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.

yep

Like everyone times have changed.

Getting to the point of helping your own family first.
Have volunteed in numerous organisations for years.
Now time needs to be spent elsewhere in the first instance.

As you can see I still gave the help.
But patience has run thin to the point of being used up.

Especially used up on the Brexit word

Of food inflation, which is what the thread is about.

Food inflation in Spain is running at 13.53% according to figures produced here.

Food inflation in the UK is running at 12.7% as far as I can ascertain, although some figures suggest 10.4% and 9.8%

If 6% of that is due to Brexit then Spain's food inflation should be lower as they have not exited the EU.

Are PPs really suggesting that leaving the worlds largest trading bloc had no effect on prices? Seems super unlikely.

It doesn't explain how the inflationary costs for those still in the trading bloc have risen, in most cases, higher does it?

I'm not suggesting that some rises in food costs were not inevitable as a result of Brexit but to say that, as the OP did, that it is the main, dominating factor is clearly wrong. The EU is suffering just as much and in many cases more so with inflationary rises across the board.

Oooh a merailing in progress

I'm out.

NRTFT but Tesco value beans (Stockwells) are still 22p

For those who actually need it. There is a topic "cost of living" and some of the threads do not only look practical, but also have very nice posters.

so if someone asks for help, do you quiz them on their political views first?

Your post is interesting. And yes meat substitutes are more expensive I don't know why.
What kind of textures don't you like? I'm a vegetarian and can't stand the texture of pasta shapes but I don't mind spaghetti, or lasagne at a push. A lot of the meat substitutes I hate and I don't really care for rice, hummus or lentil type burgers.
It might be easier for you to be vegetarian just until you decide whether to go vegan? You'd still be making a difference, it would be far easier for you and there's a lot more choices.
You can make a lovely bolognaise with quorn mince, or shepherds pie or mince and dumplings.
If you like sausage rolls try the vegan ones from Greggs, you can buy these frozen as well.
Being vegetarian is cheaper sometimes I think maybe it depends on your tastes.

Another thing I noticed was shrinkage (haven't rtft) I was in Spain at my friend's house and she commented how the tub of flora seemed emptier. I fished the old tub out of the bin and could see that despite being the same size tub, the old one was 450 grams and the new one 400. And the new one was more expensive.

Yes this as well. When companies started doing this it was an excuse to get people to eat less junk and more healthy food. It's billshit because the frozen veg in Iceland (and maybe other shops) are now 900 grams instead of 1 kg.

If you can combine other errands with it I think you'd find it worth it. I have to get the bus to our local one too (12 miles!) But even including the bus fare its still very much worth it for us.
I even got myself a "granny trolley" at the ripe old age of 40. 🤣

Absolutely this!!! I notice it constantly- fewer biscuits in a pack but more packaging; large bags of crisps almost full of air; fewer slices of cold meat in the same pack; 5 in a pack instead of 6 etc. The 3 DC, OH and me all still need packed lunches made/ snacks, so I need the same amount of things.

I have bought non branded basics for years and I don’t see how I can cut back any further

I noticed shrinkflation 1/2 way through making a lasagne.

My 8 sheets of fresh pasta had shrunk to 6. It wasn’t the most helpful time to discover this.

oh you're right. Sorry I was just using memory as I put them back

you're right in my case, and My mum's mum's most likely my nans.
I fact all of the men in my family have expensive hobbies and there is no question of them cutting back on them. They won't. But I've stopped eating in the morning and don't give my children pudding anymore.

Thanks for pointing that out to me. Dh wouldn't put a £50 purchase for a game past me but will moan if I buy 2 boxes of cereal.

Yes I noticed Aldi beans going up a few weeks back. Used to get 4 for 99/£1 and now 37p

chocolate chip brioches think were 69 now heading up to £1

many crisps £1 now 1.25

eggs apple grapes ham cheese all up

5% fat mince gone up rhink 30p

brexit is one of many factors.

brexit
covid
austerity
Ukraine invasion
wanky white men in power over the last few years
tories in general
climate change
aging population
nhs struggling

They all play their part and made my life harder.

never said brexits the main factor.
surely the mai factor is the Ukraine after a pandemic.

is brits could have come at this from a stronger situation, but we are coming at it from years of austerity, and having left the eu.

Didn't a lot of the harvests this year or last get wasted because there weren't enough workers to pick it? I'm not entirely sure but wasn't that something to do with brexit? or covid? or fucking the universe or the tower of babel...
I can't be bothered to search h for it because the news is passing me off and I don't need to read more if it. just fancy moaning about it on here.

is brits could have come at this from a stronger situation, but we are coming at it from years of austerity, and having left the eu.

Spain is equally coming at it from a bad situation - UK most recent recession was 5 quarters, Spain's recession was 5 years. 25% unemployment in 2012, huge swathes of young people in that number and that has still not to date been addressed. Being in the EU didn't protect the UK from the Banking crisis and resulting recession just as it didn't protect the rest of the countries in the EU. People seem to have an idea that life in the EU is all sunshine and roses and the EU provides some kind of shield to all the economic and other crises - it isn't and it doesn't.

You are right it has been hit after hit - the Banking crisis and recession, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and you can add climate change to that, the weather here has changed markedly which effects food production.

Aldi Germany substantially raised their prices in April due to production costs - probably a knock-on effect in the UK now;

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I’m always amazed on these threads when I see people who have been buying stuff like meat, fish & fruit juice etc - It’s always been too expensive. And we aren’t low earners, I just have never been able to justify spending £3 on a drink that provides no nutritional value and the DC will glug in 30 seconds.
maybe I’m just a tightwad.

It wasn't really that expensive. I mean you couls buy chicken breast for like 3.50 a kilo. Now it's 5.50. lamb was often on offer for like 5 a kilo now it's 10 on offer. It used to be quite cheap. Fish as well. Especially if you bought frozen you could get it very cheap. Now, not so much.
So of course people were buying it. Food in the uk was very cheap compared to elsewhere You could get a lot for your money with the non stop offers.

And if anyone likes gherkins, of wholesale is anything to go by, stock up