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?

[DaisysStew]

I'd noticed a few rises recently (bread up 10p, broccoli a few pence) but it seems to be everything now. A small tub of lurpak is 35p dearer that a few weeks ago. It's insane.

[Papafran]

Yeah, it's great that we voted for Brexit. I mean why import all this stuff when this is a chance to buy home-grown proper British produce. Like tea . Or something like that. Stop moaning.

Many of the people who voted to leave were from lower socio-economic groups. Ironically they will be the worst hit by Brexit whereas middle class people who are more affluent can actually absorb the cost of rising food prices.

[chocolatespiders]

I have noticed lots of the things I buy in Tesco have gone up 20p
I worry as a single mum buying food shopping. Work for the NHS so sadly no payrise.

[Papafran]

Also, you're right- I used to pay £30-35 per week for an ALDI shop. Now at least £43. Same thing would probably be close to £60 in sainsbury's. I don't even buy meat because I am mainly veggie.

[AbsentmindedWoman]

Yep I know it's due to Brexit and the plummet of the pound, but had naively thought supermarkets would have absorbed rising costs for a bit longer.

[CandyMelts]

I work in the food industry, what's been passed onto consumers now is the tip of the iceberg, it's pretty terrifying.

[Bluelonerose]

I've defiantly noticed. We just about get by but haven't had many treats in for a while because we just can't afford it.

Butter im sure they must be making it out of gold coz every time I buy it it's gone up

[Papafran]

Ah perfect. Although tea is hardly expensive now, is it? I just think the fact that so many economists have said that we are screwing ourselves in the arse with Brexit makes me think it's a very bad idea, even if tea does get cheaper. I would much rather trust an expert than Dave from Lincolnshire who is fed up with foreigners (but I realise that the nation is fed up with experts).

[JumpingJellybeanz]

This is the calm before the storm. Come March 2019 with no trade deal with the EU and America et al blocking WTO tariffs, there'll be shortages too.

[BriechonCheese]

The butter we buy was £1.04 for a very long time. It went up to £1.24 in the space of a week and then £1.40 by the end of that month. I don't mind paying extra for dairy because farmers are treated like crap but literally everything we buy with the acception of broccoli has gone up by a minimum of about 40p since the start of summer.

[AbsentmindedWoman]

Brightening at the prospect of tea becoming cheaper!

[MomToWedThorFriday]

I must be in a parallel universe, my shopping (Tesco) was £10 cheaper than ush this week.

[Scabbersley]

I've just spent £30 on butter

Lurpak was 2 for 6 in waitrose so I bought 10 tubs!

[MomToWedThorFriday]

Ush?! usual!!

[Mittens92]

I go aldi and lidl but always avoid their fruit and meats and get them from sainsbury's or morrisons x

[Slightlyperturbedowlagain]

YANBU we've really noticed it too

[Queenofthedrivensnow]

I can't afford to shop in the main supers. I drive further to aldi because Lidl has got more expensive. My budget is £50 a week. Sw so not payrise here either. Yanbu

[gluteustothemaximus]

Yes, prices have been going up. Some quite substantially. But a little each week so as we don’t notice

[gluteustothemaximus]

Butter was 80p last year. £1.45 now.

[HelenaDove]

i voted Remain. We only have the choice of Sainsburys or Tesco in our town. We have a small Lidl which is more like an outlet store.

Aldi wanted to come here but council said no.

[FrannySalinger]

Brexit has exacerbated things, but it’s not entirely to blame. Harvests last year in Northern Europe were generally poor, El Niño had a big effect on palm oil (and that’s in almost everything processed!), farmed salmon was decimated by sea lice. I don’t see much change this side of Christmas but dairy at least should improve in Spring (although butter prices should be higher right now, we’re being protected from much of the pricing)

[clearsommespace]

I am in France and butter has increased in price. In my usual supermarket the butter shelf looks like the shelves in the USSR when I visited in 1987.

[chocatoo]

I'm glad it's not just me that's noticed the cost of butter. Not food but the other thing that has gone up shockingly is the cost of printer cartridges.

[AccidentalyRunToWindsor]

My weekly food shop in Aldi used to be £30, it's now around the £45 mark. I'm noticing less and less money at the end of the month.

Fucking Brexit.