Anyone else noticing a drastic increase in their food shop costs already this year?

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Hi,

Has anyone else noticed a drastic difference in the cost of their food shop already this year?

I certainly have noticed a difference.

Yes I agree it sounds very expensive. I don’t really understand how people are spending so much unless they’re buying all luxury or pre-prepared food. We are a family of 4 (2 DCs) and I’ve just placed our weekly food delivery order and it’s come to £120 for everything. We don’t budget as don't really need to and I think we eat well. We may do one too up shop for bread, milk and fruit which comes to around £10 if we do it.

79p in Aldi.

Even in Waitrose, tomato purée was 85p rather than the price quoted further up the thread. Shop around!

Even in M&S broccoli is only £1.20, why is Sainsburys broccoli so expensive?

There was a disease that wiped out about 90% of the Italian & French olive crops.

£5 for a tub of options hot chocolate.

Who can afford that!?

The people getting ripped off are consumers, or did you Miss Tesco’s £1,600,000,000
profits?

Don’t believe the lies these companies are feeding you.

I've read reports that the olive harvest was very poor this year and that prices of olive oil will rocket as a result.

Well quite, but then don’t pay it. Shop around. Half price in Waitrose, plus there are alternatives that are cheaper. Why would anyone buy the more expensive one?

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/search?ct=Hot%2CChocolate&searchTerm=hot%20chocolate&sortBy=PRICE_LOW_2_HIGH

I don’t pay it - I shop around, but presumably some people must pay that.

It was actually £2.8bn last year.

Its a staggering amount of profit per customer.

My point exactly. They can easily afford to pay the national insurance increase and not pass that onto consumers.

Because it's not that price per head. The price the op gave was PER KILO

It is bad here. 1 lb of ground beef or mince is $4.99 and that is lean or 85/15 % fat.

Who needs Options hot chocolate?

I cook a lot from scratch and i don't find it too bad. I try to buy food that's in season. In the uk not much is in january, so its not surprising things cost more, it all has to be brought in from warmer countries.

Food in the uk has long been cheaper than many places, we're just catching up with everywhere else now.

i dont think many of us pay attention to price per kilo for a broccoli

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France, in the market I shop for food, fresh mince meat 16 euros 1 kilo but you watch while the meat goes in the mincer so it isn’t mixed with anything else.

About 8 euros per lb

Anything with thickeners, emulsifiers, preservatives, artificial flavourings or 'modified' anything is definitely a UPF - so juices probably no, but many yoghurts have thickeners, usually gums, which have a negative impact on the microbiome.

Because farmers will have to claw their money back one way or another.

But supermarkets will just pick the farmers with the best price. Most aren’t going to be impacted by inheritance laws, those that will will be spread out and need to compete with other farmers.

Canada has horrendous food price issues

Farmers are very united on this issue, I think we will find they won't so easily sell out. Even the 'best price' will be more than they are now. Many are going to be impacted.

Besides taking out farms through competition as seems wanted will just drive down supply, that means higher prices

When you count every penny, believe me you check the price of everything

Im glad you aren't at that stage