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

There prices have gone up 8-20% since Christmas

Is that for 1 litre? Pretty sure the £2.20 price is for the 2 litre pack. Could be wrong though.

But you'd then have to pay your bills. Do you think that people on UC don't have bills?

Not if the only food people can afford is low quality crap.

My.partner and I were discussing this earlier.

Our diet consists of meat, fish, veg, salad and cooking from scratch. It would be cheaper for us to eat crap food but we don't want to.

Price of oranges not risen? Price of everything has risen!

Apparently, food is still quite cheap in this country. We have had cheap food for so long. That has to be a factor in the UK obesity crisis. That and the fact that so many of us are lazy and drive everywhere. Petrol needs to go up as well, and car tax.

If I were in charge, I would apply a factor of BMI/25 to everyone's National Insurance. A sort of greed tax. The more you consume, the higher your N.I. rate.

And you don't consider that food prices are also rising in other countries too?

That would only be a temporary situation until your kids were older though. You'd be forced to work more hours over time, and then all the benefits cut when they left school. Leaving you with no UC and no house. It's really not comparable.

Takes 2 oranges 🍊 for me

Really? Butter, cheese, olive oil and loads more base foods have climbed in price.

Where do you shop??? I pay 10p more this year then last

No the opposite will happen- because processed fat and sugar foods are the cheaper option. Eg if you are after a sweet treat, own brand biscuits for 80p are quite a lot cheaper than a punnet of grapes. If the rest of your food bill has gone up, it’s harder to justify the more expensive treat option.

Grow your own. It can be done. https://hub.suttons.co.uk/gardening-advice/how-to-grow-cucumbers

I haven't bought olive oil for ages for this reason! If I do get it will have to be from Aldi. Can't begin to imagine how much tescos would cost. Prob a tenner 🤣

That's a load of bull shit and you know it !

@Meadowfinch - have you really not noticed the basics going up as well as processed foods?

milk, cheese, butter, all meat, most fruit and veg, dried pluses, coffee beans etc. all seem to have gone up in the last year. good quality bread flour is suddenly very expensive.

We also cook from scratch most of the time and our bills have gone up. It’s the very processed crap like biscuits and ready meals that seem to be holding their prices.

I was just saying to dh yesterday that I've noticed that the weekly shops I've done since after the Christmas break have been around £100 or so, which is definitely more expensive than before Christmas. We did a shop today which wasn't a full shop and didn't include meat (no alcohol either) and this was £85, which surprised me. This was in Aldi too.

@Meadowfinch I buy wholesale organic whole foods and EVERYTHING is at least 30% up. You have luxury beliefs.

There's 40 servings in a tub of Birds custard powder for £1.90. Plus add in the price of milk and it still comes nowhere near £2.40.

@Poppyseeds79 you clearly have no clue what you're talking about.

Oh and sorry not to labour the point- but orange juice has gone up in price as oranges have gone up in price because failed /falling crops last couple of years. telling people to just buy oranges and make their own juice assumes -bizarrely- that the rise in the price of juice isn’t linked to the price of the only ingredient.

olive oil prices are still suffering from the fires across the med a couple of summers ago that took our olive farms.

a lot of the fruit and veg in our shops comes from Spain, but the floods we saw recently have damaged a lot of farming areas. If our fruit and veg has to travel further to get to us, it’ll be more expensive.

Blimey.

The supermarkets have to fork out for the employers' NI rise. Of course, they are going to have to put their prices up. This is what we voted for.

I collect prices of fruit and veg each month. The price of a cucumber in the three supermarkets I monitor has not increased in the last year. Carrots, on the other hand.....

My BMI is high it's majority muscle, DH's is very much muscle BMI is a waste of time!

OP go veggie it's rightly the rising cost of meat and processed food.

We are going to grow veg this year and I can't wait.