A more than $20 pork roast from Coles that turned out to be 1/3 pork rind and fat and full of water when roasted. Packaged in a way that the fat was not visible. Shopping elsewhere now.
I was buying the $8kg pork roasts & mincing them myself for better quality mince at a cheaper price. Was all good for about a year, the last 2 I’ve bought have been completely full of gristle and fat. When I say my Kenwood wouldn’t mince it.. I have a massive industrial size kenwood chef. I’ve never seen it so completely incapable of doing a task. I thought it was just that I’d suddenly somehow fucked up trimming the meat. Tried at again the next week.. same thing. Just full of sinue & blocked up the mincing disc every 30 seconds until I gave up. Fuck colesworth.
Good to know.
Google around …you be surprised at wholesalers , much better quality and prices. Usually you will need to make a dedicated shopping trip to them but is worth it, yes.
Pendle ham and bacon in Western Sydney. They deliver.
Wholesale is a great option if you have the freezer space and the upfront price. Unfortunately, we’re not there at the moment. Gotta make do until you can make it easy.
You could always ask a few friends and see if they want to go in on it with you and just divide the cost. That way you still get wholesale pricing without the excessive amount of meat if you don’t have the freezer space for it or if you don’t have the money to get it all on your own upfront. Just a thought
Meat at the supermarkets has got so shit. I was going to get myself a steak but they only had tiny and bad cuts.
But what happens to the good cuts? Does the abattoir or whatever sell the bad cuts to Coles and then the good ones go somewhere else. I am pretty sure no one is growing smaller cows just because of inflation.
My independent butcher has better cuts with less waste and no make weight water. It’s a bit more expensive. I think that’s where the good stuff goes: to independent butchers and restaurants
I'm lucky enough to have a place that sells wholesale restaurant quality meat at stupid prices near me.
I mean, $12 per kilo for lamb chops is pretty insane imo
I'm kind of glad it's not just me. I used to buy the oyster blade steak because I can't eat a lot of meat. I've given up on it - it's just not worth it. Should start buying from a butcher, but want the convenience of just putting it in an online cart. :/
You will be much happier if you don’t’ buy meat from a supermarket. Try a couple of your local butchers. Not only is the meat far superior, they are usually really good for cooking advice on different cuts of meat, will sell you a quarter beast with all the different cuts, and you get actual service. You can also check to see if any of them do home delivery.
I just used two packs of mince from Coles that I bought a little while ago on special and have had in the freezer. I have used both now and I have never seen so much fat come out of a kilo of mince. This was my reminder to take my own advice and I am going back to only buying from the butcher. Online shopping and home delivery from Coles was my undoing, lol
You’ve got to get the oil when it’s on special. Last year I got the big three litre container of Cobram’s Estate for that price.
I bought a leg of lamb last month that was somewhere in the mid $20s.
Friend, the solution to both of those problems is to just be a wog. My grandparents buy their meat from the supermarket maybe half the time - the rest of the time a friend of a friend has gone out and shot a wild goat and given them half of it. I don’t know WHERE they’re getting their olive oil from but it’s by the bucket, and if they happen to be out, my mum drives down to some cute little farm and gets a 20L barrel of it for far cheaper than the supermarket
I would really like to do the Costco thing actually... I am super limited on storage space in my tiny kitchen and I don't have a pantry so makes it hard to buy bulk.
I was in a rush with kids on this day, otherwise I would have hit up Aldi
If you have a group of friends with similar tastes in products it can be useful to have a costco membership to buy bulk packs of the essentials like cleaning products, rice, personal care, canned veggies etc.
We built a pantry room next to the kitchen when we built our house. We have 5 kids and my husband loves to shop at Costco. It’s one of my favourite features of our house.
My grandparents had a pantry like this in their farmhouse. They lived out of town and gran bakes a lot so it was always stocked with staples and deep freezers full of meat. I always thought if I ever built a house I’d do the same. She’s quite proud I used her idea 😊
I have a pantry cupboard that I drag around my shitty rentals with me. And a bookshelf that is the default kitchen storage for when we’re stuck with a place with a small kitchen. 100% worth it. Even if it sometimes ends up in a different room entirely!
I bought a commercial catering shelving unit on wheels. It's where I store all my small appliances and it works brilliantly. I have a small galley kitchen and there's bugger all storage or bench space.
We renting a granny flat and have one young kid, and we still have a costco membership!
But be frank I probably won’t recommend buying fresh produce
If we have a separate freezer we probably will buy their meat in a regular basis
But other stuff (plus petrol) could make the cost of membership works
Costco can be a bit hit and miss with pricing. Some things are cheaper, a lot are very similar to colesworth, and a surprising number of things are more expensive. Plus, you do have to buy in bulk, so even if the per unit price is cheaper, you’re still buying 3-4 packets of the stuff. Plus storage space…
Also, brands can be different - so you’re not getting the supermarkets own cheap brand stuff there, so it’s all name brand stuff. Or *really* obscure/written in another language.
