To think this increase in cost is going to break me?

Good point. Maybe the Govt had spotted that one.

And what about the slim people who can no longer afford to eat? Collateral damage in this anti obesity campaign?

I always spend a lot less when I do a.supermarket online delivery.

@cherish123 rapeseed oil makes the best and crispest roast potatoes.

Hot 2 litre bottle in Costco for £6 last week was well chuffed

Rapeseed oil is quite a lot cheaper and still healthy.

This is great.

We shop in Aldi and love it, find somewhere as big as Tesco overwhelming.
BUT we used to call Aldi the £40 shop, used to get everything for that a few years back. Even there it's gone up

It is horrifying, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers all shooting up in price. I cook from scratch, no take away, no booze, no fizzy drinks. I do have allergy children and free from foods are pricey but I’m spending more on the mo thou food shop than the mortgage now. I questioned if I could get a tub of hummus last week, constantly seeing where we can cut back

I’ve been on three other sm platforms tonight and there are many posts about the same thing.

I feel like I’m running out of food much quicker as the contents have got smaller but the prices have increased. I don’t find Aldi or Lidl that much cheaper anymore infact some of their items are more expensive but the quality poorer. I cook mostly from scratch but it would cheaper for me to live off ready made pizzas…I don’t but I can see why people would opt for processed food.

I think it’s a mixture of Brexit, rampant inflation and poor weather/climate change affecting harvests. I went to Aldi today. Overall, it can shave quite a lot off the price of a shop, but it does depend on what it is - a number of things we needed today were the same price or less in Sainsburys.

I also think it really depends on the Aldi branch. We went in the afternoon, and there were lots of gaps. So we are getting a Sainsburys delivery tomorrow with all the stuff I couldn’t get in Aldi. But I bet overall it saved me £30 (£80 va maybe £110).

What I’m noticing is the “ceiling” price - I don’t think I’d ever routinely spent more than £120 per week for a family of four plus cat, until this last year. Now it’s not unusual for us to spend £150 in a week and we don’t live extravagantly, don’t eat expensive meat/fish at every meal, no alcohol included in this amount, etc. I realise we are very privileged to be able to spend like this, I am horrified at the impact it will be having on people who are struggling.

I notice a big difference to our food bill if we buy more processed foods, especially crisps, cereal bars and soft drinks. Dairy products have gone up a lot - the kids yogurts I buy used to be routinely on offer at £1 for four and now they’re on offer at £1.50 for four. Butter has gone up by about a third. Cheese is up. Meat and fish are up. So even the unprocessed food is more expensive.

Yes, we grow our own on our £15 per year rented allotment. Alsorts of fruit, veg and pulses.

Really helps including with food waste.

£8 for bottle of olive oil it's crazy

If it gets that bad, survive on salad sandwiches and boiled eggs. That would reduce the bill

Pepper doesn’t really go off.

I live alone and an Aldi shop for a week, mostly fresh food, with some frozen fruit and veg, would cost me £25 tops a year ago.
Today I got one basket of food for £21. A basic tub of hummus was £1.75, it was 99p not long ago. Roll on summer when at least I’ll have fruit and veg in the garden.

If Brexit is the reason for our higher food prices what is the reason for food prices shooting up on mainland Europe and North America

Can't really look at food prices in isolation either, I don't believe the US is dealing with the same level of wage stagnation as we are, we are really struggling with our productivity which moving away from the EU will also not be helping...

You realise it all comes from the same suppliers? My friend is a fruit and veg importer, same stuff

"If Brexit is the reason for our higher food prices what is the reason for food prices shooting up on mainland Europe and North America?"

Don't be obtuse. It's clearly not the only reason but it is a significant factor as we import a lot from europe

Don’t know if you knew but Ocado now promise to price match Tesco. If they find a discrepancy they’ll email and refund

But their own brand range is much more limited vs the other big supermarkets.

The use by date was probably 1995.

If Brexit is the reason for our higher food prices what is the reason for food prices shooting up on mainland Europe and North America? Fuel prices have risen there also, god only knows how Brexit has pushed up diesel prices in Toronto'

Can someone explain why yet again a post about food, or anything has people piling in on single mothers and those on benefits?

Im a) a single mum b) not getting any CSA, C) working and D) also on UC

I pay for everything, and what more I do it all alone, if my washing machine explodes then its all on me to buy another. Food costs the same whether you are on UC or not, there isn’t a special “Cheap area for those on UC” in Asda.

If you think you’ll be quids in then feel free to split up, then come back and tell us all.

I bought loads of 8p a bag veg from Aldi before Christmas to make soup for a local lunch club, i used the last of it today and there was noting wrong with it but then i don't store it in a warm house, it is in a hessian bag in the shed.

I read the thread title and wondered what you were going to be talking about, the runaway cost in rent, the leap in mortgage rates as you fall off a fix, the stubborn and creeping price of energy, increase in water rates, council tax increases this year, childcare costs on the rise...but, yeah, food too, I guess.

I know that food is expensive in other countries but we've seen huge rises over the last three years and I've definitely seen another shift since the new year.

Yes that's right and you get 10p back for recycling carrier bags