To be shocked at the rising price of food?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I do a fair bit of my grocery shopping at Aldi and Lidl, but dip into all the big stores very regularly as well for certain items I like when they are on offer to stock up, and also for yellow sticker bargains.

My bill has gone up by about a quarter in the last six months or so for the same products. Aldi and Lidl don't seem all that cheap anymore - although to be fair I don't know what doing my 'main' shop at Sainsbury's or Tesco or Morrisons.

I'm a little shocked at just how quickly the prices are going up. I knew they were going to rise but kind of expected a much more gradual increase. Silly me.

Has anyone else felt like this? Or does anyone else feel alarmed at not knowing when prices will level out and slow down?

You really can't get butter for 89p in Aldi anymore.

I think there's a certain amount of egging each other on. A proper shop for me and the boy is around £25 a week and we want for nothing.

Apart from beer.

I call bullshit on claiming UK food prices are not rising - British Retail Consortium reports 2.2% increase on food prices over the last 12 months - and that’s with retailers still shielding customers from price rises on imported foodstuffs.

brc.org.uk/retail-insight-analytics/other-kpis/shop-price-index/reports

How interesting that you know more than the economists at the ONS who perform the UK's official inflation analysis, BreakingDaddy. 🙄

www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices

You really can't get butter for 89p in Aldi anymore

I've just seen it, I'm going to pick the lad up from swimming at 5pm, do you want me to nip in and take a picture?

I buy the Welsh butter so appreciate it's slightly more expensive

Oh piss off breakingdaddy if you are insinuating we are lying

I keep a written budget and my food shop has gone up by 20% in the last four months. I haven't changed either shop or what we eat within reason.

Food is definitely cheaper, frouby but there's also more variety. We basically ate the same meals, week in, week out, for most of my childhood. The question is, do you want to go back to that? I don't, personally. My mum still can't eat parsnips and marrows because that's what they lived on for months at a time.

Making ends meet for 6 children has never been easy unless you have a lot of money. If I had to provide for 6 kids we'd be living on carrots, onions and potato waffles!

2.2% increase on food prices over the last 12 months

So my £100.00 monthly shopping now costs £102.20 compared to last October?

Excuse me if I ignore the food price apocalypse.

my food shop has gone up by 20% in the last four months

British Retail Consortium reports 2.2% increase on food prices over the last 12 months

Where are you doing your shopping, Munich?

My shop has gone from 120 a week to almost 150 a week. No doubt that's a mix of rising prices And the basics ranges disappearing.

As people have already stated, it's gone up even though retailers are still largely shielding their customers from the price rises at present. That will not continue indefinitely as retailers have made clear, quite publicly. Prices on imported goods will eventually rise proportionately to the fall in the value of the pound. Or are you also denying that has happened too? Some people are completely delusional.

And that's before you even factor in the costs of customs controls that will have to be put in place, which will also be passed on to consumers.

Please do BreakingDaddy

Some people are completely delusional

All I'm saying is that my shopping has roughly stayed the same for as long time, some things have even gone down, such as bread, pasta and cheese.

Please do BreakingDaddy

If there is no queue at the junction when I leave then I shall.

Also, I get 500g of 12% fat mince for £1.39, that's way cheaper than last year.

It's really unfair. The selfish tunts that voted for brexit should have to pay more.

Bill has easily gone up 30%.

BreakingDaddy I must have hallucinated the 10p increase on my loaf of bread and 35p on butter then?

Yes if I buy all non-branded products I can get them cheaper. The point of this thread is how prices have increased not how cheap you can get your food for at Aldi.

While Brexit is a factor, the problem is actually climate change. The rises would have happened irrespective of the Brexit Referendum. The cost of food is rising everywhere, not just the UK. We just happen to have the currency devaluation since the Brexit vote which made the situation more accute.

Also, I get 500g of 12% fat mince for £1.39, that's way cheaper than last year.

I wouldn't feed that to my cat, let alone the people I love.

Aldi chicken is Tesco's left overs.

The point of this thread is how prices have increased not how cheap you can get your food for at Aldi

I'm calling BS on 30% rises in weekly shopping costs.

It is quite unbelievable that people are disputing price rises. The pound is worth considerably less than it was 18 months ago. We import a lot of food. Ergo, any imported food we buy when shopping costs more. Supermarkets have absorbed the increases for some time but are passing them on gradually.

What is the reasoning behind denying what is evident? It has surely been accepted that Brexit costs us. But that's fine, because we're back in control.

I agree with daisy

The shopping bill is increasing

Whether its brexit, the supermarkets taking the piss or a mix of both

And yes if waitrose becomes too expensive go to tesco, then asda, then aldi...there is cheaper food around

But it doesnt mean that my bill hasnt gone up

I wouldn't feed that to my cat, let alone the people I love

It's Red Tractor mince. 12% fat is fine.

Aldi chicken is Tesco's left overs

It's hardly my fault you're a snob.

Any what about the people who can only just afford Lidl? Starve?!