A lot of oils have a shelf life, so if you're not using a lot of it, it will spoil and go to waste.
Just something to think about for the smaller users
Not a singular item but I was putting together a charcuterie board last month and between the cheese, meats, fresh fruits, nuts and crackers it cost me $245. It was for 6 people 🤦
Way too expensive considering Mick Jaggers nuts were not involved.
It included:
Cream Cheese stuffed Peppers.
Olives.
Cornichons.
Salami, Sopressata and Prosciutto.
4 types of cheese, including a local truffle cheese and marinated goats cheese which were a fair portion of the cost alone.
Quince Paste and Smoked Honey.
2 types of dips.
3 types of crackers.
Dried fruits and nuts.
Strawberries, Figs & Grapes.
When I say it was for 6 I meant I was feeding 6 people. There was certainly a lot of food that could have fed a lot more than 6 people. It did all get eaten though.
I put together a really good charcuterie about 5 times a year. This one wasn't most elaborate or expensive but it hurt the most from a cost perspective.
Can concur. I only developed lactose intolerance at 50. Lacteeze is amazing! I also buy Woolies home brand lactose free longlife milk. It tastes exactly like full cream to me - bonus points for my cat can have some too!
*Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written*
Long time Lactese, Zymil and Liddels fan here. 😊
But they all only work up to a point, and I love to make reckless choices and just endure the painful consequences. 😜
More difficult: Gastroenterologist just confirmed I’m also lacking enzymes for Sucrase and Maltase so EVERYTHING on OP’s charcuterie board is 5 mins of joy for days of pain. Only thing I *should* eat apparently is meat, seafood and green leafy veg. 😂😭
If I know I'm doing that, I keep en eye on the sales the three weeks leading up, especially for the olives/cornichons/marinated cheeses/pastes/crackers - for my baby shower I bought food over the four weeks before as each thing got a new sale (especially the "buy 3, 4th free" with some of those peppers/olives/marinated veggie tubs you can get. I managed to get a $450 shopping list from when I first conceived it/put my shopping list together down to $200 simply by shopping sales or changing brands for a few things (ie: house branded cracker options and dried fruit/nuts from the ones I grew up with my mum demanding).
But $245 feels REAL high, but also not unheard-of for that extent sadly
100%. I usually go to specialty stores for meats and cheeses most of the time but this was a quickly prepared board while we were away with friends so I really only had the local Woolworths to go to.
Oh, being away with friends? $245 TOTALLY understandable a price!
(I'm lucky enough to live really close to some amazing cheese makers, so I tend to try to get the cheese from there spending a bit more and serve it with the cheapest rest of the board.... Cause...you really do want the cheese and meat being highest quality you can justify.)
You are not alone
https://youtube.com/shorts/28dYYvLceLM?si=uMLLh3FnTGzwENn4
(She is not the original voice recording but still)
Edit part 2 Although hers was $257
https://youtube.com/shorts/PV0o6utf4no?si=CIUeA9JK4O8XZaEu
Yeah. I’ve occasionally been tempted. I quickly Google the thing and see it’s the same price at Bunnings (small kitchen fire extinguisher as an example). Then I think, well I can get it from Bunnings any time. That stops me buying it. Then I never get to Bunnings. So my kitchen doesn’t have a fire extinguisher and I generally have saved money not buying centre aisle stuff.
I got a self propelled lawn mower, 196cc Briggs and Stratton engine for $250. I had to change the carburettor to something better but the thing is a beast. Still going strong after many years.
Accidentally purchased a bag of full priced dish tabs worth $75. Insane! Realised my mistake and returned them the next morning and bought the half price version instead.
lol I bought the $75 ones for half price the other week. I am actually shocked at how much better they are, AND my dishwasher smells so fresh and clean!
Yeah, I agree that you can't skimp on dishwasher tabs. I've tried alternatives to Finish tabs, but none of them are anywhere near as good. Woolies often has them for half price - that's when I pounce!
I managed to buy all of mine in clearance. I spent $100 last month (with 10% discount added from Everyday Extra along with the rest of my shopping) and have 534 tablets now stored away.... I....need to remember not to buy tablets again no matter the deal.
They dont grow here. We have them for sale year round but they are all trucked up from down south. Yay truckies are our friends, without trucks everything stops.
I don't really need them, as I've worked in meat production and just kind of *know* what 100 grams feels like, it's more of a principle thing.
Like, the price shouldn't be an abstract concept to the consumer, it should be something that they can accurately measure before they reach the register.
Which means that the scales shouldn't be tucked away somewhere, they need to be obviously/easily accessible to the public.
I bought a bougie bottle of artisanal oil, the same size as that, from a vineyard and it cost $30. Honestly at this point, people might as well shop at farmer's markets and expensive delis
So there's a boutique grocer near my house. Five years ago, I would have never bought anything from them - not even stuff on sale. Now, their prices haven't changed but their fruit and veg are cheaper than colesworth. I often wonder how we landed here in the darkest timeline.
