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Post by Reviewer on Jan 9, 2023 12:59:14 GMT
£180 total for gas and electric in December. Luckily my tariff went onto the new higher rate 2 days after that cold week.
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Post by rhaegyr on Jan 9, 2023 13:00:31 GMT
Me and the missus (no kids) have averaged £60 a month for electricity and £80 a month for gas in a 3 bedroom semi for Nov/Dec.
We've been quite stingy with the heat but we still have it on in the evenings for a few hours every day.
Hoping to build up as much credit as we can before the cap is removed.
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Post by dmukgr on Jan 9, 2023 13:01:58 GMT
I’m with British Gas and I’ve been moved over to a new account.
I only know that through seeing two accounts when I log in, but I haven’t had a bill for ages. The issue is I moved into the house last year and was stuck with what the last people had as nobody was taking in new customers.
I was stuck with a shitty rate too but at least it’s fixed until December 2023.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 13:19:06 GMT
I clocked that yesterday too. Need to go through it all properly, but our weekly shop (Lidl / Sainos split) somehow came out around 25 quid more expensive than it was pre-xmas :/ You deserve it for Sainos! Everything has seemed to increase by at least 20p more though. |
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 9, 2023 13:34:58 GMT
We’ve switched to a mix of Lidl and Morrisons (Morrisons is closest and I get 6% discount though work vouchers) instead of just Morrisons.
Another way of reducing the cost is only I go to the shop. If my wife and I go together we spend 50% more.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 9, 2023 13:35:29 GMT
Yup, barely a shop goes by without spotting half a dozen things that have gone up by 20p in one go. Mad.
(Combo of Tesco and Lidl - ideally Tesco every other week for the stuff you can't get in Lidl)
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Post by dfunked on Jan 9, 2023 13:37:56 GMT
Don't shop hungry too. Have had some eye watering receipts in the past when we do a shop before lunch!
It's mainly Aldi for us these days, with the occasional trip to the nearer Morrisons or Tesco.
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Post by Frog on Jan 9, 2023 13:55:28 GMT
We have been using Amazon fresh, normally get a same day delivery and its pretty decently priced too. I hate Amazon but needs must and all that.
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Post by rhaegyr on Jan 9, 2023 14:00:26 GMT
Aldi/Lidl combo, manage to get most things from these two.
Takeaways are now chippy only too - everything else is around £30 for two of us (pizza, curry etc) whereas we can get a good chippy for £10-£12.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 14:09:20 GMT
A tin of heinz soup was 2.70 in the co op yesterday. So I took a drive to Asda instead, they still wanted 1.80 in there.
Fuck me last year they were 4 for £3.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 9, 2023 14:13:24 GMT
Pizzas are my recent cut from supermarket shops. Climbing towards £7 for a "nice" one, which just doesn't seem worth it for a lazy weekend treat. Can just make decent ones myself for a fraction of that.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 9, 2023 14:28:42 GMT
Tend to alternate between Pizza Express and Tesco own fresh, whichever is on offer. I find them all much of a muchness tbh and usually pimp them anyway. Don't have the time to make my own but do often use older tortilla wraps for the base (a genius lockdown find by my wife when we were short on food one week).
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Post by sport✅ on Jan 9, 2023 14:30:39 GMT
Don't have the time to make my own but do often use older tortilla wraps for the base (a genius lockdown find by my wife when we were short on food one week). I've been doing that for years. I'm genius here Dougs, not your wife! |
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Post by Dougs on Jan 9, 2023 14:36:52 GMT
Well, you would have been had you told us all years ago! Have to get the oven super hot though IME.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 9, 2023 15:46:28 GMT
We have been rolling our own more and more since the girl went lactose free. She turned her nose up at all the vegan ones because, yeah, vegan cheese is a bit grim, so we use lactose free, dairy cheese and mozerella and get packs of that frozen beer crust pizza dough.
It does kind of work out cheaper, I suppose, but not a ton if you consider that there is always some kind of pizza on offer.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 15:55:49 GMT
Massive crossover with the homemade pizza thread. I haven't been this excited since Desperate Dan was in the Beano.
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Post by nexus6 on Jan 9, 2023 16:01:05 GMT
Sainsburys do a great deal of 2 pizzas, 2 sides and a dip for 12 quid. Used to be 10 but quickly went up.
The pizzas are great and big enough, the sides are nice and varied. It's a winner, especially when you consider the equivalent from the local gastro-pizza carry out would be at least 30...!
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Post by Vortex on Jan 9, 2023 16:01:49 GMT
Shit. That reminds me that we fired up the pizza oven on saturday. I meant to take some photos to show our homemade pizza wares, but totally forgot.
Mostly due to shoving pizza into my gob as soon as it had cooled down enough to be able to eat.
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Post by quadfather on Jan 9, 2023 16:02:39 GMT
Do asda still do those deli counter pizzas, where they pimp it up for you, ala Subway style? They were really good, but I'm miles from an asda nowadays.
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Post by elstoof on Jan 9, 2023 16:09:33 GMT
Massive crossover with the homemade pizza thread. I haven't been this excited since Desperate Dan was in the Beano. Cow pie pizza would be a winner |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 9, 2023 16:16:38 GMT
I keep a bag of frozen pineapple in the freezer to put on it. A few minutes in the air fryer to char and then onto the pizza. Lovely stuff.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 9, 2023 16:18:21 GMT
Stay out of the pizza thread with that kind of filth!
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Post by Dougs on Jan 9, 2023 16:45:31 GMT
Bongo casting his line far and wide with that one imo!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 17:13:44 GMT
Would it be cheaper to make a homemade pizza in a wood burning stove or open coal fire than it would a conventional oven?
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Post by elstoof on Jan 9, 2023 17:32:09 GMT
Chicago style is best, empty a jar of Dolmio in a deep dish Graham cracker crust, belissimo
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Post by Vortex on Jan 9, 2023 18:49:18 GMT
Has Graham got psoriasis? Why do you want his undercracker crust?
More umami flavour? 🤔
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 18:56:42 GMT
Took me years to realise Americans were weird and they weren't gram crackers.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 9, 2023 18:59:15 GMT
For anyone that loves takeaway curry I highly recommend aktarathome. It’s better than takeaway (by a Michelin star chef) and is £70ish for what would cost about £120 as takeaways and can be frozen etc.
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Post by elstoof on Jan 9, 2023 19:06:00 GMT
M&S or waitrose is better than most takeaway to be fair
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jan 9, 2023 19:07:59 GMT
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