Food prices skyrocketing again!

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DH disagrees, says it’s all stabilised out now and slowed down but he’s not actually done the shop in forever.

This month I’ve just been walking around the supermarket aghast. The price hikes that are going on, my favourite bar of ‘cheap’ dark chocolate has gone from 65p pre Christmas to £1.10!!! Fishcakes from £1.80 to £1.95 and the kids mini pizzas from 45p to 65p all pretty much overnight. There’s lots more and fruit/fresh food have all risen too. I’m really struggling to do the full week shop for our family of four for less than £150 a week now (everything included, pull ups, all work/school lunches, cleaning and toiletries)
Some weeks it’s closer to £170 and I’m very frugal I hate it!

tell me this isn’t just me?

I have noticed this as well. Was having a conversation with a relative the other day who was also saying how expensive their food shop was recently.

Since Christmas we have really had to cut back on our shop. Hardly have meat now and definitely no treats. Had to change to a lot of supermarket brands as the named ones are just way too much for our budget.

I can’t say I have noticed much of an increase in the things in normally buy over the last few months. My weekly online shop is still around the same amount

I did think 89p for cadburys creme egg was steep.

Yes going up but not as fast as before.
I thought I’d do a click and collect order with Asda but they didn’t seem to include the cheapest range online which they used to. Don’t know if it was down to local availability or not but I will have to go and do the shopping now

Definitely gone up again. I looked in the reduced cabinet in Tesco the other morning and there was hardly anything in there below £4.00 (as received figure!). I used to regularly pick stuff up reduced for half that.

@TipsyPlumAnt

It’s just since Christmas. That’s why I’ve noticed it so clearly seems to have jumped really fast. It’s the Sainsbury’s own brand cheapest dark chocolate. Was 65p when I bought a bar in December then £1.10 last week when I went to buy another. I didn’t buy it just left it, can’t justify that.

and tesco have just rid of many staff, as have sainsbury's, presumably in order to keep food prices lower

The mini egg bars of chocolate have gone from £1.35 last year to £2 this year.

I've noticed a difference. Less so in Aldi but the bigger brands I have.

I've started meal planning more and doing top up shops. Don't add up everything in a week as it's so variable but I can spend £60 on the biggest shop and £35-40 on two subsequent shops without realising. Family of four. All meals including school packed lunches.

They haven’t done that to keep food prices lower, they’ve done it to save a tonne of money equaling more profit for them and their shareholders. If it does somehow have a positive effect on their prices for customers that’s a bonus but no way is that their main objective.

i noticed the expensive mini eggs
i ate far too many last year at £1.49 per packet but less tempted now

£19 in Lidl yesterday when i normally spent £12 on a top up

I did our Tesco order this week and I’ve noticed:

Lurpak up £1
Single chocolate bars up 15p

but then Clubcard whole chickens for £4. Mental

The price of cocoa is going off the scale though

And yes OP, I feel like prices seem to steadily creep up and then at times suddenly sharply increase. My weekly shopping has gone up since Christmas too. I scan as I shop so I see it as go around, just to depress me that little bit more.

Totally agree. Last week, I went to my local Co-op and bought a tin of Heinz Big Soup and some Heinz Beans with sausages, and it came to £4.50. Couldn't believe it.

I do my regular shop at Lidl, and find the prices there better. But not everyone has one near them. I see people do their full shop in the little Co-op because I guess it's close and they are generally people who can't travel far. It must cost a bloody fortune.

The price of chicken thighs are through the roof used to be 3.99 I paid over six quid for them this week this was a cheep meal at one point

The price of chocolate has gone through the roof. It's helping me to really dial down the addiction!!

I’ve not noticed food prices rising, but both my gas/electric and water bills have gone up massively this month.

We are still so lucky compared to most of the world with our prices. Aus, USA, Canada are 3 or 4 times what we pur groceries are- yes they earn more. But then look at Europe, eg Portugal, average salary is less than €1k and groceries there are easily double the cost of ours, even the fresh stuff they grow vs the stuff we ship in.

I think our stuff has been artificially cheap for decades and we've relied far too much on products from outside the country.

I’ve noticed it too. It’s a few pence here and there but adds up. Supermarket own brand butter was £1.80 before Christmas (not on offer), since new year it has been £2. Whole chickens have gone up by £1. Diced stewing steak has gone up by £1 for the pack. Grapes have gone up by 10p. The small apples I buy for the kids have gone up by 6p. Bagels have gone up by 10p. Plus smaller increases on other stuff