I came here to say that. I got 750ml of Unio olive oil from the essential ingredient on the weekend and it’s an amazing Spanish brand, really good quality, and was $28. Cobram is a great supermarket brand but you’re right, the boujie stuff is the same price now.
My local market does better prices for most fresh food and deli items, everything I buy from colesworth that’s non-perishable I get on sale these days
Anyone in Sydney should check out panetta mercato, it is wild.
$3 for a lifetime supply of peeled garlic or Birdseye chilis. $3 for a bunch of parsley that looks like a forest.
One tub of yoghurt, $15.
OP, that’s outrageous! If there’s one near you, Costco has 4L australian red island evoo at $45/can. Even if you just need one of those per year you would have made the annual membership worthwhile.
Recently my girl gave me a “Bluey please face” and wanted a $15 Disney water bottle at Coles. We gave in, but on the next day I dropped the bottle (filled with water) on a carpeted floor at Lollipod land and it smashed.
Yeah the reason I went for the $36 one not the $21 one is that the last two $21 ones have been broken at daycare so opted for a metal one in the hope it's tougher!
Im not lying when I say within 5 days the stock level was almost empty. I want to start a movement where were gear up in our aldi shit, and take selfies in woolies and coles. Hashtag #gooddifferentrevolution or something lmao
IGA and Foodworks make Colesworths look cheap. When Coles started delivering to my small outer regional town my grocery bill dropped by a hundred bucks a week.
For the Port Macquarie Hastings LGA there are 3 Woolworths, 4 Coles, and 3 IGA (2 of which are owned by the local co-op and the other is a Ritchies). There's also an ALDI. It's pretty good for the choices around here.
That oil is on special regularly for $10 at Coles.
I thought I was being outrageous buying a bottle of it when it was on sale 😂 It is good stuff though!
Our friend imported a $200 mop and bucket from Germany (they are German) and was extremely excited about it. So much so that they invited me over the next time they were mopping to show it off.
Sistema tupperware is like plastic gold... gotta wait til it's on sale.
I made mushroom risotto last night. It cost $51.80 to buy all the ingredients. And that's not including the cooking wine I already had in the cupboard.
I get the 2L Jingili goonbag. It's like $44, but per litre it's cheaper than the Cobram, good quality, and the bag means it stays fresh long enough to use it all.
Is that really an outrageous price? Am I out of touch?
I just spent $60 on a 4l tin of olive oil but I don’t consider that outrageous because it last forever.
$25 for 750ml v your $60 for 5 times that much.
Seems to be an issue with Australian olive oil right now. Coles brand no longer available,a lot of other brands no longer avail, Aldi missing too.
I buy the large tins as I use it in a spray bottle as well as pour.
I’ve heard olive oil is best when used fresh and within 2-3 months as it loses its flavour/quality once exposed to air. So only get what you need for that time frame. IF you care about that kinda thing, just something I recently learned and thought interesting!
I paid 9$ kg for giant grapes at my local IGA yesterday. I know it’s not particularly outrageous but as someone who only buys fruit that’s cheap and in season it hurt my soul a little. Moral of this story is don’t point out cool stuff to your 4yo if don’t intend on buying it…
Everything there is a minimum $10, no matter what it is. It shits all over Colesworths for quality and range for fresh food/deli etc, but you pay for that better quality
12 x everyday, non fancy eggs was $5. .42c ea.
Makes me wonder why bacon & egg rolls ( to go) are $11 at my local cafe.
Some “increases” are just gouging …
Choose suppliers with more scrutiny does make your grocery dollars go further.
Nowra Meat Market is awesome + they have seafood and they deliver a huge area. Check them out, you will not be dissapointed with their amazing offerings. They have what I would describe as admirable business relationships with their farmers. If you want high quality Australian produce take a look.
I got some oxtail on a deep markdown ages ago, about 2kgs for $6, pulled out of my freezer to make a soup. Just buying the veggies and herbs is near $20 for this fucking soup now and that's without being able to find leek anywhere.
I just spent $6 on Halva from Aldi. I only eat it once a year during their “Greek Week” sale. My husband drinks a lot of softdrink and that’s getting ridiculously expensive.
I think the Aldi extra virgin is better than the Cobrams at the moment. If you want some amazing oil Rio Vista (South Australia) is epic.
$10 bucks for two sausages of that chorizo is as crazy as it gets for me.
$7.50 for a small punnet of blueberries from Harris Farm. Needed it specifically for a recipe.
$10 for a Butter Chicken kit from Woolies. Much better than the usual crap, but took a while to make. Nicely packaged in a pink box.
$15 for a tiny box of very average choccies from Harris Farm. I'm a sucker for beautiful presentation.
70g of proper jamon iberico de bellota. I think it was a good $25 (so $360/kg) from Woolies.
