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.

Beetle I’m frustrated!!! People (including yourself) are coming on here and weaselling about perfectly good nutritious food and their insbility to cook it, whilst others are moaning they can’t afford bloody food that isn’t food! I just think it’s nuts.

Weaselling? I'm extolling! You're being a bit of a pulse twat now, I'm afraid. Valentine had it exactly right.

If you want people to be able to better feed their kids, seeing your arse because somebody followed the instructions on the packet is unlikely to get you very far. What do you think someone who's nervous about cooking and/or is on a low budget is likely to do when they're using a new ingredient, really? It so happens that I don't fall into either of those categories, but it's not like you knew that.

I like the term ‘pulse twat’ I might put that on my business card.

It's ironic many people who voted for Brexit in my area are benefit scroungers who whines about immigrants taking what's they think is theirs. When the shit really hits the fan, I hope Brexit can keep them warm and full in the tummy.

As a Rose Elliot Madhur Jeffrey former veggie for 10 years, I know all about lentils. Chuck them in without a rinse and a soak and I get gut reaction. They need soaking and draining, twice. Ergo, they are to me labour intensive. When I was vegetarian I took vit B12 tablets - despite loving Marmite.

I like the idea of insect protein. I don't eat red meat much.

The poster who thought that the ruling classes need to maintain a healthy working class in order to increase their wealth, well they don't any more do they?

They don't make their wealth from us working down the pit or in the mill any more or even in the factory. By and large they make their money by pushing money around from place to place. The only use they really have for the working classes is the service industry and they don't need all of us for that

Food has been very cheap for the past few years but is going to get significantly more expensive post Brexit. I worry for people who live on the edge of their finances. As John Major said today, life is not good when the week is longer than the money. Most people have no idea how bad things might become.