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?

YANBU.

We all know who the 17,410,742 idiots are, who are responsible for this

Butter is still a very sensible price in both Aldi & Lidl.

Lurpak is a) branded/advertised & b) imported so it's no wonder it costs about twice as much as the own-label equivalent!

Also I do wonder how much of it supermarkets taking advantage and cashing in

Tesco made a profit of approx £1 billion on sales of £50 billion, that's just 2%. How much cashing in do you think they are doing?

Of course it's Brexit.

Faff all to do with Brexit when supermarkets are making profit.

Butter price increases explained:

m.thegrocer.co.uk/554935.article?mobilesite=enabled

Basically:

Lifting of EU milk quotas plus lower Chinese demand and Russia import ban leads to over supply of milk;

Farm gate prices crash;

Many farmers cut back or get out of milk production;

Grass for grazing has been poor, farmers can't afford to feed supplements to cows, leads to lower fat content in milk;

Brexit loss of value of sterling caused export boom, bolstered by high NZ butter prices;

Supermarket price wars contributed to farm gate price crash, butter producers exporting rather than selling to supermarkets - wholesale prices have increased by 100% in the last year;

Recent trend away from margarine / spreads back to butter.

Faff all to do with Brexit when supermarkets are making profit.

What a load of rubbish. The pound is weak as a result of the uncertainty surrounding brexit. As a result that impacts on prices.

"I bet all the supermarket bosses are loving brexit - they can put their prices up and blame it on that."

Actually supermarkets do not like to put up their prices. They prefer to hold on to a quantity of customers on a 'stack it High, sell it cheap ' principle. They often sell things at a loss: loss leaders, to draw people in.

Do people really not understand how / why the crashed pound has affected prices?

Especially as Aldi and Lidl are EU businesses.

A fucking idiot cab driver told me, the week after the Brexit vote, what a good thing it was. He said before we joind the EU, butter was only 60p (or something) and the EU made us put all our prices up.

Now we'd voted Brexit the prices of butter would coe tumbling down, mark his words.

I tried to talk to him about basic economics but he said I was too young to remember life before the EU but I'd see.

I wonder when people like him are going to admit they fucked up?

Probably never. I expect the Express will find a way to blame immigrants and when people like him fall for that one too, we'll all be too worried about the rise of fascism to worry about the price of butter.

Actually supermarkets do not like to put up their prices. They prefer to hold on to a quantity of customers on a 'stack it High, sell it cheap ' principle. They often sell things at a loss: loss leaders, to draw people in. this is only partly true

I am finding prices very high. I look out for bargains all the time and block buy butter, coffee and other goods when they are on special offer. I am much more attentive to the bits of paper I get at the till, and will have enough Nectar points at Christmas to do a free shop.

We eat less meat, doubtless a good thing, and many little high quality treat goods are missing from our shop.

Used to buy Squeezed Juice, and the expensive 'cookies'. No more.

Ok, no hardship, we are fine, but the money doesn't go nearly as far.

it would be healthier all round if we all ate less meat

People tell you to shop at Lidl etc to save money, but the packet sizes are shrinking there too.

Yes prices are going up

We have had cheap food in shops for years I have been shocked how expensive it is in France, Italy and Germany looks like we shall catch up soon.

250g of butter is 250g of butter. Lovely 'West Country' butter, with sea salt crystals, is £1.30-1.40 at both Aldi & Lidl. Ordinary butter is less.

I live in Wales. The price on Welsh lamb has rocketed!

I can't see what that has to do with Brexit tbh

We moved around in the 80s, and I would say that your childhood was not typical for most of the uk frouby. It sounds more like my mums childhood in the 50s. The one thing we do have in common is chips We ate a lot of home made chips (oven chips were a 90s thing for), itsvabout the only thing I miss from 80s cuisine.

I lived in large cities or new estates where people did not have space to grow their own food.

I live in Wales. The price on Welsh lamb has rocketed!

The NHS has never been able to afford welsh lamb!

Bolshybookworm My childhood in the 60's and 70's was similar to Froubys ...I guess we reflect the older Mums on MN

Yep. People were warned by those pesky experts. It's a shame not enough of them listened.

Lapdance Basic Butter is £1.20 in Lidl it was 95p a year ago.
Whilst the cost of dairy going up is due to Russia and China importing more Milk now and producers closing, so now demand is up and supply is down it means farmers are actually making money instead of losing it.

Food has been too cheap for a long time, it hasn't kept up with the cost of everything else. The issue is the big jump at once, it needed to naturally creep up with higher wages, but it hasn't. The only thing thats gone up is house costs.
The combination of high house cost and high food cost is going to be an interesting one!!!

I'm calling BS on rising food prices.

I've just been to Aldi to get some bit's and bobs:

Skimmed milk - *45p
Angus Quarter Pounders -£2.25
Soft Medium White Load - 45p
Salted Butter - £1.23
Stir Through Pasta Sauce -89p
2 x Banannas - 26p
6 x Sunblasts - £1.22
Table Salt - 25p
Fingertip Scourers - 45p
Penne Pasta - 45p
Drunstick Squashites - 99p

You can get butter in Aldi for 89p if you want it.

Compared to the rest of Europe, apart from Spain, you have no idea how cheap your groceries are.

Bolshy we grew up in south yorkshire, mainly on council estates. In a small town massively impacted by the loss of industry and then later the pits closing down.

I look at what we have now as a family and what we can afford to buy from supermarkets and think back to when I was a kid and it is vastly different.

My mum was a single parent to 6 of us by the early 90s. I was 15/16 at the time and I remember her coming back from Aldi with bags and bags of food. The biscuit tin was always full, bags of crisps, big bags of frozen chips, fishfingers, pizzas etc.

And yet we were now relying on my dms part time wage, tax credits and family allowance. It wasn't that we had more money it was that food was cheaper especially luxury stuff like biscuits and crisps.

PurpleTango I don't why the price of lamb is so high. A friend of mine farms sheep. The price of fat lambs is down every year. One year they were getting about £76 per lamb.

I worked out it would cost me at least £70 for a leg, a small rack and a couple of lbs of stewing lamb. And that was nz lamb!

Oh, and 1 pack of smoked bacon and 6 eggs for a combined total of £2.19

You’re calling BS? So we’re all lying?