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?

Figment sounds brilliant but not sure I want to...

Definitely read Shriver's book. 'Oh, I'll be fine growing my own in the garden.' And you really think others won't come and steal that if the shit really hits the fan? Guess again. Even during the Blitz, the level of looting was plenty high. Shit currency leads to crime levels we've been lucky enough not to see here, yet.

I paid attention to reviews of The Mandibles. Gave me the willies. If I actually read it I'd probaby go into a prepping frenzy.

Maybe I was wrong about nobody changing their mind on Brexit despite rising prices and depressing outlook.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/blogs/peter-kellner/crunching-the-numbers-are-voters-really-turning-against-brexit

I see the RPI has now hit 3.9%, no doubt someone will be along soon to insist food prices have not risen.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41649498

I read yesterday that as a country we have 'lost' half a trillion pounds of money we thought we had, but in a recount realised we didn't. So that's a quarter of our GDP disappeared. Scary.

www.google.co.uk/amp/metro.co.uk/2017/10/16/britain-is-half-a-trillion-pounds-poorer-than-we-thought-we-were-7003870/amp/

@Figmentofmyimagination I don't know if I can take reading The Mandibles - too much like it actually might happen!

SleepFreeZone Don't worry, just let the Bank Of England print some more money, they magically produced £435 billion as 'Quantitative Easing', and no one seemed to mind about that.

David Davies today rubbishing the Resolution Foundation report into the threat represented by Brexit to household finances as "scaremongering".

www.libdems.org.uk/resolution_foundation_report_finds_no_deal_brexit_would_cause_significant_price_rises

Who seems the more credible? Let's see the government's own impact assessments. Then we can perhaps make a fairer assessment.

The Mandibles scenario would also happen if labour led by Corbyn got in. Huge devaluation of currency, see Venezuela. That is frightening.

www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/17/sainsburys-to-cut-2000-jobs-across-uk

Not shocked at all.