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???

One chicken breast is more than enough for a teenager.
You can eat veg in winter. Seasonal veg, preserved veg, frozen veg, root veg that keeps ages. You don't need fresh summer fruits year round to eat healthy.

Just struggle to get my head around it, so oct 25, utilitie bills going up again, last spring and oct before , why, , who for, we keep paying for gas/elec yet were not getting anymore gas or electric, just paying more, am paying 78 pence aday just for having the pleasure of gas, haven't turned it on yet but my God its costs my daily, same as electric, add water, home data everything just keeps going up ,
Don't have a car any more otherwise this would be extra again,

Its never ending,

@Ubertomusic what are you on about literally all public health agency recommends eating less meat - and I have never seen anyone recommend eating less veg, just seasonal veg - so carrots cabbage etc in winter and cucumbers and tomatoes in summer

@DavidKeanu & other pps are correct.

Things are only going to get more expensive & taxes are only going to go up.

We never recovered from the 08 crash, throw in austerity, Brexit & Covid & the ageing population & we are fucked.

But they did and yes, if you can't be arsed to sow a few seeds then yes you are bone idle.

It's cos we left the EU

People want things instantly without any graft. Lazy

Growing stuff and swapping is definitely the way to go. My grandparents would swap home grown veg for meat, eggs, fish. You can also swap labour- fix someone’s fence in exchange for a tub of raspberries or whatever.
The problem is, as anyone trying to grow food now will know, that we used to have a mild climate, some sun, some rain, scattered through the year.
Now we have drought- particularly in spring when it is most disastrous, and then deluges which wash away seeds and topsoil.
Food prices will get scarily high if we can’t address climate change, which governments have known for 30 or 40 years…

I buy 5% mince which is now £7.15p at lidl. I take advantage of their cheap carrots, and swede and their frozen mixed vegetables to bulk it out. Mash on the top and make a cottage pie which serves six . I find with their lidl app for offers etc and a bit of searching good value for money.

I went to Aldi this Monday and spent £32 just for me and just on basics, a small pack of stewing beef which I will pop in the slow cooker and pad out with leeks, mushrooms and baby potatoes to hopefully make 4 portions of stew that I can eat throughtout the week. The other leek and remaining potatoes will go in a soup. The rest of my shop was bread, a block of cheddar, a tub of creme fraiche to make cheese sauce for a lasanga as I have a tub of frozen veg sauce to use up, tomatoes, the veg for my stew, a dozen eggs, and two treats which were a pack of macaroons and some cheapo biscuits. God knows how many families are managing to feed their kids a decent healthy diet. I meal plan, cook from scratch and never waste food and I am shocked at how much I spend just for me and I can see it geting worse. There are a lot of things I just no longer buy as they are too expensive

We're paying for clean energy. Solar panel farms, wind farms. Friend is working for a company that's exploring the sea bed for more wind farms. The grants for insulation, have to be paid for somehow.

I don't think just it's laziness. I think it's not having a clue how to get started. It's intimidating and overwhelming if you don't know the first thing about gardening.

We don't eat meat anymore. I do buy one chicken a week and roast it on a sunday. Chicken soup Monday with left overs.

The thing I have stopped buying as much of is butter and eggs. Cannot afford to bake with the kids anymore.

Absolutely this. I was in France 3 weeks ago and standard chicken was almost 11 euros per kilo. Local produce, such as onions were over 3 euros per kilo and petrol was €1.77 per litre.

I was in Italy in April and supermarket prices were more expensive than the UK. It really isn’t just the UK.

Where from? The waiting list for allotments in built up areas runs to years at minimum and that’s in areas where the list is kept artificially low by closing it to new people except for very short periods.

Beef Mince 25% Fat | ALDI UK

This is £3.29 though has a lot of fat obv

I think Turkey thigh mince is really nice and much cheaper usually eg
British Turkey Mince 7% Fat | ALDI UK Works fine in most things

It is all crazy, I went to Waitrose last night as it's walking distance and it wsa late, and spent £45 on a few things, I actually went through the receipt as I was convinced it was wrong.

I haven't been to Aldi in a while as I tend to go to Sainsbury's for big shops and Aldi for certain things, but last time I went there I was shocked at how little difference there was in price

I only buy reduced meat and whatever is Nectar price at Sainsburys (currently 1kg of chicken thigh fillets for £5.79).

But they did and yes, if you can't be arsed to sow a few seeds then yes you are bone idle.

My boomer parents never grew their own food or walked miles to school. What a load of nonsense.

Consumerism.

I make mine in a big saucepan. Chuck in ingredients, stock cubes, water, and simmer for 20 mins.

Simple.

I used to shop with Lidl every week. I haven't been in one for nearly a year as it became as " normally priced' as the " non discount' supermarkets.
I now shop online, book the cheapest saver slots and buy far more discounted Premium store brand and name brand stuff than I ever used to before.

Money is just too expensive now to waste on crappier stuff that MAY be cheaper.

I even get the odd Ocado delivery when I find red meat discounts.
I just am grateful that I am a very good cook who loves transforming ingredients into something great.
But even the trickier cuts of meat are not cheap like they were last time COL crisis came and went 1970s- 2000.

We simply never got back on track since the Banking Crisis of 2008.
It's just that now, everybody , including the wealthy has to have noticed that food and household stuff is now higher up in the list of their monthly spends than it ever has been in decades.

And for most, after rent/ mortgage, it is the second highest spend with notions of " disposable income" ( the thing that enables economies to get back on track) being laughable.

Yeah they do, like wearing masks protects you from covid 😁

Feel free to educate yourself https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/mmb/article/id/13040/

Lots of proper research on the subject, not the "public health agency" brainwashing.

But I suppose it's good for some to keep the plebs cognitively struggling so the less meat they eat, the better.

blame it on : Brexit, Ukraine, tax on farmer, Net zero

I dint think there are rules around what you can shoplift! Perhaps they were for their dear old mum. If you shoplift you shoplift.

There was a cap on gas and electricity prices that’s being removed completely in October I believe.

£2.95 for a loaf of gluten free bread - and it's about half the size of a full of gluten loaf! It's SO expensive to be coeliac.