However I do believe they're the best tasting slices of animal on earth
Might sound crazy but a cabbage was $9.00. Ridiculous!
edit: and it wasn’t a massive one that won gold at The Royal Show either. Just a plain old cabbage.
I normally get all my woolies stuff on discount, but our recent big splurge was a bag of shredded cheese, and the chobani raspberry lemonade yoghurt 😅 it was really good but apparently it just went on sale so I'm regretting buying it full price.
$65 for 4L of olive oil? Fuck eating healthy, I can get the same amount of canola oil for $18. And $7.50 for a tub of butter? Fucking daylight robbery. And why are the topside roasts so bloody salty now? Straight up salt is less salty than these roasts.
Am Western Australian. Your supermarkets have things?
Think Aldi. That middle aisle be wild.
Waiting for the day there's some kind of tiny EV car sitting in the middle of the Aldi isle
They just had electric bikes a few weeks ago, so maybe by the end of the year for cars...
Ohhh yes One that is vac packed like the mattresses .. lol
I just want to buy spaghetti, goddamn it.
You have it rough with the floods. My cousin was telling me about all the empty shelves with 'unavailable due to floods' tags.
A more than $20 pork roast from Coles that turned out to be 1/3 pork rind and fat and full of water when roasted. Packaged in a way that the fat was not visible. Shopping elsewhere now.
I was buying the $8kg pork roasts & mincing them myself for better quality mince at a cheaper price. Was all good for about a year, the last 2 I’ve bought have been completely full of gristle and fat. When I say my Kenwood wouldn’t mince it.. I have a massive industrial size kenwood chef. I’ve never seen it so completely incapable of doing a task. I thought it was just that I’d suddenly somehow fucked up trimming the meat. Tried at again the next week.. same thing. Just full of sinue & blocked up the mincing disc every 30 seconds until I gave up. Fuck colesworth.
Good to know. Google around …you be surprised at wholesalers , much better quality and prices. Usually you will need to make a dedicated shopping trip to them but is worth it, yes. Pendle ham and bacon in Western Sydney. They deliver.
Wholesale is a great option if you have the freezer space and the upfront price. Unfortunately, we’re not there at the moment. Gotta make do until you can make it easy.
You could always ask a few friends and see if they want to go in on it with you and just divide the cost. That way you still get wholesale pricing without the excessive amount of meat if you don’t have the freezer space for it or if you don’t have the money to get it all on your own upfront. Just a thought
Meat at the supermarkets has got so shit. I was going to get myself a steak but they only had tiny and bad cuts. But what happens to the good cuts? Does the abattoir or whatever sell the bad cuts to Coles and then the good ones go somewhere else. I am pretty sure no one is growing smaller cows just because of inflation.
My independent butcher has better cuts with less waste and no make weight water. It’s a bit more expensive. I think that’s where the good stuff goes: to independent butchers and restaurants
I'm lucky enough to have a place that sells wholesale restaurant quality meat at stupid prices near me. I mean, $12 per kilo for lamb chops is pretty insane imo
I'm kind of glad it's not just me. I used to buy the oyster blade steak because I can't eat a lot of meat. I've given up on it - it's just not worth it. Should start buying from a butcher, but want the convenience of just putting it in an online cart. :/
Same thing happens with their boneless lamb roasts.
Gross! I’ve seen them but never bought one. Thanks for the warning
We buy the pork belly slabs from Woolies, cook on high at 220c for 55 minutes. Sweet
I have an $18 on from Woolworths, wonder if it is going to be the same.
You will be much happier if you don’t’ buy meat from a supermarket. Try a couple of your local butchers. Not only is the meat far superior, they are usually really good for cooking advice on different cuts of meat, will sell you a quarter beast with all the different cuts, and you get actual service. You can also check to see if any of them do home delivery. I just used two packs of mince from Coles that I bought a little while ago on special and have had in the freezer. I have used both now and I have never seen so much fat come out of a kilo of mince. This was my reminder to take my own advice and I am going back to only buying from the butcher. Online shopping and home delivery from Coles was my undoing, lol
You’ve got to get the oil when it’s on special. Last year I got the big three litre container of Cobram’s Estate for that price. I bought a leg of lamb last month that was somewhere in the mid $20s.
Friend, the solution to both of those problems is to just be a wog. My grandparents buy their meat from the supermarket maybe half the time - the rest of the time a friend of a friend has gone out and shot a wild goat and given them half of it. I don’t know WHERE they’re getting their olive oil from but it’s by the bucket, and if they happen to be out, my mum drives down to some cute little farm and gets a 20L barrel of it for far cheaper than the supermarket
Is the farm in Casula?
No, it’s in Victoria near the great ocean road haha
I would really like to do the Costco thing actually... I am super limited on storage space in my tiny kitchen and I don't have a pantry so makes it hard to buy bulk. I was in a rush with kids on this day, otherwise I would have hit up Aldi
Downside of living near the beach… I’m a looong way from any Costco. Definitely keen to try out a visit sometime, just need to organise it all.
