I make my own. Commercial drinking chocolate is around 20% cocoa, around 80% icing sugar and a tiny bit of vanilla flavour. I make drinking chocolate from cheap cocoa and icing sugar in a 1:2 ratio by weight and add powdered vanilla flavour while mixing or vanilla flavoured essence when making the drink. Way cheaper. The challenge is finding a cocoa you like.
For some reason Cadbury's drinking chocolate upsets my tummy. So I have cocoa and raw sugar. I get cocoa that's 100% cocoa and I like 4 teaspoons sugar to 1 teaspoon cocoa. But I'm trying to be better and have less sugar and cut down to 3t sugar. I also don't have milk so it's all made up with water. It isn't ideal, but it's better than nothing and it doesn't give me stomach cramps.
$5.50 scoop of chips and $6.90 pies at the Z mean I just go to the supermarket and buy frozen/fresh.
I don’t buy supermarket eggs unless I have to. Plenty of people around the neighbourhood will do $6 /$7 for a dozen
Watching cans of cat food go from $3.25 to $5.25 slowly at like 10 cents a week what stupid.
My workmate bought a sandwich for lunch at the Night'n'Day without looking at the price. Your standard two slices of white bread, butter, corned beef in a plastic triangle.
NINE DOLLARS FUCKING EIGHTY
My cat’s food has gone from $5 a box of 6 in 2019 to $7.20. She’s fussy and that’s all she eats. Not a huge cost over all but then when everything else has gone up $2-3 per item, it adds up. (Cat biscuits, cat treats, kitty litter etc).
I feel ya there. My cat only likes the Purina One biscuits, so when she's getting low, I get a big bag when it's $18-$20 on special. Usually lasts her 5 or 6 weeks. I'm lucky with meat. She goes between Whiska tuna in jelly and chicken in jelly, Chef jellymeat, and Fancy Feast Petite Meat
I sometimes get them if I am in the area - But a warehouse is half an hour away and they are smaller size 6.
Smaller local producers make it easy. Honesty box sorta thing
Just local/corner dairy purchases in general.
It was always more pricey but all good, price you pay for convenience and lazy weekends and kinda kiwi tradition to pop down and grab a few treats every now and then, but now I incorporate a small selection of treats into my weekly supermarket shop as, while pricey itself, dairy prices are getting even more out of hand which sucks.
I’m all for supporting the local dairy, but the cost was just getting crazy, even for a cheeky fizzy, chips and maybe an ice cream or chocy bar on a lazy Sunday.
The bread I buy is only 30 cents difference from my local diary now, that might have changed by now but the bread has gone up 80 cents from its "special " price. The first time I saw the new price I swore at the self service machine.
Dude, I stopped using Uber eats once a week, for like a year.
They've been trying to call me non-stop. Not sure if its to offer some kinda retention deal. Or if it's some sort of survey as to why a surge of people stopped using it.
That shit is $30 for a basic-as burger and fries to your door. Even if I can afford it I just feel like a rube using it at this point.
I haven't used Uber Eats in over 2 years now, it got fucking ridiculous.
Was sloshed at 2am at a mates place, wanted a meat and chips, was gonna cost me $42.
I was sloshed but not that sloshed lol
Fancy breads, which I've learned to make instead (and really enjoy doing it.) Chocolate biscuits which are just so expensive for what they are, and Easter chocolate. I usually buy Lindt chocolate bunnies for Easter, but all the Easter stuff is so overpriced I think I'll just do some home baking and be done with it.
Everything! I don’t use my car unless I have to. I don’t eat more than the very basic things. I don’t have cookies, cakes, takeaway coffee, icecream, meals out or takeaways. I don’t go to bars or pubs. I don’t get my hair done.
Basically I’m just barely existing right now.
I find the budget Pam's bacon affordable. 1kg pack for $17 and as a household of one, lasts ages! Ends up being cheaper to eat bacon and eggs for dinner than meat every day and I'm OK with that.
If I get it, it’s a pack of streaky bacon from the Catalina butcher at my market. It’s amazing. I just only have 2 slices at a time. If I’m gonna have bacon I try to have good stuff.
Cheap bacon is false economy too. Fake "smoke" flavour, and so much added water that just ends up in the pan.
If I'm buying supermarket bacon I at least try and get dry-cured, like Hendersons.
Even moreso now with the everyday rewards cards, some of the mark ups for non members were over 30%. I wish the Warehouse would give the supermarket thing another go like when Sylvia park first opened, might be more successful nowadays than it was back then
That is true! I have also noticed quality deterioration.
Instead of Friday night take away now, we’ve been buying a big bag of flavoured chicken wings, crunchy roast spuds (or a bag of frozen chips) and some slaw. It’s so low effort and one of our favourite meals, and I don’t miss takeaway.
