Cost of formula

[bjl1981]

Anyone else noticed a ridiculous hike in the price of formula recently?
Up until a month or so ago it was about 7.80, then it jumped to 8.49, and today was 8.99

Its costing me a flippin fortune!

 

[xolily]

i've paid £7.25 since Laila was born, still the same now x

 

[Mrs Dot]

where you getting it hun? we've always paid £7.49 ish or thereabouts from asda for C&G

 

[bjl1981]

Its aptamil. I was in somerfield today, and they've increased there prices to 8.99, but asda was upto 8.49 aswell last time I checked.

 

[Midgetgem]

if you think thats bad it costs close to 16.00GBP here for 900g of Aptamil! needless to say i have requested that my friends bring it when they come on holiday!!

 

[aimee-lou]

I think Aptamil is the more expensive one. I've paid £7.25-£7.50 for SMA all along, although I did once get caught sort and end up paying 99p for a 250ml carton! Everything in the supermarkets has gone up though, thanks to the cost of fuel being so high....thank you Mr Darling!! At one stage I was going through a can every 4 days!! Gets expensive then lol.

 

[Vici]

There was a general increase a few months ago. £8.49 in Asda now

My cousin was over from Bermuda and she has to pay $21 for formula and $19 for a pack of nappies!!!

 

[Vicks]

C&G went up too at the start of the year from £6.80-ish to £7.25!! We're changing onto the 6 month+ stuff now Joe is older as we have money off coupons which help a bit x

 

[aimee-lou]

The 2 for £10 offers you often get on follow on milks do make them tempting but I had a horrible experience when we tried Earl on hungry baby milk and don't fancy changing......He's happy enough, guess I'm just going to have to sell an organ or something lol.

 

[_Vicky_]

I feel your pain we are on two cartons a week atm lord knows how much we will need when they are on more as they are only two months old - oh well at least it wasnt triplets x

 

[suzib76]

i dont think its expensive wait till they are toddlers, it will cost a lot more to feed them then
everything generally has gone up in price recently, and the vat going back to 17.5% didnt help either

 

[Eve]

When I had my son his milk was $28.99 a case (12 cans of concentrated) and now it's close to $50.00 a case!!!

I can't believe how much it went up since then alone! Something your baby needs to survive shouldn't be so darn expensive!

 

[AP]

SMA Staydown is for 0-12 months so cant win ever!!!!

Nevertheless because its a special milk we got it on prescription now.

 

[jen1604]

Yep its gone up.

But I agree with Suzi,wait til you see how much a toddler costs to feed xxx

 

[Faerie]

Aptimal costs £22 per tin here, imagine having to fork that out! Pampers are £18 for a pack, supermarket own brands a couple of quid cheaper.

 

[Nic1107]

For a 12-oz. can of powder (340 grams), I pay about $23 USD, which comes to about 16 pounds. The store brand is a lot cheaper but I'm not as sure of the quality, so I'm going broke buying formula here!

 

[**angel**]

I use Aptamil follow on and couldnt believe the jump its ridiculous grrrr xx

 

[purpledahlia]

I just use my healthy start vouchers towards it, i usually get 8 vouchres a month and its about 3 for a tin of aptamil, so i usually get 3 at a time with them, x

 

[polo_princess]

SMA is £7.20 - £7.40 everywhere here

 

[bjl1981]

Aptimal costs £22 per tin here, imagine having to fork that out! Pampers are £18 for a pack, supermarket own brands a couple of quid cheaper.

Oh my goodness, thats ridiculous!!!
I'm not worried about LO as a toddler, as our food bill is only £30 a week for me and OH, so feeding LO shouldn't be too bad as he'll eat what we eat.
I just couldn't believe the price going up twice in the past few months, its about 15% increase. But compared to some of the non-UK mums it sounds like we have it ok!