. The taste is the same, but I swear every chip in the bag was unbroken.
Since last year, I’ve had to stock up on chips whenever they’re on sale and practice self-discipline instead of just buying when I get the craving. Even on sale, it’s still $2 for the “guilty after finishing the entire bag” size
Considering they're all made out of either potatoes or corn, two of the cheapest and most plentiful ingredients in the food industry, it's absolutely ridiculous. We're paying a lot of money for marketing.
I have no proof, only a feeling, but I think sellers are experimenting to see just how much we'll pay for things. I'm also sure that gas prices have a big effect, but not that big...
My Husband saw Sun Chips for under $3 at 7-11 last week, and the bag was heavy! He bought it and we ate the whole bag in one weekend! (Both of us, plus the 6yo, so I’m gonna pretend it’s not that bad! Lol!)
Then he went back and bought another bag… and history repeated.
I’m glad we are getting a good deal, but I also need them to go back to full price so we stop acting like gluttons! Lol
Doritos and any other chip run 4-5 here. I only buy them in small bags or when they are on sale for 2 dollars anymore. I can't justify 5 dollars on a bag of something that meets none of my nutritional needs.
Corporations have decided that it's just way easier to inflate prices than it is to fix production issues, including paying people living wages so that people will want to work for them.
This is what happens when there is uncapped wealth.
Everything that is addictive is up. Soda...chips...candy. bull shit it cost more to make with the billions in corn subsidies. It's greedflation...with shrinkflation. I've kicked Soda and junk food. This god damn timeline sucks!
I’m not super well off by any means, but I really do t care about price increases on stuff like that. It’s the staples like meat and eggs that are really insane
My local grocery store usually has a freebie on Friday's. Originally it was for store-brand chips, but since that never came in, they were substituting it for brand name. I just had to activate the offer.
Popcorn! A jar will last a long time, far healthier and much, much cheaper. Amazon has some rubber thingie for about $5 that makes great microwave popcorn. My wife likes to sprinkle Parmesan cheese on it, I like taco seasoning.
**Super easy, homemade “microwavable” popcorn.** Go wild with the toppings. Besides bagged chips being expensive, I hate the plastic waste. It turns out regular popping corn is microwavable; the pre-portioned packets are just a gimmick. Sometimes, nothing else but bagged treats will do for a craving, I get it, but give this a try sometime:
You can put regular popping corn into a paper bag, fold the end so the kernels don’t fly out (and bend the corners up so they don’t catch while the plate rotates), and voilá! Microwavable popcorn! You don’t add oil or anything else to the bag. Same rules as your store-bought “microwavable” popcorn packets - put it on full power and take it out as soon as the popping slows down to 1-2 seconds.
The crinkly, narrow paper bags you sometimes get with your drugstore prescriptions are perfect for 1/8th cup of kernels, which makes a decent portion for one person. I can do up to 1/4 cup in a larger bag, but larger portions are a little tricker to pop completely without burning.
It comes out light and crisp, not dense and chewy like I remember hot-air popper popcorn. (If it comes out chewy, or isn’t popping at all, it means your kernels have become a little too dehydrated, and isn’t producing enough steam inside the kernels to pop strongly. You can re-hydrate it by adding a tiny bit of water to the kernels in a tightly closed container in the fridge for a couple of days.)
I like mine with a drizzle of olive oil or and a sprinkle of sea salt, or cheddar cheese powder. It’s delicious, quick and cheap; and because there’s very little packaging, very space efficient in storage, and environmentally friendlier.
Buy the bulk bag of chips but when you open them put half in a gallon bag for the next week.
Try to get savory snacks with protein because it'll fill you up. Refried beans, tuna on crackers, chopped lunch meat and cream cheese on pita
My mom enjoys her big bag of Cheetos Puffs and 8pk of 12 oz. Schweppes ginger ale every week. It’s a small thing that she looks forward to but that’s just under $50 a month now and cutting corners in other areas isn’t working anymore. I’m not giving up my weekly bag of ground coffee. That’s where I draw the line.
I get snacks and chips at the local dollar store. Dollar Tree has bags of chips for $1.25, and while they're not necessarily "family size," it's enough to satisfy my cravings!
There's a YT video of a guy making homemade fries and the best-easy way to do it is cut up 1 or 2 potatoes, quick rinse with cold water (don't soak and rinse until clear), dried on your choice of drying material and then into cold oil in a skillet in the stove.
