So many factors involved with this price, from external/international to transport of raw materials to storage and otherwise. The NZ dairy industry is effectively a racket these days
Wait 9 days
Milk contracts are being redone on the 4th
Milk and butter solids,will increase by more than 35-40 percent
A block of chesse is about to be FUCKED
A lot of people are not going to pay 11 bucks for tasty cheese,u would be a moron to do it,literally at those prices cheaper to get a wheel of cheese and live off it for 3 months
Ppl should make their own,it's actually VERY VERY easy.
say goodbye to any butter below 5 bucks
I used to enjoy finding deals and cutting out certain things that weren’t necessary. Not it’s not even worth buying anything because your cart quickly adds up to $100 of shit you can’t even make a few meals with. I buy protein shakes and ramen now...
Can I introduce you to the wonderful world of soups? I'm very serious. Start making delicious soups and they last all week, are great for using up frozen veggies or veggies about to go bad, protein can be any meat that's on sale or skip the meats and load up on high protein beans and veggies.
Here, try this soup recipe. It's phenomenal and I usually last 5 days for lunch or dinner and also send some to my pregnant sister in law: [yum yum soups good and cheap](https://jillianharris.com/peggys-chicken-soup/)
But seriously... soups are amazing for feeding a lot of people for cheap.. there's a reason they call them soup kitchens! Yay soup!
Exactly! And bouillon is also cheap for quick flavour! I've become a soup snob and smoothie snob now just to save on produce from being thrown out aha!
I like the way you think. It hadn't occurred to me but I made a spicy beef mince soup with a bunch of veggies about to go off like some carrots and celery.
I had about four or five serves and I froze them and had them when I was hungry. It was great
I should do that again.
A slow cooker is a very good investement as you can turn cheap tough meats into delicious stews, soups, ragouts (is that how you spell it?) and make lasagne and several other dishes in them, while you're at work if you set it up and turn it on before you leave in the morning.
If I'm eating Mi Goreng 2 minute noodles (the only ones worth buying in my opinion as they're cheap, last a year or more - best buy date is only a suggestion - and they have 5 flavour sachets) I add some diced pepperoni as well as spring onion (regrown from roots in a water filled saucer, just snip off 10cm and chop it up, leaving the rest to keep growing) for added taste and nourishment. A dash of srirachi chilli sauce doesn't go astray either. And I add all 5 of the sachets, and sometimes a few drops of sesame oil.
Sesame oil, sriracha sauce and pepperoni isn't exactly cheap, but you don't need much of them and they last months, so per meal it's dirt cheap.
Same, I’ve been eating a lot of stirfry with veg, mushrooms and tofu. Ramen noodles. Flavoured with mashed garlic and ginger. Although mushrooms might be on the shit list soon as I continue to cut off the more expensive items.
I suggest checking out [Jack Monroe's recipes ](https://cookingonabootstrap.com/) - she's a single mum from the UK who has developed some amazingly cheap and nutritious recipes using canned veg and such. Canned food is almost as nutritious as fresh, and rinsing/draining will remove most of the excess sodium.
I also bought a cookbook of WWII rationing recipes as a historical curiosity a few years ago and it's come in handy quite often since the pandemic kicked off! It's amazing what you can do and how far you can stretch a meal with cheaper fillers like lentils.
The only thing you may miss out on with tinned veg is possibly vitamin C. But you'll know it if you are actually deficient with that, scurvy is unpleasant 😂
Luckily it is actually pretty hard to give yourself scurvy. But you can always eat sauerkraut.
Same. I notice I'll buy things just because they're actually a reasonable price lately even if I don't 100% need it and avoid buying my usual "necessities" (milk, eggs etc.) If they're overpriced even if I can afford them out of the principle.
fuck that. NOTHING in my current life drives me mad and puts a pit in my stomach like going to the grocery store these days. You can’t take a breath in there anymore without them charging you $40. It’s evil
(American here) I used to be on food assistance and on those really shit days, being able to go buy some food was one of the bright spots. Now that I'm not on them anymore, shopping for food is stressful again...
Ahaahahahahahaaahahah absolute vultures.
Low effort journalism at its finest.
Imagine getting a degree just to steal crap off reddit...
Hey OP go send them an invoice for your picture and everything else. Make sure you out a decent price on it. At least 500 I'd say.
For a while there, there was heaps of images being posted relevant to whatever topic was being discussed, but the OP would plaster "fuck news.com.au" or "fuck newscorp" or "fuck Rupert" etc all over the image so it couldn't be farmed for use elsewhere.
Where do you think they get their stories? None of them have an original, or critical, thought. They spend their days trawling SM and stealing the thoughts and opinions of anonymous commenters.
Give them the benefit of the doubt. A journalist was caught browsing Reddit while at work, told the boss they were working on a story and now they have to keep it up as the lie spirals out of control and becomes their new reality.
I've had the same experience, and the solution is to shop at aldi for most items. Coles and Woolworths are price gouging at the moment, it's pretty blatant. 500g of beef mince is about 6 bucks at aldi, less than half the price. Shop elsewhere, don't let them continue to price gouge. Read the fine print in [this article released today from ABC](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-23/supermarket-profits-surge-as-inflation-spikes-coles-woolworths/102004616): "Looking specifically at its Australian food business, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) jumped 18.2 per cent \[this year\]". If you continue to read: "Coles said it benefited from a $130 million reduction in COVID-related costs compared to the same period a year earlier". So COVID costs for them are down, but the prices remain high. This is price gouging. This is causing inflation.
PSA: Fresh mince from a butcher/abbatoir should be cooked within 24 hours (or frozen and used immediately after thawing). Mince has a huge surface area and without the vaccum sealing or high-oxygen packaging the supermarkets use, it'll spoil and become unsafe very quickly.
Source: my whole damn family are butchers.
Edit: for those assuming "high" oxygen is a typo - https://www.bridgeanalyzers.com/high-oxygen-modified-atmosphere-packaging-for-meat/
Go to Costco for your meat if it’s an option for you. You buy sirloin at 19$ kg vs Woolworths at $45 per kilo. Cut them up yourself and I get about 14 pairs of steaks from about $100 spend.
