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.

How does it prove it's profiteering by the supermarkets?

Surely if the manufacturer increases the price, the supermarkets have to follow suit? Supermarkets typically have very low profit margins, as it's a highly competitive market. When a) cost of goods and b) cost of wages go up, they don't have much margin to play with, so prices have to increase.

I'm not saying it's not profiteering - I'm just not sure how the prices going up proves anything specific.

It’s depressing and ridiculous. I mostly use Ocado now and it’s definitely cheaper than Sainsbury’s and Tesco and the quality is better.

Lidl has £1.50 fruit and veg boxes and Sainsbury's has £2.00 Taste Me Don't Waste me boxes. They're amazing value and packed full. Also, Asda reduce their bread to 10p at the end of the day and bread freezes well. You just need to try and beat the system!

It gets better - how does taking cash alter the price? As for claiming I am rude that’s ridiculous.

No wonder food banks are needed.

Everytime I go to the shop to get a few essentials it's £30-£40 for a few bits, basic stuff, that will scarcely make one meal and some fruit/bread /cheese/milk. This is in Asda/Tesco/Sainsbury's.

Used to get extra virgin olive oil, now I get olive oil, still it's so expensive.

Things that used to be £1, easy to remember, are now £1.25, 25% increase!

Also was a bit dismayed last week going out of my way to shop at Aldi thinking it would be cheaper.

Made a note of the prices and this week went to Asda. Non-branded cupboard staples that I bought at Aldi were cheaper in Asda. Felt I'd been ripped off, so what is Aldi actually cheaper for?

I noticed many things in Aldi are the same as other supermarkets.

Olive oil. Bog Roll. Heinz Beans.
Left all of them on the shelf last time.
Except, I kinda have to buy bog roll…

We also never buy meat.
Only have it in a restaurant.

I'm on universal credit because I physically can't work. There's no way on earth I can afford three meals a day. It's just not possible.

I try and keep my weight up as much as I can but you can see it's a real struggle from this picture from my Fitbit.

This. Also, same for a tin of soup flavoured water.

Havn't bought Heinz beans for years. Always been a rip off. My years as a single mum taught me;
Lidl basics for all.
Often just as tasty for 1/2 the price.
Still shocked that salad tomatoes gone up from 65p to 90p in lidl though,!

olive oil - weak harvest due to plant disease
fresh fruit/veg out of glass houses - increased oil/gas prices
fresh veg/fruit from outdoors - weak harvest due to adverse weather
eggs/poultry - avian flu
anything imported from far away - longer route due suez canal issue = longer journey that more expensive

Yes it's possible to scrape by but basics foods are often full of additives, fillers and pesticides compared to better quality versions (ie basics juice compared to real 100% juice or basics apples compared to organic).

We should be able to eat well for a normal amount of money. Especially now we basically don't have an NHS anymore.

Staggered to discover cheap, horrible Heinz soup was £1.80 in our co op. It used to be a go-to cheap meal for me. I'm struggling to see how such excessive rises can be justified. Fed up of hearing companies attempting to justify it whilst announcing record profits.

Yes - increasing supply costs, energy costs and staff costs which are passed on should not mean increased profits.

I don't have an Asda anywhere near me but yeah I have found brand name stuff, fruit and veg, meat, and any nonfood items are really not great deals compared to other shops (jumpers on sale for £6 when the same thing would be in Primark for £4, that kind of thing).

Proper branded things ie Heinz mayo are way more expensive too.

Their organic oats, rice cakes, cereal, crackers, and ready rice/lentils are cheap. Same with their frozen food.

We're being taken for fools. I get the rage when I see the poster in Sainsburys of a girl hugging her grandmother and some line like 'we know times are tough and we're here to help.'

Laying off the price gouging would be a start.

£6 for a pack of strepsils in Tesco 🤯

We're mega saving at the moment so we've had to force ourselves to be frugal. We are doing a food shop for £15 a week for mum, dad and toddler but that doesn't include cleaning goods toilet roll etc. we're living a pretty studenty life though! It's pasta (40p a bag) every night, with frozen veg, chopped tomatoes (value) and stock and lentils. I do intermittent fasting so don't eat in the day and dh had 30p noodles for lunch (no breakfast). It can be done but it is miserable. Toddler has a grand old lunch meal at child care, with lots of fruity snacks and a hearty breakfast and the same dinner as us, minus the stock.

Once we're done saving our food bill will probably go back up to about £70-£80 a week.

But I saw a jar of Nutella for £7 the other day! What the heck is that about?!

1 adult l, 1 teen, 1 tween and a cat. I easily spend £100 a week. I can't get it below that without eating a bland boring diet. It's shocking how much the cost of everything has increased.

Bloody hell I nearly collapsed when I saw a litre for £7.50 in Morrisons!

Supermarkets tend to axe staff to cover wage rise ,night shift, cleaning schedules,petrol card only, cutting staff hours.i remember when it went up 50p an hour and my nearest was £1500 a year worse off due to cut hours to compensate for 50 p an HR more.

The shop that I went into did not have those products.