To ask for your rising cost of living examples

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Inspired by another thread but mainly by my own experiences today.
In February it was 20p to use the public loos at our favourite seaside town. Today it has doubled to 40p! There are now contactless points incase you don't have any cash. 40p to pee!
Mr Kipling cherry Bakewells have jumped to £1.90 in Asda and I'm sure they used to be £1.40 or sometimes even £1 and that was only a few weeks back. Cake isn't essential I know, but peeing is. Things have gone up generally but the odd pence here and there isn't always noticed but these are huge jumps.

Dog poo bags were 50p a roll in our pet shop last time I bought them; yesterday 75p a roll.

@L3andlosingit

Lots of pre packed fruit and veg now have 5 items instead of 6. The packet price is the same but we get less. It’s sneaky

Horrid isn't it.

Shrink-flation. The pesky food industry.

Easter eggs have less chocolate content and weight but still the same price.

Toblerone has bigger gaps between the triangles, still the same price.

Boxes of things that used to have 10 units in now only have 8 units, same price.

Daylight robbery!

I was looking at sandals from clarks for myself- £80 for nothing special - I was expecting £40 - £50!
When did ladies sandals become so expensive!

My local cafe is charging £1 extra to toast the cheese toastie. It’s labelled as a cheese toastie and not a cheese sandwich so I would expect the heating up to be included in the price but apparently not.

Took family member for a treat light breakfast this morning.

Not posh cafe but nice place,for a cup of tea a cappuccino and poached egg on toast twice was £18

Their cooked breakfast now has one of each meat item and either hash brown OR toast but not both and if you have mushrooms you don't get tomatoes and it's gone from £8.95 to £10.95

Couldn't believe it.

Went into sainsburys for three things,staple items and each one had gone up by 20p and 25p each so 70 p on literally three items.

We are also finding the quality of stuff we've bought for years is no where near as good on a lot of items lately.

ITs an interesting thread for me as we’ve been in Copenhagen for last 18 months but back to Windsor next month — I’m actually going to find UK pretty cheap from a good aspect simply because I’ve got used to prices here - a coffee out (extremely good and much nicer interiors) is £5.50 - an average loaf of bread is £3 , a toasted sandwich out around £10, a decent chicken about £12 , you can’t get British cheese much but lots of Irish- smallish pack of cheddar about £6 ,— we do have Aldi and Lidl too but quite a bit more expensive than UK. The Danes are on higher wages than uk but much higher taxes (as they don’t pay NI) so take home about the same as UK on average— so relative to uk their food spend is quite a bit higher percentage of income — however childcare is 1/3 of UK, no council tax either—and far more excellent quality rented housing . I guess it’s swings and roundabouts. I’ve certainly found I shopndifferently— and waste far less and cook a lot more as they don’t do nice ready meals. Like the US they go far more for frozen, things in glass bottles and knorr make a meal kits. Utlities are slightly less and public transport better and cheaper .

My solution is never to pay for anything I can do for myself. So I don't have coffee out, because I make as good or better at home. I don't eat out, unless travelling, because I cook better. On the rare occasions I do pay someone else, I expect the standard to be WAY better than I can do personally.

The Uk has enjoyed very cheap food for 20 years. We were horrified when a friend holidaying in France said that a small white cabbage cost 3 euros [£2,80 ish] in Lidl, instead of about 80p.

I really think that the cost of eating is going to be a huge issue in the Uk as food prices catch up with the rest of the world.

DH and I aren't getting change from £20 now if we go out for coffee and cake and leave a decent tip.
Lactofree milk has gone up from £1.25 (often reduced to £1) to £1.65 a carton. This has given me an incentive to buy ordinary milk and use up the lactase drops I have from when I had a couple of lactose intolerant young adult offspring in residence (I got lazy and started buying Lactofree for myself when one moved out and the other went vegan).
Tesco granola squares have gone up from £1.50 to £1.65 for four and they're now little rectangles instead of squares.
My favourite breakfast cereal has gone up from £2.00 to £2.50 to £3.00 very quickly.
One positive, and I realise I speak from a position of huge privilege, is that the combination of food price increases and electricity price increases is giving me the impetus to use up the contents of the giant chest freezer with a view to giving it away. It was useful when we had lots of children but isn't necessary for just DH and me and probably guzzles electricity.

I've started having to "lend" money to my youngest child, who is a postgraduate student and was managing to fund her lifestyle with her loans and hospitality work until recently. I know she won't be able to pay me back and I won't be surprised if one of her siblings ends up in a similar situation. I'd been hoping to take a few months off work over this summer but I can see that not happening.

6 tins of Sainsbury's own brand dog food was £2.70 in January but when i went in last weekend it had increased to £4.00.

I generally shop in Asda and compared receipts last week with one from January, exactly the same items on both, January receipt said £24.14, last week's was £31.48, an increase of over 30%

Red magazine was £4.99 last year , Until the December issue when it went up to £5.25 Then come the April issue last month it went up to £5.99 Thats two price hikes in 4 months.