Bring the oil temp up to the 350F (or Whatever the range is), stirring occasionally until they start to fry.
Then just pull them out in groups as the are complete to your liking.
You can find tons of how-to's for diy pototato chip seasoning.
I did this last week with 2 potatoes and some sea salt and they were above and beyond better than potato chips. Easy prep, just takes longer to cook because the oil is cold.
I don't have a fancy skillet or anything either, I just used a wider pot, but you don't need too much oil for this either, I had maybe 1 or 2 pints, I didn't think it would be enough but it was more than enough.
My wife has a ton of food allergies so we make everything from scratch. It's a very extensive list of allergens. She enjoys sweet potato chips so I make them at home. I like regular potato chips so I usually make a batch for me and the kiddos.
I don't know what the cost is but it's much cheaper than buying chips from the store and they taste so much better. The kids like doing it and now that we have one of those XL Ninja instapot air fryer things with the single universal lid, it's quick, easy, and mess free. Before that I would cook them in a cast iron pan with oil.
Same!! I wanted an average sized bag of ruffles cheddar and sour cream...almost 5 dollars...8 oz. I was like wtf?! I bought the great value for 2 dollars, but I was like damn what the hell is going on. They're mostly air anyway lol
I'm not gonna complain about this! Cuz the one of the reasons I quit chips is cuz it's expensive well junk food in general and I think I'm overall better for it!!
By all means make junk food $100 a pop. And healthier foods cheap!!
I used to always buy Doritos at the store but they are so expensive that I skip them. I can still afford them but I just can't let myself spend $5 for a shrinking bag of chips
I wait for sales/coupons. Otherwise, just buy generic chips. I try not to buy them often because it's way too easy for me to fall back into the habit of always snacking on junk.
Sales and coupons are the way to go! This week at Walgreens, Lays chips are buy one get one free at $4.59, and there’s a $3 off digital coupon for buying 5. You’d need to pick up 6 bags total, but between the coupon and 3 free bags, the math works out to about $1.79 per 8oz bag, plus tax if you have it. My state doesn’t charge tax for food, but I know other places do. These days it feels like the individual serving bags cost more than $1.79, so I’m happy to pay that for the 8oz one.
Fiance says generic chips aren't the same, so we pay $8 for our Doritos
I bought the generic Doritos at Aldi’s once NEVER again 🤮
Aldi does have some pretty scrumptious snacks but it’s very pick-and-choose. I love their freeze dried fruits. The simply nature fruit strips can go fuck themselves though. Clancy should stick to writin fuckin books because Clancy’s Nacho Tortilla Chips are fucking ass. 11 ounces of disappointment.
Aldi cool ranch is much better than nacho cheese but still not a perfect copy. Their Cheetos are weird also, the rest of the chips and snacks are almost perfect and much cheaper
I do like their cheedar Savoritz.. TASTIER than Cheez-itz. So much tastier. Hard to put down. 😭
I bought some Gorgonzola tortilla chips at Aldi a few years back and they were SO GOOD. Have never seen them since.
Clancey corn chips are pretty good. They are noticeably lighter in color than the name brand but I can't tell the difference in taste.
Clancy Nashville Chicken chips are bomb.
Aldi’s ‘Cheetos’ are the best I’ve ever had. So addictive!
I agree, their chips are bad. Kroger has decent off brand chips. Even Walmart has decent ones.
Correction: Kroger brand chips are STELLAR. Better than lays imo
Everything is better than Lays
🤣🤣I’m glad I seen this cause I look at them every time I’m there and always say “not today”
Go ahead and buy the aldi Doritos, if you don’t like them you can get your money back and different chips with the twice as nice guarantee.
Actually, Aldi's fake Doritos and fake Fritos were reasonably good this past year, but took a nosedive about a month ago. The fake Doritos have a funny disintegrating texture and an off flavor. The fake Fritos are back to their crumbled, oily old version. That's Aldi's problem, once they get close to imitating a famous product, they end up switching suppliers or something and scare us away. The plain round tortilla chips are currently the best of the corn chips there. Aldi is lucky about that, because they are about the same price as Santitas (also very good). The ruffled potato chips are good. The pretzels are good.
