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'm thinking of stopping OH for a bloke who eats less and doesn't think a diet should exclusively consist of meat and bars of fruit and nut. . It will be a sad day but needs must. I have massively reduced our food budget because the cost was unsustainable which means by Thursday it's either jacket potato or something a bit dodgy looking from the bottom of the freezer. On the plus side I'm almost cured of an M and S chocolate covered custard cream habit which was becoming concerning.

As much as I love stews for the cold months stewing steak has become a bit of a treat nowadays. It’s just too expensive.

Which flag are you referring to?? The Left have been shagging ths flag of terrorists for years now. If the Left cared about children and the vulnerable they would have been marching to help the people in poverty in their own country rather than float waving on behalf of rapist murdering terrorists

Those of you blaming labour - it’s been like this since 2021 - a steady rise in prices. Paving over farmland with houses has been happening for years. The world didn’t just go to shit last year - it’s been like this the last 15 years at least!

On another thread recently I was mocked and jeered for saying that in the post war years 50s,60s and 70s my family kept chickens, ducks and rabbits
GM baked everything, nothing wasted
They just did not believe me.
Kept one of your tomatoes for next years seeds 😁

I remember going to Aldi 10 years ago.

I never looked at the cost of anything. Ever. It didn’t matter I knew I could afford it.

Now- Jesus! I mentally calculate everything then feel like I’m being mugged at the checkout.

No one has mentioned the B word as making a huge dent in government spending, impacting businesses and affecting food prices,

Are you sure they weren’t doing scan and shop? Don’t need to scan at tills.

Maybe it will make us get a grip on our obscene obsession with food. It might make us actually eat a decent balanced diet. Meat 2-3 times a week. Eating left overs. Cooking from scratch.

We get offers all the time in Ireland. I currently have a €7 off €35 for Tesco and €10 off €50 for super value. Lidl are doing points now too which is great. 1kg of mince in Lidl is €5.99

My DH is fed up of me coming back and expressing shock at how much food is going up. I genuinely don’t know how some families are coping. I spend around £120 a week but get free beef so that’s not fair to compare.

Not sure it is all profiteering y the supermarkets. I’m a farmer and produce two items that are bought most weeks by most families. One being beef!

Our costs have gone up dramatically. Wage bills are through the roof. Not just because of the NMW increase but also in legislation. 20 years ago we could take someone on, give them a few trial shifts and if they hated the job they’d move on. now we have to do a 4 hour induction which is 5 hrs of my time with prep plus paying them. Annual training for chaps who’ve been on the job 30 years and know what they’re doing better than the chaps sent to train them all costs money.

The big supermarkets are actually pretty fair with us these days. We are on a deal with them where they know our costs (feed, NMW labour, electric) and the price they pay us goes up and down based on those things. It’s like a fixed margin if you will. Those costs are just going up and up and up.

It’s the massive price increases and then the discount offers two weeks later that drive me crazy. Typically with things like coffee, which rises to £8 one week and is half price the next. I mean what is the actual price of coffee if it is consistently up and down on promotion.

Scan and shop still not working in Marks, even if it was you have to pay at the till.

I'm with you 100%. Everyone should turn over their gardens to food production. Get chickens. Swap produce etc.

Last year Tesco had a return on invested capital of around 6 to 8% (depending who calculated). My local large Sainsbury’s supermarket lose 10% of profit each week through theft and it is not unusual in that. All the supermarkets round here now have entry gates where they didn’t before.

I agree. It's all artificial and crazy. Capitalism is dying. Back to hunter gatherers.

Yes my OH is veggie and green lentils are a good option in bolognese or stews.
Beans in chillies, casseroles, Mexican meals
chickpeas are nice in tagines and curries.

I was looking back and interestingly some things have barely changed or even got cheaper in a couple of cases. Halloumi was £2/pack in Tesco in 2020 and is £2.09 now. Creme fraiche used to be £1.10 and is now £0.85, chestnut mushrooms and walnuts stayed the same. Onions and salad leaves were slightly cheaper now.

On the shops I compared what has gone up a lot was frozen veg, olive oil and cucumber, which had all about doubled in price.

Cheap kidney beans were 30p in 2021 and are 33p now. Chickpeas were 60p in 2022 and are now 49p. Black beans were 49p last year and are the same now.

Definitely doing some veggie meals would help anyone who needs (or just wants) to spend less

The price increases have been going for the past 5 years

As for the idea we can all have small holdings… England is the most densely populated country in Europe. We cannot produce sufficient food to feed ourselves through high intensity farming as it is. It would be far far less if it was split up into small holdings and the vast majority would have no access to food at all as there simply isn’t enough land.

And Reeves is making it worse.

I think the difference is that historically prices in French supermarkets were always insanely higher than ours. But they have cheaper housing and utilities.

Now our food prices have almost caught up with theirs. But we don’t get the cheap rent and electricity. We’re stung at every turn.

It’s working at both of my locals and you only have to pay at til if you have certain products or exceed £45.

YANBU, the price rises are crazy. I’ve noticed it most when I batch cook. A large batch of bolognaise used to cost me around £20 to make, now it’s nearly £50 for all the ingredients. We don’t buy any superfluous items any more, just absolute essentials. Chocolate, biscuits crisps etc are out as is alcohol. It’s healthier but not much fun!

Who shoplifts lilies????

😂😂😂😂 how pathetic