AIBU TO BE SHOCKED BY THIS INCREASE?!

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So I’ve just gotten over the fuel increase, made some changes and become more aware of the energy I’m using both at home and car.

Went to Lidl today. I buy 2 tubs of cream cheese a week, Lidl Goldessa Classic Cream Cheese 200g. It’s been 65p for as long as I can remember. Today shop assistant was sorting shelves and organising labels ect. New label £1.19. I asked if that was the price of the 65p cream cheese to which she said Yh, it’s not changed yet it’s 75p now but will be £1.19.
HOW? How? Can something almost double in price? Also when I was it 75p 😵‍💫

I noticed the other cheeses all being marked up too some by 80p-£1. Add this increase to even 1/3 of a shop and it’s going to be unmanageable!
Has anyone else noticed prices on things they buy almost doubling?
What is the plan to keep costs down?
Where do we go from Lidl’s own soft cheese 😭

Co-op milk has gone from £1.20 to £1.70 in a few weeks

I buy large joints of beef pork and lamb if its available in the yellow sticker shelf. I cut the joints into 3, if I'm lucky enough to get a leg of lamb, I cook it and then freeze the remaining meat for another day. I've got 2 dogs and a cat and their food bill is bigger than mine. My mum says she can remember her grandad having a dog and a cat when she was a kid, and they ate what he did, no such thing as pet food!

I bought a veg stir fry kit from Tesco for £2.50. Julienned veg, noodles and a sauce. Served 3 for dinner with fried eggs on top. Sauce probably full of sugar so may use my own next time.

I cook Asian most of the time with ingredients from Asian stores. Very cheap.

@XenoBitch I'm so sorry to hear that x

HauntingScream I so agree. Stretching meat with healthy foods is far better than switching to highly processed cheap meats.
I make lots of meals with just a little meat- like you I can feed 5 people with 3 or 4 chicken thighs.
Rice or noodle stir fries, usind a small amount of meat, shedded and seasoned well with plenty veg will give everyonne a heaped portion of food at minimal cost.

Whiskas cat food was £4.50 for 6 tins, overnight it went up to £6.25. How can it increase so sharply?

on the 26th April, a story on the BBC website said that, according to the World Bank, the war in Ukraine would cause the biggest price rises for 50 years.

I suppose 10 weeks later, here it is. I hope it doesn't get much worse but I think we have to take it on the chin as the cost of supporting Ukraine which has to be worth it.

Just buy yogurt and kefir for that money. Will last you well over a week

I’ve just read in the paper that Tesco is now refusing to stock about 5 different brands of cat food due to the huge increase in price.

This was funnier that it had business being 😂

Re the frozen veg. Absolutely agree with pps. I always use frozen for things like egg fried rice. Frozen fruit in a freezer for yogurt etc. Frozen herbs.
Frozen fish can also be absolutely fine. I always have white fish fillets in my freezer.

Frsh veg. It's really not that bad either if you work with basics. I mean like carrot is 45p a kg. A KG! In tesco. Plenty of health in that.

@Cyw2018, red lentils just disintegrate when added to e.g. any mince based dish, so I doubt anyone with texture issues would be bothered, or even notice them.

Dried red lentils are a relatively cheap source of protein and also very good added to e.g. a vegetable soup. I don’t think think tinned lentils can work out anywhere near as cheap.

I’m living off toast (freeze the bread), cup a soups & crackers, I spend about £5-£7 a week on food, I buy a tub of I can’t believe it’s not butter from Asda once a fortnight for £1 & get the cheapest toilet roll, luckily in lockdown I hoarded a load of cleaning stuff & toiletries, lost my job nearly 2 mths ago & desperately need another, JSA is getting me nowhere. I live on my own don’t have family or friends & it seems an age since I had a hot meal, I would give anything for a takeaway 😂

Was that because it’s autumn/winter there so it was out of season?

Just been in coop and the big Lurpak in there is still £4 so I think Sainsbury is just profiteering off the £7.50 price that hit the headlines this week

I shop at sainsburys. They’ve introduced the nectar prices if you do scan and shop yourself. So a lot of the increases I haven’t noticed as much as I’m getting them discounted - less than what they used to be in some cases. They seem to be based on what you buy so different for each person.

I’ve always been a bit of a skinflint with some items though. I only ever buy a pack of chocolate wrapped biscuits if they are £1. Sometimes it’s own brand and sometimes it’s branded on offer. It changes week to week what I buy. Same with crisps in multipacks. I stick with frozen veg where possible. But some things are noticeable and staples such as bread. The 55p sainsburys own brand brown loaf is now 75p. Milk is definitely creeping up. I prefer Philadelphia to own brand cream cheese and use it to make cheese pasta but only buy it when the small tubs are £1 or the bigger tubs £2 so stock up. Some offers come round on a bit of a cycle I’ve noticed.

I do buy ready meals for work just for speed and convenience and usually get the £1 ones but they’ve all gone up to £1:25 now. I know there are quicker cheaper healthier ways to take a hot lunch but this works for me for 2 days a week.

Lurpack spreadable 500g was 3.75 now a fiver ffs

Lurpak now security tagged in Tesco. People mention the war but its not a global conflict. If it was Africa it would struggle to make the news. Unforunately global food supplies and consumerism is now catching up with us

Get you milk delivered in returnable glass bottles @ £0.89 per pint.🙂

I had to give up my Milk & More delivery in spring. The new milkman kept leaving it sitting in the sun instead of putting it in the milk minder. Had more than a few curdled bottles and customer service were useless. They suggested the minder must be too hidden (it was in front of the porch as per delivery instructions and illuminated by the street light directly outside the house).

Have you seen the size of Ukraine and Russia? That's a lot of land for food production.

In Lidl at the weekend, not even a full shop we just needed a top up of fruit, bit of salad stuff, I got a quiche too and some breadsticks and crackers. Would have come well under £20 a few months ago, cost £30. We used to do a full weeks shop for about that!

Or drink plant milk.

Agreed, also branded cereal, we had Kelloggs Coco Pops at Christmas only, my parents simply couldn't afford brand names like that. Now we all have multiples of everything all the time

@spespeakout what's even better is reduced/whoops prepared veg when its about 12p going straight in the freezer!

My local sainsburys garage 😳😳😳