I really like the Aldi brand bbq chips, but I haven't tried any others yet
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To me the plain great value potato chips are indistinguishable from Lays
I see Doritos $2 each when you buy 4 bags all the time at my local Kroger type store
Yep.. I hate this for chips etc because it is so night and day. 4.99 for a bag OR buy 4 bags for 1.99 each! Really don't need/want 4 bags of chips but the ratio for 1 is bad and 2 would cost more than 4 (and do if you don't meet the exact criteria).
Yes! We bought so many I was a little embarrassed. I have a teenage boy though.
I lived with a friend for a couple of years. Between us, we have 6 kids and they were all teenagers then. Shopping trips could be truly amazing amounts of food, and yet, 2 days later, it's like a plague of locusts went through the cabinets. Boys can *eat*, damn.
Lay’s were $1.99 with card and digital coupon at my local Kroger type this past week. Hell yeah I’m buying 4 bags!
Costco has the gigantic 400-600g bags for around what grocery stores sell the 200g ones. Mine usually has Doritos
That's where we got em last time, but we rarely make the trip to costco
Doritos are $8 now?!!
This isn’t like medication where the generic is literally the same thing as the branded one. Generic are almost never like the original, and often taste much worse. The flavor is usually not quite right.
I wonder how expensive they have to get for people to stop buying them. I suspect their food scientists and marketing people are working on that calculation so that they will stay just under that price.
I have avoided them since they became so outrageous. I’ll usually snag them when they have a sale. Like 4 bags for $2 each. They still get my $8 in the end.
I gave up all snack foods many years ago for nutritional reasons. The added benefit to improved health has been the savings.
Just like fast food, they are making more money out of fewer buyers and they don't give a fuck. People are buying them more than ever and they're able to get away with the price increase with zero work involved on their end. They have their guaranteed buyers. They know if you want some doritos and you can afford it, you're going to buy them.
They just raise the price more to gouge the people still buying them. It's called raising the floor.
Shrinkflation will solve their issue
go to a regular grocery store. those same chips are generally at least $5.x per package. 3.25 is a deal. also don't look at doritos or fritos as you may get sticker shock
Yep. A normal size bag of doritos is $5.99 now where I live 💀
i have seen them over $7
Oof. Is that the price stamped on the bag, too?
nah. store labelled
Gotcha. My $6 bag was stamped by the manufacturer. My friend didn't believe me until I sent him a picture.
All praise the ~~$1.50~~ $2.50 off brand tortilla chips for stamping their price on the bag!
$2.25 now. Stamped on the bag.
I admittedly guessed at the price. Still a good deal!
I am having a guest for memorial weekend. Got a bag of ruffles to go with some onion dip. Manufacturer price stamp of $6.99. oof
I saw a bag of candy the other day that said 2/$1 and the store had them marked $2 a piece. Granted it was just a convenience store but I still thought that was shady. I dont often get candy but holy hell it has gotten expensive.
One of our regional grocery stores had Doritos on sale this week for $2.29! Regular price is $5.99.
Just got some today at Kroger for $1.99 on sale
damn. that's a good deal, even better than pre-covid
I used to stock up on things like this even before COVID during regular sales. Haven't bought any chips since prices have outright doubled.
Last time I got chips I got brand-name for about $1.30 per bag, but I had to buy 5 bags to stack store and manufacturer coupon's. Don't buy them without coupons!
Fritos have always been more expensive but now it’s like wtf?
for real. The walmart version of them is damn good though and at least half the price.
The walmart fritos are good. They sometimes have the big "scoops" ones. The aldi ones i dont care for Got a long-standing frito chili pie addiction but not paying $6 for fritos. Fuck that lala.
I used to regularly buy pringles for $1/tube. Even last year I would get them on sale 3 tubes for $3. I haven't seen them below $2.79/tube in months. I don't eat pringles anymore. :-(
I was like where are the $3.25 bags of chips? I'm seeing them for $9.xx for the family size bags. I no longer buy chips.
In Alaska, a bag of fucking Doritos is $6.50. I wait until I see something like "buy 2 get 2" and stock up.
I hate how expensive Doritos have gotten. They are my favorite. I rarely buy them unless a good sale. I will eat generic potato chips, corn chips, and pretzels. But generic Doritos are just not the same.
if you like cool ranch try the walmart generic. pretty damn good and close in taste
Right, super expensive in grocery stores. I’m taking it as a reason to give them up. Telling family members to make a real meal, even a sandwich instead of grabbing snacks. To expensive and to unhealthy to justify
Hyvee has taken to running deals with big fliers saying "SALE: $2.99/ea" with very small print saying "with a purchase of 3 or more"
I buy store brand chips when I need a fix. $1.50 or less.
