Prices still going up every week?

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Asda Aldi 6 salad tomatoes 99p today
Asda own brand tissues £1.20 last week £1.10.

It's ridiculous. It's little but it all adds up.

Sainsbury’s hot chocolate used to be about £2 and the branded stuff like star bucks £4 or Costa £3.
Now the Sains stuff is £3.50 - was more than the Costa one next to it!

Cheese that used to be about £1.50 is now £3.
I think they’re just putting stuff up for the hell of it now.

Ours is going from 1.8 to 4.5 😬

Their gluten free has browns have gone from 750g to 500g whilst also going from £1 to £1.70

I don't go in asda as much as i used to but today it was like wtf why is it so expensive.

I get the Aldi Greek yoghurt and the Tesco finest one, both have lids!

It really is scary how prices have gone up over the last couple of years.
Lidl - 4 pack of greek yogurt 125ml was 99p for YEARS. The pots are now 150ml but it's £1.75 a pack.
Bear YoYos. Pack of five were always £2.40 and I bought them if they dropped to £2. Latest price in Morrisons - £3.40!
Options Hot Chocolate. The price ranges this week from £2.50 Nectar price in Sainsbury's to £5 everywhere else.

My examples are maybe not essentials but we now only buy the "nice to haves" if they are on special offer.

This is exactly how I feel when I do the food shop. I used to grab things and chuck them in or try new products but I am far more aware of what goes into the trolley. Top of my list is olive oil for over £8. Nope and £1.40 for a can of Heinz baked beans. Nope and I have to hold my breath putting the Heinz ketchup in.

I have started to use more frozen veg as well e.g. peppers, green beans.

I am generally shocked at how much the weekly shop now costs and how little I seem to get for my money nowadays.

I get bags of frozen chopped peppers for this, they are fine in bolognese, chilli's etc and work out cheaper........mind you not as cheap as a year ago they have kept creeping up to but a bag lasts quite a long time and saves all that chopping, think the last pack was about £1.80 in asda, they used to be cheaper in aldi but not had them the last few times I've looked.

It's crazy prices, but I'm a bit of a yellow label hunter, so I'd seriously suggest get your timings on shopping.

I've been doing it for years, but noticed so many more people now waiting for reductions.

Totally non essential but £5.25 large sushi today in Sainsbury's was £1, fruit, veg meats etc most items can be frozen.

Asda grapes were 2 punnets for £2, now £2 each and no use by date so no
clue how long they will last so not buying them anymore

Yeah, but all the plastic pots are different sizes so you couldn't have a set of reusable lids that would fit everything.

I have some of these, they work fairly well. Alternatively, a saucer or small plate on top of a pot usually does the trick.

https://www.moopops.co.uk/shop

I used to bake my own bread, cakes and biscuits. Now the ingredients are so expensive it’s cheaper to buy yellow sticker bits from the local shop at closing time.

@baroqueandblue Nowhere special, rural Hampshire.

I have been shopping around but I got Gressingham duck on offer £7.50, when they were £8 last year. Seasonal uk veg seem the same to me, swede, carrots, onions, brocolli, leeks, shallots, beetroot. Haven't looked at sprouts yet. Sultanas and raisins are still 99p/500gm

Peppers & salads are imported so yes they are up.

Cakes and biscuits are processed so higher price too, but only a little more expensive to home make. Chocolate and hazel/almonds/chestnuts are all more expensive this year due to bad harvests.

Food relies on weather, and if it gets disrupted, there's less available and prices rise. Not much we can do about that.

Climate change is really starting to hammer food prices.

Dried fruit is far more expensive this year thanks to a pretty catastrophic harvest in Turkey. Olives are up so much in two years that a number of pizza places aren’t offering them as a topping anymore. Arabica coffee and cocoa beans had very poor harvests this year so are going to go is sharply in the coming months.

Add in the increased heating costs for greenhouse fruit and veg and it’s a pretty depressing picture.

The thing I've found most interesting is I've British friends who have lived in America for years. Think decades.

We lived and worked together in an WI country at the turn of the century.

They've been saying how great it is to do a shop here - so much choice and so cheap.

I almost felt bad informing them it now costa a fortune just for the basics!

As in it maybe cheap compared to US but it's not cheap for us compared to a few years ago!

EU country

The friends are just over visiting.

I buy the little packs of biscuits for the kids lunch boxes like mini party rings, maryland cookies etc. Always were £1 a bag. Then £1.25. Now between £1.65-£1.75 for a 5 pack. I absolutely refuse to pay it. Been buying a big pack and splitting them up 🙈

Every week at shopping I think ooh it shouldn't be too bad this week then it's over £90 each time. It's very depressing.

I haven't bought olive oil or Heinz ketchup for at least 3 years now - just too pricey

I think that some people forget that we need deflation rather than a smaller inflation figure for prices to fall/stabilise.
I totally agree with the price of items though- since 2020 it’s been madness.

Would sliced frozen peppers work? They are usually cheaper.

Home Bargains, pack of silicone stretchy lids - £1

Ive swapped the olive oil to cold pressed rapeseed ( its actually better for you then olive oil ) and the last two bottles I bought last week were less then £2 each in Lidl - plus its produced here

I make my own yoghurt, have a batch here waiting to be strained - 3 litres of UHT milk for £2.04, makes a couple of kilo

Been filling the freezer with the half price joints in the lead up to Christmas - lamb and beef - will see us through at least 6 months - I can only afford lamb this time of year - two years ago I got four legs reduced to £7 each after Boxing Day , a bit of home butchery and we ate the last of them this summer

Brands went a long time ago, I wont touch Heinz anymore at their prices. We actually prefer Lidls tomato ketchup and a swap I never ever thought Id make. - Lidls English mustard is really a good sub for Colmans

Frozen berries all the way. Added frozen cauliflower to the shop now, frozen mixed veg, frozen casserole mix - Im not paying 60p for a swede/turnip the size of a tennis ball !!

We dont do cereals , its porridge, which we like as overnight oats - hence the frozen berries and HM yoghurt

Home Bargains do fantastic bacon - £5 a kilo - 20 slices of thick sliced so you really do only need one in a roll - very little shrink. Lasts well in a Tupperware in the fridge

Buying only seasonal fresh veg and fruit. Gets a bit tedious tbh but its the only way to keep prices down. Always go to Lidl and Tesco for their super five deals

Same as a previous poster, yellow sticker aisle gets a good picking over. I get a lot of fish YS, even if theres not enough for all of us in one haul, into the freezer it goes till I have enough. HM fish pie for 4 can be as cheap as £1 a portion

Unfortunately - or fortunately - Ive had to watch the pennies for a long time - so its second nature for me. Where most will be hitting the shops for the sales after Christmas , I hit them for the huge reductions there are on turkeys, cheese, cream etc.

I'd expect tomatoes to go up out of season