To think the cost of food is rising significantly?

[NotWithABang]

Or is it just me? The last few weeks/months when I've been food shopping, I've noticed the cost appears to be going up and up.
I shop mostly in Lidl and Aldi too, so it's not as though I'm shopping in M&S or Waitrose (where I would expect my shop to be costly). It cost me nearly £1 for a pack of six small, unbranded fromage frais. I spent nearly £40 for three of us (one of whom is 3) and it won't last us more than probably the weekend, that was with only buying one pack of meat. No nappies or cleaning products included in that, nothing from the 'magical middle aisles'. All just basic food, some fruit and veg for meals and lunches this week. I used to be able to get away with spending £25 on the top up shop a week/every 10 days, after doing one big monthly shop for about £70. Now it's more like £100 for the monthly shop, and about £40 a week topping up.

I have noticed this too.

Are we in for much bigger rises once Brexit kicks in because farmers won't be getting EU subsidies for dairy products etc?

I've given up on butter for now. The Pure sunflower spread is literally half the price. I stock up on things like fizzy drinks and cereals for the kids when they are on offer (and then hide them to ration them out). I can be a bit oblivious to day to day finances but even I have had to check my receipts over the last few months. My Tesco driver said to expect a change in minimum order sooner or later because £40 only makes up a couple of pallets now.

Of course it’s gone up, we import a lot and the pound fell after the Brexit vote so everything imported got more expensive, including food. It’s likely to get worse I suspect when we leave the single market and customs union.

I've just read that blog and whilst I suspect the author might be a little politically motivated judging by the sneering comments he's posted on twitter shown at the side of his blog (no idea who he is talking about but the way in which he talks is quite horrible), it makes sobering reading nonetheless. I'm a little worried by it.

Going to get some of my seeds going this weekend and get the raised beds prepped. I might only have success with potatoes, broccoli, spinach, rhubarb and courgettes but it's better than nothing!

Yes, food has definitely become more expensive and sadly it's only going to get worse post Brexit. I really worry for people who are already struggling financially. How on earth will they cope with rising food costs?

I think you notice it more when you buy the same thing week in week out. I tend to buy according to offers/reductions and I think I’m manahing things better doing it that way. My friend who meal plans has probably noticed an increase of £15-20 a week on her shopping bill!

JUst to add I don’t know how people on this thread can be bitching about food prices on the one hand and then talking about bloody fizzy pop on the other!!! Why the hell are you giving your kids fizzybpop when you could be paying for actual food instead that has some nutritional value!! My god we are just so fucked up as a society, we don’t even realise what actual food is.

Good old Brexit, it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

I know it really is the case that those who most need it are those who can least afford it but if you do have the ability to buy things in bulk and store them then it would be a sensible thing to do at the moment.

Staples like rice, pasta, cous cous, tins of tomatoes, sweetcorn, cartons of juice etc will keep for a very very long time.

It’s not all Brexit . Thats a ridiculously simplified idea.

I can live with being a twonk, but if I couldn’t feed myself I’d sure as heck not stay in London paying extortionate rent .

There will always be a few items that there are shortages of/ price rises due to freak circumstances, butter is an example and raisins next due to poor harvests. But everything I put in my trolley has gone up since the brexit vote, so if it’s not that it’s sure is a massive coincidence Agnes.

Agnes you do realise not everyone, myself included, lives in London?

My weekly food shop in Asda for the same sorts of things I always buy is about £25 more a week than 10 years ago. It’s a bit of a worry as no one I know seems to get a decent pay rise at work ever anymore to compensate for how much more expensive everything is becoming

Still...blue passports eh?

I think it’s obvious I was referring to the poster who did live in London paying high rents but couldn’t afford breakfast for herself .

Wait not everyone lives in London !?

I have really noticed the increase in the last few months. There are only 2 of us, but some weeks I seem to spend nearly as much as I was when feeding young adults as well.
Don’t often buy beef but last week bought a small roasting joint. I was really shocked at how much it was (Tesco) .

It's not all Brexit - no one said it was.

However, Brexit is going to make things a lot worse. Much of our food imports are from Europe, of course. This is presumably absolutely fine for Brexiteers - for the rest of us, not so much.

Butter is up 60 per cent. Value cornflakes up 30 per cent. These are items I can’t just not put in my basket. I was already shopping very frugally. Am adding more veggie meals to try to reduce cost.

And the government won’t let food prices get too ridiculous, they have to at least keep their minions fed and able to produce more minions to keep working crap, low paid jobs.
I do think we’ll see a huge drive towards increasing food production at home in the next few years and less availability of out of season produce .

Food is very expensive here in the NYC area. $1000 a month is considered on the low end of average. I think it's a big reason behind why they have food stamps and don't give cash. They want people to eat and not spend the money elsewhere.

DH goes nuts with the supermarket shop. It's always $200 a week with me but then we don't need additional shops.

Going to make some ghee ...

And the government won’t let food prices get too ridiculous, they have to at least keep their minions fed and able to produce more minions to keep working crap, low paid jobs.

Unfortunately a ridiculously naive view of the world . If that were the case economies would never collapse or experience massive inflation.

Rumple Food prices in Belgium have been more expensive since 2006. It is cheaper for some people I know here to go back to Kent, even factoring in petrol, ferry costs and a night in a Premier Inn, and hit Sainsbury or Tesco for their staples and nappies etc, than it is to buy in Belgium. I moved here in 2006, and still find it cheaper in the UK when I do a start of term shop for ds, or go to Sainsbury en route back to Brussels.

I have always had to food shop based on price since I became a single parent 20 years ago
I used to dream of going into a supermarket and buying what I wanted rather than what I could afford
Now I love the lottery of the reduced aisle and we live very well on very little - but I don’t buy processed food any soft drinks and as am gluten free no bread biscuits or cakes
I do notice price rises but just change what I buy

And there we go again with this weird belief that this government are some sort of benevolent carer, bestowing gifts upon the population. What, in the last however many years, has led people to this belief? They don't give a bloody monkey's about poor people. Why would they care what they are eating after Brexit? They don't care now.

It's not just prices that have gone up since Brexit, the rate of packet shrinkage is dramatically up. We are paying more for less. It will only get worse.