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To think weekly shop prices are outrageous?

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meadowlark3 · 14/09/2017 10:35

I was in Sainsbury's yesterday and was a bit surprised by the prices. We buy nearly the same items every week and whilst I expect some variation, some of the prices had me Shock Own brand hummous is usually £1, this week was £1.50. Gallia melon always £1 each, now also £1.50. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it Brexit now impacting the retailer and theyre no longer absorbing the change?

I was Hmm yesterday but read today that John Lewis has had profits halve due to Brexit and not yet passing the change on to customers.

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FlandersRocks · 16/09/2017 20:31

When was the last time you saw a bag of basics/essential oats in the supermarket?

Lidl does them. A 1kg bag which was under £1.

OhtoblazeswithElvira · 16/09/2017 20:46

Not sure that going Veggie will help. Are any pulses grown in the UK? Once customs charges hit, will we face things like expensive lentils?

Oh and I buy value oats from Tesco every week. But yes they have got rid of a lot of their value range.

Ta1kinPeece · 16/09/2017 20:48

newdaddie
Prices need to go up because people won't ever accept wage cuts
NMW kinda covers that

Smeaton · 16/09/2017 20:53

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Ta1kinPeece · 16/09/2017 21:01

Oats will not keep you alive like potatoes do Hmm

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Ta1kinPeece · 16/09/2017 21:05

What will change is the imported food
and most brits are astonishingly uninformed what that covers ....

calamityjam · 16/09/2017 21:14

Why buy anything other than cheap bleach to chuck down the bog?

user1499033381 · 16/09/2017 21:23

It infuriates me how expensive food and essential items are, I have 3 boys aged 13,11 and a 9 month old plus me and hubby, our food budget including nappies and washing powder etc is £100 a week and we shop in Aldi and Asda. We stick to meal plans and like yourself but pretty much the same every week. There has been a definite increase and my shopping this week exactly the same as the week before was £13 more !!!

PickAChew · 16/09/2017 21:24

cheap cuts of UK raised meat and hearty stews will be the way to go

Agree with this - there's an organic farm near us and their unprocessed meat is not only better quality than supermarkets, but much, much cheaper. And they sell mutton which is lush.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 16/09/2017 21:25

we'll all be living it large on the extra virgin once we've taken back control of Aberdeen's vast olive fields

Grin Grin Grin

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 16/09/2017 21:30

Mutton is smelly.

I'd rather have oats.

SleepFreeZone · 16/09/2017 21:47

I think our priorities are just so messed up now. We want the holiday abroad and the new car on finance, we want our daily latte and our monthly disposable income to fritter as we please, but we don't want to spend money on food.

Food used to make up a large portion of the weekly wage. Now it's a small portion because so much else eats into our money. I think life is going to have to change. Necessities are going to get more expensive so luxuries will become unaffordable. We can't have it all basically.

ofudginghell · 16/09/2017 21:49

We have noticed price increases with food shopping in the last couple of months.
We have five of us (4 eat adult sized portions,and two dogs and a rabbit )

Four pack ups every day five days a week (I don't eat during the day normally as don't get time) x5 plus evening meals not all the same due to diff tastes,four breakfasts a day (again not me) etc etc so catering for a lot.
I shop in Aldi and what I can't get there I get in tescos.
This week we spent £130 for a week but hopefully next week will only need to top up fresh bits so about £40 ish.
We eat loads of fresh fruit and veg and I've started using my slow cooker for a gammon that I then shred for pack ups and egg mayo I make from our own free range eggs.
Dh has a slow cooker vegetarian chilli which lasts the week for lunches and costs and £5 plus loads of fruit.

I'm starting to have to get more savvy and firm with feeding the dc though as prepping and cooking three different meals for them each every days not only costing a fortune but taking so long Shock
This week I've bought beef chunks and sauces to make a slow cooker beef stew and dumplings they will all eat,cheese and bacon pasta with garlic bread,sausage in giant Yorkshire puds with veg and ingredients for a korma in slow cooker.
Bread butter and meat is well priced in Aldi and other essentials and had we done our whole shop in Tesco it would have cost near on £200 Confused
Scary times ahead

MulderitsmeX · 16/09/2017 21:53

I thought sainsburys had stopped some of their basic stuff. We have a tempermental loo and the only paper thin enough to be flushed was their basic stuff. Ive not got to get the thicker stuff and pray!