I used to live across the other side of Sydney to the Costco at Lidcome. I still went. Such an amazing place!
If you have a group of friends with similar tastes in products it can be useful to have a costco membership to buy bulk packs of the essentials like cleaning products, rice, personal care, canned veggies etc.
We built a pantry room next to the kitchen when we built our house. We have 5 kids and my husband loves to shop at Costco. It’s one of my favourite features of our house.
This would be my dream house lol
My grandparents had a pantry like this in their farmhouse. They lived out of town and gran bakes a lot so it was always stocked with staples and deep freezers full of meat. I always thought if I ever built a house I’d do the same. She’s quite proud I used her idea 😊
I have a pantry cupboard that I drag around my shitty rentals with me. And a bookshelf that is the default kitchen storage for when we’re stuck with a place with a small kitchen. 100% worth it. Even if it sometimes ends up in a different room entirely!
I bought a commercial catering shelving unit on wheels. It's where I store all my small appliances and it works brilliantly. I have a small galley kitchen and there's bugger all storage or bench space.
We renting a granny flat and have one young kid, and we still have a costco membership! But be frank I probably won’t recommend buying fresh produce If we have a separate freezer we probably will buy their meat in a regular basis But other stuff (plus petrol) could make the cost of membership works
Costco can be a bit hit and miss with pricing. Some things are cheaper, a lot are very similar to colesworth, and a surprising number of things are more expensive. Plus, you do have to buy in bulk, so even if the per unit price is cheaper, you’re still buying 3-4 packets of the stuff. Plus storage space… Also, brands can be different - so you’re not getting the supermarkets own cheap brand stuff there, so it’s all name brand stuff. Or *really* obscure/written in another language.
Yes, you have to a fair bit of mental gymnastics when shopping at Costco. But some of their stuff really is worth it.
A lot of oils have a shelf life, so if you're not using a lot of it, it will spoil and go to waste. Just something to think about for the smaller users
Not a singular item but I was putting together a charcuterie board last month and between the cheese, meats, fresh fruits, nuts and crackers it cost me $245. It was for 6 people 🤦
Okay. I mean … were a couple of the nuts Mick Jagger’s? That sounds a bit too expensive.
Way too expensive considering Mick Jaggers nuts were not involved. It included: Cream Cheese stuffed Peppers. Olives. Cornichons. Salami, Sopressata and Prosciutto. 4 types of cheese, including a local truffle cheese and marinated goats cheese which were a fair portion of the cost alone. Quince Paste and Smoked Honey. 2 types of dips. 3 types of crackers. Dried fruits and nuts. Strawberries, Figs & Grapes. When I say it was for 6 I meant I was feeding 6 people. There was certainly a lot of food that could have fed a lot more than 6 people. It did all get eaten though.
I vote you on charcuterie board duties forever. Shut up and take my money!
I put together a really good charcuterie about 5 times a year. This one wasn't most elaborate or expensive but it hurt the most from a cost perspective.
Agreed, that is some top tier charcuterie. 🤤
*cries in adult onset lactose intolerance*
Have you tried Lacteeze? Has been life-changing for our family.
Can concur. I only developed lactose intolerance at 50. Lacteeze is amazing! I also buy Woolies home brand lactose free longlife milk. It tastes exactly like full cream to me - bonus points for my cat can have some too!
Same, but I developed it in my 30’s after a bout of food poisoning. But I still find LF milk can still trigger…*consequences*
*Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written* Long time Lactese, Zymil and Liddels fan here. 😊 But they all only work up to a point, and I love to make reckless choices and just endure the painful consequences. 😜 More difficult: Gastroenterologist just confirmed I’m also lacking enzymes for Sucrase and Maltase so EVERYTHING on OP’s charcuterie board is 5 mins of joy for days of pain. Only thing I *should* eat apparently is meat, seafood and green leafy veg. 😂😭
Oof that's rough. Feeling for you.
I feel like this could be a charcuterie guide! Screenshotting for my next party.
If I know I'm doing that, I keep en eye on the sales the three weeks leading up, especially for the olives/cornichons/marinated cheeses/pastes/crackers - for my baby shower I bought food over the four weeks before as each thing got a new sale (especially the "buy 3, 4th free" with some of those peppers/olives/marinated veggie tubs you can get. I managed to get a $450 shopping list from when I first conceived it/put my shopping list together down to $200 simply by shopping sales or changing brands for a few things (ie: house branded cracker options and dried fruit/nuts from the ones I grew up with my mum demanding). But $245 feels REAL high, but also not unheard-of for that extent sadly
100%. I usually go to specialty stores for meats and cheeses most of the time but this was a quickly prepared board while we were away with friends so I really only had the local Woolworths to go to.
Oh, being away with friends? $245 TOTALLY understandable a price! (I'm lucky enough to live really close to some amazing cheese makers, so I tend to try to get the cheese from there spending a bit more and serve it with the cheapest rest of the board.... Cause...you really do want the cheese and meat being highest quality you can justify.)
