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???

Not just cruelty free, but may help feed many many more people over the world without as much destruction. We're losing acre upon acre of land, habitat lost, animals destroyed daily, in order to either raise animals or to feed animals. The population of the world just keeps growing, people have to eat but what a shame it is at such a high cost to welfare of animals and our planet.

Not it's not....

Mcvities plain digestives over £2 for a normal pack

And they have recently got thinner.

Bonne Maman has gone weird - runnier with less and smaller bits of fruit.

What's bollocks?

Because your family didnt buy half a pig means mine didnt?

You are the one who extrapolated it to your generation. Next time just say my family were poor.

Yeah, our food shop has gone insane and about to add a baby into the mix so I know it's just going to get even more expensive. Add in the increase in utility prices in the last few years and I have to keep climbing the corporate ladder just to stay at the same level of buying power. Definitely can't afford to save.

I don't know where we go from here - I can understand the widespread discontent when we have people in power pointing at a minority group to give people someone to blame. It's...disheartening. To say the least.

Jesus, unclench will you.

And higher still because of Brexit. We were told it would mean higher prices (although common sense would make that obvious) and that’s what has happened. It beggars belief that anyone would still claim otherwise. The quality of fresh veg has gone down the pan, too.

Oh yeah Brexit has ruined the veg🤣.

Most supermarket veg in grown in the UK, at least in my Aldi it is.....

Not only does gardening cost me a fortune… I get to harvest very little of what I grow in my garden thanks to, among other things, neighbourhood cats, foxes, squirrels, mice, slugs, snails, insect infestations, powdery mildew, leaf miner and diseases that I have variable success in identifying. Compost isn’t cheap and my garden isn’t huge, so after finding rats nesting in the compost bin, I got rid of it because the other end of the garden is still too close to the kitchen door for my liking. I garden for the joy of it but if I had to live off my land, I’d starve to death in a very short time.

This is why I started buying meat at the farmer's market or butchers which is actually cheaper and far better quality.

It takes longer to get here so, yes, it has ruined the veg. People who haven’t noticed this, probably don’t eat it. Prior to the Brexit bonuses kicking in, I used to buy loads of veg and keep it in the fridge for at least up to a week…even two weeks. These days when I buy veg in the supermarket, the first thing I do ( and I’m not alone in this) is take up the top crate to pick the fresher veg below. Even doing this, I don’t expect most things to last the week. A lot of veg is clearly and visibly rotting on the store shelves. Fresh veg is also a lot smaller than it used to be. Sainsburys had cabbages the size of tennis balls last week.

Having seen some of your earlier comments, I’ll put you in the wilfully ignorant pile and won’t hold my breath for a coherent reply.

@SoggyArse Most supermarket veg in grown in the UK

Yeah, of course it is.

Have a look next time.... carrots, potatoes, brassicas, root veg etc

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we have gone back to basics! I'm just not willing to pay the prices, I make our chips, often bake rolls and bread if we want something nicer than a basic white loaf. I make all lunchbox treats and desserts. Coffee is really expensive now and the cheap stuff tastes awful so I just don't drink coffee anymore. Takeaways are now 99% homemade fakeaways unless it's a birthday request. It's a drag sometimes because I really cant be bothered all the time & I know my sad little one woman protest will change nothing but it makes me feel a bit better 😂

Allotments really aren’t cheap.

It's not Brexit. It's covid fallout and climate. Prices are high across the world.

So people still think Brexit had no financial fall out? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Make your own compost

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Which is funny because?

All you do is put compostable material in the composter, which you can get from the council for not much money, instead of the bin and a few months later you have compost.

Because many people have long working days, long commutes & no outdoor space. People are short of money & time.

@Bjorkdidit how many hours do you work & commute? Do you have a garden?

Prepping veg etc it takes ages, very different from pinging a can in the microwave. I can't very well make a pot of soup in my half hour lunch break 🤣

Having tried gardening, I do actually think its not a viable solution for many because of the time and effort it takes to do it well.

But you are growing your own, it's worth including a composter because it doesn't take any time and saves a lot of money compared with buying compost.

Another sad example of Britains living standards sliding ever more, we pay much more for less with stagnant wages and ever increasing utility bills.

Never heard of bulk cooking at the weekend?

Well seeing as our living standards have been enhanced by the labours of poorer people in both the UK (because a contributer to higher prices is the increase in NMW, and no, not everyone on low wages gets UC) and overseas, its probably reasonable to question why we think we're entitled to significantly better living standards than these people when it's them doing a lot of work to provide us with cheap food and consumer goods.