What is going on with food prices??

[londongirl12]

A 500g packet of mince in Aldi is now over £5!! What on earth is going on???

I fear this is it for the foreseeable. Stagnant wages, rising taxes, food that's borderline unaffordable for many or completely unaffordable for some. Quality of life in this country has fallen and is continuing to fall. The government is bankrupt, and we're all at each other's throats. I love this country (not in a flag shagger way but genuinely) and I think we are heading towards some dark times.

I bought 3 basic meals for family of 3 from Aldi and it came to £40!! Only add ons was a packet of dishwasher tablets. It’s absolutely madness.

The war in Ukraine and climate change - fires and drought and floods - are 2 big factors in food price inflation.

It was mince that opened my eyes too. There is still cheap stuff on the lowest shelves but I'm cautious of it after finding so many bones in pre-prepared chicken etc lately

£4.50 per meal per person is insane.

What are you buying?

Lets see

Global warming- NO 1 Problem. Its costing farmers a fortune in trying to keep their cattle fed

Wars - the war in Ukraine has had a HUGE impact on the price of fertiliser - farmers are buying less, silage output is less , more silage required, feeding cows costs more money

NMW rises, and more specifically, the cost to the employer. I work 20 hours NMW,
This tax year to date, Ive lost 3.96 in NIC, my employer has paid 509, plus what they have had to pay into my pension pot

Cheap food has long gone and whilst we have floods and droughts - its not going to become cheaper

And the foods that are coming from abroad - there's now a bigger market bidding for them

It’s only going to get worse with food prices set to keep rising (along with the cost of everything else) 🫩

£7.19 for 750g of mince in Tesco. It was £5 not long ago. We don't eat mince often but the dc asked for smash burgers.

Ds favourite steak pie is now £9.20, used to be £5, just recently. It's crazy!

I've had a 4% pay rise, which more than may people but not even scratching the surface of these food prices.

It’s all really fucking expensive. Lidl and Aldi don’t represent meaningful cost savings anymore - pretty much all of the supermarkets are now charging around a fiver for a packet of mince.

Some prices I’ve seen lately that have really made me go :O

100g of Lindt chocolate in Asda - 2.75
500g of 20% fat mince - I’ve seen for 4.50 and a fiver
Steak In Lidl- not the premium stuff, 1 average size steak- 7.50
share bag of crisps in co-op - 3.50

I could go on, but it’s wild. I’m pretty frugal, have an allotment, and dont buy lots of wine, any pet food etc- and can’t do a fortnight food shop for me and DS for less than £150-200.

OTOH I am now more likely to go my local “naice” butcher, because although a chicken is a tenner, at least it’s had a nice life, and the price difference no longer justifies buying the cheaper one. Similarly the spenny green grocer - might as well spend an extra fiver and get really nice seasonal fruit for the week, where it would have been a massive difference previously.

What's 3 basic meals to you ?

I feed 3 adults, and a chicken will feed us two days - roast on day one, a Chinese / Indian style dish the next - so the main protein - £1 a portion

Day one roast will be half a cauliflower made into a cauliflower cheese, a bag of carrots and parsnips mixed, a green cabbage and spuds and stuffing using old bread and sage from the garden and an onion. Add the milk and flour, a few seasonings - Im getting change from a fiver

Chinese/ Indian - rice, a few tablespoons of this and that, a tin of toms, a couple of onion ions, a pepper ( depending on what the dish is going to be ) another couple of quid

I noticed the price of mince has shot up in the last few weeks

Try turkey mince or burgers - seriously good believe it or not. Im not a big beef eater but even DH who is, says he prefers the turkey ones now

If Tommy Robinson cared about the poor, he'd have organised a protest about rising food prices

A note for the flag shaggers on mn

Yeah that was the shock, I know everything has been going up but i feel like mince used to be £3.80 not that long ago. Makes me sound old 😂

Am I imagining things or did a pack of mince used to be 1kg and now it's 750g? I couldn't work out why I had less food today despite buying the same product.

Farmers going out of business has made British beef animals scarce.

Gaps can’t be plugged as cheaply with meat from the EU.

I also couldn’t afford to buy meat for stew yesterday. Insane.

I was shocked by the price of mince the other day too. I even sent DH a photo from the shop!

As for olive oil.. the one I used to buy is £14.. not long ago was £7.99!

What gets me is I’m sure they don’t pass on the savings from getting you to scan your own stuff!

Bonne maman jam, which obvs is expensive, but I used to like as an occassional treat, is £3.80!! And a pack of hobnobs is more than £3 - for just oaty biscuits. Absolute madness.

Basically everything @suki1964 says.

Climate change scuppers harvests and raises both the amount of feed needed and the cost of buying that feed. Even the feed for our pet hens has more than doubled

Is anyone talking about how a dozen eggs is now 10!!! Outrageous.

My grandma died last year. When we were clearing out her house, I took the olive oil. That was not going in a bin.

a share packet of crisps is over £3.

Seriously you can afford to buy oil at that price?