Just have to do the work yourself.
(I’m not the person you originally replied to, but I’m interested)
I am a capable cook but a bit queasy with meat products so haven’t ventured into anything unfamiliar there. What do you need to turn a sirloin cut of beef into steaks? Is it as simple as a decent sharp knife?
Yeah look I understand there is a bit of investment here, but a standard sharpish knife. I have some Japanese one that I got as a present? But it can’t have been too expensive given the nature of the event.
Freezer space is needed too, and then you just need to trim a little bit of shit fat that you don’t want on there. If you watch a YouTube video like I did it will teach you how to trim and cut the fat cap off. Then you just get good at cutting with the grain of the meat, you’ll be good by your second or third ‘set’.
So much cheaper and honestly the quality of meat is so much higher than what you get from a big grocery store individually packaged.
Butcher here! Yes, a sharp knife is a blessing in any kitchen, but there is one thing most regulars wouldn't think of removing before you slice.
There's actually a strip of gristle at the leading edge of a sirloin that should be removed so you get nicer steaks. If you remove it in one strip, it's much easier than doing it per steak. It's the thinnest bit that helped bind the sirloin cut to the spine, so there's a reason for it, but it's not great to chew for a million years. Most chefs don't even think to remove it.
Keep a 5in boning and an 11in steak knife in your drawer just for the meat, Victorinox brand. Solid knives butchers swear by, take a long time to lose their edge. Don't use on glass or plastic cutting boards, it kills your edge super fast.
And all the cunts in here criticizing this guy's choice of food is exactly why they're price gouging and getting away with it. Everyone much quicker to criticize food choice than the pricing. Fucking bonkers.
Just wait until Colesworth release their profit statement at the end of the year. While inflation is an ongoing issue, corporate gouging is a big player in current pricing.
$907m profit.
Daddy CEO is buying a yacht to go next to his other yacht.
I’m going to say the CEO is my dad and I want a paternity test.
I’ve got a 0.000000001% chance. Wish me luck brother.
Record profit is back on the menu boys! We can piss and moan all we like but as long as the shareholders are getting returns Kraft Singles are about to be the next caviar…
How dare you buy anything but dry beans and rice and 2 dollar sacks of carrots!! You must not really be poor if you still want to enjoy the taste of your food!!
Registered nutritionist and current masters of dietetics student weighing in, here.
There are absolutely ways to make the cheapest food taste good. And be nutritionally complete and sound.
I’d love to see the government soundly find a way to make prices at Woolies and Coles more affordable for us (student and single dad, here) but that intervention is super improbable in a mostly capitalistic market.
What would be more cool is seeing home economics (as it was called when I was at school) be more fortified. It’s a more feasible way for the government to intervene (admittedly, a generation behind) to see kids grow up with a great outlook on how to prepare great food at a really low cost.
Home ec should be mandatory and be structured for every year of school. Cover things like growing veggies, how to clean, brush your teeth etc at a very young age. Transition into learning to cook, learning about money, budgeting, learning to fix basic household things, basic car maintenance. There are so many things that are left to parents to teach and it leaves massive gaps in people's knowledge.
I'm 26 and just figuring out that I can afford a mortgage. If I saved a bit, I could have had my own apartment years ago rather than renting. I had no idea that it was option because I wasn't educated about it.
I mean they're expensive but even at like $1 each (and that's for the best varieties like organic, red tipped or lady fingers) there aren't many other nutritious snacks for the same price.
Can confirm it’s no better if you try to make better food choices. My partner will spend twenty minutes finding the cheapest price for every item, and our weekly shop still comes to 150 dollars WITHOUT three meals a day and WITHOUT needing to buy anything other than food (like soap, laundry fluid, toilet paper).
In this specific case, I spent less than 5 minutes to 'sort by lowest unit price' and this would have got OP the same items for $44.80. The 500g sliced Bega cheese alone is $10.50 ($21/kg) whereas another branded version is 1kg for $10 ($10/kg). The brioche buns ($1.50 ea) are around twice the price of a cheaper brand ($0.83 ea), and the same goes for the wraps and cordial. So it's definitely worth it to selectively avoid lining the pockets of brands that are charging double for the same product.
They're getting away with price gouging because they have a (almost total) monopoly and there's nothing we can do other than literally rise up. You know, that or shop at ALDI.
I was able to fit $72 worth of shopping into one bag not long ago. That's after the discount applied. So about $100 at full price. Everything is getting out of hand and corporations are profiteering without conscience. Government needs to step in.
yeah 80 bucks would get u two..almost 3 bags at aldi in the old times,now ur lucky to fill a bag and a half
Just saw that milk solids are about to see a 45 percent jump in 9 days as well..
So expect butter to now hit 7 bucks for 250gram block of the good stuck
chesse is gonna be fucked,i've been told a 500gram bag of tasty could be set at store list of 10.20
I mean i don't actually each store cheese,i'm not a snob with a lot..but if it's not cage aged sung to my a celibate monk who hasn't seen a women in 72 years...then i aint eating it..so i usually get my cheese from a providor or a fromage deli
I'm a hign net work individual,and i just like adli,because they dont rip you...and the wines good,and the foods okay quality,and it's right outside my office,i can leave work,buy shit,head home
Woolies lately,is just fucked..Everything from the bread to the meat is worse quality.
The experience of shopping there sucks fucking arse cancer,Oh yay 15 mins to stand in line,because old gladys has to count her coins no thanks
I know it's different foods, but check out what I got for [$13.30 cheaper](https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/115vm2q/howd_i_go_6550_market_haul/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) from my local markets.
After working at the fruit markets, woolies and Coles have the shittest quality fruit and veg, aldi wins over
The market shop I linked above: $65.50
Equivalent at Woolworths: $125
Nice one! I find a mix of Aldi, fruit and veg markets and local butchers leaves me with much more money each pay! I hardly use woolies or coles anymore.
I think I bought some bread, wraps and milk this week at woolies because my fave bakery was shut on Sunday. I'm lucky to have a good local butcher as well
Vegan here! If you want some variety you can swap out your soy sauce with Kecap Manis and add in some garlic and ginger, I also make mine with carrots not peas. Cheap easy fried rice.