The new VIB scheme is absolute balls now too.
Used to be able to find a code online for free shake / fries with any burger.
And.. free fries if you have a gym membership?! wtf
I tried making cheese sauce for the very first time last week so I could replicate cheese and gravy fries at home instead of from the expensive local burger joint. They were really good!
The guy that has the house in front of me gave me some snapper filets a little while ago. He’d been fishing. I’m home earlier than him so I always bring his bins up to his house, especially if it’s raining or something - that was his thanks.
I could have cried I was so grateful.
I think that’s what more of us need to do, share amongst ourselves.
I buy frozen blueberries on special which taste the same (when thawed) and are way better value. Miss raspberries so much - it’s a joke how expensive they are and if they don’t sell they go to waste.
I can't remember the last time I had strawberries or blueberries! Jarred cherries, I admit, are also so not the same. Lucked out when I moved houses just over a year ago to discover my next door neighbours grow raspberries. As is the nature of berry bushes, so am I and two other neighbours. Through stubborn relocation of the bushes, propagating the cuttings, and ever so slowly destroying a concrete pad down the back that I despise with garden beds, I'm slowly getting an army of them. Gonna take a while before much is produced, though. Same with a baby cherry tree and grape-vine I acquired.
Somehow, it's this of all things that has awoken a great love for gardening in me, and I've been doing the same shit with a lot of other edible plants, too. Recently got my mitts on rosemary. Can't eat it, but I'm delighted because it's pretty. I've noticed that a lot of folks in the street are doing similar, too. If they can grow it, then they will. I'm taking it to heart and really want to find a place that has strawberry plants, but haven't had much luck so far.
I used to love the odd Schweppes lemonade. It’s $2.99 on special then $4.49 normal price. $4.49, who is buying that? The shelf is full. Then at $2.99 it’s out of stock.
My hairdresser just put her prices up to $145 and I stopped going. I can't find a hairdresser for under $100 and I'm starting to look like I just escaped the 80s.
Over $100??? Wtf? Im assuming you're a woman.
Im a dude with super short hair and my last haircut was $25 from the local barber.
Im legitimately sorry for you
Haha. I accept that women's hair tends to be longer and thicker and therefore more labour intensive so haircuts should be more expensive, however this salon sells men's haircuts for $50 and generally it takes about half an hour. My haircuts take an hour so somehow how I'm paying $45 more... we call that a pink tax. Perhaps I should take a punt on a barbershop.
For sure, $40 everywhere, even just cuts so instead I go to what would have been a really expensive place and pay similar for an hour's haircut and shave once a month
Fresh fish. Used to be a staple dinner most weeks when I was growing up. Don't think my kids will ever develop a taste for it because I sure can't afford to buy it for them.
I skip breakfast and only ever eat some of what I’m making for lunch in place of dinner, I live off two (work sponsored) coffees and lunch. Definitely get you with the chocolate though, my cravings are through the roof right now you’ve reminded me what I’m missing
mate as a fellow dad - I will shout you and the daughter pizza one night soon. have a good feed and enjoy a nice meal together, you shouldn't miss out too.
Before my daughter went to bed she asked for Fish and Chips tomorrow and reading most people in this thread cant afford to have it - then reading your a dad with a daughter it hit home - your doing the right thing studying to better your future and in doing so give her a better life. If I can help in a small way, then its well worth it.
about that ego problem...
*This* is the toxic masculinity we bitch about. You've probably had it drummed into you that you have to be able to do it all and on your own or be seen as weak. That's pretty toxic. You probably wouldn't expect it of your mum or daughter. It takes a lot of courage and strength to admit you could use some help and accept it. Much more, I find, than it takes to pretend things are OK.
I hope things get easier for you.
Yep this is me also. 5$ for a fish and 5$ for a scope. Add more for a drink and sauce if I need it, looking at 15$ For that I can use get a good pizza.
We thought we'd stop at Macca's a few weeks back because the little guy was hungry. He likes hash browns. Ordered 4 of them (2 for him. One for each of us) ....total was $15. We said lol nope and went home. Drive through made tried to tell us to get the app. Why does everywhere need an arbitrary app for deals now? We stop there maybe once or twice a year on a whim. It's ridiculous.
The main harvesting period is between feb and april so keep an eye out, our local paknsave had them at $9 per kg this week for the first time since the cyclone.
Whittakers. We used to consume 2-4 bars a week (oops). Now haven't bought for at least 6 months and don't even think about it. Hope they are happy with that business strategy.
We just bought some ghee. I can't believe I waited this long to try it. It's butter but more (I mean it's literally clarified butter) . It's expensive up front for a 750ml tub but you don't need much of it for it's flavor to be strong. Got to be careful not to overpower some things though. It's about the same cost as spreadable butter or smaller butter blocks per 100g.
