potato chip prices have sky rocketed over the last 9 months.
a 165 gram bag is now $6 regular price. ($3.84 per 100g).
redonkulous.
at least some solace can be found at the bottom of one of these 300g "party" bags.
Kettle Potato Chips Chilli 300g $5.50 ($1.83 per 100g) @ Coles
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Last bag chips ordered from Amazon came in an envelope. Postman shoved it in my letterbox slit.
Nice bag of crumbs and air pulled out….Idiots they put everything else in a box. Perhaps order a few things, but better just going to the supermarket. Would have complained about that.
Let's just stop buying when prices go crazy.
Anyone tried home made in an airfryer? Two potatos so oil and spices should be 60c ish?
Haven't mastered it yet, but kids are happy with them. I cut them french fry style. Defs not bad but alot more work considering chopping potatoes, microwaving then air frying in little batches. Perfect with a bit of salt.
I've made my own in hot oil a few times. You just need something that will slice them thin enough. I used an old mandolin slicer but had to put something else on the lower surface to raise the potato/narrow the gap the potatoes slice through. You have to put any flavour on immediately out of the oil or it just falls off/won't stick.
There's no way in the world I'm paying prices like $18.33/kg which is a joke. And it looks like the other brand, "Deli Rock" I think it is, stopped making their best flavour anyway (something like "Braised Beef"). The pork has no taste so you may as well be eating plain, and there's some new chicken flavour (as if there aren't enough already) which I have no interest in after tasting the beef. The beef was always the first to sell out too, so who knows what they're smoking, or maybe they gave the ex Bud Light marketing department jobs.
There was a segment on a recent Cook Up where Adam did very convincing kettle-style chips. He used a mandoline to slice and they were deep-fried.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/the-cook-up-with-a…
that's what i've done… at least the waist line and blood pressure have thanked me
I've stopped buying Kettle chips as the prices these days are just ridiculous.
Truth! I struggle to justify it unless they are half price and even then $3 is just not on
I don't get why people are willingly paying these prices. Just bought the same bag for ~$3 at my local woolies on sale. Prior to that I just stopped buying them for a while when they were stuck at $6, plenty of healthier alternatives that frequently go on sale in the $2-3 range anyway.
Doubt you got a 300g bag for under $3 unless it was stale.
$3.54. Best before 02 sept.
Yep, when people stop buying it will come down quick.
I remember when lettuce was $7 for one the size of 2 tennis balls. Didn't buy lettuce for 2-3 months then went back down to $2-3
Didn't buy lettuce for 2-3 months then went back down to $2-3
I was wondering why lettuce prices went up and then down last year. I was under the impression that it was because of the floods etc, but it was actually you.
Hahahaha 😆
You can stop living too , if you want .
May be he did
After you. Go bully your sister
Agreed, still sounds like a lot for those. Only buy when half price or something.
Twisties party bag (270g) used to be $2.99 not long ago now are $5.50, not worth more than $4 to be honest (still on special at Coles).
It's all junk food anyway and there are better things to eat. Agree that's it's more expense to get fat haha, the prices are crazy.
It's getting expensive to be fat
This is a false narrative that makes you feel like there are other options
It's actually incredibly cheap to be fat. It's very expensive to be healthy.
I made slow cook beef strog tonight and it cost $40 in ingredients to make for 8 people that's still $5 per serving
Just eat those seven other people.
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Times are changing, now the poor get fat
It's actually incredibly cheap to be fat.
Yeah, until the medical bills stack up.
Unfortunately poorer people have to make these decisions to live today by affecting their tomorrow
Eg: using super to buy a house
@coffeeinmyveins: If the rental crisis continues unabated, more people will need access to super to pay rent than to pay a mortgage deposit
@twister292: Exactly what the uber rich probably want. Can't have the poors stop working when they reach "retirement age". Retirement is when you die.
I say this with sarcasm…..mostly
@coffeeinmyveins: The super to buy a house thing is a joke anyways.
The only way to access super to buy a house is you can access voluntary contributions to your super…
And it goes without saying, if you're making voluntary contributions to your super, you're probably not needing to access it for a house to buy.
Stupid scheme made up by stupid people who have no idea how the actual poor are struggling in this country.
Like the first home owner grant caveat of it has to be a new property etc….
Oh but sure, roll out that Stage 3 Tax cuts for the top earners for 10 years… no worries. :D
I eat a lot of lamb and beef, 2-3kg/week. Usually end up costing $5-7/meal if you know where to buy.
Fast food, i.e crap is usually more expensive. it is bogans and useless people who can't cook their own food that buy crap.
I eat a lot of lamb and beef, 2-3kg/week. Usually end up costing $5-7/meal if you know where to buy.
