Worried about rising cost of food - do you think it'll get higher?

[ConfusedPigeon]

In the last 18 months or so ive been struggling to keep the food budget down. I found an old receipt dated 2016 last week and everything has gone up in price - some things not significantly (up to 20p say) but some things are quite significantly more expensive.
I'm just wondering if anyone knows if it's likely to get any higher? Started to get a bit worried - we've already had to cut back and we're spending the same we were about a year ago but fresh fruit is now limited, we have to be careful about what we eat and when and almost everything we buy is basic/value brands, with the odd item being from the next brand up (Tesco own brand, but not value) if value doesn't have that item, mind you I've also noticed value brands being changed to sound "naice" and prices being changed when the packaging is; even if the item is the same...
bulk cooking and meal planning is now a thing in our house too,
We mainly shop at Asda or tesco.
Has anyone else noticed this and is it likely to get much worse?

BonnieF at 5.25-ish. I must take exception. It's not our 'useless government', the one that allowed Brexit- it's the fact they are, entirely, hamstrung by it. 27:1. The aren't 'useless'; they're 'powerless'. Just like many, many Remainers said they'd be. Please, if you Brexited, take responsibility and own your choice.

Prices of the things I buy most haven't risen, but that might be coincidence. If it's not just meat and fish going up, what is it?

Practically everything is creeping up.

Christ, I hate the "just buy less" and "everyone will get thinner". Utter privilege. They are already hundreds of thousands of people in this country skipping meals. Parents who can't afford to feed their children without school dinners. We're not talking a few less packets of crisps a week. We're talking real, bone aching hunger.

It would be bad anyway, (poor spring and ridiculous summer)) but self inflicted bloody brexit will push people over the edge.

Food prices are getting higher you see it creeping in abit at a time.

BUT it also amazes me how few people know what's in the jars they pic up or what's In a packet, most things are general store cupboard ingredients that could be made quickly a lot cheaper.

Most tomato based sauces for instance only add a bit of herbs for flavour, 1/3 of the cost of a jar.
Sweet and sour sauce for example is tomato sauce and vinegar and a bit of sugar

Most curries are a mix of herbs onions stick cube and sugar

We need to stripe back and learn the basics before the prices seriously rise

Planting food is a good idea, we grow strawberries raspberries (both rubbish thai year) potatoes and carrots

Saw this in the news this morning
Food prices 'to rise 5%' because of extreme weather - BBC News
apple.news/AK9Mp2lE2RlCd-mY4stjv1g

Its the perfect storm for those on a very tight budget.

Hopefully after Brexit the UK will take the opportunity to remove tariffs from all food imports, including the EU, even if that has to be unilateral.

That would annihilate the UK farming industry and utterly destroy any self sufficiency we have (which is already inadequate).

Hopefully after Brexit the UK will take the opportunity to remove tariffs from all food imports, including the EU, even if that has to be unilateral.

Cloud cuckoo land

Without the tariffs, a lot of things like tea, coffee, chocolate, rice, cane sugar, NZ lamb, bananas, etc, besides the items we get from both outside and within the EU , should get cheaper, some by a significant percentage.
What are the current tariffs on those items ....
shall we look ?
www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/trade-tariff/sections

Tea - Import duty rate = 0% VAT rate = 0%
Coffee - Import Duty rate = 0% VAT rate = 0%
Chocolate - Import duty rate = 8% VAT rate = 0%
Rice - from India Import Duty rate = 0% VAT rate = 0%
Bananas - windward isles Import Duty = 0% VAT rate = 0%
etc etc

Not many savings there from dropping out of the EU