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

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

Can't really look at food prices in isolation either, I don't believe the US is dealing with the same level of wage stagnation as we are, we are really struggling with our productivity which moving away from the EU will also not be helping...

I live alone and an Aldi shop for a week, mostly fresh food, with some frozen fruit and veg, would cost me £25 tops a year ago.
Today I got one basket of food for £21. A basic tub of hummus was £1.75, it was 99p not long ago. Roll on summer when at least I’ll have fruit and veg in the garden.

Pepper doesn’t really go off.

If it gets that bad, survive on salad sandwiches and boiled eggs. That would reduce the bill

£8 for bottle of olive oil it's crazy

Yes, we grow our own on our £15 per year rented allotment. Alsorts of fruit, veg and pulses.

Really helps including with food waste.

I think it’s a mixture of Brexit, rampant inflation and poor weather/climate change affecting harvests. I went to Aldi today. Overall, it can shave quite a lot off the price of a shop, but it does depend on what it is - a number of things we needed today were the same price or less in Sainsburys.

I also think it really depends on the Aldi branch. We went in the afternoon, and there were lots of gaps. So we are getting a Sainsburys delivery tomorrow with all the stuff I couldn’t get in Aldi. But I bet overall it saved me £30 (£80 va maybe £110).

What I’m noticing is the “ceiling” price - I don’t think I’d ever routinely spent more than £120 per week for a family of four plus cat, until this last year. Now it’s not unusual for us to spend £150 in a week and we don’t live extravagantly, don’t eat expensive meat/fish at every meal, no alcohol included in this amount, etc. I realise we are very privileged to be able to spend like this, I am horrified at the impact it will be having on people who are struggling.

I notice a big difference to our food bill if we buy more processed foods, especially crisps, cereal bars and soft drinks. Dairy products have gone up a lot - the kids yogurts I buy used to be routinely on offer at £1 for four and now they’re on offer at £1.50 for four. Butter has gone up by about a third. Cheese is up. Meat and fish are up. So even the unprocessed food is more expensive.

I’ve been on three other sm platforms tonight and there are many posts about the same thing.

I feel like I’m running out of food much quicker as the contents have got smaller but the prices have increased. I don’t find Aldi or Lidl that much cheaper anymore infact some of their items are more expensive but the quality poorer. I cook mostly from scratch but it would cheaper for me to live off ready made pizzas…I don’t but I can see why people would opt for processed food.

It is horrifying, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers all shooting up in price. I cook from scratch, no take away, no booze, no fizzy drinks. I do have allergy children and free from foods are pricey but I’m spending more on the mo thou food shop than the mortgage now. I questioned if I could get a tub of hummus last week, constantly seeing where we can cut back

This is great.

We shop in Aldi and love it, find somewhere as big as Tesco overwhelming.
BUT we used to call Aldi the £40 shop, used to get everything for that a few years back. Even there it's gone up

Rapeseed oil is quite a lot cheaper and still healthy.

@cherish123 rapeseed oil makes the best and crispest roast potatoes.

Hot 2 litre bottle in Costco for £6 last week was well chuffed

I always spend a lot less when I do a.supermarket online delivery.

And what about the slim people who can no longer afford to eat? Collateral damage in this anti obesity campaign?

Good point. Maybe the Govt had spotted that one.

I agree - I lived in Australia for a while and our supermarkets are cheap as chips compared to theirs. It is still possible to eat very cheaply in this country.

Mortgage rates are what terrify me...

Also or Lidl don't work if you have major food allergies. I can't eat gluten and I can't have any of their tinned soup, bread, 99% of the cereal. They do a decent gluten free pasta in Lidl but it's not somewhere I could do a proper full shop.

I picked a pack of ham up the other day and it had wheat added.

Take your bullshit elsewhere.

Bearing in mind the OP is clearly struggling, I'm choosing to believe you are genuine and simply didn't do the maths.

It takes 15 average oranges to produce 1 litre of juice.

3 x £1.50 for a five pack of oranges from Tesco = £4.50

I litre of pre-prepared juice is £1.75

if you are looking at orange juice you can buy it on Ocado for £1.75.

I completely agree with your post BTW but Ocado isnt always more expensive than the big supermarkets. (they price match tesco on lots of things, and many prices are the same as aldi)

So expensive, but when I see prices in the US and Canada I’m grateful i’m not doing a grocery shop there. I’ve noticed so many items I regularly buy jump up a lot

YANBU OP prices are going all over.

I have been saying this to my husband today,
We buy so many of the same items each week and some items have increased 50p-£1 in a couple of weeks! It's crippled me x

We’ve all been used to eating whatever we like for so long. I wonder if it is unsustainable to expect much? Olive oil and other imported things were luxuries in the 60/70s.
When I was little (80s) we pretty much we lived off eggs from our chickens, goat milk, garden fruit and veg. All my parents bought were rice and lentils because we couldn’t afford much more. It was really boring but we could all start growing our own food a bit.