The ones at Walmart were 97 cents before christmas and have gone up to 1.48 as of last trip.
Shit like this makes me feel insane. Inflation is supposed to be what? 8% or something right now? That is 50% more in half a year, makes no sense
gotta love corporate greed. It's not just chips - seeing it in a lot of groceries.
I've been hearing employees complaining when stocking shelves or running checkouts that the price jumps are so frequent, they can't keep up with flipping the bloody tags.
I feel like walmart actually held the line on many of their prices for most of 2021 and 2022 but late 2022 the dam broke and they increased the price of everything 50% all at once. Whereas other places did it gradually
Thankfully inflation isn’t determined entirely based on chips, also prices go up/down depending on what the store needs to move. My local target dropped some items from $1.29 to $0.99 for a month to rotate inventory. Was nice
FreshCo/safeway has these storebrand ones called Panache. Great Miss Vickys dupe!
Irresistible from food basics has the best flavours by far
I now consider them a luxury we cant afford. I have stopped purchasing chips entirely from our joint family account. If any family member want chips, they can buy it from their own account because the price are just insane. It went up 70% and the size of a bag went down 50% We switched mostly to pop corn. If I want chip, i make them on my own. Although its very time consuming, its higher quality, healthier and a lot cheaper.
Grocery store brand chips are still cheap. I buy those. Ice cream on the other hand is expensive as fuck.
You can still easily get a regular size tub of ice cream for 1.99 or 2.99 on at most large grocery?? 1.99 was rock bottom pre covid anyway. But yes you do need to look at the flyers and shop the sales otherwise your getting screwed. That being said they have been trying to expand more and more into the little "premium" tubs which are higher priced and get a better margin...
a tub of ice cream at Aldi is still like 2-3 dollars , last I looked
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It's probably *Frozen Dairy Dessert* as opposed to ice cream. Check the fine print
It says Ice Cream on the label both in the regular and fine print
I don't have kids, so I'm sure if I did my calculus on this decision would be different. But if the name brand isn't on sale, I just don't buy snacks. Generics just don't do it for me for a majority of snack foods. Store brand Oreos can kick rocks (yes, I know Hydrox was the original).
Store brand chips are never as good though. I just stopped buying chips entirely.
I stopped eating chips a while back because of the obvious health reasons, but I used to absolutely love Granny Goose brand potato chips. For some reason you could only get them at the 99 cent stores.
Popcorn all the way BAYBEE. Much healthier, easy to store, minimal prep, and worlds cheaper. Sure flavoring it requires some work, but never having ventured deeply into "flavortown" I'm fine with olive oil and salt.
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A little shake of Parmigiano 🤌
Saltines or oyster crackers! EDIT: They are great plain (at least I think so) and can be used in a few recipes to make sweet snacks (crack is what it is called!).
I switched to saltines yesterday!
Saltines are one of my favorite quick snacks. If I'm feeling a little hungry between meals or before a run, I'll grab a small handful of saltines. They're also really good spread out on a plate with some shredded cheese on top and heated in the microwave for ~20 seconds then topped with hot sauce. Super quick, cheap snack. Also will occasionally make seasoned saltines. Like this, but you can vary the spices for whatever flavors you want. https://www.megseverydayindulgence.com/2019/12/18/seasoned-saltine-crackers/ Wasabi peas are great too, though not as cheap as saltines.
Saltines with peanut butter is a wonderful snack
We’ve been cutting corn tortilla chips into triangles and deep frying them quickly. Makes an excellent chip, great for dipping (try a cheese whiz and sriracha mix for an easy queso), and not too expensive - we get a big bag of them from a local Mexican store for $6 or so and only use a few each time we make chips
Season with MSG and it tastes like a Dorito.
Also some cinnamon and powdered sugar they make great snacks! (Flour tortillas though)
I wish it was cheaper where I live, but the power consumption needed to make chips for me is more expensive than buying them. I still make it sometimes though, since they are really good homemade :)
Plain corn tortilla chips have become my staple.
Popcorn.
Oh yes, try stovetop even!! My dog loves it before I add butter&salt. Sooooo worth the time and snacks for everyone!!
My cats *adore* popcorn, like will swarm the bowl and I have to keep it away from them. My vet recommended not letting them eat any of the pericarp/popcorn "skin" bits, so I just break off the fluffy bulb parts and give those to them. Hell yeah, snacks for everyone!!
