To have already noticed prices rising?

[Destinysdaughter]

It's just a few things but since Xmas I've started to notice certain things costing more, some examples, I was given a nice bottle of wine from M&S which was £13, it's now £14. Also Body shop Chamomile cleansing oil was £10, is now £12 ( tho got it with a 40%off code)

Is this the start of the cost of living rising or are these isolated incidents?

girl I'm not sure where you shop, I find it very easy to find British meat and I think nowadays you'd have to go out of your way to not buy British meat.

However most of the vegetables that are imported would not grow well or in the amount needed in the UK.

Yes a lot of us are going to have to get used to a different diet - no vibrant salads all year round, cabbage, potatoes and swedes for six months a year etc.

we've had the ability and pride in making our own products kicked out of us again I am by this. It is easy to find lots of British products in most outlets, they are clearly labeled and heavily marketed, presented in a very positive light and even supported by Royals... This doesn't happen in other countries where people's main concerns about food are quality, flavour, price etc.

Price increases will also affect British products though because of a rise in petrol costs due to the fall of the pound. This affects everything not just food.

Complaining about a lack of 'vibrant salads' because of Brexit. That's made my morning that has.

So what if we do have to eat a diet based on what is available locally and in season? It's better for the environment and local economy. And perhaps we might all waste a little less and see more money going to our agricultural producers.

Prices (inc houses) have been going up for years...stop panicking. Panic = bad things!

Chicken seem cheaper recently. Loo roll cheaper too.
Cotton clothes dearer but thats due to worldwide cotton prices increasing.
Butter is one item that has done up a fair bit recently ive noticed along with the ever increasing stupidly high property prices.

I think its swings and roundabouts. Tbh.

One thing i did notice is when i got some Euros recently i was pleasantly surprised. I dont follow exchange rates etc but i was expecting it to be shit since brexit and all the headlines. I was pleasantly surprised to see i got more euros for my pound than i did in 2011 (only know cos i found an old exchange slip in with my passports). Trying to think what shit worse than brexit hit the uk in 2011? Cant have been the recession cos 2011 was lower than 2009 and 10. And yes i know i need to clear some crap out of my passports file.

Yes, my Lidl shop has increased in price, although I was buying some bits for Easter, but I will be looking more carefully again at the prices and we may have to do without some favourites.

Am I the only person in the country who has seen their grocery bill fall since Christmas? I must just be on another planet.

It's called Brexit, and even where the fall in the value of sterling has not affected prices, it will be used as an excuse. Unfortunately it will affect those who voted remain as well as the little englanders.

Prices go up every year. Brexit does not happen every year. Ergo you can't blame Brexit, or Brexiteers, or Theresa May, or the government. Bear in mind that the laws of supply & demand mean that if you don't buy at higher prices they'll have to bring the prices down again. So stop buying at higher prices.

Dog Yes clearly that was the gist of my post and the whole meaning of Brexit . It will be so lovely and cool to pretend we'e in the middle of war and there is rationing and we're having so much fun digging up our front gardens for spuds and hating our neighbours. Can't wait

I wouldn't choose to eat any kind of salad in winter though. I eat leeks, carrots, parsnips, broccoli, celeriac, peas etc, and coleslaw, which is cabbage, celeriac and carrot. Living in Belgium opens your eyes to seasonality as certain foods are only available in what Belgians consider the 'proper' season for it.

Sorry, but you can't expect to complain about Brexit leading to a dearth of 'vibrant salads' and expect not to have the piss taken out of you. It reads like something out of Private Eye's 'It's Grim Up North London'.

Prices don't go up every year. How foolish. Cheap bread was 55p a loaf when i was at uni 20 years ago. Cheap bread is now 40p.

Apples are usually several years old.

Tropicana cartons of juice are now 3/4 of the size.

I like the occasional Charlie Bigham ready meal, they've gone up from £7 to £7.50, I think they get their meat from abroad.

www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11614740/Its-official
Rorty deinflation has happened in the last 5 years

Old girl here. We have had low inflation for a long time and with or without brexit there was bound to be a jump at some point. I remember back in the 1970s when my mother would send me for a loaf of bread and we'd have to guess how much it would be that week. Prices rocketed, it was incredibly stressful for anyone trying to balance the food bill.

As for brexit as an excuse - when we went decimal the shops all took advantage of changing over the prices to add a few pennies here and there to the total. It was always going to happen.

My food shopping bill has gone up noticeably and I imagine it is only going to get worse.

Inflation is really much higher than the massaged stats and has been for about two years. Insurance premium tax quadrupled in a few years. Council tax much higher. I am currently looking for a new electricity fix - unit prices up 30% ,overall bill could increase as much as 50% for the same usage. None of this relates to brexit.

Aldi food price seems unchanged and petrol has dropped a bit.

I wasn't in the UK in 2007 when the pound was almost at parity with the euro so don't know what it was like then. Although I realise the dollar rate may matter more.

Funnily enough I just did my Aldi shop and walked out thinking exactly the same!

My weekly shop (Ocado) was £150 up to October, it's now £180 - same stuff mostly

Food (prices and the way we eat) will be affected by Brexit.

This radio 4 programme has been posted before but to those haven't listened to it please do.

radio 4 Food Programme

We need to import food as we can't grow and produce enough to feed our nation. We certainly didn't have the resources to do this in the 1930s and 80 years later the amount of imports needed is much higher than then.
During the 1940s we struggled to feed the population but did so by rationing and turning parks and gardens into allotments.

80 years on there are even less farmers and we could probably at a push feed one third of the population from home sourced food goods.

With Sterling suffering that means prices of imported goods will go up.

We can still import food. But we have to expect to pay a realistic price for it which reflects its value and the labour involved.

The strong pound meant we could pay artificially under inflated prices for food because the prices involved for production in another country didn't accurately reflect what the products production would cost to make here. Rather than things becoming too expensive they're actually correcting to reflect their true value. It amazes me that people will pay through the nose for a fair trade chocolate bar or coffee but object to paying the true value of goods from Spain or Greece including the labour involved.

Lots of things should be more expensive to discourage waste. Plastic bags, gadgets, out of season food and so on.

Anyone else notice shrinking products? So far aquafresh kids toothpaste and pepperami have got smaller this week.