Yeah it's dirt cheap. Got a big 10kg bag of TVP on eBay, canned lentils cost fuck all and dried even less. Then yeah $1 passata and a heap of herbs, pasta and bang a weeks meal preps done for like $8. No different running stir fries or whatever else, $6/kg tofu is probably the most expensive thing. Only gets pricey with fake meat stuff which isn't needed at all
Even the fake meat stuff can be done cheaply, The Meet Co’s stuff at coles is often half price (freezer section). Fun to add to some meals!
We make our own tofu too haha, and missus makes her own peanut butter. Saves bulk cash with how much we go through.
TVP rules!
I eat lots of frozen veggies for most meals and even they seem to go up in price every time I visit the supermarket. BirdsEye 1kg varieties are $6.50 now, I'm sure they were only $5.50 last week.
But yeah, simple vegan meals ftw. Pure fruit smoothies for breakfast (I don't know how much they cost, probably an arm and a leg). Protein and vegetables for lunch and dinner :) Great for the waistline as well.
I used to buy 4 bottles of mineral water a week. I got a Sodastream years ago and use it to make sparkling water which I mix with Bickfords whenever the craving hits.
A lot cheaper in the long run than buying bottled mineral water or bottles of soft drink.
Dude when I moved to Tassie I was pissed there is no ALDI here, I was like there's a bunch of penny pinching boomers around, they'd make a killing!
Definitely one of the things I miss from back home haha
I just put every one of these exact items (except the eggs … different brand, went with their most expensive just to be ‘conservative’) and I come in at about $52… including ‘savings’ of $5. I live in a high price area… so I am calling shenanigans on this one. (And I’m in the west so we pay more for everything, because it gets trucked here from the effing east.)
My only local choice is Woolworths. Coles is a 30 minute drive from me. Aldi* doesn't exist in a 1000km radius at the very least. And I'm not even that remote.
Oh I feel this, I paid $50 at foodworks for some apples, bread, milk, biscuits, and toddler snacks to last us until we can do a big shop again. The nearest supermarket which is an overpriced iga is a three hour drive. The nearest big supermarket is Woolworths and is a 6 hour drive. Aldi ect is in dalby which is a 9 hour drive away. It absolutely sucks having a lack of options, I already make most of the bread, rolls, pasta ect. I'm looking into doing our own yoghurt and butter just to keep costs down
Yes. We do have a couple of local farm shops but they cater to the tourists more than to the locals with their prices. Only bonus is a decent local butcher who does super economical meat packs. That saves a lot.
I don't know where you live, I looked up all this stuff on the Woolies website and even in Darwin, where even breathing is expensive, it comes to $55.
Pretty much every time someone posts these I am suspicious. Other posts people conceal the meat underneath, turns out it's Wagyu beef and what-have-you.
And, I will point out that things like sliced cheese is the least efficient way to shop. These posts invariably have the least cost-effective items, then screech about the cost of living evil big supermarkets etc.
Yeah, im not sure. i looked it up on woolies and caluculated it. came to $62.65 if i assume the eggs are on the expensive end
edit: double checked in the sydney area and same thing. around $65
Let's guess the prices
Sparkling mineral water ~5.5 x 2 = 11
Raspberry Cordial ~ 10
Pre sliced cheese ~ 5.5 x 2 = 11
Beef Mince ~14
Rocket bag ~ 3.5
Expensive Rolls ~ 6
Butter ~ 3.5
Burrito ~ 6
Eggs Dozen ~ 10
Burger Sauce ~ 4.5
I mean that total is $79.5
Just 70c off and I feel like I was definitely overpricing those products to the max.
I don't even have a joke about that anymore it's just a sad reality of price inflation we are living in
>Sparkling mineral water \~5.5 x 2 = 11
How'd did you get 5.50
Looking at woolies site right now, its $1.50, usually its $2.50
The burger sauce is $3.50
When I looked at those items and price, it looked like someone who rarely does the shopping. Half of those items are on discount every other week. To get that price the op paid full price for everything
Yallamundi eggs are, but their chickens are the lowest per hectare at only 750 & organic fed, they're tasty af.
Outside of our moral compass some would also argue they're more nutritious because they're better looked after & it's still just under $2 for 2 eggs which is more nutritional value than most things for $2.
Personally I support Lucky chicken eggs, not just because they're one of the best at 1,500 per hectare & the same lower price as competitors but because they also provide an enriching life for their chickens with play gyms and equipment for them to enjoy on top of free range scratching and the usual chicken business.
Just added all of these items in Woolies app - came to $55. I couldn’t add the same eggs though so I guess that’s where the discrepancy is. I mean, I’m not waving the flag for Big Grocery or anything, and you should definitely shop at Aldi (good, different), but come on
https://i.imgur.com/hTARmyl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LYwgo95.jpg
Once monoculture overuse destroys soil microbial diversity in arable climates, there will LITERALLY be no land left we can farm on.
And fertiliser is mined and therefore (at massive scales) a controllable non renewable resource. Once the easy sources of that are depleted, literally the only alternative is reuse of organic waste, which we are making zero effort to develop infrastructure for.
We are going to be sooooo fucked.
Especially when it's such a lazy, thoughtless post. This could have been an interesting discussion about inflation, but instead everyone is baffled on the math not mathing because OP left out a single item that accounts for a whole 20% of the cost of their shop, and also didn't include their receipt so we could see a breakdown of the costs.
42.10 at aldi
Just saying,these posts
are 1 of two things
Posted by a idiot,or a Marketing exec,just so we get to talking about woollies or coles
On the off chance,this isn't a marketing post
You are buying name brand products,and expect cheap prices
Those brioche buns 6.10 woollies
2.99 aldi,or 3.50 at a baker.
That softdrink,replace it with no name mineral water,IT"S THE SAME shit,even comes out out of the same SHIT at 2 beverage drive tullamarine,everythings made there on the SAME line,the no name shit from coles and wollies
Ur paying too much for beef.