The cheapest cuts of beef are gravy beef and that's $18kg at colesworth at the moment. Assuming you only eat this cheap cut of meat and for dinner 7 days a week (not good for you, but anyway), that's still almost $9 a meal in the raw ingredient of beef alone, ignoring all other ingredients.
Where are you getting your meat from?
@coffeeinmyveins: Colesworth are always WAY more expensive than our local grocer (Foodland). Previous place 400km away, the IGA was the go to. Blows my mind that anyone would buy from Colesworth.
Gravy beef / chuck is normally $9 - $11kg, bolar roast $10, rump $12 etc through to sirloins around $19/kg. I went with charsiu pork shoulder yesterday $4.90/kg. Mainstream groceries are more expensive than colesworth (say yoghurt, or corn kernels etc). But meat, wayyyy better.
Look at your local.
@coffeeinmyveins: Look for Coles Blade roast pieces. It's often cheaper than that, and IMO it's better meat.
I just trim some of the fat cap and slice to weight requirements to freeze. When on special ~16/kg buy bulk and mince some also.
Much nicer than their 4 star mince anyway.
One can eat healthily and cheap too. Just got to shop around.
Go to Aldi & local fruit shop & butcher rather than woolies. Of course gotta go for more budget oriented meal options too.
I feel like one can spend either a lot or a little on both healthy and also crap meals
True. I've found flemington markets on Saturdays are insane compared to even Aldi. So many things are 40-75% less.
Agree there is a lot of money to be saved by shopping with independents and Asian grocers etc, fruit and veg can be dirt cheap at some of these places. Even Harris Farm has amazing deals at times. Woolworths can be good at markdown times too, lots of fresh meat, fish, vegetables, fruits etc at over 80% off. You have to have time to run around from store to store and know where the deals are though. I can eat very well for less than $50 a week but it takes effort.
lots of fresh meat, fish, vegetables, fruits etc at over 80% off
I'd be hesitant to eat any meat from a supermarket that is 80% off. I've never seen a discount that severe but I'm guessing the use by date is TODAY. I did try this once with snapper from Woolworths. Use by was todays date and it was about 60% discounted. Thought yeah sure I'll give it a whack and have it that night.
Threw it in the oven and it stunk the house out for three days with the bleach smell that off fish has. Never again.
You have to have time to run around from store to store and know where the deals are though. I can eat very well for less than $50 a week but it takes effort.
Time is money. If you spend hours and hours to save a little bit of money, is it really worth it? Unfortunately this is where we're headed. People spending all their free time trying to save a dollar here and a dollar there to the point they can't focus on making more money through other means such as education or side things.
It can definitely be cheap to be healthy. Beans, rice, spinach, and homemade sauces of your liking (cheap to make homemade sauces).
It's expensive to be healthy if you're picky about the food you eat to be healthy.
Beans, rice, spinach, and homemade sauces of your liking
I wouldn't say beans and rice are inherently healthy on their own. You still need fruits and vegetables which add up very quickly at the shops.
You can get by with the seasonal types
Agreed.
Woolies last night had blueberry punnets for $9.99, can you believe it!
Frozen veg are fine.
Eh. I can't wrap my head around frozen broccoli to be honest. Fresh is best.
Yes you have to be Clive Palmer these days
Don't think I want to be a his level of fat
That price for chips is absolutely bonkers holy crap.
We've just stopped eating them
same. a few weeks ago kettle or red rock were $2.85 (the ye olde speciale price) and I only bought one bag).
I stopped eating them. I wouldn’t call this even a deal!
Exactly, me too. The chips inside is their lowest expense so they should be doubling the contents or they'll only continue losing sales.
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DAE find themselves finishing the whole bag solo after a rough day at work while watching YouTube/Netflix , washed down with 4-6 pepsi x jw reds, and half a pack of bulla icecream? No?
(These chips go down wayyyyy too easy)
6 pepsi
Pepsi max**
Is that the healthy bit?
wash down with craft beer, stay classy
I only buy when half price. Unless you are in the mood and can't control yourself, I suggest to wait
The aldi chilli ones aren't too bad, usually $2.99 for 200g I believe
I often prefer them to the kettle ones.
Some are $2.69 for 230 grams I just bought 10 bags to take to the Philippines.
Most chips go overboard on the flavour. I tried some Aldi BBQ flavour recently and it was ok too, the flavour not as overbearing as other brands. Is that what the chilli is like? i.e. Not as powerful? I usually can't eat chilli in the other brands like Kettle and Deli Rock because it burns in my chest for hours afterwards.
In my opinion the aldi ones can be as potent. They don't taste as "natural" in some ways as the kettles. The kettles really do taste like dried chilli, where as also tastes more like what the kettle chilli of old used to taste like
Thanks. I guess I'll just have to take the risk after buying some Quick Eze lol.
