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???

Where is a dozen eggs costing that?

I like Anchor butter. It's now £2.70 everywhere unless an offer is on and it has shrunk in size.

@suki1964 I think she meant you get 10 not 12 fit the price. So shrinkflation.

It's the number of eggs in the box is 10 instead of 12.

Love posts like this from another frugal savvy shopper.

Mince - agree! I’ve actually switched to pork mince which is half the price. Doesn’t taste any different once it’s in a chilli or lasagne.

Oil - I needed some veg oil on the weekend. Could not believe a standard bottle of basic vegetable or sunflower oil from Aldi was £1.99!!! I’m sure it was less than a quid not that long ago.

Popped into Tesco for one item yesterday. Noticed a tin of coffee was nearly £8 but Clubcard price was 50% off. But basic cost was £8 for coffee. Bonkers. Walked down the choccy aisle to get to the checkouts. A big bar of Galaxy… £5.75!! I mean who on earth can afford that, or justify that, for chocolate. It’s just ludicrous.

On the subject of profit, I saw Coop had an offer on yesterday - 2 pizzas plus a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream for a fiver. RRP for the ice cream alone in Coop was £6.75 😳 I mean I never buy B&J ice cream but certainly won’t now having learned that they can sell it as part of a £5 offer and presumably still make profits.

Oh my goodness. I always bought Tesco organic steak mince it was £4.90 ish and then five something. Just looked and it's £9.25 I am shocked.

Was going to make a spag bol this week but maybe not.

The Aldi Oaties are really nice. Can’t remember the exact price but under £1

Bless you for ensuring the famous mumsnet chicken made an entrance.

I agree. I'm in Ireland and just noticed today the bread went up in price in Tesco as did many other items. The eggs went up a few months ago. Good back to school food offers but everyday staples went up

And all the taxes Reeves has piled on business.

Two meals from a chicken is not the MN chicken. The MN chicken does at least 5 meals.

Yes they are and 59 p

We have just come back from France.
Prices are on a par with UK prices.
Dairy, meat, fruit and veg - all similar to here.
So nothing to do with Reeves.

Last week, in M&S, I saw two people walk out of the self checkouts without paying (one after another so they might have been together) and another lady who was brazen. On her way out with a basket full of ready meals, she stopped on her way out to take three bunches of lillies.

And so between the cost and the brazen shoplifting - it’s bleak.

I haven't bought olive oil since 2020, we had to switch to veg or sunflower oil, just cant justify the cost.

Tinned soup is another thing that seems to really expensive now, used to be cheap lunch but heinz tomato soup is £1.70 per can! We're a family of 4 with 2 teen boys so a tin of soup won't go very far.

Definitely creeping up. I just ‘popped in’ to Tescos on my way past today to get a few stuff we’d run out of - bread, milk and some fruit. I was in there literally 5 minutes and I spent £33 and that was with using a £2.50 Tesco voucher.

The cost of chocolate is putting the brakes firmly on my choccy habit. There's no way I'm spending £2.75 on a bag of Twirl bites.

Yes thought I was going mad in Lidl the other day !

A dozen eggs are not £10. Don’t be so ridiculous.

I think you used to be able to get a four pack of bars at tesco for £1 a few years back and now they are something like £1.80 or more ?

We have started to buy meat in bulk from the online butcher. Its much cheaper and traced back to the farm too. Supermarkets prices are getting ridiculous.

And they're like fun-sized too now in the multi-packs.

It was 1.75 in iceland today. Thats the 200g real butter not the spread though.

Easy. She meant you get 10 eggs instead of 12.

10 in a box instead of 12, not £10