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aibu to think food prices are sky-rocketing.

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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 18:09

I just bought some bits at local co-op. It came to 72.99 and it wasn't much.

How on earth do those on a low income cope?

Are prices getting very high very quick or is it just me?

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RoseMartha · 22/12/2021 21:07

@rrhuth
I had an email from my gas supplier telling me they were upping my monthly direct debit from £16 to £99.

I was 😲😲😲😲

I rang them and said how can this be? I hardly use any gas!!!! I know prices are going up but that is ridiculous.

Anyway they conceded it must have been a mistake and will charge me £34 instead.

skybluee · 22/12/2021 21:14

The Coop do own brand chocolate in large bars that is much, much cheaper than Kinder. It isn't in the chocolate section by the food to go though, it's weirdly on the alcohol aisle by nuts and crisps. It is a tonne cheaper. I'd say Kinder isn't 'premium' but it is expensive for the amount you get, unless you get the 4 bars for £1 offer that is currently on.

The Coop sadly is v expensive. I saw a lemon in there for 46p the other day. That's seriously dear.

However, they do have fairly good reduced food sections where you can get things massively marked down (e.g. pizza for 40p, etc).The yellow sticker items like 52 mentions.

Personally, I've really noticed food prices going up so I don't think it's just you. This is on products like e.g. individual chocolate bars. I've tried to change the way I buy things but due to various constraints it's difficult.

FanGirlX · 22/12/2021 21:14

DP and I split up a few months ago and the child maintenance isn't forthcoming. I have moved jobs and got a decent pay rise (lucky me 😀). I can see it all being eaten up by the combo of price increases and having to fund a household by myself. I am just under the earnings limit for child benefit (for 1 child), so in theory I'm a reasonable earner but it all seems to disappear!

Stellaris22 · 22/12/2021 21:22

Co Op are very big on minimising waste, so things like bread and uncut veg can be sold for 10p when past the sell by date.

Personally I think it's awful that the government knows full well that gas prices are insane right now and yet there's nothing in the media warning people.

DH works in the energy industry and keeps saying a lockdown would actually be hugely beneficial considering how bad it's getting. Industries are going to have be shutdown and there's even talk of gas rationing.

MarieInternette · 22/12/2021 21:30

I thought the exact same thing today. Spent a small fortune in Morrisons and Sainsburys today and didn’t have an awful lot to show for it. It made me think back to when I got married (20 years ago) and started supermarket shopping and most items except meat, alcohol, laundry products etc were less than £1. Now most items are at least twice that. I paid £2.80 for large salad cream today. Maybe I’m just getting old and out of touch.

Constance1 · 22/12/2021 21:33

@JingleBellez

I literally had the cheapest tv xmas guide, some teeny salmon rounds, some chicken satay. Box of choccy biccies, some kinder santas (and kinder large eggs so that may have racked it up somewhat). 2 bottles of coke etc.

I've 3 kids and 2 incomes - how on earth do those on nmw cope?

Have you checked you receipt and checked you weren't accidentally charged twice or even three times for some items? £72 sounds implausible for the items you've listed.
Comedycook · 22/12/2021 21:35

@MarieInternette

I thought the exact same thing today. Spent a small fortune in Morrisons and Sainsburys today and didn’t have an awful lot to show for it. It made me think back to when I got married (20 years ago) and started supermarket shopping and most items except meat, alcohol, laundry products etc were less than £1. Now most items are at least twice that. I paid £2.80 for large salad cream today. Maybe I’m just getting old and out of touch.
Twenty years ago I had left uni and was job hunting. The wages for the jobs I was looking at are pretty much the same today. It's shocking
likeasloth · 22/12/2021 21:45

It's definitely skyrocketed for the past 2/3 years. My average shop would cost me about £140 just for food with no confectionery or snacks, no nappies, no laundry and cleaning products. A couple of years ago £100/£120 would be more than enough for everything including the nappies, laundry detergents and cleaning products but unfortunately now, I would have to spend at least £200 to get all of them together.

I remember just over 10 years ago when I drove my mum to a big supermarket shop and my mum just went nuts over buying everything and it cost £90 and I remember helping her pack bags and bags of shopping. The cars boot was full and I had to put her shopping on the back seat of my car. Now with £90, you would barely fill 3 bags with that budget.

CoffeeRunner · 22/12/2021 22:12

@HollowTalk

Last night I was watching an old episode of Dinnerladies with my mum. It must've been about 20 years old. They were talking about winning a voucher for £50 and one of them said they could buy 10 bottles of wine for that. They could do that now, 20 years on! Although I agree that some things are more expensive, I think other things are much cheaper.
Love Dinnerladies.

It was a £50 bet.

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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:17

@MatildaIThink

it amazed me no-one ever thought to question Brexit and what they'd lose over what they'd gain Loads of people did, they were dismissed as unpatriotic, it was said to be "Project Fear", they were dismissed as lying, or remoaners etc.

I have no sympathy for those who voted for Brexit and suffer it's consequences, they made their choice and they can live with it, I do however feel sorry for those of us who are not idiots, but have to suffer the consequences of the decision the idiots made.

Guess it's a case of you've made your bed now lie in it...
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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:20

@flowerycurtain

I think you bought expensive food.

I'm a farmer. The product I produce is sold in the same price as 7 years ago. That's 7 years of feed, Labour, electric costs going up for us.

I'll eat my hat if they don't go up much further next year. Nitrogen shot up to a ridiculous amount this winter. If it doesn't drop there'll be a lot of farmers not planting next autumn.

I probably have. It's Christmas. I won't be doing it again lol x

My family farm I know it's incredibly tough. It's worrying isn't it.

