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latest prices increase on food how will it effect your food budgeting ?

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over on a thread in shop but dont drop board.....

they are saying about the big jump in prices of certain fod items..

like bread going from 80p a loaf to £1.15 ( hovis invisable crust)

6pts of milk in tescos going up to £1.96

butter going up by a large sum.....

when i was in the butchers last week buying a turkey crown..... ( as i buy one now and again during the year as i feel i get alot of meals out of it..and no waste ) they said it had gone to £2.99 per kg....

and that the large chickens ( and i mean large) had gone up to £7.99 each...

i try not to use supermarkets..... but i feel that if prices are going up.. this will hit smaller traders even worse....

i cant afford to spend anymore on food... and this might force me back to the supermarkets... ( even though their prices are going up )

they are saying by the end of the year that food prices would go up by approx 30%:eek:

so if someone spends £100 a week now on food shopping it will cost £130...

and if you spend £50 now on shopping it will then be £65. for the same shopping...

thats quite a big jump as it seems all food is going up , not just milk... etc...

i must admit.. panic is setting in a bit ..( well i am a bit worried)....as these price increase could have a big inpact on our finances...and food budgeting coould go out the window over the next few months while these prices increses are happening....

any suggestions on how to manage/budget.. what are your thoughts.......and what do you think of it all...?
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  • lil_me
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    I shop for meat at the farm shop, so far his prices have stayed the same, he said he won't increase unless he really has to - to be honest he rarely charges me the full price anyway.

    Supermarket stuff I do rely on for some things, we just don't have enough locally. Bread prices just give me more of an incentive to make my own.

    It's come at a bad time for me when I am trying to reduce my budget, thankfully don't use much butter which has had a big increase but I do use a lot of milk and this has gone up from milk man.

    To be honest if it's going to increase due to the costs put on the industry there isn't much any of us can do, just got to do the best with what we have. I'm looking around for cheaper recipes, have steak a little less :rotfl: see what things don't increase in price as much and use more of those I think will be the only way.
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  • I bet not many people have noticed the increases. There was a post on the butter going up thread from a guy, he was a bit sarcy about the discussion and said it didn't affect him. Of course, it will affect him, everything will go up in sync.

    What to do? I make my own bread and I've just bought a few extra bags of flour. Butter will be cut back of or missed out. We neither of us like marge. I buy very little meat and at the end of the month will get 3 chickens, so hopefully we will have a few eggs. Our allotment is doing quite well and hopefully will through the winter as we put in lots of hardy stuff.

    I don't necessarily buy organic and I use the value long life skimmed milk. Otherwise, I think lil_me's right, we have to get on with it as the prices go up. The frugal sites from the USA say the same about price rises. My intention is to keep my spending the same and search for healthy alternatives. I think there will be lots of help on the threads.
  • I agree with lil-me that we have to make the best with what we have but I am worried about how we are going to be affected. We use butter instead if margarine and it does last us ages as I only use a thin smear rather than thickly spread but I do make lots of biscuits and flapjack etc... there are only so many pieces of fruit my ds's/dh can eat and sometimes... it just doesn't fill the gap. I have already been forced down to eating cheap bread (which I hate) for toast/sandwiches and porridge is the preferred choice by ds's for breakfast which uses loads of milk - will have to start using powdered milk for that I think. We already eat lots of veggie meals and aim to only eat meat 2-3 times a week and I have already started thinking about using pulses/lentils more and maybe cutting the meat down or stretching it further.

