To be horrified at the price of food

[Thorts]

Single pepper, now 60p - everywhere.
Apple juice - 99p everywhere for the cheap stuff

How are people supposed to eat fresh fruit and veg daily (and the right amount) with these prices?

If you were to look at processed food however; pack of ham 20p, custard creams 20p, garlic bread 35p.

You could get two of all the processed items mentioned for less price than one pepper and one carton of 1L value Apple juice.

Surely something needs to be done?

Are we ever going to find out where the 20p ham is??

I think it would be a good idea for the government to subsidise fresh and healthy food (not purely fresh because there's alot of nutrients in frozen veg etc.) instead of the sugar tax.

I don’t live in U.K. but here for Easter. Horrified at £35 for a leg of lamb in Sainsburys.

40p. Like they were a year or two ago.

YES! It's unreal how expensive basic, essential items are. Each time I shop it's like £100 for two bags of food.

The particular ham was reduced, but wasn’t much more full price. There’s always one trying to catch you out. I think it doesn’t matter, as we all understand that unhealthier food is much cheaper.

Processed 'food' is cheap because very little of it is real food. It's just empty calories, sugar, oils, additives. Nothing of any nutritional value. You are paying to make yourself unwell.

The price of real food is just what food actually costs, margins are small for the supermarket and often even smaller for the farmers.

Because out of season vegetables that have to be imported or grown under cover here (at great expense) cost more and are gave a bad Carbon Footprint?

Why can wealthier people buy better quality clothes? Bigger houses in better locations? Nicer cars? Private schools?

No-one is restricted to only tinned fruit and veg, no matter how tight their budget. As has been pointed out, UK seasonal veg is cheap and very nutritional. No-one NEEDS to eat peppers in winter.

Wailing "Not Fair" is ridiculous and juvenile.

I accept you say it doesn't matter. I feel it does matter. It's got echoes of '20p Lee'.

Okay lovely. Have a good day

Come off it.

How are people supposed to eat fresh fruit and veg daily (and the right amount) with these prices?

Ive just spent £100 on food shopping. It includes soup ingredients, vegetables for a roast dinner, vegetables to include in a bolognaise, frozen fruit for smoothies and to top yoghurt, fresh apples, blueberries and bananas, frozen peas and broccoli. Plenty of fruit and vegetables along with milk, eggs, cheese etc. I don’t consider £100 a huge amount to feed 3 of us for a week with fresh, healthy food.

That's now likely less than what it costs to produce and sell.

£27 for organic lamb chops in Tesco last week. I shit you not (wasn’t planning on buying, just happened to see them) x

I live in Germany and go to France often .Food has also increased here in price
I would say I am spending 50 percent more on my shopping per week.

It does matter when you’re blatantly exaggerating and talking nonsense. I got a whole duck from Tesco for 30p once in the reduced section .It doesn’t mean that’s what duck actually costs.

Wow 🤢

40p. Like they were a year or two ago.

What are you able to buy at the same price it was 2 years ago. Producers need to cover their costs including increases in the minimum wage, energy costs etc. In the scheme of things 60p for a pepper is pretty good unless you’re eating half a dozen a week.

😱 Well jel. I looove duck. This would be like second christmas

Prices are rising, the prices you chose are most definitely not 'horrendously too high'.

My point is that peppers shouldn’t be 60p. Not arguing on here about it. If anyone cares that much about anything in the post being misleading (which wasn’t deliberate) I suggest you either scroll on or find something better to do.

Peppers were not 40p two years ago, not where I live anyway - didn't you ever wonder just how they could be that cheap though?

Have you grown peppers? Even in Spain they'd need a heated polytunnel to grow to maturity in March. That costs money. In summer you'll probably be able to get a big bag of wonky ones and they will be cheaper that way.

I think it doesn’t matter, as we all understand that unhealthier food is much cheaper.

No it’s not, if you’re able to buy and cook seasonally. It is if your definition of healthy is strawberries 5 times a week.

Wow. That must've been enormous as it's been on offer at £6.50 per kg this week.