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 know you're joking but I'm heading that way already without planning to. I got fed up of poor quality food.
I buy a 16kg sack of flour from a mill and bake all our bread - less than £1 per large wholemeal loaf.

I grow apples, apricots, figs, hazelnuts, beans, courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes, chillies, salad, herbs. Make jam from hedgerow fruit. I freeze fruit & veg to use in winter. I swap jam for eggs from a neighbour.

My latest efforts are home made noisette and sloe gin. Should be a cheerful Christmas. I'm turning into my mother. 😊

It's not just the UK where food prices are increasing.

I’m in Australia and I needed to buy toothpaste the other day. It was $16 for a tube of toothpaste. I didn’t buy it - I just waited for it to go on special.

I buy frozen fish fairly regularly and the small packets of frozen fish have increased from $10 to $11.

This is just crazy.

Ocado beef mince is 3.50. Pork 2.75

Printing money is how we got into this mess!

Not in Lidl, I got 6 free range 86 p yesterday

Well not quite true, food in UK has always been cheaper than France. If we are aligning that is due to our increases, food in France hasn't dropped.

I'm chucking beans in everything now. We had sausage casserole the other day. One pack of 8 decent sausages, cut up, then 3 tins of various beans and one of tomatoes. Plus onion, garlic, stock, few spoons bbq sauce.

It was lovely actually but it's the only way to make meals affordable

On the mince topic.

There was a huge price spike in beef in SA over our winter (July/August) due to a foot and mouth diesease outbreak. And we do export beef. It is very possible that the hike to due to supply and demand.

It's starting to stabilize now, thank goodness as I'm getting fed up of eating chicken.

Labour government, its like the 1970s except without the good music and fashion!

The Labour government doesn’t seem to understand that farmers grow food and is attacking them with taxes, threats of compulsory purchase, replacing food with solar panels or houses or nature reserves. Food going up in price is a standard economic response to there being less of it.

Sainsbury's sent me a £9 off £90 the other week. I was amazed! It was the first voucher I'd had in a long time.

Aldi and Lidl aren’t so bad, their profits are quite modest compared to revenue. But Tesco made a profit last year of 3 billion…. So they can say they rice their prices because of supplier cost or whatever, but their shareholders are still getting huge payouts.

It’s disingenuous to blame Ukraine/climate change whatever they want to blame and ignore their staggering profits and how Wealthy they make a small amount of people. I don’t know how people aren’t more angry about it, I won’t shop there.

It was Kit Kats that shocked me the other day. Also yes to olive oil and mince.
Also annoying that half the population voted for this.

I was in France in the summer and shocked at how expensive the groceries were, chicken especially.

Same with other posters saying about the USA, I lived there and it was SO much more expensive. Bread was $7, cereal was $6, just for run of the mill non brand cornflakes. My American friends come here and find m and s and Waitrose cheap, so they shop there!

The chocolate covered ones are over £1 now in our aldi. I was going to buy them until I saw the price increase, they have doubled!

Lentils instead of meat in bolognese sauces and cottage pie: truly delicious.

That’s insane! 1L of olive oil here in Ireland is €5.49 or thereabouts

Less than 34% of the voters voted for labour in the 2024 election.

But food has been considerably more expensive in France until now. We’ve lived here for 20 years and have always loved to raid Tescos when we visit the UK because it’s so cheap by comparison. Not any more! France had always been far more expensive especially for meat / fish / chicken etc. Prices have gone up here too, but if uk prices have caught up, that’s a big increase.

Salaries are higher in the states too

That was of those who voted. It was only 20% of the electorate.

As well as paving over farming land with poor quality new builds and importing more and more people....all it take is somd countries to stop food exports and we will be facing a catastrophic disaster

Without wanting to sound like a twat, we've not been hugely affected by COL (below average income but we live in a cheap area with a cheap house with until now controllable outgoings) but we have suddenly started feeling food prices. Literally in the last few months Ive been at shocked at the till.

We need to sit and budget properly and start eating in season more and get better at not wasting food.

@padronpepper quality is different though. I’d be less offended about UK food prices if we were at least getting better quality.