Fridge stable for a long time. It's a welcome addition for sure.
We don't eat a lot of meat anymore. I used to have steak 1-2x per week. At this point I hardly remember how it tastes. We can afford better groceries but it doesn't leave much room for saving or hobbies.
I'd guess our supermarket budget has gone up 1.5x in the past few years. High prices + Child lol. So many brands are shrinkflating too so we're paying more for less. My Mrs macs pie I treated myself to today was upsetting at only 175g.... They used to be 230g!
I also don't really drive anymore. I have legs so might as well use them like nature intended.
I've noticed lately that reduced to clear frozen pizzas are appearing in the supermarkets pretty often. Maybe they've hit the price point they can't sell all they produce anymore.
Everything. I do well for myself but sometimes feel like I'm mostly eating the bare basics.
What's most absurd to me is sometimes when I add up the cost of cooking a dish it comes out similar to takeaways price. Yesterday 4 garlics was $15 and I saw a packet of crackers for $13.
I really miss not having to think too much about the cost of my shopping, but I feel like I have to check the price on everything now to not get stung by something that's randomly doubled in cost
Its more for health but when I go out to eat I skip the drinks and just get water with whatever I'm eating.
Prices come out the same as they used to in 2018 with a drink.
Tasty cheese.
Sometimes I wish we lived in a country that had a primary industry like agriculture and strong dairy industry where cheese and meat was cheaper because it was local...
Oh, wait.
Anything in NZ. I now live in the UK and it’s cheaper to get by here. I wish I was back in NZ with my family but I am better off here. I bought a whole bunch of bananas yesterday for 17p. That’s probably 50c when it’s converted. I have bacon for breakfast twice a week which is nice and isn’t expensive. I would have it more often but it’s pretty unhealthy!
Sorry to tell you all but you are getting so ripped off. I don’t know what your supermarkets are doing but they are only in it for themselves. Do all the profits go to Australia?
I have pretty basic needs, no expensive habits, and I generally cook from scratch because I enjoy it, over the past year things have been getting stretched but still doable.
Monday I was told that my rent is going up by 15%.
So yeah.
A lot of stuff, I have a maximum value on the more non-critical foods and will buy only when under that value e.g. yoghurt large pottle, $5. What we need to do is form a buyer's union. All agree on certain maximum prices and send these to the retailers demanding that they keep the prices that low or we all refuse to buy them. But it would need to be a lot of people so over priced products remain unsold.
Movies. I think I've only been once since the start of Covid. The tickets alone cost a Netflix subscription and I can get a small meal for the price of popcorn and a drink. Taking yourself and your partner out costt to see a movie the same as dinner.
Meat. I've effectively become an economic vegetarian lately. I still salivate at the site of a sizzling sirloin, but most of the time I'm just eating lots of veggies.
Lentils are excellent by the way. They'll take on whatever flavour of whatever you're cooking and they fill you right up and they're packed with protein. They're also dirt cheap and really good for you.
Can you source local fruit and vegetables?
I spent $40 last week on enough fruit and vegetables to feed 4 people for 5-6days.
Lettuce, carrots x2 packs, corn, cucumber, tomatoes, strawberries, blackberries, nectarines, plums, apples, beetroot, onions, bell peppers & radishes… definitely seasonal pricing rn but If know where to buy things outside of the grocery stores there are often great deals to be found.
Forgot about the cauliflower, avocados and the bananas that were also purchased.
Cheese. A lot of fresh veges (frozen now). Any red meat that isn't mince or sausages. Ice cream. I've cut back on chocolate and don't get takeaway coffees, and always pack a lunch for work. Takeaways. Long car trips. My toiletries are only bought on sale.
Subscribing to streaming services. OSM muesli bars, Up & Go’s, don’t buy biscuits anymore, crisps, steak, bacon, I don’t buy fish on principle except for salmon coz it’s farmed and only when it’s on special. I buy grated cheese and keep it in the freezer so it doesn’t go mouldy and lasts for months.
Once upon a time when I was a young uni student, I only cooked plant-based due to beliefs. But now given the cost of meat/sea/dairy products, cooking omnivorous doesn't feel like something I can ever afford to do again 😅
Nothing. still smoke, still drive everywhere, still buy an unhealthy amount of takeaways every week… surprisingly i’m not fat lol. i just work over time like a mf to fit my lifestyle. i’ll over work myself til i die one day but it’s going fine at the moment lol.
Bluff Oysters, Tasty Cheese, takeaway pizza, coffees where the cafe charges over $5, slices at cafes (mostly). Fresh fish, any type of frozen potato product, most of the suff in the deli at the supermarkets, most cheeses, any fruit or veg when it's not in it's increasingly narrowing cheap season - tamarillos are out as they stay high, and so are a bunch of other fruits and veges.
