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?

Definitely Brexit and it's only going to get so much worse. So pissed off. Mind you, at least there's still food in the shops. No Deal means empty shelves and horrifying price rises. Probably rationing.

Also, shrinkage of packets is now absolutely rife. Less stuff for more money. Again, thanks to Brexit.

Always biy lurpak and it always used to be on special offer at 2 for a fiver.

Oh well. We absorb the price increases. We voted remain.

I've definitely noticed this - but almost the same things each week (usually ASDA) and our food shopping bill has gone from £70 - £80 per week to over £120

Yes mine is creeping up week by week. We are on a relatively low income and it does worry me that it might keep rising. I already cook from scratch, just buy what we need, meal plan etc

I usually have an Ocado shop once a week. Occasionally I go to Aldi. There's not a massive difference between them in the price of a full shop anymore.

People are mentioning Brexit because it clearly has a major impact. No surprise as all experts said it would. Those price increases were deemed worth it for the other benefits Brexit would bring. Unfortunately many of the hardest hit are also Leave voters who were sold a pup in the campaign about how great it would be in a post EU world. But it's nigh on impossible to imagine right now.

People mentioning butter. I have noticed the price of natural yogurt has jumped too.

The will of the people unfortunately.

As a home baker(small business) the price of butter and sugar is crippling.

Farmfoods and lidl have kept the essentials low.

Butter has gone up massively! Ours is now £2. Buy natural yoghurt those week had gone down not on an offer that I could see.

I've not noticed a change in food shopping if I'm being honest. We spend around £90 a week (without toiletries/cleaning products) and have the same amount of food. We buy meat from the Butcher and that hasn't increased either.

Our butter isn't going by 10p a week either. I know it hasn't changed much as we spend £400 a month on food and this hasn't changed in 12 months. Sometimes our shop is more expensive but that is because we've added extras on that we don't necessarily get each week.

The will of the people unfortunately.

I think you mean 'whim of the people' (from Ian Dunt)

In April this year, Tesco reported an annual profit of £1.28 billion. Sainsburys reported profits of £503 million. Aldi UK reported profits of £211.3 million. Profit made from an everyday necessity that none of us can go without. Brexit my arse .

My basis weekly shop is up by about £35. I was always a budget shopper but I can’t reeuce prices much more without just serving cat food.

Yep, the butter (spreadable) I buy in Tesco was £2.50 this week. A year ago it was £1.90.

So we will pay similar prices to those in France and Spain? Get real, our food prices are low LOW compared to other European countries. Sorry to offend, but that's the price of eating proper food. Most Europeans spend about one third of disposable (or after tax) income on the family food bill.

"Also, shrinkage of packets is now absolutely rife."

Yes - I bought a Twix the other day and it was tiny in comparison to olden days. And still cost 90p. Damn you, Nigel Farage

Sorry to offend

Who are you offending?
I have lived in Spain, Italy and France and my food bills were lower in all those countries due to being able to visit local markets. I have no markets nearby here.

But as people have said on previous posts they spend a lot less on housing.
And it bizarrely looks like brexit isn't going to make a difference to that in the short term

We don't eat much meat, dairy or processed foods, and I buy own brand items as much as possible; our food bill has still gone up by about a tenner a week. I need to put some shelves up and stock up on food when it goes on sale.

Yup!

I’ve gone back to Aldi, despite the fact the place sets my teeth on edge. I do the weekly shop there for about £40 ( don’t buy there meat), then I nip to Tesco for a few specific allergy foods for ds which can be about £5 ish.
If I shop solely at Tesco it got up to about £60 a week.
Unfortunately I can’t see prices going down. Which is a shame when the supermarkets are making millions in profits. Who really NEEDS to make millions in profits? The poor get poorer and the rich stay the same.

I'm not in the UK but the cost of food has been shifting up here too - eg cheese from Europe has gone up 20% in the last month, and Anchor butter has gone up 25%

They're salaries are also higher. I work in HR and those hired into other EU countries earn more than their equivalents in the UK.

We are an international company with over 30,000 employees so not small.

Large box of Cherios cereal used to be 800gm. Now 600gm. at same price.