Worst food item for your money?

[5129frederick]

I had a Milky Way - I know I shouldn't, being a diabetic, but I was hungry.  Twenty seconds and three mouthfulls later it was gone!  Not the best 60p I've ever spent :->,  At the other end of the scale, a packet of salt will last me months, even taking into account how I use it to excess.   Pasta is another good buy, and versatile too.

Crisps aren't particularly good value  - you get about one-fifth of a potato!  I remember back where there was only one crisp maker, and there was only one flavour - natural.  Here's something to show up my age - a small wrap of salt in a twist of blue paper - you had to look for it and then empty it giving it a good shake in the process.  They never really gave you enough salt.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I remember those too frederick.  They've brought them back again now. 

[captainbovine]

I've always had a passion for crisps, and I remember as a child being in a hurry to get into a packet of those crisps, I bit into a couple of crisps and got the salt too....bleurgh, the taste was awful!!! taught me to look properly for the little twist of salt!!

I think all chocolate bars are a rip off, you hold onto the wrapper and the bar is only 2/3rds the size of the packet!!!

[saasher2012]

Yes I also remember 1p pkts of broken crisps, & have you noticed wagon wheels seem to have shrunk I used to have to hold em in two hands or is it because I was little either way they seem quite small nowadays!.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I think they're all smaller than they were, except the price of them!

I don't know what they've done to chocolate these days, unless it's my taste buds that are getting old.  I used to love chocolate, but now it doesn't taste chocolaty at all, just very sweet and greasy!!

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

That's because they've replaced a lot of the cocoa butter with vegetable oil, which is cheaper but changes the taste and texture.

I don't eat any milk chocolate any more, only high cocoa content dark chocolate, my favourite chocolate is Neuhaus - expensive but they last as they are so rich and you get a really decent chocolate hit.

But since when have chocolate and crisps been food items?  Treats more like.

For me the worst value has got to be any fruit from T*sco - rock hard when you buy it and rotten before it's ripe.

[5129frederick]

That's not the only thing that's shrunk - you seen the size of a Cadbury's Creme Egg?!!!

[5129frederick]

Savoury snacks, then.  Smiths Crisps were 4d a packet in old money when I was a kid.

[saasher2012]

lol, yep! & curly whirlys, lion bars, sherbet dips, Pontefract cakes, basically everything except as the other poster says. "The price".

[captainbovine]

oh Pontefract cakes I love those, they are smaller too!!

yup Sam, wagon wheels are teeny now and they've taken the jam out of 'em

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

Yes, but what was the average wage?

I started work in 1967 and my salary now is over 170 times what it was then. 

[rose2008-2008]

Yes its like the tins of sweets,,they used to be a lot lot bigger and cheaper. Even when you buy quarters or i sometimes buy 100g in our American sweet shop and wine gums are 90p for 100g. I know they do charge more in those shops but its robbery!!!. Penny sweets are a distant memory now.