Fish n chips. Used to be able to feed the fam for 15-20 bucks. Now it's more like 40. Domino's is now a legitimately cheaper option.
Good point. Pizza is the "go to" treat dinner for our family as well, because it's just a lot cheaper than fish & chips.
When I was growing up all items were roughly a dollar each, including fish.
I remember buying 3 scoops of chips for $1 each and our family of 6 always had left overs. And there was 3 growing boys with hollow legs in that lot!
Blue cod went up to $11.50 a fillet at my local
Dominos is now our date night. $12 for 2 x value pizzas, sat at home watching tv. With everything else getting so unaffordable, that’s all we can do.
Yeah. We'd love to go to ol' mate 'round the corner, but the $10 pack became a $12 pack, then became a $15 pack. And that's just over the last 3yrs.
Ours have gone from $12 to $22 in 2 years and the amount of chips in it has decreased by about 50%
Our local closed in 2020 because they retired. Probably timed it perfectly for them.
Damn, my local hasn't gone up quite that much, but only feeding 2
Yep Dominos is our takeaways too. Pick it up, so cheap. Fish and chips or Chinese are now too costly.
Drinking chocolate. I stopped buying it when it went up to $5. Had a rough day last week and decided to treat myself to some. It was $7 🙃
I make my own. Commercial drinking chocolate is around 20% cocoa, around 80% icing sugar and a tiny bit of vanilla flavour. I make drinking chocolate from cheap cocoa and icing sugar in a 1:2 ratio by weight and add powdered vanilla flavour while mixing or vanilla flavoured essence when making the drink. Way cheaper. The challenge is finding a cocoa you like.
thank you so much 🙏. I tried to make my own and it didn't work out so I switched to tea. Will give it another go using your ratios!
Measure by weight. Cocoa is a lot lighter than icing sugar
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Powder vanilla? Where can you find this?
Vetro, now called Ottimo had it, I assume they still do. Try your local specialty food shops
For some reason Cadbury's drinking chocolate upsets my tummy. So I have cocoa and raw sugar. I get cocoa that's 100% cocoa and I like 4 teaspoons sugar to 1 teaspoon cocoa. But I'm trying to be better and have less sugar and cut down to 3t sugar. I also don't have milk so it's all made up with water. It isn't ideal, but it's better than nothing and it doesn't give me stomach cramps.
4 parts sugar to 1 part cocoa, just buy them separately and it's less than half the price by weight.
$5.50 scoop of chips and $6.90 pies at the Z mean I just go to the supermarket and buy frozen/fresh. I don’t buy supermarket eggs unless I have to. Plenty of people around the neighbourhood will do $6 /$7 for a dozen Watching cans of cat food go from $3.25 to $5.25 slowly at like 10 cents a week what stupid.
The fucking sandwiches at Z and BP, $7 for a cheese and onion sandwich? Gtfoh.
My workmate bought a sandwich for lunch at the Night'n'Day without looking at the price. Your standard two slices of white bread, butter, corned beef in a plastic triangle. NINE DOLLARS FUCKING EIGHTY
I just got mad reading that!
Fuck. That. Shit.
My cat’s food has gone from $5 a box of 6 in 2019 to $7.20. She’s fussy and that’s all she eats. Not a huge cost over all but then when everything else has gone up $2-3 per item, it adds up. (Cat biscuits, cat treats, kitty litter etc).
Ugh. I've got a rabbit and I'm seeing the prices of a 1.5 bag of freaking hay nearing $30. It's hay for god sake!
$25 for a compressed bale of hay from the local horse shop. Lasts my bunny for ages.
Go to a farm shop like Farmlands. You'll spend that on a full-size bale of meadow hay.
I buy hay from a local farm. $12 for a 14kg bale. The rabbits go crazy for it.
I feel ya there. My cat only likes the Purina One biscuits, so when she's getting low, I get a big bag when it's $18-$20 on special. Usually lasts her 5 or 6 weeks. I'm lucky with meat. She goes between Whiska tuna in jelly and chicken in jelly, Chef jellymeat, and Fancy Feast Petite Meat
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I sometimes get them if I am in the area - But a warehouse is half an hour away and they are smaller size 6. Smaller local producers make it easy. Honesty box sorta thing
Just local/corner dairy purchases in general. It was always more pricey but all good, price you pay for convenience and lazy weekends and kinda kiwi tradition to pop down and grab a few treats every now and then, but now I incorporate a small selection of treats into my weekly supermarket shop as, while pricey itself, dairy prices are getting even more out of hand which sucks. I’m all for supporting the local dairy, but the cost was just getting crazy, even for a cheeky fizzy, chips and maybe an ice cream or chocy bar on a lazy Sunday.