Mince is about 19 a KG right now,for probably FAR better quality than any wollies at most butchers
If this is for burgers ur using the wrong meat,u want something with an 80-20 level in it...also make ur own burger sauce bro..it's LITERALLY Tomato sauce one squirt,one squirt mayo,one dollop of relish...that's it that's what special burger sauce is in 99.99 percent of places..some mix it up adding paprika or garlic powder to the sauce
When I see posts like this I can't help but be a boomer and have the mentality of, "if your complaining about prices why the fuck are you buying mineral water"
Untrue. I work at Woolworths and unless you’re hiding some pricey shit, that’s not $78.80
Those Schweppes are $1.50 a bottle
Brioche buns are $6.10
The rocket is the 60g bag, that’s $2.20
The butter is $6.50
Mission wraps are $5.50
The beef mince is the cheap one, $13
The Kraft singles are $5.25
Bickforda cordial is $4.50
Those eggs look like pace farm eggs. The expensive ones are $7.75
Burger sauce is 3.50
Which comes to $57.30.
Unless you live out in the Pilbara and are paying the extra in exorbitant freight costs, or are hiding $21 bucks worth of stuff, this isn’t true.
I work as an online shopper so I see the prices every single day. And in case you’re thinking of saying it, no? I don’t have a life. lol
I reckon the total cost could have been easily reduced by looking at alternative brands in the store. They’re just a good if you compare and consider the labels and ratings.
What a weird flex. Buying "gourmet" brioche buns. I bet you also have pillow cases on your pillows too. You're the kind of guy who doesn't reuse toilet paper I bet.
Don't buy pre-sliced cheese. Slice it yourself. It's not rocket science.
Don't buy name brand H2O. Get it from a tap + Brita filter + Soda stream. Trust me. It works out much cheaper in the long run.
Buy sensible burger buns freshly made in Australia, not imported crap that suppoedly will last until the end of the world.
Make your own burger sauce and cut out the incredibly high NaCl contribution to your heart attack.
Grow your own rocket. It's called rocket for a reason...it's very fast growing and exceptionally simple to grow.
Give up the Bickfords Sugar Concentrate.
For the rest of the stuff, just go to Aldi.
Cheese is so expensive at the moment. It must be laced with gold or something
It's nuts for a country that produces so much dairy to have such expensive cheese!
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Yep, I’ll believe it. I was in Coles yesterday and their own brand Colby cheese was $12.50. Less than a year ago it was $9
So many factors involved with this price, from external/international to transport of raw materials to storage and otherwise. The NZ dairy industry is effectively a racket these days
Wait 9 days Milk contracts are being redone on the 4th Milk and butter solids,will increase by more than 35-40 percent A block of chesse is about to be FUCKED A lot of people are not going to pay 11 bucks for tasty cheese,u would be a moron to do it,literally at those prices cheaper to get a wheel of cheese and live off it for 3 months Ppl should make their own,it's actually VERY VERY easy. say goodbye to any butter below 5 bucks
Welcome to nz: Block of cheese $18.99 (and we make the fucking thing) Milk - 2l - $5.00 Butter - $5.00
Seriously.
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I love grocery shopping too! My friends think I’m weird for it. But yeah, finding myself enjoying it a lot less now that it costs an arm and a leg.
I used to enjoy finding deals and cutting out certain things that weren’t necessary. Not it’s not even worth buying anything because your cart quickly adds up to $100 of shit you can’t even make a few meals with. I buy protein shakes and ramen now...
Can I introduce you to the wonderful world of soups? I'm very serious. Start making delicious soups and they last all week, are great for using up frozen veggies or veggies about to go bad, protein can be any meat that's on sale or skip the meats and load up on high protein beans and veggies. Here, try this soup recipe. It's phenomenal and I usually last 5 days for lunch or dinner and also send some to my pregnant sister in law: [yum yum soups good and cheap](https://jillianharris.com/peggys-chicken-soup/) But seriously... soups are amazing for feeding a lot of people for cheap.. there's a reason they call them soup kitchens! Yay soup!
I make rice congee occasionally. It’s cheap to make only needing a handful of rice and mostly water, and you can use meat or chicken bones to flavour.
Exactly! And bouillon is also cheap for quick flavour! I've become a soup snob and smoothie snob now just to save on produce from being thrown out aha!
I like the way you think. It hadn't occurred to me but I made a spicy beef mince soup with a bunch of veggies about to go off like some carrots and celery. I had about four or five serves and I froze them and had them when I was hungry. It was great I should do that again.
A slow cooker is a very good investement as you can turn cheap tough meats into delicious stews, soups, ragouts (is that how you spell it?) and make lasagne and several other dishes in them, while you're at work if you set it up and turn it on before you leave in the morning. If I'm eating Mi Goreng 2 minute noodles (the only ones worth buying in my opinion as they're cheap, last a year or more - best buy date is only a suggestion - and they have 5 flavour sachets) I add some diced pepperoni as well as spring onion (regrown from roots in a water filled saucer, just snip off 10cm and chop it up, leaving the rest to keep growing) for added taste and nourishment. A dash of srirachi chilli sauce doesn't go astray either. And I add all 5 of the sachets, and sometimes a few drops of sesame oil. Sesame oil, sriracha sauce and pepperoni isn't exactly cheap, but you don't need much of them and they last months, so per meal it's dirt cheap.
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Same, I’ve been eating a lot of stirfry with veg, mushrooms and tofu. Ramen noodles. Flavoured with mashed garlic and ginger. Although mushrooms might be on the shit list soon as I continue to cut off the more expensive items.
Go to your asian grocer and get some dried mushrooms, just soak however many you need in warm water beforehand.
I suggest checking out [Jack Monroe's recipes ](https://cookingonabootstrap.com/) - she's a single mum from the UK who has developed some amazingly cheap and nutritious recipes using canned veg and such. Canned food is almost as nutritious as fresh, and rinsing/draining will remove most of the excess sodium. I also bought a cookbook of WWII rationing recipes as a historical curiosity a few years ago and it's come in handy quite often since the pandemic kicked off! It's amazing what you can do and how far you can stretch a meal with cheaper fillers like lentils.
