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

COOLTRIKERCHICK

went to tescos shopping as well today..... to make use of some money off coupons that i picked up in the co-op
( see the discount and code thread for details )

i bought some lactolite long life milk as there was 30p off coupons in the tesco mag.... ok it was £1.35:eek: but i did use more than one coupon to buy it

also the black refuse bags that i buy for my business have gone up 10p a pack to £1.69

newlywed

ceridwen wrote: »

Personally - I've been looking up how to make my own rice milk from:

http://vegweb.com

If you try it, can you let me know how good it is??

sharronloves2spend

Well i tried out the watered down milk this morning, younger three kids didn't notice, but oldest son bellowed "Yuk have you give us your skimmed milk mum, this is dead watery" To which i replied " What you on about, it came out of the green carton" folllowed by a few evil looks from my direction. Think i will stick with this for a while and see if he gets used to it. I remember when our mum switched us from full fat to semi milk we all thought it was vile, but we all got used to it. I now can only drink skimmed milk, i find the others too creamy.

GreenNinja

reference the bread issue, I have started popping into my local tesco express in the evening as they tend to reduce stuff like bread rolls and loaves etc in the evening. Sometimes I can get a granary loaf for 35p sometimes its 65p as opposed to the normal price of well over a pound. I then put in the freezer and take out 2 slices a day for my sarnies. Its not as fresh as buying "in date" bread but I find that adding tomatoes to the filling makes the bread a bit more moist.

elly2

Kingsmill is now £1.50 at iceland for 2 that includes the 50/50 variety, milk is still £1 for 4 pints and eggs are £1 for 15

COOLTRIKERCHICK

just went to lidles.....

4 pints of milk £1.30... and their basic bread i think was 32p... so that is up from 26p

but ....fruit and veg on offer.. so that was good for my budget...
onions 20p .....carrots 39p.......strawberries 84p......

i bought the 1kg tub of youghurt.....to try as it was only £1.29.. has anyone tried this ? do you know what its like ?

ceridwen

Have come to the conclusion that I believe food prices are shooting up at the moment because of the floods this year - but I simply dont believe there is a reason for these prices to stay up next year (when, hopefully, we wont get such flooding again). All the more so reading Mrs Micawber's posts - where, as far as I can see, it doesnt appear to be happening in Germany. I can see Italy appears to be suffering too. I would be interested to know what is happening in other European countries - is there anyone from France, Spain, Holland, Belgium reading this Board who can tell us whats happening to their food prices at the moment? I personally am wondering a bit about EEC subsidies (or lack of) - whether anything has changed on that front and causing Britain for instance to get a double whammy?


I shall just grit my teeth for the next year - then expect prices to go back to normal.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi Ceridwen

The only problem - if the price rises are down to floods and failed crops, is as i think someone has mentioned somewhere in here...that the fields might not have recovered in time for next years crops.... if they got contaminated with heavens knows what..do you think they will have to leave them for a set period???...not wanting to be a merchant of doom or anything...was just pondering!!!

ceridwen

Hi Mrsmcawber

Hmmmm:cool: - I've heard the bit about contaminated fields - but, come to think of it - some pretty "natural" fertiliser gets used on fields on organic farms doesnt it?! Correct me if I am wrong on that one And, courtesy of a thread on a different MSE forum - theres been quite a bit of info on using human urine as a fertiliser (and, on looking up the references, it only states not to do so for 2 weeks before harvesting food)..... so can we believe what we have been told on that front either?

Hapless_2

The sewerage that gets put on fields is treated first as it is illegal to put untreated human waste on commercial food crops.

As a rule it is animal waste used commercialy in food production.

Have come to the conclusion that I believe food prices are shooting up at the moment because of the floods this year - but I simply dont believe there is a reason for these prices to stay up next year (when, hopefully, we wont get such flooding again).

feed supplies for the animals were destroyed, the set-aside rule and the mess up of single farm payments meant that 10% of farming land was unused. A lot of the winter feed was destroyed in the floods, plus foot and mouth meant that animals could not be moved to fresh pasture. this meant that farmers had to rely on buying in food, which again rises costs and prices.
Remember farmers make no profit from dairy, they lose 3p per litre of milk.
the OFT did a report that the dairies and supermarkets are pricefixing which means 20p per litre is "disappearing" whereas it could be paid to the dairy farmers!
Too many govts. are growing biofuel crops, not that I have anything against this but
1) it could have been done on set aside land
2) govts. are not looking into biodiesel made from waste vegetable oil.