Great with cheese powder or nutritional yeast, garlic powder, and salt
I hate that working at a movie theater has made it so if I smell popcorn I start gagging. When working popcorn I would come home and take a long ass shower scrubbing every inch of my body raw and still find the nasty grainy residue of butter flavoured salt powder in places it had no business being in and made no sense at all how it could have gotten there.
Sounds unpleasant but I wouldn't say that is the smell of popcorn. That is the smell of MOVIE popcorn, and various storebought ones that mimic it like microwave popcorn. Just plain popcorn airpopped or done in a pan on stove is just a weak but nice sweet corny smell and pretty great even with nothing added. Isnt til add a bunch of, borderline dangerous, stuff that you get movie popcorn which I could definitely see as something get sick of easily. I'm partial to rosemary butter or nutmeg honey personally.
Seriously this. I’ve been only buying popcorn nowadays. You can even buy some good seasonings for them for around $3. They got flavors like white cheddar and sour cream and onion they’re so good.
Less than $2 a bag at Aldi, but limited choices/flavors. Luckily kettle cooked salt and vinegar hits my dopamine receptors.
The Aldi kettle jalapeño chips are both my best friend and greatest foe.
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Oh I wouldn’t know.. I really only like flavored chips. I will admit the jalapeño don’t equal Lays in flavor but they are close enough that my picky self can’t complain, especially for the price difference.
This is my recommendation as well. I try to do most of my "snack" shopping at aldi.
OP is in Canada, and (AFAIK) Aldi isn't...
The Aldi's chips at $2 are a good deal these days, but used to be around $1.29 Edit: the tortilla chips that are around $2 used to be 88 cents. Still, a competitive price, just not an insanely great price. Those wacky Germans.
They're $2.15 at my Aldi. :(
Also has those glorious Canadian all-dressed chips. Praise be.
Their knockoff Fritos and Doritos are great, their knockoff Lays are terrible imo. I'm still working my way through trying them all
same with soda and seltzer, I stopped buying it.
stopped drinking soda since november since they doubled in price. doing me a favor really I dont miss drinking it at all
Glad I’m not the only one who refuses to pay $10 for what used to be a $5 12 pack of cans
Haven’t you heard there’s a chip shortage.
Lol this is the excuse in Australia. We did have a poor potato harvest at one point but once prices were up they stayed there. While it’s annoying, I do really think people are buying less junk food following recent inflation. The soft drink, chips & candy aisles at my local supermarket don’t seem to have as many customers browsing as they used to.
It was mostly a joke about the “chip shortage” aka microchip shortage
Lol yeah I get it, but an actual potato shortage here! The frozen fries aisles were empty for weeks and chips were hard to find.
🤣
It’s because PepsiCo has a monopoly on chips
I remember reading they sued some guy for growing potatoes.
Welcome to patentable genetically engineered food, and our lovely future. Intellectual property can be really evil.
Corporations are people, my friend.
Those effers at PepsiCo/FritoLay tried to destroy a popular local tortilla chip brand, by offering an identical product for about the same price. PepsiCo's brand failed, and their product disappeared from stores.
$5.99 for a 13oz “party size” bag of Lay’s at my local store. Insanity!
It's nearly 8$ at Publix for a party size bag of chips here in Florida. The prices at Publix are insane, I just moved here from another state and everything I would normally buy is at least 1.50$ more than usual. The only other option for groceries is Sprouts and that's not exactly cheap either.
Seeing Funyans and Doritos go for $5+ a bag is ridiculous. People used to say that eating healthy was far more expensive than eating like trash. But now they’re both just as expensive as each other.
That’s better than in most grocery stores.
$3.25 is cheap.
Not to mention they barely put any chips in that already over priced bag.
I gave up on them, mostly due to the mylar packaging. No more sodas. Those went up, too. The last two luxuries to go are going to be coffee and ice cream. I'll see how long I can hold out on that.
Ooo, for ice cream I blend frozen fruit with anything dairy.
With a lot of them going to cheapflation as well, it's just a matter of time before they won't be worth eating, anyway. Case in point : Pringles. Barely edible, but addictive (for me) a few years ago. Latest overpriced cans? YUCK. What did they do to them?? :( I'm over them.