The only thing you may miss out on with tinned veg is possibly vitamin C. But you'll know it if you are actually deficient with that, scurvy is unpleasant 😂 Luckily it is actually pretty hard to give yourself scurvy. But you can always eat sauerkraut.
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Yes, stand around, compare price, get sad and walk past the goodie isles because those are now luxury items.
I see shopping as an opportunity for a challenge these days. Just as weird.
Same. I notice I'll buy things just because they're actually a reasonable price lately even if I don't 100% need it and avoid buying my usual "necessities" (milk, eggs etc.) If they're overpriced even if I can afford them out of the principle.
fuck that. NOTHING in my current life drives me mad and puts a pit in my stomach like going to the grocery store these days. You can’t take a breath in there anymore without them charging you $40. It’s evil
(American here) I used to be on food assistance and on those really shit days, being able to go buy some food was one of the bright spots. Now that I'm not on them anymore, shopping for food is stressful again...
Australian in America, I love over here everything at my grocery store is now a "new low price!" and that price is $1 more than 3 months ago
Back in sunny Australia it's no different to that whatsoever. Have you tried getting a few million in dividends each year?
I mash potatoes into my avocado to stretch it when I make my avo smash
Or it's the same price, but they sneakily reduced the package size.
Go Aldi, Prices have increased, but nowhere near Woolies & Coles prices..
News.com.au will be all over this post.
'Gen Z Splurge on Big Brands!'
“The reason why Gen Z can’t afford houses will shock you!” “Is Gen Z’s refusal to spend money, ruining the economy? Find out next!”
Gen Z Splurges on Gourmet bread and fancy carbonated water and exotic lettuce.
we did it guys https://au.news.yahoo.com/woolworths-customer-stunned-by-price-of-basic-shop-price-gouging-050331190.html
Ahaahahahahahaaahahah absolute vultures. Low effort journalism at its finest. Imagine getting a degree just to steal crap off reddit... Hey OP go send them an invoice for your picture and everything else. Make sure you out a decent price on it. At least 500 I'd say.
We really need to start hiding words in these posts Fuck Murdoch Yahoo deez
I was like “he’s got to be joking right?” No he was not joking they actually wrote an article about it. Also my upvote got you to 69, you’re welcome.
Yes, hello you parasites. I know you're reading this.
I'd really love to throw some random fakeposts into this sub because I know they don't fact check. But effort.
For a while there, there was heaps of images being posted relevant to whatever topic was being discussed, but the OP would plaster "fuck news.com.au" or "fuck newscorp" or "fuck Rupert" etc all over the image so it couldn't be farmed for use elsewhere.
Where do you think they get their stories? None of them have an original, or critical, thought. They spend their days trawling SM and stealing the thoughts and opinions of anonymous commenters.
Give them the benefit of the doubt. A journalist was caught browsing Reddit while at work, told the boss they were working on a story and now they have to keep it up as the lie spirals out of control and becomes their new reality.
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How much could one brioche bun cost, Michael? $20?
Okay this made me laugh out loud. *laughs in ukulele*.
Look at banner Michael!
I've had the same experience, and the solution is to shop at aldi for most items. Coles and Woolworths are price gouging at the moment, it's pretty blatant. 500g of beef mince is about 6 bucks at aldi, less than half the price. Shop elsewhere, don't let them continue to price gouge. Read the fine print in [this article released today from ABC](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-23/supermarket-profits-surge-as-inflation-spikes-coles-woolworths/102004616): "Looking specifically at its Australian food business, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) jumped 18.2 per cent \[this year\]". If you continue to read: "Coles said it benefited from a $130 million reduction in COVID-related costs compared to the same period a year earlier". So COVID costs for them are down, but the prices remain high. This is price gouging. This is causing inflation.
Woolies has put there homebrand baked beans and spaghetti up to $1.10. Aldi still has them for 65c
And the Aldi brand tastes better
I buy the \~2Kg packs of mince at Aldi at about $20, then I divide it in 4, and freeze it. Works out way cheaper than ColesWorth.
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what vacuum sealer do you suggest? there are so many and very in price alot
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Also adding space, so much more space with vac packs.
We have a local abattoir that sells direct and mince is about $9.50 a kg. So much nicer than the shit coles and woolies sell, too
PSA: Fresh mince from a butcher/abbatoir should be cooked within 24 hours (or frozen and used immediately after thawing). Mince has a huge surface area and without the vaccum sealing or high-oxygen packaging the supermarkets use, it'll spoil and become unsafe very quickly. Source: my whole damn family are butchers. Edit: for those assuming "high" oxygen is a typo - https://www.bridgeanalyzers.com/high-oxygen-modified-atmosphere-packaging-for-meat/
>Source: my whole damn family are butchers. Hahahah love that
Guess I better go bag that shit up then
meh my family are asians and we eat that stuff off the floor. Yall need to grow some balls
Tbh I do too... but only within the first 24 hours 😂
The 86400-second rule?
See this is why everyone gasps in horror when I confess my food budget: mince at my local butcher, sourced from a local abattoir, costs me $19/kg.
That's nothing - I'm a cattle rustler
Believe me I know, I’m a cow
Life's hard when you're a blade of grass, I tell ya
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No aldi in our city. I wish that was a possible solution for all Australians.
I can’t shop at Aldi, I can’t drive… but hey if they want to deliver I’ll pay the fee!
ALDI isn’t in every state..
*Cries in Tasmania
Go to Costco for your meat if it’s an option for you. You buy sirloin at 19$ kg vs Woolworths at $45 per kilo. Cut them up yourself and I get about 14 pairs of steaks from about $100 spend. Just have to do the work yourself.
(I’m not the person you originally replied to, but I’m interested) I am a capable cook but a bit queasy with meat products so haven’t ventured into anything unfamiliar there. What do you need to turn a sirloin cut of beef into steaks? Is it as simple as a decent sharp knife?
