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 blame weight loss injections. People are buying less food so supermarkets have to up the process to maintain profits. Actually, we could all go on mounjaro and just stop buying food!

Shocking....and let's say you're making a Bolognese, growing your own onion and saving 15p is pointless when the other ingredients cost so much.

It’s completely mental!!!

I consider us to be lucky that we can mostly afford to absorb the price increases but we’ve even had to start throwing in a couple of ‘cheap’ meals each week - thank god the kids love pesto pasta!!!

Boomers will tell you're just lazy. Back in the olden days they walked 40 miles to school by themselves, grew their own parsnip in window boxes and survived on it and chicken bones and we all should go back to the glory of those times.

CupfinalChaos Last year I bought our friend some Olive Oil for a Christmas present! He loved it.Going to do the same this year for him and our Son I think

I have found the fruit and veg boxes useful in the past - expands my repertoire in terms of meals and I use them up and again now not so expensive in comparison which tells me that SM are milking it a bit. I also find SM quality going down - am going to switch back to boxes I think. Better quality but less food - we are both in the overweight category so won't hurt! ALso means I dont eye shop instead of list shop

I agree on veg. But a small fruit tree is very useful. There was one here when we moved in. (average to small garden, never had one before, thrilled!) All I’ve done was prune it once at the right time of year and water a couple of times in the heatwave and it’s got probably 50 pears which can be stores for quite a long time or made in to pudding, salads and what not. One pear is 50p at Sainsbury’s today or 52p at Tesco, which is quite a lot for one.

I don’t buy peppers very often as at around 80p for one it’s quite pricey but I imagine growing peppers would take more time and effort. Trees mostly take care of themselves.

We spent a lot of time blackberry picking last year (as it’s also a good activity for the kids) but sadly global warming caused them to come too early this year and they were gone over very early too.

Get an allotment. A friend has one and she grows so much that she gives loads away. I've had rhubarb, tomatoes, pears, apples, kale, potatoes and plums so far.

I hate to sound preachy but meat should be expensive, it is expensive to create, and we should eat less of it - especially red meat. Better for our heath and better for the environment.

Why? Affordable cucumbers in February are a very recent thing. We'll be fine with less winter salads.

Lidl do a big £1.50 fruit n veg box. Google for details but I think it's first come first served at 9am.

500g of lean beef mince is now £2.78 at Asda.

The average household wastes 1K edible food per year.
The thing with having an allotment is that it changes your attitude and habits
Yes sometimes crops fail , there is always next year.
I've spent this,week gathering the last of my huge tomato crop.
We have been eating our own since late July and they are finishing now, last few green ones ripening.
I've had such a glut that the freezer is rammed with roasted toms for soups and sauces, ditto apples
Our trees have produced massively this year so they have been chopped and frozen for apple sauce pies, crumbles and breakfast toppings.
If I don't have something one of my fellow allotmenteers will give me some.
It provides community, interest and fresh air and if I get 30/ 40 meals or sides from each crop -great.
That's 30-40 things that won't be flown here, sprayed in chemicals

But you are a defeatist, so yeah don't bother, just sit on her arse moaning about the cost of food on your expensive device whilst munching on your processed device

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I don't need an allotment as I'm busy 7am to 12pm with work and child.
MPs are useless anyway. Or worse still, they did more harm to us than I could possibly imagine.
So no, I'm not emailing them, sorry.

Yes, food prices are crazy. I shop in Aldi, have gone down to lots of vegan food which I make all myself eg dahl or Moroccan vegetable stew. Red meat is now a luxury in our house. Ironically, I’m earning more than ever before but we’re definitely eating less nice food.
We use more frozen vegetables and fruit and I bake all our cakes, biscuits, flapjacks etc too. I refuse to pay £3 for a packet of biscuits that my teenage sons would eat in one evening.

Btw, if everything is so expensive for reasons stated by previous posts, why are shops making record profits?

Growing your own food is very rewarding but it is not cheap at all. You need a considerable amount of land (and time!) to begin with.

Not as easy as that. Google wait times for allotments. I was incredibly lucky to get one quickly last year- I know people in other parts of the country who have been waiting literally years.

It’s also not for everyone in terms of physical demands. I’ve got a half plot and it’s been great for me and DS, but I’m able bodied. The thing I struggle with is time- I’m a LP and work full time. I have to drag myself up there early and late to make it work. Not everyone can do that.

I know. I shake my head in astonishment/disbelief at the old chicken adage. If I’m doing a roast it’s two chickens for 5 people and there’ll be a small amount left for sandwiches the next day. I keep the wings and carcasses for stock. I can’t comprehend how 1 chicken can essentially feed 6 adults

Also this- “start up” costs if you need to improve soil, build raised beds etc can be considerable. Things like scaffold boards for raised beds and compost have also risen in price (scaffold boards are mad dollar these days). I don’t drive and have found that that also makes things tricky- hard to get free stuff etc that are bulky up to the site.

By cutting costs.

Stopping the gold plated public sector pension gravy train would probably save more than all the tax rises she has put through which are crippling the very businesses whose employees are paying for the public sector pensions and who will be in poverty when the retire.

She has killing the private sector. Without the private sector there is no public sector at all as there is no-one to pay for it.

It is in season in the southern hemisphere in our winter. We can’t limit ourselves to importing food just from the northern hemisphere these days or there would be more cost, energy and spoilage associated with commercial food storage.

I didn't say they could. I would have thought it was perfectly obvious that not everyone is physically capable or should I have put a disclaimer on my post 🙄

True, prices there are indeed higher. Where I live, prices of imported goods, like yogurt, cheese, oil, butter etc are even higher than that, so I actually stock up when I am travelling to Europe. When we lived in Netherlands we used to go grocery shopping once a month in France, much better quality.

well I probably wouldn’t issue blanket edicts if I knew they wouldn’t be feasible for all…. 🤷‍♀️