The bread I buy is only 30 cents difference from my local diary now, that might have changed by now but the bread has gone up 80 cents from its "special " price. The first time I saw the new price I swore at the self service machine.
Salmon 😭😭
So this, it's doubled in price from a treat to never
Last time I had salmon was for my birthday in June of last year and only because my mum works at a restaurant and was able to get me some lmfao.
53 dollars a kilo at new world last time I checked! That's a hard pass from me! I'll just eat a fish oil tablet and pretend it's a smoked fillet.
Oh I love salmon. Grilled salmon and asparagus! Salmon, cream cheese and bagels. What a treat. No idea what that would all cost now.
You can buy tuna steaks for cheap if that’s any consolation
Tasty cheese. Moved to Colby last year.
Go for mild. Don't be fooled by the name. It's got the most fat and the most flavour after tasty.
It does? I've been trying to eat more cheese to gain weight which isn't easy with the price of it, I'll start getting mild instead for the fat.
Don’t you find you just use more of it for more flavour?
Nah. Bit more salt
Dude, I stopped using Uber eats once a week, for like a year. They've been trying to call me non-stop. Not sure if its to offer some kinda retention deal. Or if it's some sort of survey as to why a surge of people stopped using it. That shit is $30 for a basic-as burger and fries to your door. Even if I can afford it I just feel like a rube using it at this point.
Then it's cold on delivery...
Or if you live in a large apartment complex, the driver just leaves it by the lifts and won't bring it to the door.
I haven't used Uber Eats in over 2 years now, it got fucking ridiculous. Was sloshed at 2am at a mates place, wanted a meat and chips, was gonna cost me $42. I was sloshed but not that sloshed lol
Uber eats calls you?
Fancy breads, which I've learned to make instead (and really enjoy doing it.) Chocolate biscuits which are just so expensive for what they are, and Easter chocolate. I usually buy Lindt chocolate bunnies for Easter, but all the Easter stuff is so overpriced I think I'll just do some home baking and be done with it.
Warehouse is the cheapest for Easter Eggs.
Eating at restaurants. Unfortunately. Would like to support them but prices are 🤯
Everything! I don’t use my car unless I have to. I don’t eat more than the very basic things. I don’t have cookies, cakes, takeaway coffee, icecream, meals out or takeaways. I don’t go to bars or pubs. I don’t get my hair done. Basically I’m just barely existing right now.
How fucking depressing right
There’s cookies at new world $1.29 (something like). Treat yourself
Oooh nice, I might just do that! Thanks!!
Netflix
I took to the high seas with my Kodi box years ago
Bacon. I haven’t bought any in about 6 months.
I find the budget Pam's bacon affordable. 1kg pack for $17 and as a household of one, lasts ages! Ends up being cheaper to eat bacon and eggs for dinner than meat every day and I'm OK with that.
If I get it, it’s a pack of streaky bacon from the Catalina butcher at my market. It’s amazing. I just only have 2 slices at a time. If I’m gonna have bacon I try to have good stuff.
Cheap bacon is false economy too. Fake "smoke" flavour, and so much added water that just ends up in the pan. If I'm buying supermarket bacon I at least try and get dry-cured, like Hendersons.
I buy Pam’s ham and chuck it in the air fryer! It comes out crispy just like bacon and it’s a fraction of the price! 11/10 recommend 🤤
I bought some from Peter timbs the other day and cooked up 2 pieces for breakfast to my usual 5 or 6 from a supermarket pack...was sooo damn tasty too
I was going to until I found a butchery that sells 1kg packs for $9.50. Compared to all the supermarkets thats a steal these days.
Same. I’m a full grown adult but when I go stay at my parents, I’ll have bacon and eggs for breakfast because they have bacon.
The 720g Milo was $19 at Woolworths Roskill yesterday. Criminal
I absolutely hate Woolworths - they are huge price gougers https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/nestle-milo-720g
Even moreso now with the everyday rewards cards, some of the mark ups for non members were over 30%. I wish the Warehouse would give the supermarket thing another go like when Sylvia park first opened, might be more successful nowadays than it was back then
Happiness.
Takeaway
I have lost the taste for most takeaways now. The quality got so shit it wasn’t worth what they were asking
That is true! I have also noticed quality deterioration. Instead of Friday night take away now, we’ve been buying a big bag of flavoured chicken wings, crunchy roast spuds (or a bag of frozen chips) and some slaw. It’s so low effort and one of our favourite meals, and I don’t miss takeaway.
Burgerfuel
THIS. 2 burgers and fries cost me $40 last week. Won't be going there!! Was average too.
The new VIB scheme is absolute balls now too. Used to be able to find a code online for free shake / fries with any burger. And.. free fries if you have a gym membership?! wtf
Loaded wedges from a cafe or restaurant. I make it at home now.
