The price of food

[Poetrypatty]

It has just gone up so much hasn't it. My weekly shop is approaching double what it used to be. It must have reached the point where it's causing real hardship and making people have to change what they eat. I know some can't afford food at all (and I do donate to food banks) but even for those who can, it's got harder. There must be so many now under a significant amount of pressure with fuel going up and Christmas coming

I was thinking the same. Ours is usually about £100 a week but this week it was £175. We'd had a few things run out, like dishwasher tablets, laundry powder etc, but still.

I agree, it's shot up and with the price of petrol going up too I'm not in any hurry to pop into town to browse the shops, plus parking has gone up too
Makes you think twice doesn't it

I've noticed the same. I had my usual Tesco top up shop yesterday, and for £60 it barely filled one and half bags. Whereas a few months ago the exact same shop would have cost me £45 maybe.

It's not really being spoken about in the news or anything is it, not given the extent to which it must be affecting people. This week I did a pretty normal shop and thought that's what in the past I'd have expected to spend on a Christmas food shop. And that's before the massive heating bills have really hit as well.

Yes it’s extremely expensive but tbh everyone acts like this is a new thing. The price of food has been creeping up and up beyond reasonable amounts for decades.

Yes but it has gone up so much in the past year compared to previous years

I was buying stuff for school foodbank collection and noticed a huge rise. Bag of pasta that was about 55p is now 74p. Thats nearly 50% increase

The really depressing thing is the prices can’t finished going up yet. There will be two large price rises after Christmas 🙁

*haven’t

There will be two large price rises after Christmas
Why's that FreeBritnee ?

I was buying stuff for school foodbank collection and noticed a huge rise. Bag of pasta that was about 55p is now 74p. Thats nearly 50% increase
Yes it's a real worry about how people are coping where money was already very tight when it's the basics seems to be going up so sharply.

I work in a chip shop in a very deprived area (around 60-70% on UC with multiple kids) and was chatting to a group of customers who told me that it's now cheaper for them to feed their families entirely on chippy food rather than go shopping. Poor kids, it'll be affecting so many of them.

@Poetrypatty

There will be two large price rises after Christmas Why's that FreeBritnee ?

I was buying stuff for school foodbank collection and noticed a huge rise. Bag of pasta that was about 55p is now 74p. Thats nearly 50% increase
Yes it's a real worry about how people are coping where money was already very tight when it's the basics seems to be going up so sharply.

I was listening to radio 4 around three or four weeks ago where they were discussing price rises and someone representing the grocery federation (or similar) said there would be two large price rises after Christmas. I can’t remember the exact reasons but off the top of my head I’m assuming wholesale fuel price rises, fuel and increasing wages of HGV drivers, lack of stock of certain products or ingredients globally. Brexit, covid. I’m sure the list is long.

Thanks FreeBritnee Depressing though to think this is going to get even worse.

Poor kids, it'll be affecting so many of them.
Completely agree. In a country as wealthy as ours is feeding all of our kids properly should be the priority. Must be so hard for those families. And the chippy's probably quite filling.

I was saying to DH today that we're paying £30-40 more per shop per week than 2 years ago.
£80 per week was an expensive week, now an average week is £100.

I work in a chip shop in a very deprived area (around 60-70% on UC with multiple kids) and was chatting to a group of customers who told me that it's now cheaper for them to feed their families entirely on chippy food rather than go shopping.

Given that you work in the chippy though you’ll know that that simply isn’t true. How much would it cost to get fish and chips for four people? Way more than the cost of a meal cooked at home. I don’t disagree that food prices have gone up but this sort of thing just isn’t true.

I've noticed it creeping more and more even in Aldi it's starting to creep up and some food has shot up . I went to Morrison's for some bits and was appalled at how expensive things are same for Tesco and ASDA too .

@Namechangenumber1

I work in a chip shop in a very deprived area (around 60-70% on UC with multiple kids) and was chatting to a group of customers who told me that it's now cheaper for them to feed their families entirely on chippy food rather than go shopping. Poor kids, it'll be affecting so many of them.

I think the chippy has gone really expensive now I got a chip balm and a split recently at it was 5 40 😱

Our local small Tesco is charging £1.75 for a seeded loaf. Our local bakery charged similar just for white bread, there were about ten slices to the loaf !

Cloudtree they wont be buying fish and chips for 4 people. It will more likely be a bag of chips to share between 2 children and maybe a sausage.

@cloudtree

I work in a chip shop in a very deprived area (around 60-70% on UC with multiple kids) and was chatting to a group of customers who told me that it's now cheaper for them to feed their families entirely on chippy food rather than go shopping.

Given that you work in the chippy though you’ll know that that simply isn’t true. How much would it cost to get fish and chips for four people? Way more than the cost of a meal cooked at home. I don’t disagree that food prices have gone up but this sort of thing just isn’t true.

£20 or so for 4 fish and chips but Sausage and chips for 4 people will be £8? If you include the cost of electricity cooking and the expense of getting to a supermarket it's a cheap hot meal.

Get yourselves to Aldi - our shop hasn't gone up much at all.

@Namechangenumber1 did they suggest that was due to energy prices? Otherwise not sure how that can be possible. You can still get 2.5kg of potatoes for under £1.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers nominal prices have gone up because that’s just how the economy works. But real prices (ie as a proportion of income) are lower today than say 30 years ago.

£20 or so for 4 fish and chips but Sausage and chips for 4 people will be £8? If you include the cost of electricity cooking and the expense of getting to a supermarket it's a cheap hot meal

But they could buy frozen chips and 4 frozen battered cod fillets in iceland for less than £5 so even cooking & getting here would be less than the chippy & there are meals a lot cheaper in there than that.

Im not disputing that if you add in a taxi fare to the supermarket and the cost of electricity it bumps up the price. But a meal from the chippy is a treat here because it’s bloody expensive. Sausages and a bag of frozen chips in the oven is less than half the price.

I know it’s not the point of the thread and food prices have indeed gone up but it simply isn’t cheaper to eat at the chip shop. If it was then how would the chip shop make any money for a start.