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.

I should have taken a photo of the ticket and checked with a store colleague.

Do you also work full time?
I must be doing something wrong as I don't have time to bake or look around 4 different supermarkets every week to find the cheapest of everything.

Since when does Aldi sell lab grown meat? pretty sure that has to be labelled if they did and there's absolutely nothing about it in the news

It is tricky to do this. Even a friend of mine who’s really good with saving money says she generally goes to Sainsburys and if she has time goes to Aldi/Lidl. Which is similar to me. Online shopping helps as I’m not tempted.

They don’t but the poster is probably bonkers, and like to virtue signal by seeing everyone can be like them, saying it’s so easy to make your own washing liquid and bake all day, when there is only 2 of them and definitely not working full time.

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Of course they don’t, they probably make their clothes from knitting their pets fur.

Just a thought on a couple of things. Maybe brunch bars and granola bars are for packed lunches etc. Yes, of course you can make flapjack but you do have to factor in the cost of time and cooking and storage. My daughter noticed the other day when we put the big oven on, cost of elec goes from £2+ a day to £3+. Batch cook? - we don't and can't have much freezer storage.
Cook your own rice-cooking cost again. Cooking doesn't cost nothing.
Yes, buy loose apples but check, always check, cost per kg.
I'm not fussy but often low cost food is lower quality too.

Also a bottle of orange juice at £2 is own brand.

We are very lucky that we still buy what we want at the supermarket without having to make changes, this does not mean that I have not noticed the price increases.

My shopping costs about £350-£400 a week including toiletries and cleaning stuff.

This does not include booze or dog food.

🤣🤣🤣 I have quite a few pets, I will add that to the list of things I should be doing-but never will to save money!!
So many people on here are holier than thou about the foods they will and won't eat, and which supermarkets have the best deals etc. I dont have time (like most people) to go to three or four supermarkets a week to look for savings.
Those that can cook everything from scratch, batch cook and spend hours supermarket shopping are probably in a more privileged position than those that actually need to save the money!
Time is a huge money saver and it is something most of us are short of right now due to every adult in the household working to scrape by.

I've just checked on Ocado. Would be around £4.50 for a litre, so that's just a silly price.