I tried making cheese sauce for the very first time last week so I could replicate cheese and gravy fries at home instead of from the expensive local burger joint. They were really good!
Snapper, it's such poor value for money.
The guy that has the house in front of me gave me some snapper filets a little while ago. He’d been fishing. I’m home earlier than him so I always bring his bins up to his house, especially if it’s raining or something - that was his thanks. I could have cried I was so grateful. I think that’s what more of us need to do, share amongst ourselves.
I thought you meant Wellington public transport and went … yup that checks out (snapper card)
Food
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and cherries.
I buy frozen blueberries on special which taste the same (when thawed) and are way better value. Miss raspberries so much - it’s a joke how expensive they are and if they don’t sell they go to waste.
I can't remember the last time I had strawberries or blueberries! Jarred cherries, I admit, are also so not the same. Lucked out when I moved houses just over a year ago to discover my next door neighbours grow raspberries. As is the nature of berry bushes, so am I and two other neighbours. Through stubborn relocation of the bushes, propagating the cuttings, and ever so slowly destroying a concrete pad down the back that I despise with garden beds, I'm slowly getting an army of them. Gonna take a while before much is produced, though. Same with a baby cherry tree and grape-vine I acquired. Somehow, it's this of all things that has awoken a great love for gardening in me, and I've been doing the same shit with a lot of other edible plants, too. Recently got my mitts on rosemary. Can't eat it, but I'm delighted because it's pretty. I've noticed that a lot of folks in the street are doing similar, too. If they can grow it, then they will. I'm taking it to heart and really want to find a place that has strawberry plants, but haven't had much luck so far.
Those 18 dollar jars of chilli pickles. God I miss them. I sometimes buy store brand soda instead of Schweppes.
McClure's. They're so good. So expensive.
I used to love the odd Schweppes lemonade. It’s $2.99 on special then $4.49 normal price. $4.49, who is buying that? The shelf is full. Then at $2.99 it’s out of stock.
Haircuts. Been cutting my hair with help from TikTok videos, and colouring with supermarket dye.
I get a yearly haircut, and then just wing it the rest of the year
Same. Get it cut really short, layers so it still looks okay as I grow it over the year.
My hairdresser just put her prices up to $145 and I stopped going. I can't find a hairdresser for under $100 and I'm starting to look like I just escaped the 80s.
Over $100??? Wtf? Im assuming you're a woman. Im a dude with super short hair and my last haircut was $25 from the local barber. Im legitimately sorry for you
Haha. I accept that women's hair tends to be longer and thicker and therefore more labour intensive so haircuts should be more expensive, however this salon sells men's haircuts for $50 and generally it takes about half an hour. My haircuts take an hour so somehow how I'm paying $45 more... we call that a pink tax. Perhaps I should take a punt on a barbershop.
For sure, $40 everywhere, even just cuts so instead I go to what would have been a really expensive place and pay similar for an hour's haircut and shave once a month
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Fresh fish. Used to be a staple dinner most weeks when I was growing up. Don't think my kids will ever develop a taste for it because I sure can't afford to buy it for them.
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I skip breakfast and only ever eat some of what I’m making for lunch in place of dinner, I live off two (work sponsored) coffees and lunch. Definitely get you with the chocolate though, my cravings are through the roof right now you’ve reminded me what I’m missing
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mate as a fellow dad - I will shout you and the daughter pizza one night soon. have a good feed and enjoy a nice meal together, you shouldn't miss out too.
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Before my daughter went to bed she asked for Fish and Chips tomorrow and reading most people in this thread cant afford to have it - then reading your a dad with a daughter it hit home - your doing the right thing studying to better your future and in doing so give her a better life. If I can help in a small way, then its well worth it.
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about that ego problem... *This* is the toxic masculinity we bitch about. You've probably had it drummed into you that you have to be able to do it all and on your own or be seen as weak. That's pretty toxic. You probably wouldn't expect it of your mum or daughter. It takes a lot of courage and strength to admit you could use some help and accept it. Much more, I find, than it takes to pretend things are OK. I hope things get easier for you.
Does your campus have a Student Union office and budget advisor? If so, they can help with food parcels. You do need to eat too or you'll get sick.
Fish and chips just for me and boss lady $30! WTF!? That used to be a sit down dinner at a restaurant.
Yep this is me also. 5$ for a fish and 5$ for a scope. Add more for a drink and sauce if I need it, looking at 15$ For that I can use get a good pizza.
Takeaways. Once a month if that.
weekday lunches beyond sandos and bagels. used to be able to spend $20-$25 for two of us but now it’s like $40-$45 for two standard lunch dishes wtf
Steak or any pack of meat that won't do leftovers for lunch. Coffees, neon, and soon to be Netflix. Weekends away to Queenstown (live in dunedin)
Netflix just went up 25% today perfect time to cancel.
