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?

Yes i know barbara

I think earlier in the thread i said

Witrosee
Sainsburys and tescos
Adsa
Lidl and aldi

What the fuck is witrosee?????

I also said upthread that there are a lot of people who are all ready shopping as frugally as they can and cant go any further

It was in response to a poster upthread who didn't believe prices were going up

Worriedrose this is what it was always about. And of course it's not in the news. Who do you think owns them.... Dacre, Murdoch etc want this.

Rufus, mystery solved! My SIL is always telling me that Sainsbury's is the same cost. Now I know why! She does brands. I don't!

What about M&S people as the peak of that pyramid of prices! Holy shit I go in for a loaf and come out with 3 items and a £30 receipt! Lol!

Why is maple syrup so expensive? I know it's not an essential item but still.
Shame about the butter too. I go through a whole pack in two weeks, by myself.

Bread isnt a bad price at marks

I think!!!!
I always put waitrose and marks at the 'top' dont know why i didnt

No Tufus, I go in for the bread and come out with bread and some asparagus plated in gold and a swan dressed in truffles😂

karate

Thats what happens on a Saturday when we go to tesco or sainsburys for Saturday tea

4 pizzas and a garlic bread...how the fuck does that come to over £60!! (Books, dvd, booze )

I always used to shop at Asda, and would use Asda’s online receipt checker to see how the costs compared - usually Asda was cheaper than Sainsbury’s / Tesco’s / Morrison’s, but I would still regularly get a £3 or £4 voucher when they weren’t.

Would also echo Math saying that good in the US is not cheap - we lived out there for a while and I was quite shocked at how expensive food was. Good bread (ie not Wonderbread) was about 3 times the cost of a loaf in the UK.

food not good ^^

I don't only buy brands. I buy a lot of Sainsbury's own and basics range. I do tend to buy Heinz beans because we have tried all the other makes and both me and DH think they are all disgusting. The same with salad cream. They are really the only 2 things I can think of that I will only buy a brand name.

Asda are certainly not cheap unless you buy lots of processed food. I don't have a Morrisons nearby but, as I said, I almost always put my shopping list into mysupermarket.com and Sainsbury's almost always comes out the cheapest. Asda rarely does, in fact it is often the most expensive.

I can't manage to do a full shop in Lidl so don't visit very often. Aldi I am not keen on at all. Their fruit and veg is just not very good and doesn't last 5 minutes. As we eat so much fruit and veg they are just useless for us.

We actually went to Aldi last weekend. We only wanted mushrooms for a meal I was making on Sunday and as it was closest to where we were visiting we popped in. All their packs of mushrooms looked ropey, all going brown. I rummaged through loads of them and picked out the best looking one. It had a date of 11th October and I bought it on 7th October so should have been fine.

The next day I opened it and realised that the mushrooms were not great at all and I had to cut loads of them. I also found 3 mouldy mushrooms. I buy mushrooms every week and have never ever had a mouldy one. They would all have been mouldy by the actual date.

I was annoyed I emailed Aldi and they came back with if I took the packaging and receipt back to store I could have a refund! The mushrooms cost £1.35 and fuel to the store would probably be more than that.

I bought the same size pack of mushrooms yesterday in Sainsbury's for 85p and they are nice and white. They actually have a shorter date than the Aldi ones did but are 100% times better condition

I think we are taking this off on a bit of a tangent

Its not really about the expense of certain supermarkets

Just about prices going up

And yes I believe they have

They have. Holiday prices for 2018 have rocketed too. Same holiday we had this year for 3 is £500 more expensive next year on exact same dates.

I've cut out booze and red meat though so save £30-40 a week from that which is easily covering the increase

I am not really going off on a tangent. I am saying I shopped yesterday and didn't find prices had gone up. In fact I was surprised just how cheap a lot of fruit and veg was and that was in Sainsbury's, the supposed "expensive" supermarket

Having recently moved to the US I would say that food is much more expensive over here and good quality food or fresh vegetables are much much more expensive. The quality of food that is routine in Sainsburys is available here but you have to either only shop in certain high end stores or sift through food carefully. The bar for food standards is much lower so you as a shopper have to screen more. I honestly have no idea how low income families can eat healthily here as pulses and veg cost so much.

mydog

Then i wasn't referring to you

I was referring to myself primarily and a fee others who got caught up in the how expensive is sainsburys bit

But i do know how threads go off on a tangent...im always bloody doing it , i havent a leg to stand on

Food in the US is cheaper than the UK.
Good food in the US is much more expensive than the UK.

My treat to Americans when they come over is slow roasted shoulder of lamb
a cut that I've never seen in a US supermarket

Food on the continent is dearer than the UK
Good food on the continent is roughly the same price.

If there is the catastrophe of WTO rules hard brexit,
ALL FOOD in the UK will be more expenive
both due to imports and the impact on supply chains.

I couldn’t buy any lamb at all when we were in the US - it was never in any of the supermarkets where we were.

Food on the continent is dearer than the UK
Good food on the continent is roughly the same price.

If I want a good chicken, then I pay about €16-20 for a 1.8kg chicken (if I'm lucky to find one that size). In the UK I go to the independent butchers I've used for decades and can get a good size 2-2.25kg for a tenner or less. Same with game birds - a brace of pheasants (so 2 for those that don't know) is a tenner; 1 measly hen bird over here is upwards of €16.

I am happy to spend a Saturday going to the butcher and the greengrocers as opposed to the supermarket, and always have been. I find they are normally cheaper too, have local stuff an the quality of the food is consistently good.

I don't agree that food is more expensive everywhere in the continent... think about places like France, Italy and Spain that produce lots of fruit and veg - they are dirt cheap in season and so good, it is their local food after all. Other countries up north have to import a lot of their food and pay for that!

BTW let's not forget that the fall in the value of the pound is affecting petrol, too - that means price rises for anything that needs transport.

scary
my butcher charges around £15 for a family sized chicken
and wins awards

Elvira
You have reinforced my point
fresh veg in season is the same if not cheaper
its the processed cheap crap that barely exists in more regulated food markets

Sainsbury's has announced that food prices will rise post Brexit.

The government response is that we grow more food. Simples.

"On the continent" is really vague though. I am in Italy and I don't pay anywhere near that for a chicken!