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.

Lidl have a kg of peppers this week for £1.99. I'm going to roast and freeze half, and chop and freeze the other half raw.

Carrots, shallots, potatoes, sprouts and parsnips are going to be 15p/bag from Thursday.

Growing up, my parents always had a giant chest freezer. I'm beginning to understand why.

I refuse to buy Charlie Bingham stuff anymore unless in the yellow sticker aisle. £9.50 when it’s full price and £7.50 on ‘special’ 😮 Bugger that, it used to be £6.50 which I thought was ok for a treat but £9.50 is taking the mickey.

I'm in the US and a 3 pk of red, yellow, and orange peppers at Aldi is $2.99. Our prices are way higher here.

This is in asda. I can't buy most of the aldi ones due to my little one being allergic to milk. Aldi party rings are OK but I don't go in there very often to be honest.

@Fillyfrog the Aldi party rings and small jam rings are both df as buy then for a child who has cmpa

I don't buy multipack of biscuits too anymore. They hardly have any in them.

Water bottles I only buy if the kids are really dehydrated. But I'm changing that to a straw cup from home bargains.

We really need to cut out snacks and junk food to maybe a treat.

Drinks. I've just got cordial and it's a rare treat. I don't buy any juice cartons anymore. Bad for the teeth and bad for the pocket.

Garlic bread has gone too. Strawberries will be for the summer now when the prices go down.

We used to use olio to get free surplus food from volunteers. The quality isn't the same nor the amounts and it not worth the petrol driving 2-3 miles. Was too much stress to go post 9pm.

It was on the main news last night about the cocoa shortage due to aging trees, bad weather etc, affecting output and saying that in 2025 chocolate confectionary will double in price.

I wish this price gouging which has been happening with the supermarkets for the last few years, disguised as inflation (all deliberate) would encourage everyone to stop buying most of what the supermarkets sell.

Preservatives, additives, poor quality ingredients, nitrates - most don't realise that much of what they sell is cheap as chips to produce, sold at nigh profit margins and totally junk, not real food. Especially ready meals, learn what you're eating.

Butchers, real meat from local farms. Milkman - fresh, local, Bovaer free ... local fruit & veg, eat seasonally. Bake your own bread, sourdough, brioche, rolls etc. supermarket mass-produced in a factory bread is UPF and nutritionally, junk. The nation is ill, obese, diabetes ridden and much more. They feed you this junk and you pay through the nose for it.

I do all the above. Learn some lessons from the past 5 years and go back to a real way of eating, dump the spreadables (yuk! Majority rapeseed oil) go back to real butter, lard, beef dripping, duck fat, goose fat, coconut oil etc. etc. you'll be healthier, wealthier and look younger!

Learn, don't follow the trend for fast, processed junk that's leading you in one direction only, an early grave xx

If anyone needs any convincing of this, theres a programme in the Iplayer - Irresistible - why we cant stop eating - its terrifying

Basically we can only eat so much until we are full. if we eat whole food, food thats not been processed. So the food manufacturers had to come up with ways to encourage us to buy more, which is to make us eat more

I knew there was some sort of link between UPFS and obesity and diabetes, but didnt really understand why, this programme shows exactly how

No full time working parent has time to bake bread, pizza dough, cookies and brioche

I hate to sound like my old boss who blamed house prices on feminism but...

We are being ripped off my supermarkets. If you had to trust a SAHM or a profit making mega company to feed you, who would you choose?

Prices are all going up 🤦‍♀️

Just wait till the Ni employer contribution starts at £5000 and not the current £9000 odd mark currently,also the reason most supermarket jobs are part time very few are full time.

You're missing the point from the yoghurt company's perspective, which is that they can tick that target off. That you have to faff about isn't measured on their target.

Does the SAHM have food hygiene qualifications and a legal obligation to list the top 14 allergens in her products? If not, I'll stick with MegaCo PLC.

After a day at work, I have neither the time nor the spoons to cook. Which is fine if I batch cooked the previous weekend... Last weekend I was snowed under with Christmas commitments outside my house, so I've not even changed the bedsheets, washed my clothes, or washed my hair, never mind made a casserole.

On top of actually cooking, you've got to manage fresh food, as in remember to eat it before it goes off and judge whether it's still OK to eat. I forgot about an apple last week and it was furry by the time I realised and binned it. Last month, it was a packet of sausages past their use by date that had gone green. I looked at today's baking potato, saw a bit of green and thought "it's only a little bit, it will be fine", and spent the evening nauseous, dizzy, and in pain thanks to the solanine.

The food that lives in the freezer or in a tin and microwaves in five minutes is a lifeline for disabled people. Likewise Huel and similar powdered food. Being able to cook from scratch daily is a privilege that we don't all have.

Asda own brand tissues up in a few days by 5p now £1.25.

What is going on.

Even the clearance stuff 80P for 6 wraps expiring today. 99p for 8wraps expiring a month later. I'd rather buy the non clearance stuff.

I agree it’s a bit nuts. 10 years ago I could feed for for £80 a week. In covid that went up to £100. Now I budget £120. And I have an allotment, an orchard, 3 massive freezers and lots of time. It’s tough out there.

I can only see things getting worse with NI and minimum wages going up too

@WhitegreeNcandle so true. Is that for a family of four? This morning I thought I really need to tighten how much we spend on groceries but realised what we spend is already tightened. We've been living frugally for years and if we were to shop less the five of us would starve.

@heartbroken22 yup, that’s for four of us. 2 adults and two preteens. I wfh so very rarely eat lunch out but was in the road today so stopped to buy something. £5.50 for a Waitrose salad, £1.80 for a packet of crisps. I know that’s the higher end of the market but 6 months ago that would have been under £5.

Asda has an offer on their olive oil at present. Down from £6 to £4.

Will buy another next Friday if the offer still runs.

Waitrose does a meal deal for fiver, with lots of the salads included, plus crisps/yogurt/fruit/chocolate and a drink (and some really nice drinks are included). It's definitely more expensive thsn before but decent value for the items you get.

I absolutely agree with you. Multiple items going up by ten or twenty pence shop to shop. As a vegetarian family of three, we eat out maybe a couple of times a year, same with takeaway and my child has no school meals so my costs are for every meal but we went from £80 to £100 and now we are probably at £120. I batch cook at the weekend so it’s not ready meals pushing the price up. This price includes treats, and a bottle of wine but my point is that the prices are still going up. I used to read threads on here about people spending similar amounts and wonder how they afforded it. Now it’s me spending that much.

Coffee will never again be as cheap as we had it. Climate change.

Since all the Christmas offers have ended nearly everything has gone up at least 10p! Shop mainly at Tesco (get deliveries).

But inflation is going down...