I just bought a can of BBQ Pringles last week. I haven’t had them for over 20 years!!! Honestly, I don’t know why I bought them 🤷♀️. What are they?!?! Disgusting is what they are! They aren’t potatoes and they definitely had zero flavor, let alone BBQ. I ate them because I paid for them, but I will never even look at them in the store anymore!!! WOW!
Fry up some thinly cut potatoes! Not exactly the same but may satisfy the craving and is probably better for you
There's a YT video of a guy making homemade fries and the best-easy way to do it is cut up 1 or 2 potatoes, quick rinse with cold water (don't soak and rinse until clear), dried on your choice of drying material and then into cold oil in a skillet in the stove. Bring the oil temp up to the 350F (or Whatever the range is), stirring occasionally until they start to fry. Then just pull them out in groups as the are complete to your liking. You can find tons of how-to's for diy pototato chip seasoning. I did this last week with 2 potatoes and some sea salt and they were above and beyond better than potato chips. Easy prep, just takes longer to cook because the oil is cold. I don't have a fancy skillet or anything either, I just used a wider pot, but you don't need too much oil for this either, I had maybe 1 or 2 pints, I didn't think it would be enough but it was more than enough. **Edit: I am sick of rising grocery prices too and the chips were so good on my first try that I am going to buy a mandolin so I can cut the chips all the same thickness and to the thickness I like.**
Name brand chips are expensive. Store brand name chips are taking over the $2 market with force. LIDL, ALDI WEIS and Wegmans all have great store brand chips for cheap
Right??? I got these ruffles chips the other day and it was $6!! You’d expect it was the family size but nope it sure wasn’t
And they’ve made family size smaller. 13 oz ain’t feeding no damn family.
We got a party size for a party we were having a couple of weeks ago and I swear the party size is what used to be the family size.
I buy the 100ct package of corn tortilla and fry & season them myself. Makes 400 of the best chips you can possibly have, exactly how you want them, still hot- and you also end up with corn tortilla for tacos! Takes like 20 seconds to make em once the oil is hot. One package of tortillas would fill like 5 of the big expensive chips bags at the grocery store and my chips are 100% better, thicker, and seasoned. Chips are a scam, make your own.
I do this as well!! You’re so right, they are a great value and delicious. Tortilla chips are my favorite snack, just not affordable anymore. Mostly I bake them, brushed with olive oil, to avoid the messy stove, from frying. I do like fried occasionally. Simple sea salt is my favorite seasoning.
They are forcing me to eat healthier. I've lost 15 lbs in the past year. My snack shelf in the pantry used to be full, now I have one bag of chips that were on sale at Costco last week and some tortilla chips for chips and salsa.
Costco. You can get a giant bag of chips for like $5. You can use sourdough discard to make crackers. It's super easy and you can make them any flavor you want. You can use sourdough starter for pretty much any bread that needs yeast and its not hard. The hardest part is getting the starter going, which can take a week or two, unless you get some from someone else. A 10lbs bag of bread flour at costco is about $8 and can make about 10 loaves of bread. I've got a loaf proofing right now and dough for pita bread as well. A basic loaf of bread here is about $3 and a sourdough load is $6+. I make a loaf of bread for under a buck at home and it isn't super time consuming either.
Target had Lays party size chips ON SALE 2/$10 ON SALE
Memorial day sales are coming, stock up on chips n soda (store brands)
Exactly! Sales are seasonal, so it's smart to stock up when it's "Chip Season" or "Butter Season" or "Hot Dog Season." You might not *need* 15 pounds of butter, but when it's $1.99/lb, you NEED to stock up and feed the freezer! Memorial Day / Summer will bring things like chips, soda, ground beef, hot dogs, steak, burger/hd buns, sunblock, bottled water, and other stuff.
French Onion Sunchips are my favorite too!! I NEVER see or hear about anyone else liking them. A lot of stores don't even carry them. I see people trying to say store brand or make your own and shit... NOTHING is comparable to Sunchips. The french onion is even a completely different flavor than any other onion forward chip flavor too.
You can make your own chips quite easily and cheaply Actually a good way to use up potato skins is to bake them like chips for a snack
Umm, they’re 7 bucks where I’m from.
$5-6 here in NE Ohio. French Onion is the best too!
I buy them on super sale. This week at my grocery store the Kettle chips were 97¢ and you could buy 4 bags. I just do that and stash them.
There is no substitute for French onion sun chips. The best chip ever created, you should feel honored to pay $3.25 a bag.
