Aldi beans have gone up from 25p to 38p

[thelongconmom]

that's 13p per tin. I used to get 4 for £1.00 and those same 4 are costing me £1.52.
I just cant get my head around how I'm going to afford to feed my children if the basics keep shooting up this much. I wouldn't mind so much the luxury items going up by the same rate but the basics. Bread is 65p too for the cheaper one. I'm sure it was 45p before.
cheese was £1.89 and now it's £2.19.
I was going to buy some birdseye fish fingers on Iceland (I'm an aldi girl i was just passing Iceland and thought why not I like the crispy battered ones as a treat instead of breadcrumbs) and it was £7 for a pack of 48. They would be about £4 before and I'd only get them on offer for £3.50.

How can this be? I'm a thrifty shopper, I batch cook and freeze I shop the bargains. Its really getting me down. I can't even think about electricity. I just keep putting that at the back of my mind.

That's a huge increase.

I went to Morrisons to buy my mother her favourite scones and they were £1.85 and they were £1 a few weeks ago.

Well, put simply, everything is sky rocketing and factories producing food need to increase prices to consumers as they're hit with the higher costs of running their factories

It's a vicious circle for everyone unfortunately

Literally everything is growing in price, substantially. 😞

I normally get a Morrisons shop delivered every week and the same shop is no costing us about £50 more than it was 6 months ago.

I also batch cook and try to eat as healthy as possible but today I made an Icelands account and tomorrow I'm having a lot of food delivered that I would never have dreamed of buying in the past. It's mostly cheap(er) and filling stuff.

Not great considering DH and I are battling high blood pressure and cholesterol.

Everyone I know who shops in aldi is moaning about how much prices have increased there.

I always shop in tesco and don't seem to spend a great deal more than I did 6 months ago.

I actually think Aldi has become more expensive than Tesco with the price matching, Clubcard savings and they still have 22p beans.

I get all the food I need in 1 shop rather than eating time and petrol going to 2 shops because Aldi doesn’t always have what I need.

but yes things are going up weekly.

I noticed this today too. A small weekly shop for our family of 4 with no meat or alcohol came to £75!!

wow 85p increase for scones? madness!

That's absolutely horrible that you're having to choose cheaper food that could be worse for your cholesterol too.

I know shops and businesses aren't capped like homes are for electricity, so will there be a big increase in October for food too or will that just be energy?
I don't know if it's worth buying the beans now? Maybe 4 tins a week for a few weeks to build up a stock at home so it's not hitting too hard in winter with fuel and food?

dolly mix
our big shop used to be 70-80 pounds for a family of six. it's more like 100+ now. and we are cutting back.

I usually go to aldi for everything but I'm going to start shopping around more now.

Another thing that makes it difficult for us is that we don't drive and Aldi and Lidl don't deliver, so we normally have to stick to the one supermarket.

That's why I've decided to top up monthly with Iceland and also because Morrisons seem to be increasingly out of stock on so many things.

Last week for example they were out of all brands of laundry tabs and I can't remember the last time they had lasagne sheets in stock.

Not Aldi but Lidl - bottles of applie juice in the fridge used to be 89p, then 99p and now £1.25 - was gobsmacked how much they have gone up in a few months

I would think it's best to stock up while you have spare* cash before bills etc start to put pressure on your budget.

Look into cooking with dried beans as well. It's more of a faff to soak and cook but works out much cheaper.

Doesn't surprise me, OP. Sadly.

I've been using Tesco's grocery home delivery service since it first started AGES ago. I remember - not that long ago, being able to get half price deals, BOGOF etc.
A definite thing of the past.

I do shop aldi mainly but morrisons is right by me. I needed some margarine. Always in the past you could get say a branded name
on offer eg Utterly butterly or flora . You can't now its about 1.70. Did get their own make in end.

Sorry I mean they were on offer for a 1.00.

I just had a quick google. In 2017 the UK was ranked at 69 in the world for food prices. Similar to Brazil and Togo with much higher wages. No other western democracy had lower food prices except for some Eastern European places like Poland and Hungary. Food was very very cheap.

With fuel going up, Brexit, worker shortages and a war; food and heat will go up and stay up. I have no idea how people who are already struggling will make it through the winter.

oh another thing that I've noticed, the cheapest brand of washing up liquid has just disappeared. They used to be 26p and the cheapest now is 55p.

I know that's still extremely cheap and I have always thought 'how can they sell this so cheaply?" but its just another product to add to the list.

Mrs Terry pratchett
Well we all knew this would happen because of brexit. It's absolutely unbelievable it was voted for or even an option.

tories- who wants life to be very difficult?
voters- we do we do!

And if you said anything it was Project Fear. Well, now here is the danger.

The one thing Tesco does that's good is clubcard boost for 7.99 and you get an extra 10% off your shopping 2x a month on top of the club card offers.

Asda do their own yellow branded stuff which is meant to be brilliant and cheap.

Oh god I'm still getting that shit about project fear EVEN THOUGH EVERYTHING HAS TURNED TO SHIT

• see also, tories

If they're the 4 pack of Best square scones from the Bakery (the only supermarket scones worth buying), I hate to break it to you, but they're now £1.90. I couldn't believe it when I got some a few days ago.

But I haven't noticed Aldi going up in price as much as other supermarkets. Shopping in Aldi, I felt that things weren't so bad, small increases but not terrible and it was only when I went in Morrisons, Asda, Tesco, Co-op or M&S that things had noticeably shot up (I rotate round mostly using Aldi combined with the others occasionally, depending on preferred supermarket for what we need or if I'm passing somewhere and rarely do a big shop, more like a medium sized one every 4/5 days).

If they're the 4 pack of Best square scones from the Bakery (the only supermarket scones worth buying), I hate to break it to you, but they're now £1.90. I couldn't believe it when I got some a few days ago.
Yes! Those are the ones. It was only a week ago. So they have gone up again!

I noticed this last week and put them straight back down again. They are good but not that good. I always think they taste more like rock buns than scones anyway - maybe it's all the butter making them relatively more expensive.

I usually shop at Aldi and I'm in a fortunate position that I don't really need to count the cost as I'm going around as it generally falls within my budget (I buy the same things in general, it's just alcohol that skews the cost).

However ocado sent me a money off a shop voucher yesterday £25 off £70 which was a really good offer. We used ocado all through the pandemic so I got really used to looking at their prices.

I decided to order the things we really like from ocado but I don't get anywhere else. Some of the items had gone up a £1 a packet.

We like packs of diced venison for casserole. This was £5.50 a pack and is now £6.50 a pack. The tinned tomatoes I like had gone from £6 for 6 to £7 for 6. I did draw the line at those, even with £25 off.

It is quite astounding seeing the jumps in price.