To think this increase in cost is going to break me?

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I earn a decent salary. Whenever I go to Tesco for a basic food shop, sone items are going up literally 50p plus within a matter of two weeks. Orange juice was 2.20 for Tesco’s basic, the most expensive 4.30!!

Yes I know orange juice isn’t an essential but when you’re well above minimum wage and have to cut something like that out of your food shop it does make you question what’s the point… anyone else relate to this? I just don’t know where it’s going to end

What i never understand about these threads us when someone says 'my food bill was £80 last year now its '£100 this year'...and i wonder, do they buy the same stuff week in week out? And how do they know they didn't buy washing powder or bleach or whatever last year?

Kind if baffles me

It's not that mystifying @ssd I don't buy exactly the same tings each week but I know that each week I spend approx £140 on grocery shopping. 3 years ago it was £110 and that was with 1 more teenager to feed. Prices are going up

I work it out on my monthly visa bill, paper copy. What I pay for personal stuff, what comes out of the joint house pot. So for me it's not difficult.

It’s not going to end, and frankly I’m finding the world a very dark place at the moment. When I got married, I was so full of hope for a world where the Berlin Wall had come down, Mandela had been elected president but worked for truth & reconciliation, not revenge. New Labour had cut waiting lists, there were no longer trolleys in corridors, negative equity was receding and you could see school buildings being built.

Instead nowadays intolerance and hatred seem to be rising, made worst by COL crisis. My shopping, like yours, keeps on rising. NHS is on its knees ( but still so much preferable to US-style insurance model which over-prices everything).

It’s also worse for adult DC where jobs are being taken over by AI and rents astronomical so they have to choose between being independent but broke, or living back at home but having some cash.

And then one goes about one’s day today. The sun shines, the wars and planes falling out of the sky are elsewhere and you switch between gratitude that you can enjoy your day normally, and bewilderment that this coincides with nightmares being experienced in other countries right now.

I don’t even know rightly how to finish this response. So I’ll end here. Interested in others’ thoughts.

I agree, I worry about my adult dd's dreadfully. And as I have rented all my life I have nothing to leave them that might help them out a little bit 🙁

So many people have cut back no more Fairy, liquid, Donestos. Aldi dupes all the way.

What we can do nothing about are energy costs. The highest in Europe. Our energy companies are owned by french and German companies. So there's no escape. We're a cow to be milked energy wise

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🤣🤣don’t be daft. UK and Irish Cattle passports prevent horse meat getting in the food chain and tuna aren’t cannibals.
However many countries do eat horse meat and goat meat and all of a pig. Trotters are a luxury.
Id make the point that the UK used to have a history of cheap nourishing cooking.
I note many winners of cooking programmes talk of learning to cook from their mostly foreign mothers and grandmothers who grew up in poverty.
I don’t know if cooking has been reintroduced in schools but if so it’s not taught by teachers who have a cultural background in making meals from cheap ingredients.

I already used cheap washing up liquid and similar. I have ditched shower gel and just buy bars of soap now.

I agree, I’m literally seeing every single time I go in there that things have risen 5/10/20p since my last shop

Our local cash and carry has the big lurpacks for £3 but you’ve got to make a special trip and the stock changes weekly and some items daily. Though normally at least once a month the same stuff will roll though.

Cooking shouldn't be taught in schools - it's a parent's responsibility. Honestly you'd be surprised at the amount of 18 year olds who've never cracked an egg in their lives. University, for me, was an eye-opener.

One thing that has peed me off today was my car insurance renewal. I have been accident-free for 2 years and yet it's never climbed back down from £1000 wherever I look with the cover I need (though a strong word on the phone suddenly always gets the price down). Others here say they have covers of £200 a year. I'd love to get back to a reasonable price. But you pay the poverty tax, too. This area, highly deprived, has a lot of car theft and only on-road parking. Go figure.

I think cooking should absolutely be taught in schools - it's taught in colleges. How are the colleges supposed to find good candidates if they have no exam grades for related subjects to consider?

With cooking’s my ds school does a bit. They made scones, a chilli and a jam roly poly. My dd’s school does no cooking. Who knows about the third.

In today’s age though even parents not teaching isn’t too much of an excuse with YouTube and google. Alexa shows as live cook books.

Mine know the basics. Although the boy won’t crack eggs. It’s a texture thing but he knows how to use them to make things.

If you want to do cooking as a course at college I’ve seen friends children cooking much better high quality foods at home than anything they have done on food tech at school.

Most restaurants these days unless your talking Michelin types Don’t want actual chefs either just someone who can operate a microwave and a griddle.

When I cooked at school, we cooked every second week, and it got more and more involved over the two years. The exam was to plan and cook a three course meal.

While I also cooked at home, I learned things that we would never have done at home, because it's not the kind of thing we did. Like custard and meringue from scratch, or making a velouté.

Ooo I used to love making meringue. Never taught at school though that was a home made thing. Same as sourdough starter and all that.

school for me in the early 2000’s didn’t really teach much other than cakes, spag bol, chilli and meatballs. Oh and soup starter or prawns. If they was feeling fancy we had to make lasagne or ravioli.

My friends child who’s recently finished year 11 show cases their gcse type work vs their just love for food cooking via mums page and the love for food wanting to learn was above what the school was wanting.

My kids are already planning to work abroad it's sad I don't want that. But let's see what tomorrow brings