To think food prices are still soaring?

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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.

Aldi shoppers with a Morriston top up.

Bags of giant buttons etc, that used to be a pound, went to 1.25 and now 1.65. Wtf? Over 50% increase!

And no, I know I don't need to buy them (so now I don't), but ffs. We grew up properly poor. Never had branded anything. Pathetically, one of the things I looked forward to about being a grown up with a good job, was buying the proper stuff.

Average £130 in aldi here too and we are a family of 4. Dp buys other bits in the coop as I will only eat the eggs from there so it's a bit more. Includes kids packed lunches and our evening meals alternate between fish and chicken and about 3 veg.

We used to have this running joke you couldn't spend £100 in aldi and fit it in one trolley. Them were the days.

We buy the giant buttons in aldi and put them in a nice glass jar x

Robinsons small squash bottles have shrunk from 1 litre to 750ml, shame the price didn't shrink too.

That’s a crazy amount for EVOO. Fresh fruit and veg is definitely going up, in fact, everything seems to be going up again. Who remembers when a whole cucumber was 40p? I used to buy 8 a week….now 2/3 max as more than doubled in price. Life as we used to know it is no more….☹️

Cucumbers are 90p now and every time I see the price it shocks me. I don't buy them any more as we used to waste half anyway (teens eating things intermittently is infuriating), so at least we're saving on food waste.

I costed a basket of basics I bought at Aldi 2 years ago against their current prices and it was a 30% increase.

We easily spend £700 a month (2 adults and 3 teens).

Waitrose essential olive oil is £7.50 a lite. Asda is £6.80. Waitrose is often cheaper than Asda for some of the things we buy and the quality of the fruit and veg much better. I've seen blackish brown cauliflowers on sale in Asda along with blackened carrots, mouldy strawberries, mango and pineapple going brown but still within date in the preprepared packs. I don't have a Sainsbury's or Tesco near me, nor Aldi. I get a delivery from Waitrose about twice a month and top up in Asda. I buy frozen fruit to put in yogurt. Quorn burgers have shot up by about 30p recently. Ice cream is crazy prices. I'm glad I don't drink coffee or alcohol because that would be too expensive.

This ! Lol ! There are always ppl like this. Probs the same fuckers that can feed their family for a week off of one chicken. Ffs life is hard enough without having to scrimp buy on the shittest things. The cost of food is outrageous! I swear Everytime I go to the supermarket everything’s 10p 20p dearer and I go several times a week !

It's not going to get cheaper anytime soon. In a few weeks a lot of fresh and frozen goods from EU will be subject to extra port charges that will be pushed on to consumers. Most vessels with food we import are still avoiding the red sea because of Houthi attacks which is adding extra shipping costs to everything.
For home grown foods, Farmers are quite rightly campaigning for the supermarkets to pay them a fair price.

Food inflation is 7% - so compared to a year ago. prices are 7% higher

Consumer price inflation, UK - Office for National Statistics

So prices are 7% higher for food compared to a year ago.

The Government seems to have convinced people that falling inflation means prices fall. No. It just means the rate it goes up has slowed down.

@RagzRebooted they were never wasted in our house . we have a cucumber addiction - well we used to 🤣 I now eat more carrots with my hummus and DD can’t eat a whole cucumber in one go! I have started roasting carrots and parsnips in my air frier and that is nice for dipping into hummus too and thankfully they haven’t gone up as much.

30% increase in 2 years is pretty shocking!

Without toiletries I can do shopping for around £80 a week and that includes £16 on cat food. Prices are still high but I meal plan for every night and we have very little waste. I shop at tesco and take advantage of the club card offers, i will buy what is on offer rather than sticking to a certain brand evertime. We are a family of 3

This is what I came to say. Yes. Prices are going up. There’s still inflation. And foot inflation is higher than the headline rate.

And let’s not get started on branded cereal….I often wonder who buys it!! I don’t eat it but DH has a double + portion each morning! He’s on store brand ‘shreddies’ or multi grain hoops as the equivalent from
Kellogg’s is nearly 4 times the price!!

This is a bit off the track of this thread, but I went to a refill shop the other day to buy olive oil, 'cos I'm a bit crunchy granola, armed with my own refillable glass bottle.

A litre of olive oil - Greek or Spanish, no other info given - was £21.

TWENTY ONE FUCKING QUID.

I went to the Lidl next door and bought a perfectly respectable (non-refillable) litre bottle of what I assume was essentially the same olive oil for slightly less than a fiver.

Yes, I know, first world problems and all that, but the disparity in prices is mental.

Are we paying too much or too little? I genuinely don't know.

I bought Olive Oil from Lidl this evening. £4.99.
I ummed and aahhed about getting the cheaper Rapeseed Oil but splurged. I would have put back the £8.40 bottle 😡

Ours just goes up and up and up. We are spending easily £200 a week now. It used to be £100. It’s crippling us. I’m starting to panic now. Next week we have no kids at home so we are going to eat beans on toast all week. We both work 50 hours a week on average ish salaries, we shouldn’t have to do that!

It gives a guaranteed income if the goods fulfil the contract in terms of quality and size but they have to sell the to company they have the contract with. So if the potato harvest has generally been bad but a few farms have done really well with yield and quality they won’t get paid any more than the contract states. The farmers that have a bad harvest with poor quality low yields won’t get paid on the contract and will have to sell the crop cow food
It just puts control of our food in the hands of a few companies and could lead to food insecurity
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I've been keeping an eye on olive oil for a while... It just keeps going up - I managed to get Aldi's own normal olive oil for £4.20 the other week, after not having seen it below a fiver anywhere for months.

I shop at Lidl and while it has gone up it's nowhere near as much as the main supermarkets. I wonder if the higher prices are linked to the big brands who are all putting their prices up whereas Lidl and Aldi have a lot more own brand products

Absolutely agree, it's ridiculous that I spend £80-£90 for 3 bags of shopping. Literally every time they say the amount I want to say you're fucking joking right?? 😱

Nope, it's Aldi that are charging me the amounts mentioned in my post above. I'm finding that there are less and less cheaper products there and the quality is often shit.

Took my mum to m&S other day and we popped round to the cafe..£6 for a straight out of the fridge/plastic packaging sandwich in M&S cafe!
We refused to pay that and ended up going to a local family run cafe down the street and paid less!

I average £55-60 for 1 adult and an 8 year old. Now taken in my disabled sister as my mums just died and still spending about the same at Asda including any top up cleaning or toiletries.

I buy toiletries and laundry stuff etc when offer, also buy a lot of yellow sticker meat, salmon etc and am batch cooking more with stuff like pasta, carbonara, risottos. I’ve naturally reduced shit we snack on and have lost weight and try and eat as healthy as possible. I do have a blue light card though so get Asda rewards back on fresh foods and I convert the vouchers to use off next shops. I also don’t buy branded products if I don’t have to, so supermarket own cereals, sauces, bread etc where I can