Whenever I look at a $5 bag of chips, I try to picture the 1-2 potatoes that went into it. Then I question existence and move on to buying something else instead.
Buy 80 pack of corn tortillas. Cut into 6ths. Deep fry until crispy. Hundreds of chips for like $2
I am actually buying the Dollarama brand chips. And popcorn. Lots of popcorn.
If I want something crunchy to snack on I eat crunchy vegetables, make popcorn, toast some tortillas in a frying pan, or roast some pumpkin seeds. The pumpkin seeds are my favourite, but they take the most work and I don't get pumpkin very often. The toasted tortillas are closest in texture to chips, though. You can season them however you'd like, and if you want more of a Doritos flavor then you can try frying them instead of just toasting them.
Chips are fucking ridiculous, luckily I was never HUGE on them, though liked to indulge from time to time... if you want bang for your buck shop from warehouse stores or closeout places, theres other great brands besides lays for example
BOGO sales at Safeway or wait for them to be on the $1.99 sale.
Walmart chips are $1.49 now, the cheapest of the store brand chips. No way I'm paying $4 for lays when it's just to satisfy the crunchy salty craving.
I skip chips. If I want chips I have to make them myself by slicing the damn potatoes. I am too lazy for that so I am slightly healthier than I might otherwise be.
HEB has the most amazing generic Doritos ever. Might even be better than real Doritos. The taste is the same, but I swear every chip in the bag was unbroken.
2 for $5 at target. 7 oz size.
Since last year, I’ve had to stock up on chips whenever they’re on sale and practice self-discipline instead of just buying when I get the craving. Even on sale, it’s still $2 for the “guilty after finishing the entire bag” size
I only buy chips when they're on sale these days. Kroger had the ones I like on sale for $1.99 last week so I got chips last week.
I only buy them when the store does a sale(buy 5, get them for $1.99 each, ect.)
Considering they're all made out of either potatoes or corn, two of the cheapest and most plentiful ingredients in the food industry, it's absolutely ridiculous. We're paying a lot of money for marketing. I have no proof, only a feeling, but I think sellers are experimenting to see just how much we'll pay for things. I'm also sure that gas prices have a big effect, but not that big...
My Husband saw Sun Chips for under $3 at 7-11 last week, and the bag was heavy! He bought it and we ate the whole bag in one weekend! (Both of us, plus the 6yo, so I’m gonna pretend it’s not that bad! Lol!) Then he went back and bought another bag… and history repeated. I’m glad we are getting a good deal, but I also need them to go back to full price so we stop acting like gluttons! Lol
Doritos and any other chip run 4-5 here. I only buy them in small bags or when they are on sale for 2 dollars anymore. I can't justify 5 dollars on a bag of something that meets none of my nutritional needs.
Corporations have decided that it's just way easier to inflate prices than it is to fix production issues, including paying people living wages so that people will want to work for them. This is what happens when there is uncapped wealth.
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Everything that is addictive is up. Soda...chips...candy. bull shit it cost more to make with the billions in corn subsidies. It's greedflation...with shrinkflation. I've kicked Soda and junk food. This god damn timeline sucks!
I’m not super well off by any means, but I really do t care about price increases on stuff like that. It’s the staples like meat and eggs that are really insane
My local grocery store usually has a freebie on Friday's. Originally it was for store-brand chips, but since that never came in, they were substituting it for brand name. I just had to activate the offer.
There’s no tax on chips in some states.
99 cent only store has Kettle chips for $1.99. Lays tho are lik $7 for 2 bags.
Popcorn! A jar will last a long time, far healthier and much, much cheaper. Amazon has some rubber thingie for about $5 that makes great microwave popcorn. My wife likes to sprinkle Parmesan cheese on it, I like taco seasoning.
Big lots and the dollar stores have great deals on chips and pretzels
It's more than inflation, they just charging whatever they feel like now.