    We have a budget of £50/week - this includes toiletries/loo roll.. and we really can't afford to increase it. All ideas are appreciated for managing as prices go up!
  • soappie
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    Yategirl,

    You could try watering the milk for the porridge down - use half milk half water. If you introduce the concept a bit at a time (day 1, use mostly milk, bit of water, day 2, increase the water, day 3 increase the water a bit more) you'll soon get used to the changed taste and it'll work out cheaper.
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  • at the moment i am buying from the btuchers... bakers..... various fruit and veg stalls.... the pet shop etc...

    i did find that some things were more expensive than the supermarkets,,, but then other things were a lot cheaper.. so it did even out in the end....

    but if supermarkets have to put up their prices in such large hikes.... per item.....it is obvious than the little independant people will have to put larger increases......which to be honest i cant afford to pay anymore for my shopping.....

    the bread at the bakers cost me £1.07 ..but i find when it is sliced.. it does go further than a normal shop bought loaf.... they done a price increase a few weeks ago..... so i should imagine there will be another bigger price increase due.......

    looks as though i will have to go back to the supermarkets to try and keep in budget....
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  • newlywed
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    I agree, if the prices go up generally throughout the country then there is little we can do about it, except to reassess what we really need to buy.

    Personally I am still trying to reduce my budget and now that we have an Aldi will be making good use of that and Lidl for as much as possible (and less use of Tesco and Sainsbury).

    I would prefer to shop locally but working full time and having the kids all weekend it's just not possible for me to shop around that much.

    I have been trying to introduce more pulses into our diet, especially with the foot and mouth threat recently. Mainly I have used this to "stretch" the meat out but also to replace potatoes a little.

    I have been inspired by the eat for £60 thread and how well others have done and have been creating a "price book" especially to compare Aldi/Lidl prices to supermarkets and will try and save that way (don't mind alternating shops each week and can even get to Tesco and Aldi in the same lunch hour as they are near each other). The savings I have noticed by actually listing it down are large enough for me to only buy certain things from different shops.

    I am trying to retrain how I shop now (rather than just buying it all in the nearest supermarket).

    Lean bacon and mince will be bought in Aldi, whereas Lidl works out cheaper for apple juice (and I prefer their ham to Aldi's). Those items alone (that I used to buy in Tesco or Sainsbury) will save me about £10+ a month without changing what food we eat or the quality.

    Personally I need to pay much more attention to prices across different shops (rather than just looking for the cheapest in one shop).
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  • elly2
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    I have to shop around alot noticed in netto today the flour is still 31p(43p in my local tescos and online) also got 10kg of pots for £1.69 for 5kg(bogof)
    milk i got from heron 3ltr for £159 (£1.82 at iceland) 1.8 kg frozen chicken at herons for £2.69 (cheapest i have seen them tbh maybe not the best to buy but needs must)
    iceland eggs are still £1 (for 15) and kingsmill bread is still 2 for £1.30, willow spread(not sure if this is butter tho bought it to make some shortbread with does anyone know if it will work out ok?)2 for £1
    200g jar of nescafe from wilkos for £1.89
  • I'm already making my own wine to cut down on booze bills and also growing bean sprouts for cheap veg. I'm hoping to start making my own bread too. I always now buy the bulk bags of value potatoes from the supermarket, they cost £1.50ish and last several weeks.
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  • I'm already making my own wine to cut down on booze bills and also growing bean sprouts for cheap veg. I'm hoping to start making my own bread too. I always now buy the bulk bags of value potatoes from the supermarket, they cost £1.50ish and last several weeks.

    a lot of farms have been affected by blight so we may have potato shortages... so what may be a cheap veg atm might not be when reserves are low....
  • Farway
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    soappie wrote: »
    Yategirl,

    You could try watering the milk for the porridge down - use half milk half water. If you introduce the concept a bit at a time (day 1, use mostly milk, bit of water, day 2, increase the water, day 3 increase the water a bit more) you'll soon get used to the changed taste and it'll work out cheaper.

    For dietary reasons I always water down my porridge making milk, about 1/3 milk to 2/3 water

    What I find makes it nice & creamy is a few teaspoons of thick low fat yougurt stirred in once it is made, I use Asda organic, on offer at 70p now, but of course any cheapo would do if it meets your ethical standards
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