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?

Buy British.

HJ

Exactly, there are already people who are extremely frugal...they have no where to go

Buy British
Certainly.
No more Citrus
No lettuce / peppers / tomatoes / beans / peas for much of the year
No green veg from October to April
No fruit juice
No rice
No couscous
No mozzarella or parmesan
No red wine

No pizza (forrin muck)
No curry (ditto)
No chinese
No tapas
No mezze

In fact, lets go the whole hog and pretend potatoes were not imported from South America along with corn and tomatoes

Although I live just outside Brussels, I am regularly in UK and do ds's first shop of term at either Tesco or Sainsbury, and stock up at the last Sainsbury before Dover and the ferry back.

Food is cheap in the UK; I pay between €1.75 to €1.90 for a litre of milk; a basic loaf of bread is around the €2.00 mark for an 800g loaf, and the really nice stuff is about €2.49-3.00, or a lot more if I've lashed myself up to a loaf from Pain Quotidien. I am always astounded at how much I can get in the UK for the same price.

No tapas
No mezze

Made me laugh, thanks.

Yes scary

Food is cheap in Britain

But prices have gone up in some supermarkets

Which i think is most peoples point

We are going to eurodisney and need a supermarket when bak in blighty...do you have nay recommendations. We are coming bak late so it will need to be a 24 hour one

talk Red wine is produced in the UK! Frozen veg is available all year round, and the dreaded sprouts are available already, and we are in October. Carrots, leeks, celeriac, parsnips, whilst not all green are winter veg, as are swedes.

When I sit down with my son tomorrow for our Sunday Dinner I will take the time to sit with him and say "look, kid, you do know this small chicken (£2.29) we're about to tuck into isn't good enough for people who shop at Tescos?"

"no Daddy, so it isn't so"

We are obviously going to be content with beef bollocks mince as a shepherds pie, every night, Peece

Rufus I haven't noticed that prices have gone up in the UK particularly, they seem more stable than they are here.

Sainsbury at Folkestone if you are using the ferry (at West Park Farm) is open til 2200, and the big one at Ashford is open til 2300 except Saturdays and Sundays.

All the chickens for roasting in Aldi, my local big supermarket, along with Waitrose (I'm nowhere near a Tesco), is minimum £4.50.

scary
I know that some red wine is made in the UK - but its a teeny proportion of what is sold

and as an obsessive vegetable grower, I'm well aware of what is in season and what can be frozen
but the supermarket fresh food shelves would look rather different if we did go back to just having seasonal British veg

I jokingly mentioned the Forrin foods that city dwellers are used to having on tap all the time

I remember when macaroni was labelled as "foreign ingredients" in a shop in South Kensington
and olive oil came from Boots

Elendon:

www.aldi.co.uk/small-whole-british-chicken/p/052420004545200

scary

I haven't noticed any price increases as such...but i dont pay any attention at the moment...i dont doubt that other peoples bills are going up though

Thanks re the supermarkets. We are coming home late on the 23rd dec (Saturday ) and its for last minute Christmas bits...one of those book and oh no moments

@Elendon

Is this what you were thinking of? Tesco's chicken is actually Lidl's returns!

I have a slight issue with Squashies but I'm getting help with it.

The big supermarkets sells them at £1.59, Aldis have been 99p since they were introduced.

That's shocking if you ask me, a calculated rip off.

Only a few high end red wines are from the UK. You can get UK olive oil and quinoa but they are expensive premium products!

But Willow Farm is Aldi chickens in my neck of the woods!

Aldi is now pricey and I prefer Lidl - bit of a trek, but the quality and price is better.

I live next door to a Sainsbury's, a bottle of Jacobs Creek Shiraz (generic, I know, I just like the taste and it doesn't give me a headache) is £5.25 - brilliantly cheap.

What i hate is going to the shop one week and the clothes wash being a fiver lets say, following week its £7, then back down to £5... and then back

Its a trap i tell you, a trap

Willow Farm is Tesco
Ashfield Farm is Aldi
Birchwood Farm/Strathvale Farm is Lidl
It's all just labels

Aldi have lovely organic milk & eggs, & free range chicken breasts. More expensive than standard stuff, but nicer, & much better animal welfare.

Does anyone know what Aldis have done with the fabric conditioner with the gold top? I can't find it these days. I can't find anything as good and it used to make me and the boy smell as though we didn't shop at Aldis.

breaking

Its funny but its not funny

A friend of mine earns a very very good wage, she loves a specific pizza from lidl

She had a friends child round for pizza who promptly told her son that they were obviously poor...cos they shopped at lidl

One of the richest people I know shops at Lidl
because she likes the stuff they sell
as do I