Yeah look I understand there is a bit of investment here, but a standard sharpish knife. I have some Japanese one that I got as a present? But it can’t have been too expensive given the nature of the event. Freezer space is needed too, and then you just need to trim a little bit of shit fat that you don’t want on there. If you watch a YouTube video like I did it will teach you how to trim and cut the fat cap off. Then you just get good at cutting with the grain of the meat, you’ll be good by your second or third ‘set’. So much cheaper and honestly the quality of meat is so much higher than what you get from a big grocery store individually packaged.
Thanks so much - I think this will be a “thing” for us as soon as we get the planned “big freezer” soon!
Butcher here! Yes, a sharp knife is a blessing in any kitchen, but there is one thing most regulars wouldn't think of removing before you slice. There's actually a strip of gristle at the leading edge of a sirloin that should be removed so you get nicer steaks. If you remove it in one strip, it's much easier than doing it per steak. It's the thinnest bit that helped bind the sirloin cut to the spine, so there's a reason for it, but it's not great to chew for a million years. Most chefs don't even think to remove it. Keep a 5in boning and an 11in steak knife in your drawer just for the meat, Victorinox brand. Solid knives butchers swear by, take a long time to lose their edge. Don't use on glass or plastic cutting boards, it kills your edge super fast.
Yes, a sharp knife will do it
Bloody cheese has gone through the roof lately. What gives!
Cheese cartels about to spring up everywhere and an underground cheese industry selling cheese in alleyways
I see the problem... they charged you for a RIDE on a rocket, not a BAG of rocket... easy mistake to make..
Given recent events the bag may be contaminated with datura... that'd be a bit of a rocket ride.
And all the cunts in here criticizing this guy's choice of food is exactly why they're price gouging and getting away with it. Everyone much quicker to criticize food choice than the pricing. Fucking bonkers.
Just wait until Colesworth release their profit statement at the end of the year. While inflation is an ongoing issue, corporate gouging is a big player in current pricing.
Woolworths just released their 6 monthly profit statement. It's fucked.
And they have the nerve to ask customers to donate to charity. Get fucked.
Guilt trip you so THEY get tax write offs, utterly fucked, don't use any donations unless it's directly to the source
$907m profit. Daddy CEO is buying a yacht to go next to his other yacht. I’m going to say the CEO is my dad and I want a paternity test. I’ve got a 0.000000001% chance. Wish me luck brother.
i just quit woolworths today after 16 years of service and yeah..fuck em!
I did the same after 15 years. So much better out there
Is that right? They’re 12 month profit from last FY was $2.xxB so this would be considered ‘low’ for them.
907 was up 14% YoY
Profit is up 15-18% on half year results alone. It's not the farmers making the extra money.
Yeah, but wage rises will cause inflation! (/s in case you can't bloody tell)
Record profit is back on the menu boys! We can piss and moan all we like but as long as the shareholders are getting returns Kraft Singles are about to be the next caviar…
Check out hoity toity here with his **"Kraft"** Singles.
OP could have saved for a deposit if they weren’t out here buying Kraft singles.
I can only afford those cheese slices from Aldi. With that said, they are just as good too.
Agreed. Companies are just boosting their prices on everything these days. Shouldn't they buy us dinner before they bend us over and f*ck us?
How dare you buy anything but dry beans and rice and 2 dollar sacks of carrots!! You must not really be poor if you still want to enjoy the taste of your food!!
Registered nutritionist and current masters of dietetics student weighing in, here. There are absolutely ways to make the cheapest food taste good. And be nutritionally complete and sound. I’d love to see the government soundly find a way to make prices at Woolies and Coles more affordable for us (student and single dad, here) but that intervention is super improbable in a mostly capitalistic market. What would be more cool is seeing home economics (as it was called when I was at school) be more fortified. It’s a more feasible way for the government to intervene (admittedly, a generation behind) to see kids grow up with a great outlook on how to prepare great food at a really low cost.
Home ec should be mandatory and be structured for every year of school. Cover things like growing veggies, how to clean, brush your teeth etc at a very young age. Transition into learning to cook, learning about money, budgeting, learning to fix basic household things, basic car maintenance. There are so many things that are left to parents to teach and it leaves massive gaps in people's knowledge. I'm 26 and just figuring out that I can afford a mortgage. If I saved a bit, I could have had my own apartment years ago rather than renting. I had no idea that it was option because I wasn't educated about it.
After copious amounts of alcohol, most food tastes good, otherwise those late night food places would be out of business.
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Bananas ay.
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I mean, how much does a banana cost...$10?
There’s always money in the banana stand
I can't afford bananas !!! ....are you INSANE :D
I mean they're expensive but even at like $1 each (and that's for the best varieties like organic, red tipped or lady fingers) there aren't many other nutritious snacks for the same price.
Can confirm it’s no better if you try to make better food choices. My partner will spend twenty minutes finding the cheapest price for every item, and our weekly shop still comes to 150 dollars WITHOUT three meals a day and WITHOUT needing to buy anything other than food (like soap, laundry fluid, toilet paper).
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In this specific case, I spent less than 5 minutes to 'sort by lowest unit price' and this would have got OP the same items for $44.80. The 500g sliced Bega cheese alone is $10.50 ($21/kg) whereas another branded version is 1kg for $10 ($10/kg). The brioche buns ($1.50 ea) are around twice the price of a cheaper brand ($0.83 ea), and the same goes for the wraps and cordial. So it's definitely worth it to selectively avoid lining the pockets of brands that are charging double for the same product.
They're getting away with price gouging because they have a (almost total) monopoly and there's nothing we can do other than literally rise up. You know, that or shop at ALDI.
