Price rises which have shocked you recently

[FridgeJenga]

Shopping at the weekend and picked up this, for a salad.
Was actually shocked at the price, I'm sure the last time I bought it, it was half that.

What items do you regularly buy which have shockingly inflated prices?

My coffee (250g) - was£3.50 pre covid and has been £6 now for a while. Now 6.15. I know that’s not a massive rise but breaking the £6 barrier really shocked me!!

I don't eat/like canned/jar fish to be fair, I can only comment on fresh. One too many fish paste sandwiches being forced on me as a kid - fish has to be fresh now!

I haven't done the shopping for ages because my husband usually does it but we needed toothpaste so I popped to our local supermarket and it was £7 (for Colgate, admittedly). I couldn't believe my eyes. We tend to use Dove hand soap (it's the only soap that doesn't massively irritate DH's skin) used to buy it at £1 a bottle - now £1.50 is the "good" price locally, albeit I'm resigned more than shocked on that one.

I understand that costs have gone up, but our wages haven't by anything like the same amount. I don't know what we're all going to do, prices are only going to get worse. I've stopped buying chocolate now, it's just too expensive. Ditto Pringles. The kids don't like own brand ones so I just don't buy them. They'll get a tube in their Christmas stocking maybe!

Everything is has gone a bit wild. I feel myself constantly saying 'how much!?'

Teen ds likes the mini Weetabix, they're £3.80 a box 😭. A box does him 3-4 bowls because he has hallow legs.

Mince £7.50 for 750g, ds's love smash burgers but theyr becoming a treat meal 😔 rather than a weekly option.

Days of cheap food have gone

I agree with this.
The kinds of food that many of us grew up with thinking was so inexpensive that really most people had little excuse not to eat well enough, are gone now as all food has become expensive.

Sainsbury’s organic beef mince, when I started buying it it was £5.25, now it’s £9.25!

Food did used to be relatively more expensive- it depends when you grow up

it was a third of income in the 1950s

So if average take home is say 2.4k a month ( that’s say a median salary for one working person or roughly the median household income 2024 ) then equivalent weekly food bill would be 200 a week

some people are paying that but from reading MN often - mostly thats families with two fussy teens

people often claim a weekly food bill of 70 to 130

The M6 toll. I’m sure it was about £6 for years and suddenly it’s nearly £12!

Boxes of chocolates like celebrations or Heroes used to be £3.50 now over £5

Yes food is cheap - and cheaper than in other countries comparatively

I think what has changed is that housing costs take up a bigger proportion of wages?

same with clothes tbh - £2 flip flops from primark are ridiculous

For years the Maltese box was my card and gift for people who didn’t want or need a gift.

Six eggs went up 10 pence in a week. Chocolate prices are ridiculous....£7 for a toblerone!!!!
Madness

Fish isn’t nearly expensive enough. There aren’t enough fish in the sea for billions of people.

A large jar of marmite is now £6.10!

Tesco prices are just insane. I know they inflate them to then make them seem reasonable when the clubcard is scanned but I was scanning goods as though I was using Monopoly money. We’re surely in hyper inflation now aren’t we? I mean some of these prices are just lunacy.

Don’t worry. They’ll soon be so expensive we can’t eat them and you can rest easy.

At least chocolate can be avoided. Expensive nutrient poor food I can live with. It’s the stuff we actually need to eat to exist that worries me.

Yes, that’s what I’m hoping for.

Olive oil, coffee

🤣 I do enough faffing around in the kitchen to accommodate my various food allergies & the vegetarian, I'm buying the flipping gravy granules! Or at least, I was...

I live in Florida, and coffee has gone crazy here, too. Worse than the rise in cost is the packages keep getting smaller! They are calling it "shrinkflation" and while it's not just coffee, it is eye watering. Tomatoes are ridiculously expensive, all fish. And cat food.

A lot of the food price rises are due to climate changes and of course wars

then the domestic factors of course but global factors are the main reason

I just can't see how gravy granules can be so expensive. They used to be £1 a tub then suddenly they were about £3.80. Then the price dropped again, and now they've gone up again. Where do they come from?.

And yes the shrinkflation is bonkers too.

3.75 for a Terry's chocolate orange in the supermarket, then popped to spar and it was 4.25! They were only a pound when I was pregnant 4 years ago! Appreciate not the healthiest or quality chocolate, but the increase makes no sense!

I’ve noticed how overpackaged everything is now to try and hide how tiny the item is inside.