To think food prices are still soaring?

[Sooooup]

Two of us and a baby on the way. Even if we budget we can’t shop for under £100 a week
(including toiletries, laundry, cleaning stuff, toilet roll etc). This is wherever I shop and I shop around.

Any fresh veg I buy lasts for such a short amount of time. 2-4 days max. So can’t shop for the week, have to go a few times. I buy frozen where I can.

I am sure I could do it for about £60/70 a week only six months ago. How are people managing? We aren’t on bad incomes but it’s very much average I would say.

I bought supermarket brand extra virgin olive oil for £8.40 recently and haven't been able to stop talking about it since😧

That’s essentially a tenner. Wow.

It started coming down a bit a month or so ago but I have noticed that they are climbing up again, particularly meat and fresh produce (such as fruit and veg).

They are just about to get worse - minimum wage is going up again soon. This will have a significant impact on prices.

Might be worth stocking up on some basics this month if you can afford to.

@Sooooup Definitely agree. Previously would do a £60/£70 shop and would get a decent amount of food as well as some toiletries and cleaning/household items (bin bags, foil etc)

However, now no matter how many lists I write and try and stick to, it's always £100+ (have a 15 week old baby too - her formula is prescribed as she has CMPA so the figure is without the cost of that!)

I had to buy lunch on the run yesterday and paid £4.20 for a bog standard Greggs sandwich 🙁

We spent £159 in Aldi last weekend, we will definitely need to go shopping again this weekend and it's crippling us!
My average weekly shop for four of us is about £130 but I will need to top up with fresh veg etc through the week so in reality it is more than that.
We both work full time so before anyone suggests I should make my own bread or batch cook 15 meals made with lentils, just don't please.

Wow. That would’ve been £2.50 or so not so long ago.

I've been out the country for a bit... How have Heinz beans shot up to one pound sodding forty?? I could have sworn at the end of last year they'd only just hit a pound. Bloody hell.

Totally agree. We also still use lentils and chickpeas for most our evening meals yet still come out with this figure.

@JourneyToThePlacentaOfTheEarth

Snap! Sainsburys?

The soya milk I buy in Aldi has gone up 19p in a matter of weeks, wtf?!

It was Tesco. I was horrified.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against lentils 🤣
I just wanted to make the point before the usual posters piled on to say they shop for six and it only costs them £30 per week because they batch cook 15 meals a week from one bag of lentils and a chicken breast whilst making there own bread and darning their kids socks to save money.

In Aldi yesterday a litre of Fairy washing up liquid, fancier than the original was £7.99
I can't stop banging on about it.

Price's up , product shrinking, supermarkets been taking the piss since COVID and have gotten used to bumper profits.

Yep, I do an online order with Asda. For 2 ad 2 kids (1 extra kid every other weekend) and 3 cats, we are heading for £160 a week. It's obscene. At the start of December I can see it was £120-130 a week, which was bad enough. But yes, it has absolutely gone up. Our circumstances haven't changed, nor our shopping habits.

Asda are sly bastards when minimum wage goes up ,staff always get axed in some shape or form.

You absolutely should be able to get it under that.
Mines much less. 1 adult 2 teenagers ans 1 cat. But yes prices are going up.

How much are you spending on cleaning stuff? I just use washing up liquid every day, dettol spray couple times a week and a lime scale cleaner in the bathroom once a week. I also use sparingly.

Buy more frozen fruit and veg and buy fresh fruit and seasonal only.

How do you store your veg?

Cat litter £7.50 per 10 litre bag I buy catsan and even Sainsburys own brand of litter is taking the mick at £7.55 around here.

I used to shop around £40 for just myself
£60 would be a nice Sainsbury's shop with a few treats

Now £60 is my usual shop at Aldi..

I think I can see why you may be experiencing difficulties with budgets.

I spent 101 quid in aldi yesterday.

For 4 of us (DD is 17 and DS is 11)

Got a half side of salmon, 1.4kg of diced beef, a roast chicken, big block of cheese etc within that (amongst other things but that's the dearer items off top if my head)

Not sure how 2 adults can spend 100 quid in aldi tbh.

Food prices are absolutely still going up.

We generally buy the same things so I can see all the price increases because of everything I have budgeted for.

The juice we used to buy - gone from £1.20 to £2
Yoghurt - 2.50 to 4, goes on 'sale' for 3.50
6-pack of apples from 1.80 to 2.30
Instant rice from 1 to 1.25
Granola bars from 2.50 to 3
Brunch bars from 1 to 1.25
Poached salmon fillets from 3.50 to 5

I've suddenly found myself not being able to afford little extras like digestive biscuits - £2.30 for a regular pack!

They keep going up and doing little 'promotions' to disguise the fact that the 'sale' is the original price. It makes me so angry.

E: sorry no idea why another post got quoted, I can't change it