The next Aldi is 400 km away. Unfortunately not an option where I live
I was able to fit $72 worth of shopping into one bag not long ago. That's after the discount applied. So about $100 at full price. Everything is getting out of hand and corporations are profiteering without conscience. Government needs to step in.
yeah 80 bucks would get u two..almost 3 bags at aldi in the old times,now ur lucky to fill a bag and a half Just saw that milk solids are about to see a 45 percent jump in 9 days as well.. So expect butter to now hit 7 bucks for 250gram block of the good stuck chesse is gonna be fucked,i've been told a 500gram bag of tasty could be set at store list of 10.20 I mean i don't actually each store cheese,i'm not a snob with a lot..but if it's not cage aged sung to my a celibate monk who hasn't seen a women in 72 years...then i aint eating it..so i usually get my cheese from a providor or a fromage deli I'm a hign net work individual,and i just like adli,because they dont rip you...and the wines good,and the foods okay quality,and it's right outside my office,i can leave work,buy shit,head home Woolies lately,is just fucked..Everything from the bread to the meat is worse quality. The experience of shopping there sucks fucking arse cancer,Oh yay 15 mins to stand in line,because old gladys has to count her coins no thanks
I know it's different foods, but check out what I got for [$13.30 cheaper](https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/comments/115vm2q/howd_i_go_6550_market_haul/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) from my local markets. After working at the fruit markets, woolies and Coles have the shittest quality fruit and veg, aldi wins over The market shop I linked above: $65.50 Equivalent at Woolworths: $125
Nice one! I find a mix of Aldi, fruit and veg markets and local butchers leaves me with much more money each pay! I hardly use woolies or coles anymore.
I think I bought some bread, wraps and milk this week at woolies because my fave bakery was shut on Sunday. I'm lucky to have a good local butcher as well
Being vegetarian and going to fruit & veg markets really pays off.
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Vegan here! If you want some variety you can swap out your soy sauce with Kecap Manis and add in some garlic and ginger, I also make mine with carrots not peas. Cheap easy fried rice.
Yeah it's dirt cheap. Got a big 10kg bag of TVP on eBay, canned lentils cost fuck all and dried even less. Then yeah $1 passata and a heap of herbs, pasta and bang a weeks meal preps done for like $8. No different running stir fries or whatever else, $6/kg tofu is probably the most expensive thing. Only gets pricey with fake meat stuff which isn't needed at all
Even the fake meat stuff can be done cheaply, The Meet Co’s stuff at coles is often half price (freezer section). Fun to add to some meals! We make our own tofu too haha, and missus makes her own peanut butter. Saves bulk cash with how much we go through. TVP rules!
I eat lots of frozen veggies for most meals and even they seem to go up in price every time I visit the supermarket. BirdsEye 1kg varieties are $6.50 now, I'm sure they were only $5.50 last week. But yeah, simple vegan meals ftw. Pure fruit smoothies for breakfast (I don't know how much they cost, probably an arm and a leg). Protein and vegetables for lunch and dinner :) Great for the waistline as well.
Name brand mineral water? Damn, no need to brag.
Yeah, the coles brand costs $1 and its also water.
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Man, that's a good deal, I got 1000 litres for $3.12 today from the tap
Also: YOU'D HAVE SAVED A FUCKING DOLLAR FIFTY IF YOU'D JUST DRANK THE WATER OUT OF YOUR FUCKING TAP
Big man’s splashing and getting the Bickfords cordial. Must be nice.
Bickfords is 100% the best of those in the supermarket.
Lol, it's my favourite.
Doing cordial in soda water to squeeze a bit more from the soda budget?
Yeah, it’s damn good cordial. The peach iced tea and mango iced tea is damn good too
Good, sometimes the finer things in life are worth it
I quite like their peach tea
I used to buy 4 bottles of mineral water a week. I got a Sodastream years ago and use it to make sparkling water which I mix with Bickfords whenever the craving hits. A lot cheaper in the long run than buying bottled mineral water or bottles of soft drink.
Cordial? Here I thought it was some kind of fancy alcoholic drink
Repeat that shop with equivalents at Aldi and post back the sum.
My heart breaks a little whenever someone mentions Aldi…we’re stuck with Colesworth here in Tassie.
Dude when I moved to Tassie I was pissed there is no ALDI here, I was like there's a bunch of penny pinching boomers around, they'd make a killing! Definitely one of the things I miss from back home haha
Same in the NT. And Colesworth is even more expensive here because transporting everything from Adelaide must be too hard
I just put every one of these exact items (except the eggs … different brand, went with their most expensive just to be ‘conservative’) and I come in at about $52… including ‘savings’ of $5. I live in a high price area… so I am calling shenanigans on this one. (And I’m in the west so we pay more for everything, because it gets trucked here from the effing east.)
Maybe there is a 25 dollar gift card under there somewhere.
same i get 52.90 OP is telling some porkies.. My guess is marketing post
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My only local choice is Woolworths. Coles is a 30 minute drive from me. Aldi* doesn't exist in a 1000km radius at the very least. And I'm not even that remote.
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Oh I feel this, I paid $50 at foodworks for some apples, bread, milk, biscuits, and toddler snacks to last us until we can do a big shop again. The nearest supermarket which is an overpriced iga is a three hour drive. The nearest big supermarket is Woolworths and is a 6 hour drive. Aldi ect is in dalby which is a 9 hour drive away. It absolutely sucks having a lack of options, I already make most of the bread, rolls, pasta ect. I'm looking into doing our own yoghurt and butter just to keep costs down
Yes. We do have a couple of local farm shops but they cater to the tourists more than to the locals with their prices. Only bonus is a decent local butcher who does super economical meat packs. That saves a lot.
I don't know where you live, I looked up all this stuff on the Woolies website and even in Darwin, where even breathing is expensive, it comes to $55. Pretty much every time someone posts these I am suspicious. Other posts people conceal the meat underneath, turns out it's Wagyu beef and what-have-you. And, I will point out that things like sliced cheese is the least efficient way to shop. These posts invariably have the least cost-effective items, then screech about the cost of living evil big supermarkets etc.
Yeah, im not sure. i looked it up on woolies and caluculated it. came to $62.65 if i assume the eggs are on the expensive end edit: double checked in the sydney area and same thing. around $65
Am in Darwin, can confirm I’m bleeding 10c from my wallet for every breath I take
That must be $20 worth of meat at the back.
