How food costs have risen in a year

ginandtonic1988

Im with tessie bear, we try to eat as cheap as possible, collect woopsies, points you name we do it but it infuriates me when the cost of alcohol is cheaper than fresh food. The worlds gone bonkers!

tryingtobegood

ginandtonic1988 wrote: »

Im with tessie bear, we try to eat as cheap as possible, collect woopsies, points you name we do it but it infuriates me when the cost of alcohol is cheaper than fresh food. The worlds gone bonkers!

I have to second this! "The worlds gone bonkers!"
I spend a lot of time looking for the best "buys" when I'm shopping to try and get my food bill down. I hate to imagine what it would be if I didn't and just lived on ready meals , convenience foods and booze!
I have had to take a good look at my finances(as I'm sure most people have had to do these days!) and weigh up whether I need /can use an item or not before buying and how much I can bulk it out!
Even so, my shopping bills are still a bit on the high side, but at least I know what I'm spending my money on...
Hmmm gone off on a bit of a tangent I think:o

RHYSDAD

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

Nothing wrong with cheap pizza

Not much right with it either. Get a Panasonic SD255 and make your own pizza dough/pizza. Worth every penny of the initial £85 outlay. Cheap in the long run and about 100 times better than the !!!!!! the supermarkets have to offer...

RHYSDAD

I'm the first in line to bash supermarkets and their pricing and although food costs rocketed last year, they do seem to have stabilized lately but that's not to say they won't go up again. We shop differently now though, when we see something on offer we use weekly, we buy £20 or £30 quids worth which usually lasts until the next offer on it. Washing tabs, tuna, tommy sauce etc. We have enough fairy tabs to last until around mid November at my calculations at the mo!!!

paulwf

slowandsteady wrote: »

It seems to be the supermarkets are discounting frozen convienience food a lot now and they sell say frozen pizza, etc for a pound but put money on stuff that is healthy.

It might be because a lot of basics like bread, milk and veg have been loss leaders for many years so there isn't anywhere to go with the price. In fact their prices have been unsustainable with farmers going out of business, there is only so many farmers they can bankrupt before something has to happen to the price.

On the other hand with branded items they have in the past been able to charge what they like, there is a bigger margin so more room for cutting prices.

...it infuriates me when the cost of alcohol is cheaper than fresh food. The worlds gone bonkers!

Simple answer why frozen food and alcohol are cheaper than fresh food: wastage. Figures vary a lot depending on the day of the week but it is quite possible to put 150 crates of fresh produce out and take 5-7 crates off at the end of the day as out of date stock. Perhaps another crate or so during the day for quality waste. Frozen food waste is virtually zero. Alcohol waste is very small, only beer and a few things like bucks fizz and wine boxes have best before dates.

The supply chain has to be spot on at every stage when you are dealing with products that have a 3-5 day shelf life, it is so much easier dealing with ambient and frozen products that can sit in a warehouse (at any part of the supply chain) for months if required.

Just think how low margins are then work out how much the wastage and supply logistics of fresh food eats into that.

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I too have worked out several different shops to go to. I get ,if I need, the fresh fruit and veg offers from Aldi's, and some meat from Sainsburys and am very careful to look at the offers online in the big supermarkets before I go. I have a big Tesco's within a mile, and a Sainsburys about two miles away.But if Sainsburys meat is on offer then I try to stock up on it as their beef is superb,but I won't pay £22= a kilo for steak, but when its on a 'managers special offer it comes right down to about a third of that so its worth stocking up.
I do tend to buy more or less the same items from week to week but have become even more canny in my shopping habits over the past few months.I was talking to one of the till ladies last Friday night after I came home from my holidays as the store was very quiet and she said that the Friday night rush doesn't happen as much as it used to, and that shoppers are far more aware of prices than they used to be and not so many throw stuff willy-nilly into the trolley as they did. Maybe the amount of food programmes about wastage is getting its message across and thats why Mr T's are trying to tempt folk with double points.Not much gain if the cost of food is doubled though. I am happy for the farmers to get a bit more so sometimes use my local farm shop for veggies instead.My local butcher is quite good as he stocks the different cuts that sometimes you don't see in a supermarket.Living in north Kent its also quite easy for me to get to Whitstable fish market where the fish is so fresh its almost jumping off the slab.Bought a beautiful crab there a few weeks ago dressed and ready to go for less than £3.00. Now the season is upon us the blackberries are out on the hedgerows, so some free crumbles and pies will be going into my freezer when I have a bit of room there.My grandchildren love helping to pick them on a quiet Saturday afternoon.

cybermum

We bulk buy toilet rolls,washing powder meat etc from Costco.
That in itself saves us money for the weeks ahead.
Have noticed prices rising steadily across all the big four supermarkets and it does take more time and nouse to hunt out deals for what you actually do want,i.e not chicken dippers and Goodfellas!

Debt_Free_Dreamer

I bulk buy when long life things are on offer, not when they are needed.

We have a cupboard full of dishwasher tablets, finish, baby wipes, tinned tomato etc., all bought when the price is low, have extra Tesco points or I have MOC's.

It does make some shopping trips very expensive. Buying 60 packs of wipes when they are on offer (Boots) is not an option for everyone as they may not have the inital cash to outlay (or the space to store it all). But for us it seems to work.

However, I do agree that things seem to have gone up considerably.

inspace

Afew weeks ago I dug out a jacket I havent worn for a while - well 2 years would be a good guess - and in it was a tescos receipt all fading and tired - I had the missus reading it shouting almost at how different the prices were (can you believe we now pay double for that robbing sods ect ect ect) and then she threw it away - I wish we had kept it and I could have put the price list up here.

Maybe we should keep a few reciepts and do a price check in 2 or three years.

ginandtonic1988

inspace wrote: »

Afew weeks ago I dug out a jacket I havent worn for a while - well 2 years would be a good guess - and in it was a tescos receipt all fading and tired - I had the missus reading it shouting almost at how different the prices were (can you believe we now pay double for that robbing sods ect ect ect) and then she threw it away - I wish we had kept it and I could have put the price list up here.

Maybe we should keep a few reciepts and do a price check in 2 or three years.[/QUOTE

Why not just check back a few years ago to threads about food prices:eek: