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?

Doesn't it say on the label? thought it had to show country of origin these days?

BMW What label? I want a general list of imported foods. Not checking the origin of ONE food.

Holy crap! Here in the US today I got 4 cans of tuna for $5!

**But what I also know is that not everyone Jcan 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.

These kind of threads make me laugh. I wonder if the posters have ever been on an estate in their lives to meet real “poor people”. Many (not all before someone else jumps in with whataboutery) have a dysfunctional background. Grow up with an absent parent and maybe another addicted to drink or drugs. Live from benefit day to benefit day. No one will be teaching you home ec and food budgeting at home. You are lucky if they remember to have any food in the house before they go down the pub. These households are not into growing herbs in windowsills or reading Jack Monroe. When your little pleasures are a £2 meal from Macdonalds, the only herbs you are growing in a windowsill are the ones you can smoke.

Food is a lot cheaper in UK in 2018 than it was in say 1958 or 1968 (relative to earnings). Terry Leahy talks about this. Official stats back it up. Prices may be rising now compared to the 15% of disposable income low in 2008.

"All in, food and drink consume 19% of our total annual budgets." (2017 data)

avg is, I appreciate, not much use for low income HHs.

If this is bad, wait for Brexit. Sad but true.

I'm very happy to have emigrated and to no longer have anything to do with the UK. I'll never return.

I think it genuinely sad the hardest up are the people who will pay the price of a reckless decision endorsed by the likes of Boris Johnson and Rees-Mogg - two men who know nothing about what it is to be struggling or in poverty.

To think some people believed their lies.

qz.com/716156/the-british-import-a-quarter-of-their-food-from-the-eu-and-thats-a-problem/

www.gov.uk/government/publications/food-statistics-pocketbook-2017/food-statistics-in-your-pocket-2017-global-and-uk-supply

‘Fruit and vegetables’ has the largest trade deficit. In 2016 imports were £10.3 bn while exports were worth £1.1 bn, giving a trade gap of £9.2 bn.

The second largest groups in terms of imports in 2015 were meat and beverages with imports of £6.2 and £5.5 bn respectively.

Foodologistgirl, butter in Asda is £1.49. Sainsbury's own butter is £1.60

I have to say I'm not relying on my allotment to feed us much is good prices go through the roof. The local dodgy lads will be in there stealing everyone's veg.

I paid £3.50 for 3 tins of fancy no drain tuna at Asda yesterday, £1 for 1.5l of double strength squash.

Didn’t buy corned beef, but a check on the website shows it hasn’t changed significantly since I last bought it but IMO it’s been more expensive (comparatively) for a while.

You need to go somewhere other than a corner shop to get better value for money.

We have an Asda and a co-op next to each other. The co-op is extortionate - I don’t understand how they’re still in business!

You can't generally say which foods are imported and which are home grown because for lots of things, both happens.

Meat can be raised on the farm two miles away, or imported from all over the world. The same for dairy and many fruits, vegetables, grains etc. Some will be grown overseas and processed here.

I suppose the Co-op gets the business on Sundays when Asda isn't open (assuming you're not in Scotland, where the Asda won't be restricted to Sunday hours) and from people who can't be arsed to trek round a massive shop for one or two items that individually might only be a few pence more in Co-op than Asda, assuming they're not buying tuna or corned beef of course.

We have an allotment and quite frankly the idea that most people can grow enough veg to make a dent in their weekly shop is a bit absurd.

We had nothing from our allotment for about 4 months due to a combination of winter, a bit of ill health and something eating our greens.

i hate what is happening to our food prices.its scares me.also how those affected by the cuts to budgets and help with costs will then cope.
I want to be soppy and say I want to hold people tight and tell them itl be ok.but I no it wont be!

I'm quite surprised that those who do grow fruit and veg (on allotments or in gardens) seem to be set on explaining how hard it is and how it simply isn't possible to make a difference to your food bill.

That just isn't true. Its pretty easy to grow a few things to help make a difference. Of course it wouldn't be easy at all to be self sufficient and nobody would expect a back garden to feed you all year round, but it is easy to grow certain things that might help if things get tough.

I think its a real shame to be putting people off trying if they have the space. Of course people have to be realistic but it really isn't rocket science. Today I have a large bunch of runner beans, three very large courgettes (on the verge of becoming marrows), six big stalks of rhubarb, a bucket of potatoes, a bunch of spring onions and four big handfuls of spinach. If that doesn't make a difference to someones weekend food bill then something is wrong. Its all from the garden and once planted I've done very little other than water. My garden is very shady so I was concerned that things wouldn't grow but you soon work out what will grow and what won't.

Of course it isn't for everyone and I'm sure I'll get the usual "my child won't eat a courgette!" but many of us could do it (and if nothing else its an insurance policy).

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

If you stick your fingers in your ears and pretend they exist, fairies will appear despite what anyone says.

Meanwhile in reality....

The pound has fallen 12% against the Euro and 5% against the dollar since the Referendum:
fullfact.org/economy/pound-fallen-since-brexit/
We import 49% of our food:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/food-statistics-pocketbook-2017/food-statistics-in-your-pocket-2017-global-and-uk-supply
Of course food is getting more expensive. Can we increase production sufficiently to feed ourselves? The NFU thinks not (though it seems to think we produce 61% of our food):
www.countryfile.com/article/can-uk-feed-itself
There are of course factors other than Brexit in play (as in the case of butter) but Brexit is having a huge impact.
BTW I am 65 but that of course is irrelevant.

Vegetables dont make a meal though and won’t fill you up.

If you're pag9ing £80- £100 a year for an allotment, then add on the cost of other stuff you need to grow food - well you could buy quite a lot of veg for that money cloudtree

Vegetables dont make a meal though and won’t fill you up.

My DP says this and I don’t get it. I can happily eat a plate of roasted root veg for dinner.

Vegetables dont make a meal though and won’t fill you up.

haha
they do, but you just need to eat enough. 3tbs portion of sweetcorn will not fill even a toddler up.