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???

To be fair, the economy was already buggered. The tories just borrowed and left us with debt. Reeves has made a mistake with NI hikes but something has to give.

@Unpaidviewer and then we wonder why so many people are overweight! Most of us eat too much of everything

What about when your one chicken has done feeding the five thousand? Are you saying that you don’t think food price rises are an issue?

I wonder why uk is one of the highest give or take ,, people are still blaiming Ukraine war oh and climate change, yep right so the greens on the chart what you thinking, ???

@Aliflowers
Eating large quantities of meat and chicken is implicated in the rise in bowel cancers in young people along with UPF

It's not healthy plus you seem to have been pulled into the eat more protein marketing

Gut biome is the key to health and that diet includes large, quantities of fruit and vegetables, moderate complex carbs, bio yoghurt and small quantities of good quality protein.

I don't understand at all. It had been a while since I bought mince and it was 2.55 for 500g in Sainsburys last weekend. I thought it must be disgusting if it's to cheap, so I went to M&S who had none and I ended up buying the sainsburys one. This was for 5pc fat.

I looked in Tescos 2 days earlier and it was also around 2.5ish. I don't buy Tesco meat though.

The UK has had artificially low food prices for a long time but now is catching up with other countries, but doing it at a quicker rate than prices have risen elsewhere so it must feel much more shocking.
I'm in Finland, where food prices have been higher than average for a long long time so I'm used to it, and adjust what I buy - pork is cheap and chicken is a reasonable price so we eat more of those, beef and lamb are far too expensive to buy except once in a blue moon if there's a special sale on. Try to go with seasonal fruit and veg as that's cheaper and tastes better. Out of season berries I'll buy frozen for porridge but never fresh.

We buy certain cuts of meat from our local butcher. We’ve been going there for years, their meat is always lovely whereas it can be hit and miss from the supermarket. I bought two 8oz ribeye steaks last week, he didn’t say how much they were and I just swiped my card. My mistake because they were £25!! Not sirloin or fillet, ribeye!

I used to really enjoy baking but baking ingredients have become so expensive…butter, sugar, chocolate etc. now I have to weigh up whether I want to bake us a nice treat or whether I should use that money to go towards our main meals.

I have this argument with DH all the time- I do all the food shops and every time hes incredulous that it can be £130/week for a basic shop for 2 adults and 2 kids- THATS HOW MUCH IT IS NOW! Aarrgh I made him go and he was shocked (and it shut him up!).

We pretty much live on soup with garden veg now and beans on toast!

Allotment has been valuable...but is work

I noticed chocolate has gone up massively, the little moser roth 5 bar stacks in Aldi were £2.39 this week!!! Id usually pick up to couple of packs for DHs lunchboxes as a few of them are dairy free!

@BunnyLake the average supermarket chicken has 1kg of edible meat - that is 8-10 portions of the recommended portion size.

Scoff at it all you like but if you are only getting 4-5 portions from a chicken you are literally eating double what is recommended, by experts - I can't see how that could be anything other than greedy.

Mince is a ridiculous price in NZ too, can't see any good reason why.

Where are they getting the inflation figures of 3 or 4 % from? The things I've just happened to notice are: 3 pack peppers £1.09 to £1.89, Ferrero Rocher £4.50 to £5.50 (and that's on special), Aberdeen angus mince £4.50 now £6. Food inflation is more like 10% plus!

This is the truth. People in the UK seem to have forgotten about the impact of Brexit on the agricultural industry. We go between UK and Ireland a lot and the quality, availability and affordability of food in Ireland is much much better than UK. Yes there have been increases in the cost of basic foods here too as inflation rises in response to climate crisis, conflicts and global political instability, but the pace of change in the UK prices is mental. Taking mince as the example, it cost me £18.50 to buy enough beef to make 2 lasagnes for a big meal with extended family. In Ireland it costs more like €15, so with the currency conversion that is significantly cheaper.

In New Zealand,a country full of farms 500g of mince is $12.90 about 6 British pounds. It is cheaper to buy NZ dairy products in the UK than it is to buy them in NZ when they have far less transport cost. Why because biggter countries can negotiate better prices.

Its not global warming or Ukraine, it's basically corporate greed.

FWIW, here in Germany I‘m paying at least a 1/3 more than I was paying 5 years ago for a supermarket shop. Between the supermarket and the butcher’s, I’ve spent €100 for a family of 3 for this week. Oh, and another €10 at the bakery.

We eat seasonal food (it’s actually very, very difficult to get out of season food here) and very little meat. We’ve had two meat-based meals this week, many weeks we don’t eat any meat at all.

It’s not just the UK.

What do you think the older people have been eating all this time? I live in an agricultural country, we've been eating meat and chicken in large quantities for many decades without young people getting bowel cancer the way they are now.

I've just double checked the pack and 120g is about one chicken breast. I eat one usually, but it's definitely not enough for teenagers. People who suggest we should all eat less meat or don't eat veg in winter just sit on a time bomb with future generations' health.
Well, we all sit on it now...

O h god we’re not back to the one bloody chicken feeding 15 for two weeks are we?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Forgetting the wilful ignorance about how much of a profit margin supermarkets actually make and whether or not they're profiteering, I've been pondering the supermarket model.

Supermarkets allow us to abdicate all responsibility for our own food chain. They allow us to acquire exotic luxury goods such as fresh fruit and herbs and spices from thousands of miles away at what are, even today, bargain basement prices. You go and try to source your own bananas directly and have them shipped to the UK, I guarantee you'll be paying much more than 69p or whatever Aldi charges now.

Supermarkets make a near infinite range of foods from around the whole world available to us for lower prices than we could negotiate individually, and they bring them all to a convenient location near us while they're still fresh. They allow us to pick up pretty much everything we could need in one shop so we don't have to go to a greengrocers, butchers, general store, bakers, fishmongers...

And we complain when they make profit??

Not only are kitkats more expensive - they're smaller too,

I noticed the difference at the end of August. We had a week away in Germany (driving and camping) and when we came back I picked up some groceries in Lidl and thought "I'm sure these prices have doubled since the last time I came in 2 weeks ago". I thought maybe I was imagining it but clearly not. I'm usually a rounder upper of late night bargains to fill my freezer, there are less of them now though.