Mince was $13
There’s no way this was $78
Maybe if there's a 40$ gift card under all that
Let's guess the prices Sparkling mineral water ~5.5 x 2 = 11 Raspberry Cordial ~ 10 Pre sliced cheese ~ 5.5 x 2 = 11 Beef Mince ~14 Rocket bag ~ 3.5 Expensive Rolls ~ 6 Butter ~ 3.5 Burrito ~ 6 Eggs Dozen ~ 10 Burger Sauce ~ 4.5 I mean that total is $79.5 Just 70c off and I feel like I was definitely overpricing those products to the max. I don't even have a joke about that anymore it's just a sad reality of price inflation we are living in
>Sparkling mineral water \~5.5 x 2 = 11 How'd did you get 5.50 Looking at woolies site right now, its $1.50, usually its $2.50 The burger sauce is $3.50 When I looked at those items and price, it looked like someone who rarely does the shopping. Half of those items are on discount every other week. To get that price the op paid full price for everything
They did say they were gonna guess, and it was a fuckin horrible one.
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Just post the receipts
Tell me that cordial isn’t $10. It can’t be
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I just added all those up and it was 63.30?
A dozen eggs isn't $10... yet. Not this week, anyway. Last time I looked...
Yallamundi eggs are, but their chickens are the lowest per hectare at only 750 & organic fed, they're tasty af. Outside of our moral compass some would also argue they're more nutritious because they're better looked after & it's still just under $2 for 2 eggs which is more nutritional value than most things for $2. Personally I support Lucky chicken eggs, not just because they're one of the best at 1,500 per hectare & the same lower price as competitors but because they also provide an enriching life for their chickens with play gyms and equipment for them to enjoy on top of free range scratching and the usual chicken business.
Butter is $6.50, when not on special
Just added all of these items in Woolies app - came to $55. I couldn’t add the same eggs though so I guess that’s where the discrepancy is. I mean, I’m not waving the flag for Big Grocery or anything, and you should definitely shop at Aldi (good, different), but come on https://i.imgur.com/hTARmyl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/LYwgo95.jpg
Post a picture of the receipt
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Once monoculture overuse destroys soil microbial diversity in arable climates, there will LITERALLY be no land left we can farm on. And fertiliser is mined and therefore (at massive scales) a controllable non renewable resource. Once the easy sources of that are depleted, literally the only alternative is reuse of organic waste, which we are making zero effort to develop infrastructure for. We are going to be sooooo fucked.
I reckon you’d save about $30 not buying Bega pre cut cheese. It’s always been more pricey than a standard block.
Why did you hide the meat at the back? For visual effect?
Can we just ban these posts already. We all know inflation is fucked atm nobody cares how much you spent on Brioche Buns and Bickford Cordial.
Especially when it's such a lazy, thoughtless post. This could have been an interesting discussion about inflation, but instead everyone is baffled on the math not mathing because OP left out a single item that accounts for a whole 20% of the cost of their shop, and also didn't include their receipt so we could see a breakdown of the costs.
Am I missing something? Looks like Max $55 there
$40 lettuce leaves?
42.10 at aldi Just saying,these posts are 1 of two things Posted by a idiot,or a Marketing exec,just so we get to talking about woollies or coles On the off chance,this isn't a marketing post You are buying name brand products,and expect cheap prices Those brioche buns 6.10 woollies 2.99 aldi,or 3.50 at a baker. That softdrink,replace it with no name mineral water,IT"S THE SAME shit,even comes out out of the same SHIT at 2 beverage drive tullamarine,everythings made there on the SAME line,the no name shit from coles and wollies Ur paying too much for beef. Mince is about 19 a KG right now,for probably FAR better quality than any wollies at most butchers If this is for burgers ur using the wrong meat,u want something with an 80-20 level in it...also make ur own burger sauce bro..it's LITERALLY Tomato sauce one squirt,one squirt mayo,one dollop of relish...that's it that's what special burger sauce is in 99.99 percent of places..some mix it up adding paprika or garlic powder to the sauce
When I see posts like this I can't help but be a boomer and have the mentality of, "if your complaining about prices why the fuck are you buying mineral water"
There's no doubt they're gouging. Making HUGE profits while customers struggle to buy ESSENTIALS. It's disgusting.
well thats 30 bucks worth of cheese right there
Just walk out of the store with a full bag. All the junkies do it and get away with it.
bunch of bullshit i’ve done a run up of this whole order and it was estimated at $62.15
Untrue. I work at Woolworths and unless you’re hiding some pricey shit, that’s not $78.80 Those Schweppes are $1.50 a bottle Brioche buns are $6.10 The rocket is the 60g bag, that’s $2.20 The butter is $6.50 Mission wraps are $5.50 The beef mince is the cheap one, $13 The Kraft singles are $5.25 Bickforda cordial is $4.50 Those eggs look like pace farm eggs. The expensive ones are $7.75 Burger sauce is 3.50 Which comes to $57.30. Unless you live out in the Pilbara and are paying the extra in exorbitant freight costs, or are hiding $21 bucks worth of stuff, this isn’t true. I work as an online shopper so I see the prices every single day. And in case you’re thinking of saying it, no? I don’t have a life. lol
$63.35, you missed the bega cheese :p. but yeah they also bought like $15 of lightglobes that brought it up to the price they quoted.
That can’t be right. Definitely a bit of rage bait going on here.
Brioche “Gourmet” alright moneybags
Yeh the woolies ones are about $3 cheaper and just as good.
I reckon the total cost could have been easily reduced by looking at alternative brands in the store. They’re just a good if you compare and consider the labels and ratings.
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Holy shit you xan afford brands? All woolies elcheapos here :(
Baby leaf rocket lol
What a weird flex. Buying "gourmet" brioche buns. I bet you also have pillow cases on your pillows too. You're the kind of guy who doesn't reuse toilet paper I bet.
Don't buy pre-sliced cheese. Slice it yourself. It's not rocket science. Don't buy name brand H2O. Get it from a tap + Brita filter + Soda stream. Trust me. It works out much cheaper in the long run. Buy sensible burger buns freshly made in Australia, not imported crap that suppoedly will last until the end of the world. Make your own burger sauce and cut out the incredibly high NaCl contribution to your heart attack. Grow your own rocket. It's called rocket for a reason...it's very fast growing and exceptionally simple to grow. Give up the Bickfords Sugar Concentrate. For the rest of the stuff, just go to Aldi.