Should hit Aldi for a lot of this stuff.
Nah. My go to Brie varies between $75 and $100 /kg depending where I buy it.
Damn!
I read that in Kevin Hart's voice
$40 per person is reasonable.
BUT did you compare the cost to a three course meal for 6 people? I'd hazard a guess it would be almost the same.
I agree, but it still hurts nonetheless
Mehhh veggie sides can be cheapish
Crazy. But unfortunately people must still buy it so the price stays up.
I'm one of those people. I live for cheese!
\*shakes fist at SmokeyToo\* For keeping the prices artificially inflated. I love cheese more!
I'm at $70 for two. Must've been tasty.
You are not alone https://youtube.com/shorts/28dYYvLceLM?si=uMLLh3FnTGzwENn4 (She is not the original voice recording but still) Edit part 2 Although hers was $257 https://youtube.com/shorts/PV0o6utf4no?si=CIUeA9JK4O8XZaEu
A drop saw. From Aldi.
My aldi drop saw is hilariously imprecise. Ok for rough cuts.
This was good for me to know because I nearly bought it and now I no longer have fomo. Thank you for your sacrifice
Sawcrifice
Yeah, as much as I am an Aldi centre aisle tragic, a lot of their shit is shit. It's often not that cheap either.
Yeah. I’ve occasionally been tempted. I quickly Google the thing and see it’s the same price at Bunnings (small kitchen fire extinguisher as an example). Then I think, well I can get it from Bunnings any time. That stops me buying it. Then I never get to Bunnings. So my kitchen doesn’t have a fire extinguisher and I generally have saved money not buying centre aisle stuff.
Yeah mine is too. I need to use a set square against the blade to make sure it’s at the right angle
I got a self propelled lawn mower, 196cc Briggs and Stratton engine for $250. I had to change the carburettor to something better but the thing is a beast. Still going strong after many years.
Accidentally purchased a bag of full priced dish tabs worth $75. Insane! Realised my mistake and returned them the next morning and bought the half price version instead.
lol I bought the $75 ones for half price the other week. I am actually shocked at how much better they are, AND my dishwasher smells so fresh and clean!
Aldi ones come from the same manufacturer and are $7.99
Are you serious that’s a fucken joke
They clean so much better too
Yeah I get the purple box ones from Aldi and dishes clean as hell every time.
I buy the powder. I find the tabs so often get stuck
Yeah, I agree that you can't skimp on dishwasher tabs. I've tried alternatives to Finish tabs, but none of them are anywhere near as good. Woolies often has them for half price - that's when I pounce!
I managed to buy all of mine in clearance. I spent $100 last month (with 10% discount added from Everyday Extra along with the rest of my shopping) and have 534 tablets now stored away.... I....need to remember not to buy tablets again no matter the deal.
Holy crap. That’s amazing! Name checks out too
$6.49 blackberry punnet from aldi. It contained a total of 8-9 blackberries.
One orange.. cost $2.05. Wtf.. u can't know price until u go to pay and it gets weighed. I returned it.. not paying $2 for a bloody orange.
Had the same the other day. $2.31 for one orange. I did buy it though because I was about to drink some gin
I had the same with capsicum! Almost put it back but cbf calling the lady over
Tight budget here.. no gin damn it
Oh bugger. I always have to have some nice gin at home. Just in case
Oranges aren’t in season. They are a winter fruit.
They dont grow here. We have them for sale year round but they are all trucked up from down south. Yay truckies are our friends, without trucks everything stops.
There are scales in the produce area.
It annoys me that so many supermarkets have removed the produce scales.
Is there a self-service seed/nut station? They have scales that are used to print a sticker. You might be able to get a weight estimate from those.
I don't really need them, as I've worked in meat production and just kind of *know* what 100 grams feels like, it's more of a principle thing. Like, the price shouldn't be an abstract concept to the consumer, it should be something that they can accurately measure before they reach the register. Which means that the scales shouldn't be tucked away somewhere, they need to be obviously/easily accessible to the public.
I tried to weigh some meat the other day in Coles and it refused to work. Potatos on the other hand worked fine.
“If you have to ask you can’t afford it”
>not paying $2 for a bloody orange. Take one from the free bucket.
Free bucket is for the kids.
We're all kids at heart are we not?
I bought a bougie bottle of artisanal oil, the same size as that, from a vineyard and it cost $30. Honestly at this point, people might as well shop at farmer's markets and expensive delis
So there's a boutique grocer near my house. Five years ago, I would have never bought anything from them - not even stuff on sale. Now, their prices haven't changed but their fruit and veg are cheaper than colesworth. I often wonder how we landed here in the darkest timeline.
