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

Agree. No way that covered 84 meals, breakfast lunch and tea

I would also love to know @Truth25

Aldi and Lidl aren’t as cheap as some people always claim they are, I find very little difference in prices and neither are local to me so I would have to travel further to get to them.

The anti processed food brigade seem to be joining this thread to food bash, and I have no idea why because meat prices have also shot up along with fruit and vegetables.

Just cut down. People don't need half the stuff they buy.

@truth25 I think there's rather a reliance on a packed store cupboard there to manage a week on M and S at 60!

Speak for yourself. Everything we buy, we eat. All healthy weights.

Nothing wrong with not wanting to live on processed food, of course raw ingredients are going up as well, no one has said that they are not.

Yesterday I read an article about the huge increase in retail theft. It's desperate and I keep thinking that the huge inequality we're seeing is about to boil over into something very ugly. We both earn good wages, we are absolutely scraping and cutting back every month and still in the red.

One poster did, in fact, say that they’re not.

Aldi and Lidl allow you to buy what you want rather than having them overpriced and having to buy double to buy them at a sensible price. They also don't have quite so much range and sort of restricts your shop.

I fancied fresh sage the other day but Aldi don't sell it so I made do with dried. That's not necessarily a good thing but it does reduce your food bill by having less choice.

That's just not true.

The massive profits are because it's a massive business.

In terms of gross revenue, it's the third biggest business in the world. When you look at profit, it's the ninth biggest business in the world. It drops six places - which goes to show that it's profit margin is much lower than the businesses above it.

Gosh you’re so lucky your shopping hasn’t increased.

The rest of us must all be imaging things. But where I live they have everything from fresh produce to toilet roll to washing powder.

Except you wouldn't, because you would have over £16k in savings. And you'd also have to run a home each on one income. Which is really hard. Can people please stop envying single mothers on benefits for the glamorous lives we're apparently living?

Also is a bit cheaper than Tesco’s but really not much. I only don’t spend much if I go there because they don’t stock everything I’d normally buy so it looks like I’ve not spent as much then I end up having to do a top up shop to get the other stuff from Tescos/sainsburys anyway.

Well they are mistaken, prices are rising frequently, I find.

I bought black peppercorns in B&M the other day for £1!

Yes that's right and you get 10p back for recycling carrier bags

I read the thread title and wondered what you were going to be talking about, the runaway cost in rent, the leap in mortgage rates as you fall off a fix, the stubborn and creeping price of energy, increase in water rates, council tax increases this year, childcare costs on the rise...but, yeah, food too, I guess.

I know that food is expensive in other countries but we've seen huge rises over the last three years and I've definitely seen another shift since the new year.

I bought loads of 8p a bag veg from Aldi before Christmas to make soup for a local lunch club, i used the last of it today and there was noting wrong with it but then i don't store it in a warm house, it is in a hessian bag in the shed.

Can someone explain why yet again a post about food, or anything has people piling in on single mothers and those on benefits?

Im a) a single mum b) not getting any CSA, C) working and D) also on UC

I pay for everything, and what more I do it all alone, if my washing machine explodes then its all on me to buy another. Food costs the same whether you are on UC or not, there isn’t a special “Cheap area for those on UC” in Asda.

If you think you’ll be quids in then feel free to split up, then come back and tell us all.

If Brexit is the reason for our higher food prices what is the reason for food prices shooting up on mainland Europe and North America? Fuel prices have risen there also, god only knows how Brexit has pushed up diesel prices in Toronto'

The use by date was probably 1995.

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

But their own brand range is much more limited vs the other big supermarkets.

"If Brexit is the reason for our higher food prices what is the reason for food prices shooting up on mainland Europe and North America?"

Don't be obtuse. It's clearly not the only reason but it is a significant factor as we import a lot from europe

You realise it all comes from the same suppliers? My friend is a fruit and veg importer, same stuff