Food price rises

[cafedesreves]

What foods have you noticed a price rise for recently?

You used to be able to get 5 bagels for £1 at Asda. It's now £1.60.

Yoghurts we buy have jumped 25p. The coconut milk I buy has jumped 10p. I can’t see prices doing anything but go up from this point, so my plan is to try not to focus on it and do the best I can.

I’ve found own brands are harder to find now. Dd wanted some chicken packet noodles, I went to a little Asda, they only had Batchelors super noodles, no own brand, fair enough, it’s a small store. Went to a big Tesco later in the week, they only had Batchelors supernoodles, not an own brand in sight. So something I normally buy for less than 30p, I had to pay 60p for branded. And that’s just one item, god knows what else is like that.

I’ve tried aldi and found most things not too different to Asda’s prices. I thought that would help me but it really didn’t!

@Housebears that's interesting. I do online shopping as work full time and find it takes up my quality time with DS to go to the supermarket

Multi buy deals haven't been so easy to get since the first lockdown and prices have been rising for months now, I can remember threads about it maybe 6 months ago and being surprised that some posters hadnt noticed

Everything is going up

@TheGriffle

I’ve found own brands are harder to find now. Dd wanted some chicken packet noodles, I went to a little Asda, they only had Batchelors super noodles, no own brand, fair enough, it’s a small store. Went to a big Tesco later in the week, they only had Batchelors supernoodles, not an own brand in sight. So something I normally buy for less than 30p, I had to pay 60p for branded. And that’s just one item, god knows what else is like that.

We've found this too! DD went through a phase of eating 'super noodles' and we ended up with bachelors from Asda too. I found Maggi 4 packs for £1 in Bargain Buys though so she's got those now

@Housebears

I’ve tried aldi and found most things not too different to Asda’s prices. I thought that would help me but it really didn’t!

My friend always shipped online at Asda but stopped because there was limited own brand available on line, she now goes to Lidl & gets it cheaper.

I am noticing more things just being out of stock. During my last shop I couldn't buy the 72 pack weetabix, hula hoops, the buns we usually buy, hot dog rolls we usually buy... Many others I can't recall.

@Housebears

I’ve tried aldi and found most things not too different to Asda’s prices. I thought that would help me but it really didn’t!

I used to always shop online (morrisons, asda or Iceland) and Ive had to stop and started going to Aldi as I find it saves me a considerable amount each week.

I struggled with the frozen food and that sort of thing as it was only a tiny bit more expensive for branded stuff with more choice in the deals at asda compared to the limited amount in aldi.

I did find toilet roll, cleaning things etc were cheaper but not significantly more than own brand stuff (if you can get it!)

I’ve noticed less choice - less options within a range and less brands for similar items. Some things seem to have stayed stable ( fresh fruit and veg) but others, in particular chilled items, have jumped in price.

I'm so worried about lower income people and families.
I'm fairly comfortable and not one for really noticing food prices as I shop randomly at all the supermarkets, but I've definitely noticed a huge jump in food prices.

Eating/drinking out is so expensive too.

I guess these are the consequences of Brexit, we have lost our young motivated job force.
Energy prices and the war are going to hit our pockets hard too.
I haven't heard much from this government on how they are going to support financially vulnerable people (not a surprise, but they could at least pretend they've noticed the economy is fucked!)

Food is really cheap in theuUK considering the production line behind it.

Bagels for £1 in Asda depends on whether they're on offer doesn't it? The aforementioned Tesco meal deal will apparently still be £3, you'll just need a clubcard - all Tesco offers seem to have gone that way.

I notice that Jack Monroe thread has come up. Sorry, but it was utter scaremongoring claptrap. The pasta and rice etc she said had gone up was still nationally available in stores at 29p and 45p. Maybe not all of it online with every retailer but if you're on a rock-bottom budget then as a very poor person myself I can only say you're not going to do a min £40 shop + £2 home delivery are you? You're going to walk to Asda or Aldi and spend £7.50 on rice, pasta, bread, beans etc and you will find 1kg of rice for 45p there.

@cafedesreves

Also have noticed a lot of own brand products have disappeared. Not sure if that's linked but I'm now forced to buy branded.

I would say the opposite, I've just started buying the Smart Price stuff again after it's been unavailable for months.