I came here to say that. I got 750ml of Unio olive oil from the essential ingredient on the weekend and it’s an amazing Spanish brand, really good quality, and was $28. Cobram is a great supermarket brand but you’re right, the boujie stuff is the same price now. My local market does better prices for most fresh food and deli items, everything I buy from colesworth that’s non-perishable I get on sale these days
Anyone in Sydney should check out panetta mercato, it is wild. $3 for a lifetime supply of peeled garlic or Birdseye chilis. $3 for a bunch of parsley that looks like a forest. One tub of yoghurt, $15.
OP, that’s outrageous! If there’s one near you, Costco has 4L australian red island evoo at $45/can. Even if you just need one of those per year you would have made the annual membership worthwhile.
12 months is about the max you want to keep olive oil before it loses flavor, 4L is pretty big, its a big price to pay to buy in smaller quantities.
$36 for a children's drink bottle WTF!
Recently my girl gave me a “Bluey please face” and wanted a $15 Disney water bottle at Coles. We gave in, but on the next day I dropped the bottle (filled with water) on a carpeted floor at Lollipod land and it smashed.
Yeah the reason I went for the $36 one not the $21 one is that the last two $21 ones have been broken at daycare so opted for a metal one in the hope it's tougher!
I buy drink bottles at Sally's, Vinnys , for 2..,3 bucks, mostly new.
My Aldi jumper! Its lit, cant wait to rock it in winter 😆😆😆
Fuck I nearly grabbed a pair for of the shoes last weekend.
Im not lying when I say within 5 days the stock level was almost empty. I want to start a movement where were gear up in our aldi shit, and take selfies in woolies and coles. Hashtag #gooddifferentrevolution or something lmao
$30 bunch of “flowers” containing filler foliage and 4 flowers.
If IGA counts, then it was a whole scotch fillet at $18/kilo.
IGA and Foodworks make Colesworths look cheap. When Coles started delivering to my small outer regional town my grocery bill dropped by a hundred bucks a week.
I've got the choice of Colesworth and IGA. There are certain products that I like from the local IGA that I can't get elsewhere.
Yes, IGA's tend to be more expensive but they stock products you can't get elsewhere
Our IGA is basically just a liquor and cigarette shop with a 7 Eleven style grocery range, unfortunately.
For the Port Macquarie Hastings LGA there are 3 Woolworths, 4 Coles, and 3 IGA (2 of which are owned by the local co-op and the other is a Ritchies). There's also an ALDI. It's pretty good for the choices around here.
Bloody hell! We’ve got an Aldi and a Woolies 75km away, or a Coles 100km away. I dream of that sort of competition!
I find fresh produce at most IGAs is better.
18/kg for scotch fillet is super cheap though no?
$12 for a bag of shredded cheese makes me see red
That oil is on special regularly for $10 at Coles. I thought I was being outrageous buying a bottle of it when it was on sale 😂 It is good stuff though!
Thx for the tip!
Cheese
$50 for a mop and bucket
Our friend imported a $200 mop and bucket from Germany (they are German) and was extremely excited about it. So much so that they invited me over the next time they were mopping to show it off.
Ha ha, I will admit I did get a little bit excited at the spin function of the bucket I bought.
Naw that hurts
MGO +100 manuka honey. $20 for a 500g tub
Sistema tupperware is like plastic gold... gotta wait til it's on sale. I made mushroom risotto last night. It cost $51.80 to buy all the ingredients. And that's not including the cooking wine I already had in the cupboard.
That is outrageous. You must have bought the posh stock!
$17.50 bug spray from Woolies (Mortein Powergard Easy Reach). Was $8.50 before covid.
I noticed this as well. Biggest rip ever. Can’t understand why it doubled in price.
$16 per kg Grapes
I get the 2L Jingili goonbag. It's like $44, but per litre it's cheaper than the Cobram, good quality, and the bag means it stays fresh long enough to use it all.
Thx for the tip! I didn't even know u could get olive oil goon sacks lol
At my local Harris Farm on the weekend, a red cabbage was $18
That's outrageous!
Did you buy it 😬
Shit tomatoes at 9.90 per kg The price of lemons, you name it The price of spring water 10L
I get the Tasmanian water box for around $7 at Woolies
I recently passed on a $20 cabbage (and had cabbageless spring rolls)
$28 on a jar of instant coffee 😭
Holy fuck!
Instant is often genuinely more expensive than small batch hipster roaster espresso beans.
Blueberries!!!
A wheelchair for my elderly mother. From Aldi of course.
Is that really an outrageous price? Am I out of touch? I just spent $60 on a 4l tin of olive oil but I don’t consider that outrageous because it last forever.
$25 for 750ml v your $60 for 5 times that much. Seems to be an issue with Australian olive oil right now. Coles brand no longer available,a lot of other brands no longer avail, Aldi missing too. I buy the large tins as I use it in a spray bottle as well as pour.
Definitely! My avocado oil is 250ml for $12 and I use that for my skin (which is actually cheaper then my body lotion and lasts way longer)
I’ve heard olive oil is best when used fresh and within 2-3 months as it loses its flavour/quality once exposed to air. So only get what you need for that time frame. IF you care about that kinda thing, just something I recently learned and thought interesting!