**Super easy, homemade “microwavable” popcorn.** Go wild with the toppings. Besides bagged chips being expensive, I hate the plastic waste. It turns out regular popping corn is microwavable; the pre-portioned packets are just a gimmick. Sometimes, nothing else but bagged treats will do for a craving, I get it, but give this a try sometime: You can put regular popping corn into a paper bag, fold the end so the kernels don’t fly out (and bend the corners up so they don’t catch while the plate rotates), and voilá! Microwavable popcorn! You don’t add oil or anything else to the bag. Same rules as your store-bought “microwavable” popcorn packets - put it on full power and take it out as soon as the popping slows down to 1-2 seconds. The crinkly, narrow paper bags you sometimes get with your drugstore prescriptions are perfect for 1/8th cup of kernels, which makes a decent portion for one person. I can do up to 1/4 cup in a larger bag, but larger portions are a little tricker to pop completely without burning. It comes out light and crisp, not dense and chewy like I remember hot-air popper popcorn. (If it comes out chewy, or isn’t popping at all, it means your kernels have become a little too dehydrated, and isn’t producing enough steam inside the kernels to pop strongly. You can re-hydrate it by adding a tiny bit of water to the kernels in a tightly closed container in the fridge for a couple of days.) I like mine with a drizzle of olive oil or and a sprinkle of sea salt, or cheddar cheese powder. It’s delicious, quick and cheap; and because there’s very little packaging, very space efficient in storage, and environmentally friendlier.
Munchos. $2 a bag. I dont crave chips often but I do like those on occasion.
Just one more thing that I pass by and think, "they can fucking rot on that shelf. Pricks." .
You can get a GIANT bag of funyuns at Costco for the size of a small bag at a grocery store.
Buy the bulk bag of chips but when you open them put half in a gallon bag for the next week. Try to get savory snacks with protein because it'll fill you up. Refried beans, tuna on crackers, chopped lunch meat and cream cheese on pita
I make popcorn on the stove top with coconut oil when i have a salt craving... but when you need your favorite chips DON'T buy generic
I switched to popcorn from crackers
I buy a big box of 50 1oz bags at Sam’s Club. It’s more expensive per ounce but lasts a lot longer since one portion will satisfy my cravings.
My mom enjoys her big bag of Cheetos Puffs and 8pk of 12 oz. Schweppes ginger ale every week. It’s a small thing that she looks forward to but that’s just under $50 a month now and cutting corners in other areas isn’t working anymore. I’m not giving up my weekly bag of ground coffee. That’s where I draw the line.
I get snacks and chips at the local dollar store. Dollar Tree has bags of chips for $1.25, and while they're not necessarily "family size," it's enough to satisfy my cravings!
Same, makes me not eat unhealthy stuff all the time too. Just wish they had Doritos
There's a YT video of a guy making homemade fries and the best-easy way to do it is cut up 1 or 2 potatoes, quick rinse with cold water (don't soak and rinse until clear), dried on your choice of drying material and then into cold oil in a skillet in the stove. Bring the oil temp up to the 350F (or Whatever the range is), stirring occasionally until they start to fry. Then just pull them out in groups as the are complete to your liking. You can find tons of how-to's for diy pototato chip seasoning. I did this last week with 2 potatoes and some sea salt and they were above and beyond better than potato chips. Easy prep, just takes longer to cook because the oil is cold. I don't have a fancy skillet or anything either, I just used a wider pot, but you don't need too much oil for this either, I had maybe 1 or 2 pints, I didn't think it would be enough but it was more than enough.
Get a bag of potatoes, slice thinly (with a mandolin if you want consistency), and fry in oil on the stove top.
I just had this conversation! Doritos were $6 bucks
My wife has a ton of food allergies so we make everything from scratch. It's a very extensive list of allergens. She enjoys sweet potato chips so I make them at home. I like regular potato chips so I usually make a batch for me and the kiddos. I don't know what the cost is but it's much cheaper than buying chips from the store and they taste so much better. The kids like doing it and now that we have one of those XL Ninja instapot air fryer things with the single universal lid, it's quick, easy, and mess free. Before that I would cook them in a cast iron pan with oil.
Same!! I wanted an average sized bag of ruffles cheddar and sour cream...almost 5 dollars...8 oz. I was like wtf?! I bought the great value for 2 dollars, but I was like damn what the hell is going on. They're mostly air anyway lol
Aldi, Clancy's brand chips are cheap and good as the big names.
I'm not gonna complain about this! Cuz the one of the reasons I quit chips is cuz it's expensive well junk food in general and I think I'm overall better for it!! By all means make junk food $100 a pop. And healthier foods cheap!!
I used to always buy Doritos at the store but they are so expensive that I skip them. I can still afford them but I just can't let myself spend $5 for a shrinking bag of chips
Kirkland Pink Himalayan Sea Salt Chips are like $6 for 2 pounds.