Ta1kinPeece · 16/09/2017 21:53

Bread butter and meat is well priced in Aldi
All imported : will rocket in price once customs come back

SleepFreeZone · 16/09/2017 21:59

I'm interested in what happens once this stuff gets so expensive people can't afford to buy it. For example I can't afford to buy fish in Tesco. It's crazy money. So I tend to buy it in Aldi or Lidl or buy bottom feeder fish and I eat that as I'm not fussed. If fish sky rockets in price then who the hell will buy it? Will they just stop importing so much or start sourcing a cheaper breed of fish maybe?

HateIsNotGood · 16/09/2017 22:15

Food prices have been ridiculously low for at least 20 years - as the supermarkets competed for their market share. Butter was a 'luxury' item - then it dropped in price suddenly about 35 years ago (google 'butter mountain'); now it's becoming normalized in price, yes it does hurt doesn't it? I still and always will buy it.

Farmers are really a mixed bag and shouldn't be lumped into an homogeneous persona,; it would be helpful if the 'casual employer, crops out of the ground' kind made picking their crops a viable job for UK residents. It is possible but needs a different approach and attitude towards the UK workers available to pick their crops.

It will mean that prices might go up slightly, but that would really account for the high housing costs that UK residents have to endure. Big or small farm, usually rent for a roof over their family's head isn't a cost that most UK farmers have to bear.

Some of my friends are farmers so I know the situation.

Ta1kinPeece · 16/09/2017 22:23

hateis
Farmers vote Tory and vote Brexit
then seem surprised when they get shafted
and the biggest recipients of EU RPA money are Brexiters like Dyson
to deserve what is coming their way

I just wish that all of the EU staff working as cleaners / cooks / grounds workers
at Wetherspoon, Dyson, JCB and the like "forgot" to turn up for work one day Hmm

QuentinSummers · 16/09/2017 22:39

I think our priorities are just so messed up now. We want the holiday abroad and the new car on finance, we want our daily latte and our monthly disposable income to fritter as we please, but we don't want to spend money on food

This is the kind of bullshit my mother cones out with, along with chat about "when the interest rates were 15%".
Finance deals on new cars are now cheaper in most cases than buying nearly new outright, or second hand, especially if you don't have high mileage.
Holidays in the UK until recently weren't vastly cheaper than abroad.

That generation have have big houses and good pension incomes, yet go on about my generation being spendthrift Angry. Then they go and vote for fucking Brexit, causing the pound to plummet and our 40% of imported food to shoot up in price as a result and claim that we have got too used to cheap food.

Meanwhile poverty is rising and people are using food banks. Those people are not frittering money on lattes.

GladAllOver · 16/09/2017 22:39

Bread butter and meat is well priced in Aldi
All imported : will rocket in price once customs come back
No it's not all imported. A lot of their meat is British.

QuentinSummers · 16/09/2017 22:43

It is possible but needs a different approach and attitude towards the UK workers available to pick their crops
We have pretty much full employment. UK workers on the whole don't want to pick crops. Or do care work. Or hospitality work.

Maybe farmers will have to pay people more. Then food prices will go up. But maybe it's a job UK nationals on the whole won't do.

AccrualIntentions · 16/09/2017 22:45

I think our priorities are just so messed up now. We want the holiday abroad and the new car on finance, we want our daily latte and our monthly disposable income to fritter as we please, but we don't want to spend money on food

Why is this messed up? I'd like those things (except the car) and cheap food tbh.

thecatfromjapan · 16/09/2017 22:47

I'm refusing to succumb to the gaslighting claim that appreciating a relatively high standard of living is "having the wrong priorities". I'd like that for me, my children, and other people.

I think you have to be slightly sociopathic to want people to suffer.

QuentinSummers · 16/09/2017 22:50

Yes good point cat
I'm just too angry about Brexit. I get so cross with this affluent generation who had free uni, cheap houses, final salary pensions etc. acting like we are spendthrifts and wanting to send the UK back to the 50s. I need to take a break from the internet I think. Fucking Brexit.