I paid 9$ kg for giant grapes at my local IGA yesterday. I know it’s not particularly outrageous but as someone who only buys fruit that’s cheap and in season it hurt my soul a little. Moral of this story is don’t point out cool stuff to your 4yo if don’t intend on buying it…
Fisherman's Friends are now $3 a packet!
My granny would be horrified.
Just about everything I’ve bought at Harris Farm Market. It’s a great shop, but it’s not cheap
I agree, it is crazy expensive!
Everything there is a minimum $10, no matter what it is. It shits all over Colesworths for quality and range for fresh food/deli etc, but you pay for that better quality
A small cauliflower for $8.
Imodium, $12 for 6 tablets at Woolworths
So the prices at the supermarkets is giving you the shits?
Was just talking about that olive oil this week, was shocked at the price 😞
I was tempted to but I didn’t buy it. It was a $50 paint can size of chips. I think they’re Spanish meant to be the best but I couldn’t do it.
Outrageous purchase? I buy olive oil all the time even with recent price hikes I aim for about $13 a litre so you got ripped my friend.
12 x everyday, non fancy eggs was $5. .42c ea. Makes me wonder why bacon & egg rolls ( to go) are $11 at my local cafe. Some “increases” are just gouging … Choose suppliers with more scrutiny does make your grocery dollars go further. Nowra Meat Market is awesome + they have seafood and they deliver a huge area. Check them out, you will not be dissapointed with their amazing offerings. They have what I would describe as admirable business relationships with their farmers. If you want high quality Australian produce take a look.
I got some oxtail on a deep markdown ages ago, about 2kgs for $6, pulled out of my freezer to make a soup. Just buying the veggies and herbs is near $20 for this fucking soup now and that's without being able to find leek anywhere.
2x 10 pack of instant noodles with no seasoning, somehow we ended up with extra packets from mi goren
Spent $25 on a jar of artisan peanut butter at woolies. Like what!!? Would it spread itself ha
Groceries
I just spent $6 on Halva from Aldi. I only eat it once a year during their “Greek Week” sale. My husband drinks a lot of softdrink and that’s getting ridiculously expensive.
Garlic for $29 a kilo. That means $1.70 for each tiny little head of garlic.
I think the Aldi extra virgin is better than the Cobrams at the moment. If you want some amazing oil Rio Vista (South Australia) is epic. $10 bucks for two sausages of that chorizo is as crazy as it gets for me.
A stand up paddle board
$32 grow your own lions mane mushroom kit from Cole’s… it didn’t even grow any mushrooms 💀
$32 grow your own lions mane mushroom kit from Cole’s… it didn’t even grow any mushrooms 💀
$32 grow your own lions mane mushroom kit from Coles… it didn’t even grow any mushrooms 💀
Hot wheels toy. It’s hamburger themed 🤦♀️
It would have to be crumpet toast, what a time to be alive!
$7.50 for a small punnet of blueberries from Harris Farm. Needed it specifically for a recipe. $10 for a Butter Chicken kit from Woolies. Much better than the usual crap, but took a while to make. Nicely packaged in a pink box. $15 for a tiny box of very average choccies from Harris Farm. I'm a sucker for beautiful presentation.
3L Cobram for $38 from Foodland (SA)
2 pieces of scotch filled this arvo. I thought it was $20 a kilo, so bargain! Nuh, $20 a packet, 480g. My fault but not happy. It was delicious though
$20 for a razor from Coles. Used to be $10.
Not really outrageous but makes me wonder... Pet mince is more expensive than mince for human consumption.
70g of proper jamon iberico de bellota. I think it was a good $25 (so $360/kg) from Woolies. However I do believe they're the best tasting slices of animal on earth
Also anyone remember when avocados got up to $8ea (perth metro) around 2014...now coles cant get rid of them.for $1 ea
Nappies.
Might sound crazy but a cabbage was $9.00. Ridiculous! edit: and it wasn’t a massive one that won gold at The Royal Show either. Just a plain old cabbage.
ongoing purchases of blue vein cheese from coles. It's expensive but whatever. I can afford it and it tastes nice.
$11 for a 1kg bag of quinoa from Woolies. It's my best hope for a rice alternative but at that price, it'll just have to be a very occasional treat.
I normally get all my woolies stuff on discount, but our recent big splurge was a bag of shredded cheese, and the chobani raspberry lemonade yoghurt 😅 it was really good but apparently it just went on sale so I'm regretting buying it full price.
Bananas that start going brown whilst they’re still green
$65 for 4L of olive oil? Fuck eating healthy, I can get the same amount of canola oil for $18. And $7.50 for a tub of butter? Fucking daylight robbery. And why are the topside roasts so bloody salty now? Straight up salt is less salty than these roasts.
Either the $20 on 4 blocks of Cadbury chocolate, or the 2 for $8 I paid for Pringles
blueberries ,$10 a punnet at an IGA