@XingMing

The Uk has enjoyed very cheap food for 20 years. We were horrified when a friend holidaying in France said that a small white cabbage cost 3 euros [£2,80 ish] in Lidl, instead of about 80p.

I really think that the cost of eating is going to be a huge issue in the Uk as food prices catch up with the rest of the world.

Very true.

@KohlaParasaurus

DH and I aren't getting change from £20 now if we go out for coffee and cake and leave a decent tip. Lactofree milk has gone up from £1.25 (often reduced to £1) to £1.65 a carton. This has given me an incentive to buy ordinary milk and use up the lactase drops I have from when I had a couple of lactose intolerant young adult offspring in residence (I got lazy and started buying Lactofree for myself when one moved out and the other went vegan). Tesco granola squares have gone up from £1.50 to £1.65 for four and they're now little rectangles instead of squares. My favourite breakfast cereal has gone up from £2.00 to £2.50 to £3.00 very quickly. One positive, and I realise I speak from a position of huge privilege, is that the combination of food price increases and electricity price increases is giving me the impetus to use up the contents of the giant chest freezer with a view to giving it away. It was useful when we had lots of children but isn't necessary for just DH and me and probably guzzles electricity.

I've started having to "lend" money to my youngest child, who is a postgraduate student and was managing to fund her lifestyle with her loans and hospitality work until recently. I know she won't be able to pay me back and I won't be surprised if one of her siblings ends up in a similar situation. I'd been hoping to take a few months off work over this summer but I can see that not happening.

I would keep the chest freezer personally. Being able to fill it with yellow sticker breads and whatnot could save you more in the long term than what you’d save on electricity if food prices go up even more.

Just pack it with ice packs or bottles filled with water if it’s empty.

There’s only 2 of us here and I wish I had a chest freezer for the excellent deals I have to pass by or not being able to batch cook or from veggie gluts I end up with. I have to dehydrate them or can them.

I’d certainly think before giving it away.

*I would keep the chest freezer personally. Being able to fill it with yellow sticker breads and whatnot could save you more in the long term than what you’d save on electricity if food prices go up even more.

Just pack it with ice packs or bottles filled with water if it’s empty.

There’s only 2 of us here and I wish I had a chest freezer for the excellent deals I have to pass by or not being able to batch cook or from veggie gluts I end up with. I have to dehydrate them or can them.

I’d certainly think before giving it away.*

That's good advice, @EveningOverRooftops and the potential saving from being able to fill it with yellow stickered baked goods and stocking up on things we eat regularly Magnums, mostly when they're on special offer is something that's being factored into the decision. If I ever do make a decision. I've been failing to empty and get rid of that chest freezer for so many years that I suspect it will either outlive me or expire with several thousand pounds' worth of food (at tomorrow's prices) inside.

@mmmmmmghturep

Red magazine was £4.99 last year , Until the December issue when it went up to £5.25 Then come the April issue last month it went up to £5.99 Thats two price hikes in 4 months.

If you regularly buy magazines you might want to get the Readly App. £9.99 (I think it's recently gone up £1) a month but you can read hundreds of magazines from all over the world plus back issues.

And you can share the account across 5 devices so good for the whole family.

My parents have carers who do 15 minute pop in visits three times a day to give them their medication as they have dementia.

The cost of each evening / weekend visit has gone from £6.75 a visit to £8.75. That's a 30% increase. The weekday daytime rate has increased a similar amount too.

They were more fortunate than a lot of workers as their state pensions have gone up 3.1% but their care visits, rent and electricity must have gone up by 30-35%.

@WhatTheWhoTheWhatThe

First world problem but had a Chinese take away tonight and every dish has gone up by £1.20

We had a Chinese takeaway for my husband's birthday a couple of weeks ago. normally it would cost around £40 for 4 of us. This time it was over £60

My annual parking in an LCC car park has increased from £500 to £545 p.a.
Butter is £2.40 from £1.89.
Meat has increased about 25% apart from lamb which is through the roof. Mackerel from £4/kg to £7.50/kg.
So much price gouging. Even bread flour has increased 30%.

In B&Ms I used to stock up on the mini marshmallows that were around 30p a bag, they were over 60p yesterday.

Coffee at costa went up from 3.15 to 3.35 and cow and gate baby formula used to be 8.50 now it's 9.50. Can't wait to get my kid onto full adult meals. I might try the sainsburys forumula soon

@Fuzzywuzzyface

I was looking at sandals from clarks for myself- £80 for nothing special - I was expecting £40 - £50! When did ladies sandals become so expensive!

Yea! I bought sandals for £88! I had vouchers. If I had to spend my own money I wouldn't have bought them

Thanks @Choux

My dog's food went from £3 for 6 tins to £4.50. Biscuits from £3.50 to £4.50.
I can deal with my own food costs going up.. I can cut back. I can not and will not for my dog.

Sharing bags of chocolate buttons etc have gone from £1 to £1.25.

DS wanted to try a dragon fruit, £3.50 in Waitrose, also bought essentials cheese and rice krispies , same price as ASDA, but 50p for a bag. They are nearly teens so can only imagine things are about to become very expensive for a few years ever