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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:21

@likeasloth

It's definitely skyrocketed for the past 2/3 years. My average shop would cost me about £140 just for food with no confectionery or snacks, no nappies, no laundry and cleaning products. A couple of years ago £100/£120 would be more than enough for everything including the nappies, laundry detergents and cleaning products but unfortunately now, I would have to spend at least £200 to get all of them together.

I remember just over 10 years ago when I drove my mum to a big supermarket shop and my mum just went nuts over buying everything and it cost £90 and I remember helping her pack bags and bags of shopping. The cars boot was full and I had to put her shopping on the back seat of my car. Now with £90, you would barely fill 3 bags with that budget.

as a student i went to netto. I could live well in ull in the noughties on £20. God, I'm so old.
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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:22

@Constance1 forget to add the pizza pinwheels/party food. Checked it and it's right. I should have waited til aldi shop lol. You live you learn eh x

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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:30

@LaurieFairyCake

Jinglebellez

Yep, totally right - proper meter readings Sad

hellz bellz
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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:31

@MarieInternette

I thought the exact same thing today. Spent a small fortune in Morrisons and Sainsburys today and didn’t have an awful lot to show for it. It made me think back to when I got married (20 years ago) and started supermarket shopping and most items except meat, alcohol, laundry products etc were less than £1. Now most items are at least twice that. I paid £2.80 for large salad cream today. Maybe I’m just getting old and out of touch.
Love you need to try aldi/lidl. It's 55p in aldi and quite nice btw
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sarah13xx · 22/12/2021 22:39

Yes everything just costs sooo much! Have seen so many posts this year about people just questioning how they’re meant to afford Christmas presents. I was the same and that wasn’t even including Christmas dinner since we’re going to my mums for it. I’m on maternity leave and it’s actually criminal what you get to survive on. £150 per week to cover all of your bills, food, Christmas, lunches, car, insurance and so on. It just doesn’t add up 🙈

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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:40

when I was on maternity for the first time it was £125...

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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:52

@skybluee

The Coop do own brand chocolate in large bars that is much, much cheaper than Kinder. It isn't in the chocolate section by the food to go though, it's weirdly on the alcohol aisle by nuts and crisps. It is a tonne cheaper. I'd say Kinder isn't 'premium' but it is expensive for the amount you get, unless you get the 4 bars for £1 offer that is currently on.

The Coop sadly is v expensive. I saw a lemon in there for 46p the other day. That's seriously dear.

However, they do have fairly good reduced food sections where you can get things massively marked down (e.g. pizza for 40p, etc).The yellow sticker items like 52 mentions.

Personally, I've really noticed food prices going up so I don't think it's just you. This is on products like e.g. individual chocolate bars. I've tried to change the way I buy things but due to various constraints it's difficult.

I got 2 kinder santas and 2 large kinder eggs
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JingleBellez · 22/12/2021 22:53

@Stellaris22

Co Op are very big on minimising waste, so things like bread and uncut veg can be sold for 10p when past the sell by date.

Personally I think it's awful that the government knows full well that gas prices are insane right now and yet there's nothing in the media warning people.

DH works in the energy industry and keeps saying a lockdown would actually be hugely beneficial considering how bad it's getting. Industries are going to have be shutdown and there's even talk of gas rationing.

ours never sells OWT for 10p
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TheQuernsSperch · 22/12/2021 23:00

I think we'll have to shop old style and seasonally. Apples instead of expensive imported fruit, that sort of thing.

CovidCorvid · 22/12/2021 23:00

There’s someone on my village fb group who incessantly posts about how the co-op are the cause of rural poverty. And then posts price comparisons of various random things such as the price of a jar of Nescafé at the co-op, Tesco, Asda, morrisons, etc.

I get he may be selecting stuff to suit his narrative but the co-op prices are significantly more.

BluebellsGreenbells · 23/12/2021 00:05

What I notice at Christmas is the lack of cheaper brands in the shelves, I’m not sure if the manufacturer switch to make premium Christmas crap or the supermarkets don’t order basics knowing people want premium - or can only get premium so it inflates the buyers perception .

But I agree - costa are sky rocketing and we need to stop using ‘convenience’ as an excuse, grow our own, batch cook, be more organized, use store cupboard ingredients, write proper lists etc .

TheCatsKilledTheGonks · 23/12/2021 01:29

Yeah.... well a pandemic and disruption of global supply chains will do that OP.

Obviously made much worse by Brexit. Who knew those economic projections that we'd all be permanently poorer were real, eh? Take it up with the Brexit voters, and the people who run wet markets.

TheCatsKilledTheGonks · 23/12/2021 01:33

@rrhuth

Yes, Brexit + energy prices, cost of living issues next year will be awful.
Yup. Please tax increases, interest rate rises (which will also raise social rents significantly) and massive inflation.

Thanks Boris! Happy new year. Smile

They knew what they were voting for though: don't patronise them. They wanted this and chose it, so we mustn't question it because "immigrants, foreign languages "

TheCatsKilledTheGonks · 23/12/2021 01:35

@Stellaris22

The worrying thing is how energy prices are increasing still but there's no media coverage. It's going to have a serious knock on effect to food prices and other things.

It's only going to get worse unfortunately, gas prices are scary right now.

Yes. Increased energy prices will increase the cost of all goods manufactured in the UK or imported from abroad, as well as household bills.

What is the Government doing about energy security? We are a country surrounded by sea, where is their investment in hydroelectric power that has become much more financially viable in recent years? What are they doing about food and water security?

Answers on a postage stamp please.