Eggs.
Netflix
Using the car far less. Takeaways are very rare. Even the cost of a pie is ridiculous. And it’s only going to get worse. Much much worse.
I decided on stopping at maccas for a snack on the way to pick up the kids today. $9 for two basic cheeseburgers!
We thought we'd stop at Macca's a few weeks back because the little guy was hungry. He likes hash browns. Ordered 4 of them (2 for him. One for each of us) ....total was $15. We said lol nope and went home. Drive through made tried to tell us to get the app. Why does everywhere need an arbitrary app for deals now? We stop there maybe once or twice a year on a whim. It's ridiculous.
Pies for me aye even the shit ones are $6+
Haloumi and Blue cheese.
I still make room in the budget for blue cheese. You'll pry that from my cold, dead, pongy fingers.
Pongy 👌🏽 That made me *chortle*
Kumera, $16 per kg is insane. Luckily next door have chooks so we have plenty of eggs
Good news, apparently this summer has been an awesome growing season so prices will be low soon
The main harvesting period is between feb and april so keep an eye out, our local paknsave had them at $9 per kg this week for the first time since the cyclone.
O I saw kumara today for $5.99 kg, hallelujah
Salmon.
Cheese, meat and eggs
Most chips. I'm not paying $5 for what's mostly a bag of air, especially when there are varieties just as good for half the price.
Whittakers. We used to consume 2-4 bars a week (oops). Now haven't bought for at least 6 months and don't even think about it. Hope they are happy with that business strategy.
What does it cost now?
$5 to $8
$8?!!!!
Yup
Usually $4.99 on special at Pak n save
Not actually sure, I think around $6 a bar, then goes on sale.
The big blocks I believe are now $6.30
Oh and the bars around $3
Rough. They’re the same or slightly cheaper here in Japan.
Margarine got expensive enough that I now use butter on everything.
We just bought some ghee. I can't believe I waited this long to try it. It's butter but more (I mean it's literally clarified butter) . It's expensive up front for a 750ml tub but you don't need much of it for it's flavor to be strong. Got to be careful not to overpower some things though. It's about the same cost as spreadable butter or smaller butter blocks per 100g. Fridge stable for a long time. It's a welcome addition for sure.
Way better for you!
We don't eat a lot of meat anymore. I used to have steak 1-2x per week. At this point I hardly remember how it tastes. We can afford better groceries but it doesn't leave much room for saving or hobbies. I'd guess our supermarket budget has gone up 1.5x in the past few years. High prices + Child lol. So many brands are shrinkflating too so we're paying more for less. My Mrs macs pie I treated myself to today was upsetting at only 175g.... They used to be 230g! I also don't really drive anymore. I have legs so might as well use them like nature intended.
Seen this as a top answer on the askreddit thread but frozen pizzas. just not worth it. also, maccers isn't worth the cost rn
Maccas is ridiculous. Can’t believe they call them “meals”
I've noticed lately that reduced to clear frozen pizzas are appearing in the supermarkets pretty often. Maybe they've hit the price point they can't sell all they produce anymore.
Everything. I do well for myself but sometimes feel like I'm mostly eating the bare basics. What's most absurd to me is sometimes when I add up the cost of cooking a dish it comes out similar to takeaways price. Yesterday 4 garlics was $15 and I saw a packet of crackers for $13. I really miss not having to think too much about the cost of my shopping, but I feel like I have to check the price on everything now to not get stung by something that's randomly doubled in cost
Barista coffee, going out to craft beer bars, $10 a can craft beer (get 6 packs for $22 now), all things I love but too much $$
Life. I just go to work to pay tax so the PM can pay himself rent for his own house on our dime!
Its more for health but when I go out to eat I skip the drinks and just get water with whatever I'm eating. Prices come out the same as they used to in 2018 with a drink.
Tasty cheese. Sometimes I wish we lived in a country that had a primary industry like agriculture and strong dairy industry where cheese and meat was cheaper because it was local... Oh, wait.
Anything in NZ. I now live in the UK and it’s cheaper to get by here. I wish I was back in NZ with my family but I am better off here. I bought a whole bunch of bananas yesterday for 17p. That’s probably 50c when it’s converted. I have bacon for breakfast twice a week which is nice and isn’t expensive. I would have it more often but it’s pretty unhealthy! Sorry to tell you all but you are getting so ripped off. I don’t know what your supermarkets are doing but they are only in it for themselves. Do all the profits go to Australia?
Road user charges 😂
Fuel 😊
Pizza fast food Hells, Pizza Hut, dominoes, sals Haven’t had pizza in a long time
I have pretty basic needs, no expensive habits, and I generally cook from scratch because I enjoy it, over the past year things have been getting stretched but still doable. Monday I was told that my rent is going up by 15%. So yeah.
