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

YorksLass

eileenfromplaistow said:

Can't see me making bread pudding either - suet is £1.80!!! 

Did you mean a steamed suet pudding as opposed to bread pudding?  I always have a packet of suet in the cupboard - not bothered if it's the beef or the vegetable version, I can't tell the difference - and it does seem to last a fair while.  Good job, as it's no longer £1.80 - now £2.05!  

eileenfromplaistow

My mum used suet, so I do. For me using butter points to bread and butter pudding. 😀.
Anyway, it's not a price I will pay. 
Still people not looking at prices though - just grabbing stuff off the shelf.

London_1

I am just back from my holiday in Ilfracombe, and at some point this week will have to shop for food as I have run my fresh stuff right down. DD got me in a small  brown bread loaf and some fresh and milk, and left me a nice roast dinner plated up for tonight of lamb chops ,chipolata sausages, roasrt spuds and veg so it will be whizzed into the microwave and I'll make a little gravy up and thats tonights meal sorted.
 
As I haven't shopped for fresh food at all this month so far I am expecting there to be a good few shocks in store for me when I go shopping at some point this week. But I haven't touched my monthly food budget at all, so it will help to ease me in (hopefully).

I hate to think what sorts of shocks are in store

JackieO xx

YorksLass

London_1 said: I hate to think what sorts of shocks are in store   JackieO xx

Brace yourself Jackie!  Maybe take some smelling salts with you.  

Hope you had a good holiday - as you said, it's nice to have a meal that you haven't shopped for, cooked or cleared up afterwards.

London_1

YorksLass, indeed I got thoroughly spolit being waited on for breakfast and evening meal at the hotel. On Saturday my friend and I went to a little family run place in Barnstaple and had lunch, it was in a side street and called Grumpys but was spotlessly clean and the food was excelent. We had a gorgeous HUGE bowl of thick chicken soup with a swirl of cream around the top and two hot, freshly cooked rolls and butter, plus an enourmous wholemeal cheese sandwich between us, and a large pot of tea(and it really was large) which was actually on the menu as Yorkshire tea and it definitely was.

Ok it cost just under £17.00 but we were absolutely stuffed and the little lass that served us was a real little charmer, and had a lovely smile We found almost everywhere we went when out we would try to find indpendant businesses to eat at, as the local economy really need it. The local people were lovely and made us feel really welcome, and even in Ilfracombe when walking up to the High Street (golly those streets are steep) people would smile and say good morning and we got chatting to one elderly chap who was walking his two small pug dogs, and passed the time of day with him
People were lovely and I would heartily reccommend ilfracombe, and in fact Devon to anyone the little towns are nice and the folk very friendly to two old biddys  who were visiting So thank Devonians I give you 10/10 (and the weather wasn't too bad either  

Normality will bite tomorrow no doubt  

JackieO xx

Slinky

Tesco Oaties biscuits, and indeed a lot of their other own brand biscuits are all now 49p. Last week Oaties were 36p, custard creams were 31p I think.

Haven't seen Chocolate Oaties for months, even though they keep moving the date they'll be back in by. Currently 10th November.

London_1

I tried one of the JE Asda's soups today that I had in my store cupboard, and sloshed a decent dollop of sweet chilli sauce into it It was the chicken soup one, and its years since I tasted tinned soup as I normally make my own ,but being away for several days I didn't get the chance to make my own, so thought I would try this one, and for 24p it wasn't bad, Thick and with the chilli sauce added gave it a nice bit of a zip. I'm not sure if I would be a tinned soup convert, but this one was Ok for a quick lunch and reasonable. I ususally make a big vat of soup at the weekend but missed last weekend as I never arrived back home until the evening. I don't mind keeping a couple of tins in my stores for when the weather is bad and I may run short of fresh veg so out of ten I guess I would give it 7-8 so a good emergency standby for the winter.

I was shocked on Tuesday when I went food shopping at how much the prices had risen for the oddest things. I don't buy these but I'm quite glad, as it was very high anyway, and that was the 'posh' fish pies in Tescos, Charlie Bingham I think its called it is now £8.50. I'm pretty sure I could make a bigger one for less than half that price.The price of Weetabix is throught the roof as well. But it seems all the cereals and cheese is rising in price and eggs are starting to rise in price because of bird flu I believe

JackieO xx

Farway

London_1 said:

 and eggs are starting to rise in price because of bird flu I believe

JackieO xx

Egg price rises are also linked to cost of feed [grain] and energy price rises, plus phasing out of caged birds for more open "barn" type housing.

More or less everything regarding chickens has increased in cost to supplier, and no doubt more to come

MSE_James

The price of a pint of milk has gone down in my nearest Sainsbury's Local - it's now 95p, having been above a pound for a while.

(This is distinct from the pricing in larger Sainsbury's stores where they have an Aldi price match on milk)

Kaylataste

3kg bags of pasta in Tesco have gone up this week,£3.60 on wednesday,£4.00 today.