The price of butter and general price rises

[FlatteredFool]

My favourite Kerrygold has just jumped from £1.90 to £2.00. We use a lot of it with the dcs' toast addiction. The price of butter has risen steadily over the years but that's a big jump. Is Brexit to blame as it's imported from Ireland? I've noticed things increasing in general but not to this extent all at once. It is it covid related? Or is butter a luxury now?

Flattered fool I hear you! I love Kerrygold as well .However as you say £2.00 per pack means I have had to be unfaithful ,and am now on very good terms with SB own salted butter at £1.48 per pack! Its still very nice, and you get used to it quite quickly .2 packs pw means I save best part of a quid.Butter has gone up in price quite a bit in the last few years .Partly Brexit ,but also the Chinese people have developed a taste for it apparently as well .

Sorry H&B - Home Bargains (although it will always be Home & Bargain where I'm from )

It’s inflation. Interest rates will follow in response. Buckle up for a return to the 70s when inflation was running at over 20%. This is just the beginning.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58519997

Food shortages are having an impact on prices.

I'm genuinely worried about the next few years.

Me too @FanGirlFoof. The next decade is going to be very tough indeed.

I noticed that the tiny tines of beans are not 85p each. It wasn’t that long ago that they were 60p.

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Fuel, utilities, food already going up. Council tax and NI rise predicted for April too.

@Blossomtoes I'm doing a financial overhaul today and working out where I can save money but it isn't going to be enough to offset the price increases.

Our corner shop buys aldi butter and sells it on for £2.60

The obvious solution is to buy British butter produced by British farmers.

There will be a Brexit element to it but butter prices have been rising for a few years. European pastries have become very chic in China and the corresponding demand for European butter has had an impact on prices and supply.

We are used to having things that would have been considered a luxury in the past. My very elderly friend tells me she had butter growing up but that was unusual as most families she knew couldn't afford it. Even myself, I'm quite old, and had parents who were well off, we only had things like chicken on a Sunday for dinner. Life seems like it's going to be so much harder now for lots of people .

Kerrygold is my DH favourite butter too, I am less fussy, but even supermarket own brands aren’t that much cheaper, butter is expensive, but we continue to buy it as I don’t like all the weird stuff in spreads/margarine.

I'm doing a financial overhaul today and working out where I can save money

Me too. My Times subscription is going, so is Cineworld membership. I can see a fair bit of fat in our current budget but who knows if cutting that will be enough?

Anchor spreadable £3.75 bargain

Lurpak js £3.75 here.

We buy country life 750g for £3.75 (Asda) and its a bargain! Its lasts about 3 weeks with a family of 4

@Blossomtoes

I'm doing a financial overhaul today and working out where I can save money

Me too. My Times subscription is going, so is Cineworld membership. I can see a fair bit of fat in our current budget but who knows if cutting that will be enough?

@Blossomtoes I feel like I'm just fiddling round the edges. By April I will be around £180 a month worse off. I've managed to save about £50 from switching suppliers and cancelling subscriptions. The rest will come off discretionary spending - which I think will reduce for most people and this will have a negative impact on retail, hospitality and beauty businesses. Plus I'll lose the treats that make life a little bit nicer.

Food prices are rising everywhere, including the EU. Family in Spain have noted that prices are steadily increasing month on month and this is across the board not just on imported food it's on all food including locally produced food.

Aldi Norpak spreadable has exactly the same ingredients as Lurpak spreadable.

I find household grocery items the most expensive part of the weekly shop - toilet roll, kitchen roll, laundry detergent, toothpaste etc and by far the worst is dishwasher tablets. I'm going to start shopping for these bits in Wilko and Savers as when I added it up I realised we could save about £17 by doing that. For example Sensodyne Pronamel toothpaste £2.99 in Savers but £4.50 at Tesco - I know I could get a cheaper brand of toothpaste but I have enamel issues so not willing to swap.

I noticed a US youtuber I follow using Kerrygold. I guess they are successfully selling as a luxury brand ("grass fed"!) into a massive market there and can charge accordingly.

@HHSchultz isn't wrong. We have everything in shops we could possibly think if and for actually affordable prices compared to even recent past.
What lots of people pay through nose for is convenience in many cases.
There are lots of little bits like tinned vs dried etc, I think some people will start considering more.

We buy Lurpak in bulk when it is reduced to £2.75.