Grocery Price Increases - What's the Biggest Hike You've Seen?

jamanda

Corned beef at Morries has gone from a high £2.75 to £3.59 in one jump.

London_1

Good grief ,that puts corned beef hash out the window then. How can that price be justified.I know it comes mainly from south america so perhaps its the amount of travelling it does. Oh well just have to think of something different for a change Luckily I keep a couple of tins as a standby in the cupboard. They will be prized now  

JackieO xx

tooldle

Travelling, the can, and the processing cost to get it in the can, to say nothing of the cost to raise the beef. Steel costs are very high at the moment. 

Farway

London_1 said:

Good grief ,that puts corned beef hash out the window then. How can that price be justified.I know it comes mainly from south america so perhaps its the amount of travelling it does. Oh well just have to think of something different for a change Luckily I keep a couple of tins as a standby in the cupboard. They will be prized now :) 

JackieO xx

Ideal Christmas presents, plus a pack of Lurpack to show you really care :

London_1

Farway said:

London_1 said:

Good grief ,that puts corned beef hash out the window then. How can that price be justified.I know it comes mainly from south america so perhaps its the amount of travelling it does. Oh well just have to think of something different for a change Luckily I keep a couple of tins as a standby in the cupboard. They will be prized now :) 

JackieO xx

Ideal Christmas presents, plus a pack of Lurpack to show you really care :

Not as daft as it sounds I often give food type presents to friends and relatives ,especially if I know they are struggling a bit .

My eldest DDs ma-in-law gets a large bag of Yorkshire tea bags as part of her Christmas present every year from me, as I know she's a real 'teapot' and living alone, and at times struggling a little with costs,and  at 85 I think a cuppa and a few biscuits (I also get her some really nice 'posh' biscuits) she loves her littel treats.

When I visit I usually take a home made fruit cake and some tins of odds and ends, as she doesn't get out as much as she used to, and with no car and a dodgy back it saves her carrying stuff.
I make up a basket of treats for her that I know she appreciates, small pots of jam, nice hand cream things that I see and buy over the year and she loves her little goodie basket. Bless her she's a dear soul and like most folk who are ,a bit like me ,not in the first flush of youth , we really need very little as by the time you get to our age we have got ,or had most things.

For her birthday this year I got her one of those long hot water bottles that look like a snake and you can wrap around yourself and she loved it as when she's sitting in her chair it helps her with her back ache and keeps her warm Things don't have to be expensive if you think about who your buying for when buying xmas/birthday presents

JackieO xx

YorksLass

jamanda said:

Corned beef at Morries has gone from a high £2.75 to £3.59 in one jump. 

It's only this last couple of weeks I've been able to get corned beef at Sainsburys at all as it's been out of stock for many weeks.  They haven't got their own label one that I normally buy, but the branded one is still £2.50 so I've bought a couple of tins for my pantry before it disappears again.  Tins of sardines seem to fly off the shelf quickly too.

London_1

YorksLass said:

jamanda said:

Corned beef at Morries has gone from a high £2.75 to £3.59 in one jump. 

It's only this last couple of weeks I've been able to get corned beef at Sainsburys at all as it's been out of stock for many weeks.  They haven't got their own label one that I normally buy, but the branded one is still £2.50 so I've bought a couple of tins for my pantry before it disappears again.  Tins of sardines seem to fly off the shelf quickly too.

as Sardines seem to be vanishing I buy the tiny tins of pilchards when I fancy a salad for myself i empty a tin into a bowl and mix with Mayo and some fresh ground black pepper and half the mix does me for one salad and the other half the following day on crispbrad or crackers for lunch with some sliced tomato on top at around 50-60p a tin the Glenryk ones in tomato sauce are delicious and do me for two meals easily, cheap as chips :0 although today a bag of chips from the chippy is probably a lot dearer  

JackieO xx

t14cy_t

i noticed ICELAND fishcakes were 10 for £1, and i loved them, now 14 for £2.25. think i will bybass them now!!

YorksLass

London_1 said:

as Sardines seem to be vanishing I buy the tiny tins of pilchards when I fancy a salad for myself i empty a tin into a bowl and mix with Mayo and some fresh ground black pepper and half the mix does me for one salad and the other half the following day on crispbrad or crackers for lunch with some sliced tomato on top at around 50-60p a tin the Glenryk ones in tomato sauce are delicious and do me for two meals easily, cheap as chips :0 although today a bag of chips from the chippy is probably a lot dearer  

JackieO xx

Yes, I buy the small tins of Glenryck pilchards too and currently have a decent stock of them, as well as sardines, tuna and pink salmon.  So versatile, all useful for sandwiches, salads, on toast or crackers, jacket potato topping or hm fishcakes.  

I've no idea how much a chippy fish supper would be nowadays.  Pre-Covid that was our Friday treat and it was getting expensive even then.  Nowadays I sometimes do my own - hm batter for the fish and chunky chips, done the traditional way in beef dripping.  And therein lies another tale - a 250g block of dripping that used to cost around 55p is now £1.20, and that's if you can get it!    Grr.

Today I did the last of my grocery shopping for the month and bought a few ys items - a bunch of spring onions (still good and now standing in a glass of water in the fridge), two red peppers (now chopped and frozen), two small pork, cheese & pickle pies (tomorrow's lunch with a side salad) and a pack of 4 chicken breast kebabs in a honey & chilli marinade that I've frozen.  I wouldn't normally even look at these kebabs at £4.20 a pack but reduced to £1.06 thought it was a good bargain.    Next time I'm planning to have the oven on for something, I'll defrost/cook/slice them and they'll make a meal for us.

Anyway, it's been a frugally successful month as I have £12.55 left in July's grocery budget so I'll roll over the £2.55 and stick the £10 in my winter squirrel pot.  Every bit saved will no doubt be used towards the horrendous energy bills.  

jackrabbit123

I tend to chop and change between Lids and Alds depending where my errands take me! I have found over the past month or so I have seen my basic shopping go up especially for mouse trap cheese, it was £1.69 for a while then it has recently jumped to £2.29 , the same applies to yogurts ( plain and fruit) and milk. We love anchovies and they seem to have stayed the same price so I think it's mainly everyone's everyday staples that seem to be going up!