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.

Because £8.40 is close to £10 if you were to take cash? Hate to break it to you but you can’t even get a pack of peppers for £1.60, it’s £1.65. There is no need to be so rude.

I think food will keep going up as the way raw materials are being produced processed and sold are moving away from individual farmers growing/producing and selling at market to growing/raising on contract and which will lead to greater profits for processors and retailers.

Me too! I was so shocked at the price

I agree. It’s just rubbish

I'm actually relieved to read this! We've stopped doing convenient trips to closer supermarkets and I've been sticking to a list once a week and going between Aldi and Lidl and still averaging £120/30 for five of us. That's vegetarian and often from scratch with a few cheap frozen pizza nights and I couldn't work out if I was doing something wrong as this used to always save us loads.. two adults, two teenagers and an eight year old... seems an insane amount for a really stripped back, no brand names shop..

I had a hissy fit in Morrisons the other week over the price of their olive.oil. We are slumming it with rapeseed oil instead!

There’s two of us and I’ve tried to keep the Aldi shop under £65. I’m failing.

Try to clean up maybe.

Try to clean up maybe.

Wrong thread?

I'm really struggling with it all, as a self employed cleaner I get paid for every job on the day so I have to shop on a daily basis as I can't afford to not buy food for a week to let my wages build up to getting a weekly shop. It depresses the hell out of me. The worst is having to buy andrex as my family are all really sensitive to anything else

Oh yes this for me too! I got some for my dad as it's all he uses. Is it any healthier than other oils? Don't think we can keep buying it tbh.

Get the green stayfresh bags from Lakeland. Veg last a week or more in the fridge. Bags are reusable after washing out and drying

I used to shop for £80 a week for 5 of us, now it's rare to get under £130.

£75-£80 a week here for 2 adults. One coeliac and one autistic who can only eat certain foods and brands. It's crippling.

£5 for an M&S sandwich over here!! Delayed train and I needed to get lunch for DD. Daylight robbery.

Went to Waitrose the other day and it was £14...

I really think Aldi are trying hard to keep a lid on it. The big food brands, however, seem to be taking advantage.

Yeah I've definitely sensed a shift since Covid, over and above any reasonable explanation. It's as if all the panic buying put it into their heads that they could put prices up and if they did it all together there's nothing we could do

We are spending around £80-90 for 3 adults, mostly from Lidl as that's nearest

It’s the logical end product of capitalism. Shareholders panicked in Covid when the markets dropped. Now the profit motive is paramount. Bugger everyone else.

@Tarmacadamia

It's £3.45 for a baguette, £3.99 for the meal deal

We shop at Lidl after Sainsbury's became too expensive. I've noticed Lidl becoming expensive now. I had two bags of shopping today and it came to £48. I hadn't bought any treats or anything, just bog standard stuff. We'll have to start going without things soon if it gets any worse.

Interestingly though we spend less on food now, as a percentage of earnings, than we did in the 1930s. We have all just become used to food costing less to buy than it costs farmers to produce. Not that the recent price rises will go to the farmer of course.

@KarmaCaramello I think the prices you quote are a good example of why some like OP struggle to
feed 2 people on £100 and others say that should be plenty for four.

The juice we used to buy - gone from £1.20 to £2 - Sainsbury’s apple juice is 95p
Yoghurt - 2.50 to 4, goes on 'sale' for 3.50 - Sainsbury’s plain full fat yoghurt 90p/500g
6-pack of apples from 1.80 to 2.30 - Sainsbury’s basics apples 99p/6
Instant rice from 1 to 1.25 - I don’t buy instant, basics normal rice is 52p/kg
Granola bars from 2.50 to 3 - I would look for whatever bars are on offer at around £1 a pack (and wouldn’t usually buy).
And value digestives are 55p.

I agree that prices have gone up. We are, for example, eating less of things like salmon. And I also appreciate that some people have strong preference for some brands, or other complex dietary needs. I just wanted to show that (similar) things can often be bought more cheaply by some posters than others. Then there is portion size and for example how much meat you’d use in bolognaise versus veg/pasta.