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?

Dental hygienist appointment. Jumped from £65 to £95.

I was shocked at the olive oil price when I looked in Aldi the other day. I've now stopped buying it and use veg oil instead. Also not buying chocolate and the price of a packet of crisps containing a miniscule amount is shocking!

Salad tomatoes. Were 69p now 99p everywhere

Mince is extortionate. It used to be a cheaper way to make a meal it’s now cheaper to buy chicken

One of our local convenience stores sells bags of Revels. I love them, so I went to grab a bag and nearly fell over with shock!

They used to be about £1.50, but are now well over £3.00, just for one bag! I didn't bother!

Cereal, chocolate, crisps, fish, mince, squash. So many things! I want to weep at the supermarket!

Years of overfishing have decimated fish populations.

All our own fault really. We can't keep on take, take, take and expect nature to bounce back unharmed.🙁

Blueberries and Strawberries.
Coffee and Chocolate.
Just a few of my favourite things! 😉

Good point, I will try and remember that as I shrink inside paying for my food shopping. Luckily I have an indoor market in my city which has cheap fruit and veg, but then it's a bus trip/paying to park which adds a fiver to the cost.

For balance - I suspect that in the 50s housing costs were similar to food costs

that’s where our real problem is - paying my taxes so that the government can pay the housing costs of people to private landlords does suck

I have never eaten sardines, so not my fault. I eat fish probably about five times a year. Across my lifetime I reckon I’ve eaten at the very most 100 fish, if that.

Chocolate has gone up a lot.

Not that many years ago - 4 maybe, I used to go and raid the likes of Poundland to stock up on chocolate to make hampers for the extended family. All the chocolate was genuinely a pound. Now the same product is twice the price, minimum. Often more like £2.50.
Last year I didn't bother doing the hampers at all. I couldn't justify the cost.

A lot of it is energy prices and climate change - chocolate, olive oil, various fruits and vegetables have all suffered in recent years form dry summers and heatwaves where they are grown.

It will keep happening as the current idiocy in Iran is impacting fertiliser availability on various parts of the world.

Of course it isn't your fault personally. But hundreds of millions of people do eat fish, and that is where the problem lies.

@ginislife F&C is easily £15+ where I live, though it is a full size portion, not mini.
A small pot of mushy peas is £2.80!

Smartprice/Essentials pasta. At the beginning of lockdown it was 19p, it’s now 41p

Given that the folks buying the 19p pasta are likely the folks with the least money the fact it’s doubled is huge.

Yes - wheat prices have gone up a lot

Cod, used to buy a pack of two pieces of tesco finest , literally went from £5 to£7.50 over one week