Is It Me or Are Mince Pies Really Expensive This Year?
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Tesco Finest are £3 and Asda's are £2.75. God knows how much they are in the likes of M&S.
I'm sure that they weren't this price last year and even taking inflation into account, 50p for a mince pie seems expensive.
Is It just me?
You can get them cheaper TC, as low as £1.09 a pack , not the luxury ones though
Heres a list of all the prices
I have had Iceland mince pies before and they were not too bad , they give 5 out of 5 here
M&S only get 2 out of 5 for their luxury ones , very surprising
www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/compared-mince-pies-aldi-ms-28142333
TheChimp A shame that TC , yes i like the taste of the standard mince pies and a good price
I think they were voted one of the best in a national survey a while back
Also found this on google for their luxury pies , prices are obviously higher now £2.50 a box today
www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-luxury-6-all-butter-mince-pies/56837.html
Iceland's Luxury All Butter Mince Pies (£1.89 for six, or 31p per pie) also notched up the top score of 73%. One panelist said they tasted “like a more expensive product”. The pies were also crowned the best overall supermarket mince pie in the recent Christmas taste test from Good Housekeeping.Nov 18, 2020
I love mince pies used to be able to get them for 99p a box in local supermarket cheapest I seen them this year is £1-89
Have ago at making your own, can do them however fancy,spicy/boozy you want then, with everything getting so expensive I'm trying to make as many things as I can myself, with free ingredients from apps/sites such as oleo ect
We keep an eye out for offers and only justify buying them then. Then the posh ones are as affordable as the standard ones.
I have begun my yearly mince pie bakeathon, about 4/5 dozen so far. About £3.50 in Sainsbury's butter (£1.39 per block, nectar price) McDougal flour £1.60 per bag so about £2 and 3 jars of mincemeat @ 40p per jar bought last new year in sale bbe of March 2024.
So total of around £6.70 so about 12p each. Call it 15p if you allow for milk and sugar. Taste better too!
They are quite often on offer though so thats when I buy them. I do like the posher ones! Had some nice rum mince pies this week from Tesco. Very nice!
If you have a Morrisons near you and a More card, their Best mince pies are £1,50 for 6pk at the moment.
deborahwil81986 That's more reasonable than the £3 Tesco ones. It just shows how much money that they're making on them if they're charging double
I was in greggs yesterday and their mince pies looked good and I think are reasonable priced, can’t remember the price but they did an offer if you purchased two packs.
eyeballkerry I didn't think about Gregg's. Looking on the app, they are 65p each or 6 for £2.15.
I might have to pop in tomorrow and give them a go.
TheChimp I go twice a week to get my free hot chocolate’s which I get via priority on 02. Never purchase anything else in there. Tell a lie, sometimes get a free donut from 02 as well.
SaveMeSunday if you read my comment above you will see I have made my own every year for decades and they are cheaper than shop bought, unless you buy the really cheap crappy ones.
If anyone decides to make their own mince pies (they are really easy) try doing different toppings. Once you've lined your pie tins with pastry circles and put your dollop of mincemeat in, top with crumble (as in rhubarb crumble), frangipane (as in Bakewell tart) or Viennese biscuit topping. My family's favourite is frangipane so I do more of them than any others nowadays.
The price of everything has gone up loads in the past year, probably only as noticeable on mince pies as it's a year since they were on sale and the normal everyday items have crept up in price gradually over the year.
I'm glad I don't like mince pies then haha, my eyebrows still keep raising at the price rise of things these days, Mr Kipling may make excedingly good cakes but he's got very expensive even when their on offer 
I never buy mince pies as can't stand the taste so wouldn't know if £3 was expensive for them or not. My mother in law always used to buy the Iceland ones for my Granny as Granny said they were the best.
I don't like mince pies, they are horrible lol I don't know how anybody likes these, £3 though seems a bit steep
My aunt bought six mince pies about two weeks ago, they were home made and a little more lavish than a luxury store brand. However when she told me they were £5 for them and she admitted to buying 18, I told her she needed her bumps felt.
Hot mince pie with vanilla ice cream, lovely
Interesting fact about mince pies many might already know about , but for those that don't
Mince pies were first served in the early middle ages, and the pies were quite sizeable, filled with a mixture of finely minced meat, chopped up fruit and a preserving liquid. Mincemeat originally came about as a good way of preserving meat, without salting, curing, smoking or drying it.
Made 3 dozen frangipane mince pies today which cost roughly £6 to make so 15p each. Ground and flaked almond are quite expensive, had I done ordinary all pastry would have been about £4.50.
TheChimp in the food processor...magic, by hand.... not so good. Only takes seconds in the former so is not overworked. Wrapped and refrigerated while getting everything else out and ready and then roll out as few times as possible. My top tip for mince pies is not to do half as much butter as flour as most recipes state, but always more butter. I do 5ozs butter to 9ozs flour.
50p for a mince pie isn't bad if made by a local small bakery. But for a shop brought one that's a lot of money. I think the price of ingredients has gone up. So not helping.
I found the lower end priced ones aren't much to write home about and rhe luxury ones are expensive.
£2.50 for 6 in m&s I believe but might be lucky and get them free if you have sparks card and it's part their advent calendar
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