Doubled in price in one week!

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I'm getting used to the creeping inflation on groceries of 10p more a week here, 15p there. But this week, a 5 pack of snack bags of apricots at Asda has doubled in price from £1.25 last week to £2.50 this week. That was too much for me, so I left them. Has anyone else noticed a big jump in a week like that? For some reason it's made me really nervous about lots of food items just being priced out of my basket.

Agree beans have jumped massively and tinned tomatoes. Plus cereal, yoghurt, just about everything really

know a lot of people can’t but we grew a lot in our garden this year so have potatoes to last us through the winter - make our own chips from them (way better than the shops) and have a weekly cheap meal of jackets

also grew loads of squash so regularly having meals using that up

if you’re buying things like tortillas, tacos etc try making your own - so cheap, sake for pizza bases/pasta sauce then you can bulk out meals with maybe a tortilla on the side

We are extending our growing patch plus have two alloments.

also remember to use Olio and any of the non food bank food clubs locally if you have any. A local community centre is a community fridge once a week just turn up with a carrier bag. A friends school does one for £3 a week where you get two full bags of food all in date due to funding and any member of that school can go you don’t have to be on benefits just willing to pay the £3.

Wow, 2 allotments - my DH would be jealous. We’re thinking of adding a poly tunnel next year so we can grow more, plus borrowing a friends incubator (she’s offered to give us fertilised eggs and we have a coop already). After mortgage and nursery fees, food is our largest expense and we like to eat well but barely eat out anymore (cost plus never seems that good and 2 small kids so lack of opportunity) and have definitely started being more frugal with what we buy.

lucky to have lots of storage space (we didn’t in our last house so agsin know this is not possible for some) plus an extra freezer/fridge in garage so tend to stock up when things are cheap/on offer

really need to look into olio though - have the app but never actually used it

I manage the local allotments. So we got lucky that when we took on the second we didn’t have a waiting list so I could take it on, majority is fruit though with a few greenhouses. So I have freezers full of currents and berry’s and rhubarb for days, cucumbers in the poly although my outside one at home was still flowering only a week ago! Lots of chillis and damsons. Garlic and onions going in soon, just made a new carrot bed in my greenhouse as I found they lasted a really long time in my old one and no carrot fly and planted some Christmas potatoes.

I do love the fruit though because that’s high value and pretty much looks after itself 😅

I used to have an allotment and loved it. But it was too far away and we couldn't have sheds so I had to carry my tools across 3 fields every time, and carry all water across 2 fields. So when time got crunched in the last recession and Dh was working away, I had to give it up. I couldn't even grow at home this year as DDog was digging everything up - but she's much better now than last spring so next year will be back to growing limited quantities in the garden at least.

Received this today from Amazon. My dishwasher tablets were £8.50 (last send on 1st September). My order has now been cancelled and it is suggest another seller. It’s only £12.75 (reduced from £15) a packet for the same item! So a 50% increase in 2 months counting the ‘reduction’!

Whoops sorry not exactly the same item. There are 55 in the first packet and 70 in the second. So 30% more dishwasher tablets for 50% extra cost.

The item I started this thread about, 5 snack pack of apricots at Asda jumping from £1.25 to £2.50 in a week, has just dropped from £2.50 to £1.20 in a week. Wtaf???

imho Supermarkets are increasing the price of things we cannot avoid buying, stuff we can go without, doesn't seem to be going up in price as much.

the increases in their own brand ranges are crazy, most have seen increases in the 50% to 100% range, yet most premium brands have not gone up as much.

But the costs of production and transport are similar surely if not more as they aren't making/selling as many.

I will be interested see what their profits are like for 22/23.

The bottle of lime squash (Sainsbury’s own) that I posted about was £1 originally, it’s crept up incrementally and is now £1.95

Our weekly shop was reliably around £80 it’s now £100

We’re lucky, we’ve both had reasonable pay reviews and we aren’t really extravagant in our habits so we have been able to cope so far but I know I am fortunate. I have been donating to the local food bank - our local one has seen a huge increase in the number of people who are referred to them.

Weetabix crispy minis back to £2.50

@Rainbowshine is it because its now the 4x strength one instead of double strength. Tesco did this.

I went to Sainsbury on 14/2 to buy prizes and picked up a few choclate oranges £1.45 and Lindt chocolate £4

i went back to get another couple of items in 16/2

chocolate orange now £1.95 and Lindt chocolate £5.50