To be annoyed how much groceries cost?

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10 years ago I could do a full shop for 4 people with £50 for a week & a bit.
Today I spent £70 for 3 dinners, a little bit of fruit & veg and a box of cat food!
My wages haven’t gone up, my bills have increased by a ridiculous amount. My child benefit went up all of 1 percent.
I can’t even scrimp on food as I have a diabetic in the house and need to have food in the house!
😟 I just can’t afford to live anymore, yet the goverment are handing out millions in forgein aid and taking away from the poor. What do they expect us to do?
can’t use food banks, there’s a limit of 3 times in so many months.

Why do you think foreign aid or mps expenses has any impact on food prices?

Historically the UK has had incredibly low food prices, yes they have gone up but they are still very low.

I would say having no payrise/promotion in ten years is unusual, have you looked at moving employer?

Tesco is usually more expensive than Asda, try doing a shop somewhere else maybe and see how it compares

Groceries are increasing this month owing to employers paying e xtra in national insurance. Broken Britain!

Groceries are increasing this month owing to employers not wanting to cut profits for their shareholders.
Capitalism!

Wages stagnating are the problem. Minimum wage needs to go up to at least £13.50 a hour and those above minimum wage to rise up too to keep the distance the same. But that’s not what happens.

I get most pissed about employers being subsidised by working tax credits, now working tax credits is universal credits, lumped in with benefits, so the tax payer, pays for low wages…..how the f%~< did that happen???!!!! It’s daylight robbery.

I shop at Aldi which is supposed to be the cheapest supermarket and I think it is. There is less choice so shopping is quick and easy. I use lentils a lot, adding to mince etc. I mostly make two days meals at a time so a spag bol and a chilli etc. We have lots of cheap homemade soups and a weekly toast meal like beans and scrambled egg. It's not much effort and saves money.

I hardly ever buy frozen food from farmfoods - but I do buy loads / an amazing range of good quality brands for a fraction of their usual selling price.

Usually due to packaging or pack size changes, re-branding, overstock, expired competitions. Most things actually have really long shelf lives.

I do agree that food in the UK is cheap compared to other countries but I appreciate the costs have risen (as well as other bills), when wages haven't.

food in the UK is still incredibly cheap. A supermarket shop at a “budget” supermarket in NZ (and to a lesser extent Australia) is almost enough to make me cry when I visit. On the other hand the nearly 50% effective income tax I pay in the Uk is eye watering. The only thing that makes my tax bill bearable is the cheap food.

Wow @Headingtowardsdivorce I am going to try that this week at work for the VE DAY ploughman's! Do you buy smoked or unsmoked. Hope it's as easy as it sounds!

As a family of two adults and two young adult children, we went to Sainsbury's to pick up food for about 6 days, including packed lunches for the kids. The bill came to £49.50.
I prepaid with a £50 gift card that I got via the Airtime app. It gives me 4% cashback, meaning I'll get £2 back on the purchase.
I save money on some groceries by using a food waste app called Olio, which means I typically don't need to buy bread, fruit, vegetables, or even fresh milk. Plus, I grow some vegetables and herbs myself in the garden.Regarding meat, I bought two packs of 4 large chicken legs (£1.80 each), minced pork (£2.40), and a huge pork butt joint (£6.22). This should provide enough protein to last the full six days.

We don't eat pork but is a butt joint what it sounds like?

Do you eat rump steak?

Yes, is it the same cut?

As others have said since I lived in America I actually don't mind the grocery costs here!

We used to spend sometimes 3 x the amount, and that was shopping at crap places. Waitrose is cheap by comparison! My American friends can’t believe how much quality, cheap food there is here, they love m and s for great food on the go, there isn’t much like it in the states. I did enjoy living there but really missed m and s!!

Stop reading the daily mail and go to ALDI. That’s honestly probably all you can do.

I noticed yesterday that the price of Tesco choc ices has gone up by 130%.

I agree, but companies aren't going to do it off their own back, some because they can't afford to and some because it would eat into profits and shareholders dividends.
You can't stop supporting people in the lowest paid jobs because no one will be able to afford to do them, meaning that a lot of essential work just wouldn't get done and lots of people out of work completely.

I would remove individual in work benefits, hike wages and then the company paying the wages applies for the top up benefits - if they can prove, like the individual has to, that they can't afford to pay it and it's a viable business, but not one that rakes in loads of profits, then they get the support, if there's enough to pay their staff more without crashing the business then they pay their own staff a decent wage and have less in profit.

Obviously it would have to be a lot more detailed than that, and there's likely a myriad of reasons for it not to work, but it would stop companies getting millions in profit, paying the minimum they're allowed to and the tax payer propping it all up by supporting the workers with in work benefits, and companies that can't genuinely afford it get the support and the work that needs to still gets done.

Its ham

We’re reaping what we sowed.

Climate change has led to droughts, wildfires and terrible harvests. Coffee, olives, cocoa and many other major crops have been badly affected.

Brexit means seasonal labour to pick U.K. crops hasn’t been available. Food from the EU faces admin fees, paperwork and delays making it uneconomic for some producers to sell to us.

Putin’s war on Ukraine means one of the biggest producer of wheat and sunflower oil in the world has been hamstrung.

We’ve had a cushy number on food prices for many years. It’s really biting now.

Everything is more expensive now and don't get me started on shrinkflation!

Inequality is rife and the numbers of homeless on my local high street is terrible. Sadly I'm so used to it now that it doesn't shock me anymore 😔

Ask Gordon Brown who started it all.

Sorry, missed this. How'd it go?

When I last visited Australia their food was also very expensive. Food here is still actually much cheaper than other countries but our council tax and gas/electricity on the other hand…..