Food price increases

[PersephoneSmith]

Please can I ask you all something I’ve been wondering about a lot recently?
I have read a few threads about food inflation and the cost of living generally, lots and lots of stuff about how expensive everything is.
’Spiralling’ food costs, even Aldi ‘no longer bring cheap’
There’s a current thread about M&S hiking prices.
However I live in a large town and the restaurants and takeaways are always full. There’s an army of deliveroo/uber eats cyclists that mow me down cycling on the pavements whenever I venture out (whole other thread!)
Why is there such a cognitive dissonance between spending £40 on a takeaway for 2 without a second thought, and moaning about an extra 10p on a loaf of bread being increasingly unaffordable?

Maybe the ones who are ordering £40 orders for two are not the ones who are complaining about the general rising of prices?

Mostly I would think if you're ordering for two you're not ordering for a family therefore you're not likely to be making meals for a family, or shopping for the amount of things at the supermarket that someone doing a weekly shop for a family would be.
I know of some people that eat out just about every day of the week or have it ordered in.
They both work full-time have no children and eat lightly, the meal in the evening being their main one.
I cook every meal my family eats, no eating out or ordering in for us, it's just not worth it when I can make the same thing for much less money.
Living in a large town as you say you do, would mean that a lot of people are employed and therefore able to treat themselves to a meal made by, and delivered to them, by others.

Thank you but I didn’t mean for the ‘£40 for two’ to be taken literally. It was just an example of the price difference between a catered meal and a home cooked one.

That said, I think you may be onto something when you suggest that my mistake is thinking that the complainers are part of the same group getting the takeaways and eating out.

It’s possible there is absolutely no crossover between the two groups and therefore no cognitive dissonance.

Well £10 20 30 40, it's all more than most people spend on an evening meal for their family, barring, possibly a special meal.
TBH I don't spend a lot on special meals either, shopping the sales shopping the stickers, watching for seasonal specials, loss leaders...
That all takes time, human energy, resources such as petrol, and most certainly pre-planning.
I just think realistically that someone who is comfortable ordering meals and eating out wouldn't be too concerned about rising prices in the supermarket, but of course the prices naturally will continue to rise in the prepared food sector as well, not to mention the wages of those who prepare and deliver.
You might very well be correct too, the world has no shortage of complainers regardless of what situation and position people are in!