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

[Yummmyy]

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

Find your nearest Asian store for peppercorns and spices. The type that supply local restaurants. Thousands of % cheaper.

Well, that's what taking back control gets you. I know there are complex factors, but Brexit is a huge one. People who warned about it were called scaremongers, as I remember.

Absolutely not, you're not paying attention if you don't think the price of basic ingredients has gone up.

But top marks for the faux-naivety 'I don't buy processed food' smugness.

Why are you assuming the people commenting here voted for Brexit? I certainly didn’t.

The price rises are shocking. I
I normally shop in Aldi but popped ti my local Sainsbury's for custard for the fruit crumble I'd made. A small carton of birds custard. £2:40. What the actually f**l

I've found Aldi to be more expensive than Tesco on a few items - but I think that's down to my local one not selling their cheapest version. The refrigerated orange juice costs the same in both. It's cheaper to buy the long life one - but it's not as good.

Prices are going to be rising again because the wages costs are going up - both due to NI and minimum wage rises. This will affect both the costs of buying stock, and the cost if running the business.

And while supermarkets make huge profits, especially Tesco, it's a highly competitive business and their margins are extremely low - so they can't absorb the cost increases. Their huge profits are because the business itself is massive.

We have deliveries as live rurally. I book a slot with Ocado and one with Tesco. Everyweek we have pretty much the same shop and I do it at both shops to see which is cheaper. Every week Ocado is cheaper. Except this week Tesco has a deal on chicken, which I usually get from muscle foods at 6.00 a kilo at Tesco it's 6.09 a kilo but no delivery charge. So this week I have two deliveries coming. It's worth pricing your shop up at a couple of places if you can. It's shit we have to, but it all adds up.

Who has the time to squeeze fresh oranges for two adults and two children every morning and you’d need a hell of a lot to last a week! Buying that amount of oranges is definitely not cheaper than orange juice in a carton.

Yes, I know, that's why I'm wondering how it's even a suggestion to save money.

It’s not the cost of living. It’s supermarket profiteering. Tesco profit for the 24/25 year is estimated at 2.9 BILLION. They are scamming their customers with ever increasing prices. More pressure needs to be put on the supermarkets and energy companies. They are the issue.

Yes, sorry, I was agreeing with your post

@Yummmyy I’m with you. I’ve shifted to a cheaper store, cut back on as much as I can. But, just buying a few meals for 4 and some store cupboard basics tots up to a shocking bill.

I cook from scratch, don’t eat meat, make meals with cheap lentils, fresh veg etc. Don’t buy orange juice much anymore as I don’t drink it and the kids mainly prefer water now they’re older.

But olive oil. OMG the price inflation on that!

Agree with this. We’re having a Charlie Bigham ready meal tonight, I was going to make a curry from scratch but it had a yellow sticker on and worked out more cost effective than making one from scratch. Of course it’s more processed but easier and cheaper. It’s definitely not just processed foods.

I do find doing Hello Fresh and the like cheaper at the mo if you can get a deal!

Same. There are a few things in Aldi that are no cheaper than in Sainsbury’s.

*I cook from scratch, buy unprocessed foods and the prices seem to be holding steady.

Is it processed foods that are rising in price?*

No. It isn't.

@Poppyseeds79 I'm on legacy benefits on sick, got paid last Tuesday by the end of the day £1.26 left. Everything is so expensive in London.

Not much difference in it now, Aldi have been slowly increasing prices week on week too.

Yes, true. Aldis fruit goes off very quickly.

It is terrifying and it will keep getting worse. UK is on the way to become one of those countries where the middle class doesn't exist, where there are only super rich and very poor, like countries in Latin America, Africa. This is happening because of growing wealth inequality. The super rich are getting richer and they will completely outcompete ordinary people for all sorts of things - schools, dentists, doctors, property. Gary Stevenson's explains these things so well. We need a wealth tax. Nothing else will do.

But it's not irrelevant though. We import most of our food and we are in competition with the people in these other countries to buy it. Why would a farmer sell a cucumber to us for 50p each if people elsewhere will pay double?

Can you share what you bought? I'm baffled you can do a full shop for a family of 4 at M&S for just £60!?

i did entitleto once to see what would i get if i split with my husband and we sell the house (so no longer a homeowner) and i would get slightly more in benefits on the top of my part time salary! (I earn about 23k part time) its crazy… really whats the point of trying and shitting myself if we can pay mortgage or not

Don’t know if you knew but Ocado now promise to price match Tesco. If they find a discrepancy they’ll email and refund

I meant that it’s irrelevant in terms of the impact it’s having on our personal finances at the moment.
It’s all very well saying ‘you’re lucky, food is cheaper there than it is in x, y and z country’. The fact is that food costs have risen faster than our wages have risen, and is it therefore putting more strain on our budgets.

I've always found Tesco expensive (and annoying with those clubcard deals).

I shop at Aldi.

OJ I've watched in price, even at Aldi, and now buy the 2L bottle that costs £2.19 and is from concentrate. I buy the one with bits and not from concentrate for special occasions whereas I used to buy two of those weekly.