Has food prices risen again this month?

[Lifeisnotsimple]

Been shopping today and I go to various shops to keep the cost down but even Aldi has added 10/20p to everyday items. Farmfoods is the only shop that seems to still have value. We,ve moved away from branded foods but even they are being hiked up, dont buy biscuits/cake, crisps or sweets anymore. When you go shopping now foods like tesco value oats etc the shelves are bare, Ive always bought them but now it seems more people are to. Tesco fresh rolls used to be lovely but now seem undercooked and doughy, so stopped buying them. I do a monthly shop and from last month it seems alot more expensive, not sure if this is my imagination.

Dry weather, energy prices, animal food proces, employment costs - these all feed through. I am interested how much people think they should be paying for bits of an animla that a farmer has reared and looked after for maybe a year or so

On chocolate specifically there were a lot of climate change related cocoa crop failures last year that has pushed up the global price of chocolate.

Basically if you don't like food price inflation, start taking climate change VERY seriously.

We,'re above average earners. Previously, bought whatever we fancied, within reason

Yesterday, my DS and I were negotiating whether to buy Pink Lady apples or cheaper apples. And i honestly never thought at this stage in my life, I'd be noticing the cost of 4 apples

Yes food is expensive

and nearly a tenner for 1kg of the stuff....

Yet I can buy 1kg of chicken breast for £6.50. Minced beef is supposed to be the cheaper option... Supermarkets are cottoning on to the fact that people are going for the cheaper cuts, so are pushing up the prices there

And don't talk to me about veg quality - most of what I get from Sainsburys is either rotten or sprouting so I don't bother any more and get it from our local market. Same price but much better quality

@MegCleary ouch...but 2 months later I doubt you will get a refund on hearsay. At first I thought you meant you had spent £39 on bananas since 6/6/25...but £39 for one bunch 😮. Totally understand the holiday brain fog though. Got to be so switched on then check receipt before leaving the shop. It's a pain, shame we have to eat!

I’ve stopped looking at prices and just buy what I want or need. It wasn’t worth the irritation of getting wound up over a few pence here and there.

Bread is much cheaper to make than buy if you are making something like sourdough so dont have to buy stuff like dried yeast or put any butter or sugar in. It's literally just flour salt and water. You can make it incredibly cheaply especially if you buy a big sack of flour at cash and carry.

People are not just struggling to buy food but actively begging on fb village posts. Then when you see the amount of money being spent on "the boat people" no wonder they are a target. People look to good old great britain as a rich country when in fact we are not so rich anymore. More and more people are claiming, nhs is broken beyond belief, the economy is not thriving. Very doom and gloom so how are we supposed to pay for a large influx of new people. Something has to give.

£3.49!

Yes, I've noticed food has gone up again. Over the last 2 months I'd say. I cook from scratch and use basic products. This is affecting those on a budget more, the ready meals and premium brand haven't gone up very much at all. It's definitely affecting choices.

I usually cook spaghetti bolognaise or chilli or cottage pie once a week. I’m a bit fussy with meat, so always bought organic beef mince from Tesco. Usually paid around £5/6. Went to buy some a few weeks ago and it was £8! Last week when I looked, it had gone up even more to £8.50!!! Needless to say, I’ve stopped buying it and buy the Aberdeen Angus one instead but I’ll stop buying that too if it goes up much higher.

Yes, I’ve had to take some things off the food shop this week although it is a bit more than usual at the moment because DC are off school and not getting school dinners plus they are snacking a lot.

If you want branded biscuits you can’t get better than Farmfoods. Our snack drawers and cupboards are full to the brim from nipping in their once or twice a month.

3 packs of biscuits I’d have with a cuppa are £1

Kit Kats, Penguins, Clubs, Twix, TimeOuts etc etc all 69p to £1. Mr Kipling £1.25. Pretty much every brand you can think of is in there for around £1.

No need for kids to be missing meals either! That’s poor parenting.

Id rather pay the farmer than tesco, at least id know where the money was going. Can't trust big shops to tell us the truth. Often the quality of the food is awful and after seeing what supermarkets pay farmers for milk we know supermarket's are ripping people off left right and centre.

Even if there were no 'boat people' as you put it, do you really think that your shopping bill would be any cheaper? Honestly!

I've got a toddler with possible ARFID and his main foods are fruit and salad. I spent a fortune in Tesco for stuff that just goes manky within 2 days. Started using ocado and the fruits and vegetables actually keep for a hell of a lot longer. Just a suggestion as I know the pain of having to throw away stuff that's gone funky fast. Really galling when you've spent a fortune too😡

I shop at farm foods and yes biscuits etc are cheap but when you have a certain budget id rather buy 5 quid of meat than food that has no nutritional value. For some people these choices are real.

Agreed that fruit and veg are dire. I went abroad recently for the first time in a long while, and the fruit/veg in southern Europe was 'food of the gods' compared to what I've been seeing in our main supermarkets more recently.

Is it Brexit/border controls that is reducing quality of what we can get? Or is it just that our prices are so low in the UK that the quality necessarily suffers?

Do you mean per store?

A quick Google shows that Tesco’s overall profits last year were approx 3 billion

I fancied some beef strips for a stir fry other day. Used to be £4 or so, now almost £7. I didnt buy it and bought the chunks instead at £4.

I have noticed all meat products seem to be getting higher in Northern Ireland, and bread/milk products. Everything else seems quite similar.

This is a nightmare we should be up in arms.
im finding I have to be even more in it and organised than ever. If I forget something and can’t get back to Aldi it’s costing me so much. Tomato soup in Aldi is 67p. If I get it from spar it’s £3 a tin branded. This is madness.

also dp is obsessed with the coop (I agree re the boycott) but they are far more expensive than Aldi.

some great tips on here though I will look for a butcher. There is a huge veg stall in the local covered market. I don’t have time to go there but dp does so he will be dispatched there.

we get stuff from the local jar shop too but you can’t get all you need. Spaghetti perhaps!

this is a joke isn’t it.

We use a lot of yoghurt - I buy good quality brands. Probably spend £10 weekly.
Bought a yoghurt maker in Lakeland last month for £25 - bit fiddly to get started but use it twice a week now. Costs the price of a litre of milk to make a litre of yogurt.
I also grow fresh herbs in flower pots - again initial outlay on compost and herb plants but worth it.

Tomato soup in Aldi is 67p. If I get it from spar it’s £3 a tin branded. This is madness.

Would you be inclined to make it yourself?
For £3 you would probably be able to make 6 portions of soup.

Yep, everything has gone up in price.

Farmers probably arent actually getting paid more for their produce in line with the rises supermarkets are adding on. I dont know for sure, but given how they generally treat farmers it wouldn't surprise me at all sadly.

I have noticed this OP, its all going up and unless you have the time or headspace to shop around and/or do bits of shopping across different supermarkets then its savage. We have enjoyed low food prices for years, but this is partly why wage stagnation and being a low wage economy has been tolerable; now theyre rising its biting.

Even with yeast - a pot is something like £1.50 and will do a lot of loaves.