Do you shop at ASDA online? If you type "Smart Price" in the search box it will bring up all the items. If you type "chopped tomatoes" in the search box it doesn't show the smart price ones but it does come up under the smart price search, same with tuna. It's like they don't want you to buy them!

Also, there was a big article in The Sun last week about how all these products have returned and how great it is!

Sorry you said "own brand" not smart price! There were a few other mentions about smart price though....

My Aldi shop used to be between £45 and £50. Yesterday it was £60. There wasn’t anything particularly extra there, but everything is at least 10% more.

@Alltheprettyseahorses

Food is really cheap in theuUK considering the production line behind it.

Bagels for £1 in Asda depends on whether they're on offer doesn't it? The aforementioned Tesco meal deal will apparently still be £3, you'll just need a clubcard - all Tesco offers seem to have gone that way.

I notice that Jack Monroe thread has come up. Sorry, but it was utter scaremongoring claptrap. The pasta and rice etc she said had gone up was still nationally available in stores at 29p and 45p. Maybe not all of it online with every retailer but if you're on a rock-bottom budget then as a very poor person myself I can only say you're not going to do a min £40 shop + £2 home delivery are you? You're going to walk to Asda or Aldi and spend £7.50 on rice, pasta, bread, beans etc and you will find 1kg of rice for 45p there.

There used to be 5 Asda bagels for £1 which have disappeared. Then for a while it was 2 Warburtons for £2 which worked out the same, but think they were just using it as a way to secretly get rid of cheaper options.

Tescos used to sell cheap tins of Stockwell chilli/curry for about 50-60p before Christmas.

Now the same curry is £1.19 & the same chilli is £1.35.

The cheapest hotdogs in a tin used to under 50p.
Now they are 70p.

Cheap noodles - individual packets & larger cheap unflavoured blocks haven't been available for months locally just the far more expensive versions at more than double the price.

Cheap cup a soups have also disappeared for months now so instead of 28p for 4 it's 80p for 5.

Tinned mandarins used to be 35p, now 50p.

A few of the absolute basics have stayed the same like 1kg rice & 500g spaghetti, but most of them have either disappeared or their prices are significantly hired.

All were common donations to my local foodbank which now rarely gets things like noodles, soups (both excellent for people with minimal cooking facilities) or tinned meals because of the price rises.

People shouldn't have to try & live on plain rice & pasta in any part of the UK.

hired? I meant higher.

@Flippydip

Pizzas! Co-op and Sainsburys now charge around £5 per pizza and it was around £3.50/£4 before. I noticed the price rise recently when 2 pizzas came to over a tenner.

Co-op is horrifically expensive!

People shouldn't have to try & live on plain rice & pasta in any part of the UK

Ha! That's the romantic, middle-class image of poor people. Have you seen the threads where people would apparently live on spaghetti with butter or a bit of passata? But 45p rice would do if you were on your absolute uppers, food instability like that is hopefully only ever short term because it's often linked to benefit sanctions. Although it will get worse with fuel cost rises but that's a different thread.

Yeah, bagels - I know the New York ones are often £1 because the child likes them so I buy and freeze. I prefer Sainsbury's bakery counter multigrain ones if I'm buying for myself, they're never cheap though! Still, we do have to think about food production costs along with general affordability because the less we pay the less people along the lines are paid, whether it's the labourer in the field or the shelf-stacker, so we're just shoving the problem to someone else. However, compared to some areas of mainland Europe we're pretty lucky.

I've noticed that they have swapped out decent component ingredients for cheap and nasty ones. It may be to rein in the price increases but I'd rather eat something less than agree to palm oil. Sainsbury's all butter puff pastry is now called butter-enriched puff pastry and it is mainly palm oil. All the in store bakery stuff is also ridden with it. I am happy to make my own shortcrust but puff is too time consuming.

@Gettingthereslowly2020

I saw a jar of Dolmio pasta sauce in a Sainsbury's local for £1.95. I haven't bought it in a while but I'm sure it used to be around £1, perhaps slightly more.

Just walking around supermarkets is making me worry at the moment because everything seems to have gone up.

Dolmio pasta sauce currently only 99p in Lidl if you have one nearby.

Prices are increasing horrendously! even my clear mints I buy from Morrisons were 35p a bag 12 months ago. They are now £1.00!

God knows how families on low budgets are coping and especially with the new fuel and utility increases. It surely cant carry on like this!

Sorry "Even"