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.

Let us know if you got a refund for the bananas! It was a while ago, but I’m sure they know people don’t buy up
boxes of them !

I was really quite upset today in the shop about this. Me and the shop guy were just saying we'll all end up with one slice of dry bread only a day.

It's horrible and how far can they push us?

I'm now in Poland and the supermarket curry that cost 3.50 EUR exactly this time last year is now 4.50. Every single food shop comes to like 60 EUR and it lasts 3 days. I don't how people here survive - the minimum wage here is monthly ca. 1000 EUR gross. Most of people don't earn much more than this. I guess UK is still probably OK.

You will be thrilled to know that NT and EH are both independent charities so your taxes are not contributing to Ukrainian refugees sharing their hosts’ memberships. Tipping points need to be genuine to be justifiable.

However since you ostensibly started this thread to discuss food prices, not charities offering entry to stately homes for refugees hosted by their paying members I’m sure you don’t want the thread diverted into clickbait racism.

Surely it’s unlikely that they still have the CCTV. However, hopefully they should realise that £39 on bananas is not a normal spend.

Did you read the article? It clearly states that a course of driving lessons are provided for all children leaving the care system. Its a common model across local authorities.

Its a pretty small “benefit” considering the massive disadvantages care leavers face even and helps them to be more employable so less likely to need much state support.

Exactly this! Most salad bags are rotten before you buy them, looking at you Tesco trying to farm off on your click and collect customers.

had a bag of Walkers yesterday, first in ages and there were about ten crisps in the packet and a lot of broken bits, will not buy again.

😁this is why Dh wouldn’t share his with me!

I shop in Aldi and M & S and find some of the basic foods are not much difference in price. i.e. beans, tomatoes, pasta etc but the quality is much better in Marks.
I few months ago Aldi made their large toilet roll pack half the size but made the rolls bigger so they would not fit into my holder so had to keep them together in the plastic but the pack I bought the other day, supposedly the same ones, now fit back into the holder and the price has gone up.

Sainsbury’s Stamford street products.
Tortilla chips for example. The ingredients are
Maize, Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil), Salt.

Doritos salted tortilla chips ingredients
Corn (Maize), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Antioxidants (Rosemary Extract, Ascorbic Acid, Tocopherol Rich Extract, Citric Acid)

There is also their porridge, muesli, Yorkshire puddings.

I haven’t had a proper look, but if you check the packaging on the economy foods next time you shop you’ll be quite surprised.

I’m in Spain and food is no cheaper here so it’s not just the UK. I was comparing food prices with a friend in NZ the other day and prices are even worse there. Bad harvests caused by bad weather are partially to blame I imagine.

@DiscoBob what do you mean "they". There is no shadowy "they" setting food prices in the UK. They are a combination of production costs, availability and what the market will bear.

As many have noted a number of factors have combined recently to raise the cost of food production and retailing - rising energy and employment costs, climate change causing crop shortages and failures around the world, the war in Ukraine (Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of wheat and sunflower oil).

I presume by they you mean the share holders and bosses of the shop chain who are making a profit?

I totally agree with you.

I’m not sure where you live or if you’re open to the offer but on Mondays Uber eats have 50% off their fruit and veg from Waitrose. It saves me an absolute fortune.

@Witchtoweri knew this but i needed the reminder im sure its lower sugar and salt too

Oh sorry. I didn't say there was a shadowy entity setting food prices. I'm well aware of all the factors involved.

But how else should me and the guy behind the till at the shop word it during a thirty seconds conversation?

I don't know why you need to be so patronising. As if to say that semantics mean the issue isn't as important.

Did you read the links you posted?

And did you read this one?

Figures estimated according to Reform UK

Yes

But there's nobody "illegal" in those links?

A couple of months ago a weekly Aldi shop for us (2 adults, one kid, ome toddler, one cat) was hovering around the £80 mark, now I'm lucky if its under £110.

You honestly think Tesco is only making £20million in profit? In a year?

It makes that in a couple of days.

Try £3billion in a year.

No you just can't argue a good point and the truth hurts, so yeah, climb back under your rock!!

@C8H10N4O2 Why do you keep referring to Ukrainian refugees?? Am I missing something here because no one has mentioned them other than you.
Ukrainian refugees are genuine people escaping war. There are women and children that came here for help, and in my opinion, they weren't given enough help by our government.

The issue I have is so many of us are struggling now and the red carpet is being rolled out for ILLEGAL immigrats entering this country ILLEGALLY being housed in 4* hotels, 3 meals a day being provided, paid for mobile phones, clothes, dentistry, medical care, benefits & much much more which is costing an absolute fortune when hardworking people are on the breadline, missing meal, unable to cover outgoings. It's just so, so wrong!!

We are counting pennies here!!

We rarely visit our local big Asda as its grim but their salad items are now only 1P cheaper than marks and spencer and their quality is much better so we buy there now plus the M and S reductions are great...Asda reductions are all slimy and off.