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???

The fact there are any waiting lists for allotments show they are already a fully utilised resource and therefore not a lot of use for the majority of the population, especially those living in cities.

They did this during Covid which is one of the reasons why we’re now fooked

Probably salmon fillets and sirloin steaks 😁

It has absolutely gone up but our weekly shop family of 4 (kids are 3 and 5) from aldi is still around £60-70 for the week, we don't eat out much at all and might get a takeaway once a month, all I can think is you are throwing away a lot of food. We buy nappies once a month or so as DD is still in them at night.

I really wish I didn't have IBS - packing out smaller portions of meat with beans or lentils is such a great cost cutting idea but spending the rest of the day on the loo is not.

We do our main shop in Aldi and manage to keep it at around £120 for a family of 4 that's two adults and one and a half teens (ds usually eats his dinners at his girlfriends) but due to my gut issues and need for some free from foods I have to do a top up in other supermarkets with wider ranges of these foods. It often ends up costing me an extra £30+ per week.

Collective complaining and understanding probably soothes the soul in a more helpful way than a) assuming everyone has a garden and b) everyone has the resources to take on an allotment if they ever get it. Positioning it as a faux innocent wide eyed 'I'm just being helpful' is a nah.

Cucumbers are a seasonal vegetable or imported from far away. It's not realistic to expect them to be cheap year round.

I bought mince for £3.50 at sainsbury yesterday 🤔

Same- we had one and seeds, plant plugs are pricey. Then they don’t all survive. Or you have one plant that does ridiculously well and you live on courgettes for 6 weeks.

What do you use to plant potatoes in an overgrown patch of weeds? A kitchen knife?

Affordable.

Prices are absolutely wild. Im amazed how many items are now in the £5 range....own brand pizzas, box of fish fingers, bottle of ketchup, box of cereal.

Plant and grow by osmosis 😅

Agree
Also if you have an allotment that's your leisure time taken care of
Double win.
Far healthier for you and DC than sitting in front of a screen.

Fine. Cucumbers are seasonal vegetables or imported from far away. It's not realistic to expect them them to be affordable year round.

Ok sorry should have clarified....I buy 5% mince not normal fat mince. That's £5.19 at Sainsbury's according to the website.

Farmers are also being encouraged to give up their land for solar farms and government re wilding projects. It’s disgraceful that government is doing nothing to protect our food security.
I have read that once solar panels have been put on farmland it damages the soil for a long time afterwards, too. Why not put solar panels over car parks and along train tracks (as the Swiss do), rather than allowing our prime arable land to be destroyed.

A kg of mince is £9.50 in my local supermarket. I also was aghast to see a bottle of cough mixture at £9.50. So two very basic items coming in at nearly £20.

Cucumbers and strawberries are and should be seasonal
I grew cucumber plants from saved seed and I've been giving them away .
It's time to swap to soups and casseroles.
I never eat salad in the winter

I don’t have the time or energy to tend to a garden unfortunately. I have a 9-5 job and two dc that have activities over the week and weekends. I have a house to keep on top of and that’s more than enough for me.

Also, Putin’s, and other nefarious entities’s, cyber attacks are costing companies billions. It’s way more of a problem than the rise in employer NICS. (The gov wouldn’t be so focused on pension contributions if bosses at places like BHS hadn’t drained the big pension pots and scuppered the businesses, leaving people without jobs or pensions)

Just look at Jaguar Land Rover, where staff are being told to sign on for benefits because they can’t operate due to a cyber attack! We don’t hear much about it so as to not create a panic. These are big employers but it happens to small ones too, who usually just pay the ransom without getting the authorities involved. That cost is definitely getting passed on to consumers.

the government can’t ‘afford’ to fund absolutely anything… when realistically they could just print some more of those nice plastic things they call notes.. or type in a few more 0’s online somewhere.

You can never have too much hyperinflation, that’s what I always say.

Let them eat cake…

I suspect the only reason it’s so short where I live is because of the closing of the list. If there are (say) 50 people formally waiting but another 500+ who would be on the list if the council allowed it, the actual waiting time including the ‘hidden’ people is probably about the same.

At one or two places, sure. But I can guarantee that they will be much cheaper at some other shops.