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

beetrootjuicer

Yategirl wrote: »

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....

Thanks for pointing that out Yategirl. Thinking I might ask our local organic farm if they could do me deal on a few sacks of potatoes to store for the winter. Years ago I used to buy spuds by the sack from the farm shop or market because it was such a huge saving on supermarket prices but got out of the habit when the kids left home. Potatoes will keep through the winter if you've got a frost-free place to keep them. Used to check the sacks when i first got them for any damaged ones that might rot and used those first and then stored the rest in the garage in sacks topped off with old blankets, duvets etc to insulate them and keep out the light.

Raspberry_Swirl

everyone's bread here must be really posh at £1+ a loaf! i buy tesco own foil fresh wholemeal and it's 38p a loaf. even if it gets hit by a price increase it's nowhere near £1.

Yategirl

Raspberry_Swirl wrote: »

everyone's bread here must be really posh at £1+ a loaf! i buy tesco own foil fresh wholemeal and it's 38p a loaf. even if it gets hit by a price increase it's nowhere near £1.

foil fresh round here is I think about 65p .. value is 38p (or thereabouts) and has gone up from 24p and the bread I really really like from the bakery has gone up from 88p (but I often managed to stock up on the bogof offer they had on regulary) to £1.10 (if I remember rightly!) and no offers for the last 2-3 weeks

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Raspberry_Swirl wrote: »

everyone's bread here must be really posh at £1+ a loaf! i buy tesco own foil fresh wholemeal and it's 38p a loaf. even if it gets hit by a price increase it's nowhere near £1.

when i was shopping in the supermarkets before...i would not buy the long life bread... as it is sprayed../...treated with fungaside.. to stop the mould growing on it....:eek:

Cheapskate

Just bought small pack of spreadable Lurpak (our weekly splurge!) & it's gone up from 98 pence to £1.12 in less than 2 weeks!! Guess it'll be used only on Sundays for now
Local butcher's prices still the same, baker's have put up prices very slightly, eg bag of baps up 3 pence, loaf up 3 or 4 pence etc, farmers' market only once a month so don't know yet. Guess we'll just tighten our belts again if things go up noticeably.

cheerfulness4

Like many of you I can't afford to let my budget go up even with these increases. I intend to try really hard to use different recipes to cut down on the meat we eat, introduce far more pulses etc and do some veggie meals which are filling.
I can't help wondering if, in the long run, we won't all be getting a healthier diet for the new choices some of us will have to make. I always try to cook from scratch but now I might have to make my meals simpler, which could be a good thing. :rolleyes:

ceridwen

Even more to the point I feel - is how long these price increases are going to last. We know why these are happening - flooding ruining a lot of crops I gather, etc. But - what about next years crops (which presumably - we hope - wont get decimated like this) - are prices going to come back down again. Or do we find that once they are up - they stay up.

What do people think?

Yikes - the thought of 30% more on food - when it currently costs me £25-£35 as is - thanks to the "Organic Price Premium":eek:

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

I have also noticed that some tinned items have been hiked up. Baked beans were about 39p and are now 49p a tin. SP sweetcorn were about 17p and now 23p, SP tinned toms were 14p and now 21p.

My milkman knocked to say that milk will be going up to 65p per pint and thats not organic!! I think I may have to cancel this TBH. OH bought 20 x 1 pint of fresh milk reduced to £1.20 for the lot and we have frozen it.

PP
xx

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

Hi

I have also noticed that some tinned items have been hiked up. Baked beans were about 39p and are now 49p a tin. SP sweetcorn were about 17p and now 23p, SP tinned toms were 14p and now 21p.

My milkman knocked to say that milk will be going up to 65p per pint and thats not organic!! I think I may have to cancel this TBH. OH bought 20 x 1 pint of fresh milk reduced to £1.20 for the lot and we have frozen it.

PP
xx

looks as though my thoughts are right.....a lot of items are going to go up in price.... which are not linked to the weather we have had..... or the so called demand from other countries.......

it might be worth us all posting any price increase that we come across....so we can take that into consideration when we are doing our shopping list and meal planning over the next week or so.......

Farway

ceridwen wrote: »

Even more to the point I feel - is how long these price increases are going to last. We know why these are happening - flooding ruining a lot of crops I gather, etc. But - what about next years crops (which presumably - we hope - wont get decimated like this) - are prices going to come back down again. Or do we find that once they are up - they stay up.

What do people think?

Yikes - the thought of 30% more on food - when it currently costs me £25-£35 as is - thanks to the "Organic Price Premium":eek:

From a radio programme I heard the prices will stay up, not just flooding but "unintended consequences" of bio fuel driving up cost of grain

They said the flooded fields are likely to take a year or so to get back, full of silt & rubbish in some cases, and some contaminated with sewage