Is food suddenly loads more expensive? Why?

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Ok. Panicking if it continues.
Just been to the local shop for tinned tuna and couldnt get it below 2 pounds. Corned beef 2. 50.
These were once cheap options for sandwiches. Now i see them as protein to be saved for an evening meal, and for sandwiches to be made from paste, marmite, soft cheese etc.
I have noticed my usual bread rolls go from 90p to 1.10.
Milk stayed the same. Squash much more money.
Is it just me? Yes i could have gone to aldi and not the corner shop but even so.
I honestly dont see how places like tesco are going to stay open if this continues, nor how anyone could afford to fill a trolley for the weeks shop.
Is it just me or is food becoming too expensive? Thats before tv license, water, petrol getting dearer each year.
How are we supposed to manage when wages dont rise at the rate of inflation?

Brexit hasn't actually happened yet. A lot of the news is scaremongering and an excuse to increase food prices. Whatever prices rise, we're told, 'It's Brexit!' Tosh. Morrisons budget butter has gone from 79p/250g to £1.50/250g. Nothing at all to do with Brexit. It's to do with fatter profits.

The price of butter is not due to "fatter profits". There have been significant problems with butter for months now.

figmentofmyimagination The plants are being cut down to new shoots, the reason being that these herbs are grown very quickly under intense conditions so they are very tall and straggly. Cutting down to the new shoots encourages more healthy, robust growth.

I make my own butter. I got one of those little churns and paddles for Christmas and never looked back.

Butter prices have gone up because supply has gone down . Last year there was a fairly crap harvest in terms of cereals for animal feed , which meant that milk production also went down , as did milk fat production , and causing butter production also to drop . Demand from China has gone up , and added to that , suddenly butter is not being painted as the nutritionist villain it used to be , so people are beginning to use more of it .

It’s going to go up again , because we’re not going to get a fantastic cereal yield this year either - it was too cold and wet at the beginning , and now when the crops need rain for growing , there isn’t anywhere near enough , certainly where I live .

Grumpbum
Boots own toothpaste is £1 a tube, called Smile, and doesn't lacerate your mouth either. I hate strongly minty toothpastes.

LeftRightCentre I make my own too, when I can get reduced price cream. No comparison with bought stuff.

Prices have gone up over the last couple years. I keep an eye on food prices for my blog and have noticed this even more since the brexit vote. Butter used to be 85p in Jan 2016, now the cheapest I can find is £2. The supermarkets don’t seem to be at war with one another anymore.

Just got back from camping and popped in to CoOp 4 pints of milk £1:52!!!!

One of the troubles with food prices going up is that ready made meals are getting more expensive too. We never buy them but my MIL does as she too old to want to cook now. A lot of people don’t know how to cook and just buy ping meals, but they just don’t teach proper home economics and food budgeting in school anymore. Even 30 years ago they stopped so you now have 2nd generation parents not knowing how to cook from scratch. We also grow our own herbs and veggies to supplement your shopping and save a bit more money

Why is it so hard to emphathise and see that people genuinely do find things harder?
I have been there myself, you know. Of course it's harder when you're poor, I know that as well as anyone. The fact is, if you are motivated to eat reasonably well you will make that effort as millions of people do, because they don't want to settle for crap. They will make an effort to make the most of whatever small amount of money they have.
As for the 'reasons which you don't accept' I meant some of the things I've read on mumsnet.

• perhaps they can't afford knives
• perhaps they can't afford plates

-maybe they haven't got a flat surface to put food on etc etc. Of course there are likely to be a very few people in extreme circumstances, but the fact remains most people in Britain do have access to at least basic kitchen facilities and the wherewithall to prepare and cook at least very simple meals. Having grown up in a very poor family and being poor much of my adult life I actually find a lot of things written on mumsnet on this subject patronising rather than empathetic. So there you go.

toxic44 Brexit hasn't happened yet but the devaluation of the pound following the referendum result has. It isn't the only issue but Brexit is part of the problem.

Having grown up in a very poor family and being poor much of my adult life I actually find a lot of things written on mumsnet on this subject patronising rather than empathetic. So there you go.

It's a personality thing too. A friend, who continues to be poor due to her own health problems and being a carer for an elderly relative, has friction with her sister in law, who grew up poor but is now doing okay. The SIL is a very bootstraps sort of personality who doesn't really get what things feel like for my friend and her household.

Butter used to be 85p in Jan 2016, now the cheapest I can find is £2.

Sainsburys 30 seconds ago £1.60
Tesco 30 seconds ago £1.49
Asda - £1.49

I'm not sure where you're looking if you can't find it below £2.

However yes it sat around 80p for 250g for a long time and the prices have risen significantly.

but they just don’t teach proper home economics and food budgeting in school anymore.

Anyone with a child in secondary school (at least those in years 7 -9) will tell you that simply isn't true. Mine have done a lot in food tech.

Having grown up in a very poor family and being poor much of my adult life I actually find a lot of things written on mumsnet on this subject patronising rather than empathetic. So there you go

You are looking through the world with your own lens and not accepting that other people may have a different view and, therefore, different challenges to overcome.

I grew up in a very poor household. My mum disappeared a lot of the time and all we had to eat was flour and porridge. We were young children. I know what poverty is and how it feels.

But what I also know is that not everyone can or does have the ability or motivation to eat well “for less”. And the sooner people realise that it’s not that straight forward, the better.

Yes food tech, not home Economics. Mine spent a term learning how to make perfect macaroons but not how to budget for a family. Basic skills are being lost if their parents don’t know how to cook and budget either

It’s what you voted for, people. Tory trademark, spiralling prices, interest rates on the rise...banks get richer...proles get poorer.

And thanks too for Brexit Leavers. This is just the start. Still, the immigrants are heading out, eh?!

Yes, food is getting more expensive and with the mess the government are making of Brexit expect it to get more so

Brexit. Shut your eyes if you like and it will still be idiocy.

Bollocks Bunnyfuller
Food prices have gone up and down over the past many many years whether Tory or Labour in Government, and long before Brexit was even a remote possibility. Christ, even BEFORE we joined the Common Market!
The advantage of being an old gimmer like me is I have the Experience of over 60 years on this planet. I dont just rely on rhetoric or party political soundbites.

and BTW my voting record is more or less an equal split between Labour, Liberal and Conservative, before you accuse me of being some kind of Tory stooge.

So the the 51% of UK food that is imported hasn’t been at all affected by the 10% drop in the value of sterling since June 2016 then? Really?

Sure it has! But my point was that this is absolutely nothing new or peculiar to these times!
Of course imported foods will go up in price - as they have in the past when Brexit wasn't even a whispered possibility - so dont buy them! Wait for the price to come down again.

Truly the consumer holds the cards. Too expensive? Don't buy. Watch a couple of months......

Does anyone know of a good list of which foods are imported into the UK from the EU?