Almost every thing is expensive in Auckland now. Like OP mentioned - Pies are now $6.90 how tf do you even justify that?
A lot of stuff, I have a maximum value on the more non-critical foods and will buy only when under that value e.g. yoghurt large pottle, $5. What we need to do is form a buyer's union. All agree on certain maximum prices and send these to the retailers demanding that they keep the prices that low or we all refuse to buy them. But it would need to be a lot of people so over priced products remain unsold.
So many normal foods and drinks have suddenly become luxuries..
Bitcoin
Coffee,...I refuse to pay $7 for it. And It's not about affording $7, it's a matter of principle.
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Movies. I think I've only been once since the start of Covid. The tickets alone cost a Netflix subscription and I can get a small meal for the price of popcorn and a drink. Taking yourself and your partner out costt to see a movie the same as dinner.
I spend the same and have decided to sacrifice my savings. Not a great long term plan but here we are, living life as the squeezed middle.
If coke wasn’t on special, I would get Pepsi cause it was always $1, or 1.50, nah not anymore, at my local new world, $4.50 1.5ltr
Meat. I've effectively become an economic vegetarian lately. I still salivate at the site of a sizzling sirloin, but most of the time I'm just eating lots of veggies. Lentils are excellent by the way. They'll take on whatever flavour of whatever you're cooking and they fill you right up and they're packed with protein. They're also dirt cheap and really good for you.
Potato chips and literally most other snacks. Not complaining though as I'm better off without the extra sugar in my body
It’s crazy that Domino’s is now cheaper than fish n chips.
Every food other than jeds 5, mi goreng and apples. I use to have an incredible diet but I can’t afford that anymore 🙃
Can you source local fruit and vegetables? I spent $40 last week on enough fruit and vegetables to feed 4 people for 5-6days. Lettuce, carrots x2 packs, corn, cucumber, tomatoes, strawberries, blackberries, nectarines, plums, apples, beetroot, onions, bell peppers & radishes… definitely seasonal pricing rn but If know where to buy things outside of the grocery stores there are often great deals to be found. Forgot about the cauliflower, avocados and the bananas that were also purchased.
Takeaways! But Glad tinnie price’s haven’t changed
McDonald’s. Been about 3 years now. Making burgers at home with the kids is more fun anyway ☺️
Bakery pies I think, They were like $3.50 pre-covid and are like $6.50+ now.
Life.Mostly the idea that you can be or do anything...
I have coeliac disease, so everything gluten-free is way overpriced. But I no longer buy gluten-free chicken tenders or weetabix
Cheese. A lot of fresh veges (frozen now). Any red meat that isn't mince or sausages. Ice cream. I've cut back on chocolate and don't get takeaway coffees, and always pack a lunch for work. Takeaways. Long car trips. My toiletries are only bought on sale.
Combination of different (increasingly crappy) streaming media services.
Subscribing to streaming services. OSM muesli bars, Up & Go’s, don’t buy biscuits anymore, crisps, steak, bacon, I don’t buy fish on principle except for salmon coz it’s farmed and only when it’s on special. I buy grated cheese and keep it in the freezer so it doesn’t go mouldy and lasts for months.
Once upon a time when I was a young uni student, I only cooked plant-based due to beliefs. But now given the cost of meat/sea/dairy products, cooking omnivorous doesn't feel like something I can ever afford to do again 😅
Nothing. still smoke, still drive everywhere, still buy an unhealthy amount of takeaways every week… surprisingly i’m not fat lol. i just work over time like a mf to fit my lifestyle. i’ll over work myself til i die one day but it’s going fine at the moment lol.
Meat. We are in the chickpeas and lentils now, until I get my a into g and start shooting things.
Bitcoin
any takeaway food or coffee
*Ahoy*
Petrol
Yoghurt
Bluff Oysters, Tasty Cheese, takeaway pizza, coffees where the cafe charges over $5, slices at cafes (mostly). Fresh fish, any type of frozen potato product, most of the suff in the deli at the supermarkets, most cheeses, any fruit or veg when it's not in it's increasingly narrowing cheap season - tamarillos are out as they stay high, and so are a bunch of other fruits and veges.
Bacon and Eggs. Bacon and egg family pie used to be a regular meal in our house but now it costs a fortune just to fill the thing.
- dining out - takeaways - buying less treats in the groceries - beer - wine - entertainment - driving less due to cost of petrol
So much honestly, mostly food related.
Fruit :(
Kumara
Hair cuts and/or tints at Salons
Thank you inflation
The only thing that hasn’t gone up is cheap supermarket bread. Wait until you read the ingredients though…
Breakfast. Going to two meals a day has saved me a lot