These were the best till they made a change to the flavouring or oil it was cooked in about a year ago
I've recently discovered these and am a fan of them, don't need to wait for half price and you get more
This price is the new normal. They put prices up for "reasons beyond their control" but once the market is used to the new price there is no reason to reduce it. They just pocket bigger profits.
Then there's the ridiculous COVID price hikes where they put the price up due to "supply chain issues". It didn't cost any more to get products, there was just a lower supply so the supermarkets jacked the prices, ostensibly to help reduce demand. They pocketed cash while controlling consumption. We paid more and got less.
Those prices are NEVER coming back down.
don't be so cynical.
Coles are obviously struggling.
the coles group barely made a $1,000,000,000 profit last financial year
<this entire comment is sarcasm>
Coles made less because WW made more
Honestly I don’t get this take.
Everyone needs to eat food to survive, so there are around 25 million consumers. Coles has a 28% (I’ll round down to 25%) share of supermarket sales, if we extrapolate the billion to 4 billion by quadrupling it we have a very rough figure of what profits are made (I imagine independent supermarkets have higher margins). 4billion is not a lot. 4bil/25mil consumers means a profit of $160/person/year. This works out at $0.43 per day.
Given how much food costs, supermarkets profiteering $0.50 from me every day isn’t bad at all.
Using the $0.43 value per day, it works out as $6 a fortnight. Supermarkets making the cost of a large coffee every fortnight seems fair to me given the financial risk they take on.Obviously when you’ve got a big family this is a bit different (eg $1.70/day for 4), but I feel supermarket margins are overhyped. Australia’s margins for groceries are pretty low in the majors compared to other countries. Things are expensive because of high wages in aus, large distances required to move food on trucks, et al. not huge profiteering.
Given how much food costs, supermarkets profiteering $0.50 from me every day isn’t bad at all.
Using the $0.43 value per day, it works out as $6 a fortnight. Supermarkets making the cost of a large coffee every fortnight seems fair to me given the financial risk they take on.This is called economies of scale. Just because they "only" make a little bit off you each day is exactly the reason economies of scale work. You've just done the basic math to prove that.
Doesn't matter which way you slice it, they're still making billions in profit.
@coffeeinmyveins: What’s the inherent issue with a business making a profit? I don’t feel any sympathy for them but it’s not as if they’ve jacked prices to get to a 50% margin
but it’s not as if they’ve jacked prices to get to a 50% margin
That's exactly the point.
The price increases are well beyond inflation and that's what they're using as an excuse for blatant profiteering
This is honestly the sad thing about this. Even if it does go down, it will take forever and lots of protesting most likely to even start going
Prices will never go down, why would they? Larger corps become richer and richer and people become poorer and poorer.
Protesting does nothing when every faucet of the system works against you
the legislated chip prices of the 20s
Stupid people cause most issues, everyone still sleeping 30 years later, it's not getting any better any time soon
Those prices are NEVER coming back down.
And I'm NEVER paying these prices again. I'd rather make my own. Or popcorn. (Lots of recipes on youtube etc.)
You won't be missed.
I have no proof, but I feel like I see more and more prices getting back to normal.
Their gas price has reportedly tripled recently
https://www.9news.com.au/national/chips-to-get-more-expensiv…
All fast food outlets are putting prices up with sharply rising gas & electricity prices. Cafes & restaurants all facing the problem too
Another victim of current crazy inflation.
This isn't caused by inflation. It's corporate greed using that as an excuse to make billions
Yep… they have profits going through the roof while we suffer.
Cheaper + Less Salt + Less Saturated Fat :)
https://www.coles.com.au/product/natural-chip-co.-corn-chips…
Kettle are worth paying extra for if the alternative is Natural Chip Co crisps tbh.
Agree that Kettle > Natural Chip Co crisps. Natural Chip Co "Corn" Chips are da bomb though!
Doesn't contain the all important potato
NCC chips are the worst! How do you screw up plain old sea salt, yet they manage.
Tyrell's are better than both by a long shot, but only Woolies sell the kettle-style ones now (Coles only have crinkle cut which are inferior)
Agreed but also overpriced now. Was very annoyed when Coles switched to crinkle cut only
I bet it's partly more expensive to source and make crisps, but mostly it helps people believe that Kettle really is a premium brand. Kind of like Frederick the Great having his guards stand over his potato crop, to fool people into thinking they were worth stealing when introducing the potato to Prussia.
quite expensive
How much is the Costco big bag of these nowadays?
$9.99
Not sure about the weight/size.
I think it's cheaper $/100g but they put the price up to $10.99 as well.
600g $9.99.
Sorry, make that 650g. Had to double back to check. Reception is awful in here. Couldn't post in front of the chips.
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Now to just wait for amazon price match