BBC: Food inflation at 8.3%

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

My food's not changed much really, it's still under £10/week. The changes have just been in that I make my own bread and pizzas now and eat less sweeties.

So it's good things cost more or I'd have not had chance to chuck some stuff about in the kitchen.

I bought some good mince yesterday, less than 10% fat (Somerfield). £/Kg it was cheaper than the "simply value" range. I always shop by £/Kg. I'd only buy mince when it was on a special like that. As a rule I don't buy/eat meat except maybe one pack of sausages or mince every fortnight.

Yesterday I made a gorgeous chilli and some cheesy rolls.
Tomorrow I am making some broccoli soup and baking some bread to go with that.

So far this week I've eaten:
Cheese omelette fried potato slices (£0.80)
Chilli con carne (£2)
Chilli soup (£0.40)
2 Loaves, 4 rosemary rolls, 4 cheese rolls (£0.90)
Broccoli/potao soup (£0.70)

£4.80 for 10 meals.

That' impressive PN. I love chilli, .

The one thing I'd say is that personally, and if I were feeding children, I'd need a lot more vegetabes in the diet. I don't eat bread very often (although I do bake it and love it) or potatoes, but agree they are excellent ways of increasing substance of the food for a small amount.

I am very much noticing the prce of vegetables now. My weektime shopping was under £10 for a long time, its resting at around £12-15 ATM, depending on where I shop. At weekends I tend to cook more extravagantly (another bonus for being single to add to your checklist ). For example, tonight although we are having a one course meal its mussels and a salad. (there are few meals DH really enjoys that have only one course, mussels are one of them! ) I used to be able to get a huge bowl of moules marinere on the table for under £3/4 each. (great seduction food...lots of finger licking) tonight's meal will be nearer £9 each. No increase in quantity, no improvement in the quality of v.cheap wine I use for that. (in fact the wine is cheaper!). The mussels were on ffer, but more expensive than last season's price. I hope its a new season premium. There have been some weekends where, for a three course meal I've wondered if it would be cheaper to just eat out.:o

I'm also considering making my own yogurt. I guess I eat low fat yogurt for five meals a week.

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

I suppose my feeling of failure comes from having to go the reduced route (my own snobbish values really) whilst other parents are able to provide the best food, parties and clothes and my children have to make do with hand me downs/ebay/charity shops, reduced food and no parties. This is also coupled with my own feeling of failure in my life and the not meeting of the expectations everyone had for me (myself included) with regards to my career.

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Who knows how they eat when no one is there ? As for your own life etc...I'd say I'd be happier single than with the wrong person...and I'd love children ...at least your 'lacks' are things, whch quite frankly go in one end and, er.....depart. Kids clothes they grow out of or tear.

OT still but, if I had a single mum friend who would not be offended by help with throwing a party for her child I'd be delighted to get to help do it. Frustrated nuturing tendencies!

Generali

justpurchased wrote: »

I think what they have have said the three main causes of this inflation.
Oil, Wheat and fertaliser are now falling back from there highs, so we should see some easing back soon.
Also there as been a good worldwide weat crop this year so that is good news for next year.

Inflation will be either very low or negative by this time next year. The BoE reckon they'll undershoot their target and despite many posters on here knocking them, in reality they are very talented people.

SingleSue

Thanks for the posts

I am actually quite lucky with veggies as my parents have a veggie garden and have been giving us fresh carrots,potatoes, green beans, beetroot, tomatoes, onions and even garlic!

My brother is currently transforming the end of my garden to install a pretty large veggie patch too so next year, I will be able to home produce!

!!!!!! - I noticed that when I was working, at the time I was still married and my OH wasn't exactly a huge wage earner so we cut our cloth accordingly whereas the others were moaning that they needed to work just to live. It then turned out that their holidays were in the region of £5k a year (ours was £350), they upgraded their sofa suites every 2 years usually for a cost of £3k or more (ours were £299 for 2 of them), replaced their cars every 3 years at god knows what cost, redid their kitchens every 4 years at an average cost of £10k (ours cost £50 from the local paper) and only ever purchased full price top of the range clothes...all on credit.

I did try to point out to them (when they were moaning about us going away to Disneyland Paris just once due to a small inheritance and them not being able to afford it) that they wouldn't have to work if they had a cheaper holiday and didn't feel the need to upgrade their sofa's every 2 years but they just couldn't get my point.

I didn't need to work for our finances, we were well able to manage on OH's salary, I merely went back for my own sanity and feeling of self worth.

tomstickland

The one item I do remember the original price of is sausages.

My personalised sausage inflation rate is approximately 23.8095% (£2.60/£2.10).

My weekly spend on food and household cleaning items is around £35. I take advantage of 2 for 1 offers if it's something that I would buy anyway. I always look in the discount area and will buy things that I normally wouldn't if they're cheap enough.

WTF?_2

Generali wrote: »

Inflation will be either very low or negative by this time next year. The BoE reckon they'll undershoot their target and despite many posters on here knocking them, in reality they are very talented people.

Yeah - they really kept a lid on inflation superbly well - only running at 230% their target level :rotfl:

SingleSue

As a further and ever so slightly off topic...

Did my shopping tonight and boy did we have a good game tonight!

3 x 4 fresh burgers, normal price £2.18 price each (so £6.54), we paid for all 3 = 36p!

Whole Cromer Crab, normal price £2.99, we paid 39p

Fresh chicken drumsticks, normal price £2.95, we paid 55p

Plus loads of bogoffs, special offers etc

We had a veritable feast for tea and still have loads stacked away in the freezer.

A happy shopping experience this week!

Generali

!!!!!!? wrote: »

Yeah - they really kept a lid on inflation superbly well - only running at 230% their target level :rotfl:

What and when would you have done differently? Why do you think that raising or lowering rates would have changed outcomes?

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PasturesNew wrote: »

My food's not changed much really, it's still under £10/week. The changes have just been in that I make my own bread and pizzas now and eat less sweeties.

So it's good things cost more or I'd have not had chance to chuck some stuff about in the kitchen.

I bought some good mince yesterday, less than 10% fat (Somerfield). £/Kg it was cheaper than the "simply value" range. I always shop by £/Kg. I'd only buy mince when it was on a special like that. As a rule I don't buy/eat meat except maybe one pack of sausages or mince every fortnight.

Yesterday I made a gorgeous chilli and some cheesy rolls.
Tomorrow I am making some broccoli soup and baking some bread to go with that.

So far this week I've eaten:
Cheese omelette fried potato slices (£0.80)
Chilli con carne (£2)
Chilli soup (£0.40)
2 Loaves, 4 rosemary rolls, 4 cheese rolls (£0.90)
Broccoli/potao soup (£0.70)

£4.80 for 10 meals.

That is pretty impressive

WTF?_2

Generali wrote: »

What and when would you have done differently? Why do you think that raising or lowering rates would have changed outcomes?

I would have raised interest rates during the boom years instead of keeping them low when it wasn't necessary to do so (the economy was booming all of its own accord).

Right now we have inflation in the system from those years which is why they aren't cutting like crazy to head off the recession. They screwed up bigtime and at a time when they should be cutting interest rates, because of their mistakes they can't.