Food bill to rise by £750 per year

mary43

It's quite a scary and worrying forecast. OH is normally in charge of food and is very good and making a little go a long way if need be so hopefully we won't be affected too much.

patchwork_cat

If the average family's shopping went up by £15 a week and that is 2/3% then the average family has a serious supermarket habit!

Does anyone know what is the average spend per family ( who are not MSE friendly!)

calleyw

Food is going up big time. In sainsburys I bought on the 3rd of January wholemeal pasta twists 1Kg 69p went to purchase more yesterday and they where now £1.39 :eek:

Think I will have to learn to like smaller portion sizes might mean I loose the much needed weight

£15 a week rise would mean I spend an extra £60 a month. I don't. This month as I have so much in the freezer and cupboards I have only spent £40.

Will be hunting out more reduced to clear me thinks.

Yours


Calley

Primrose

We have a membership subscription to Cosco so do a lot of bulk buying there and do a lot of bulk batch cooking for the freezer to save on fuel costs.
Also grow vegetables in our own garden, make lots of home-made soup and cook all meals from scratch rather than buying expensive ready prepared ones. And we turn the thermostat down and put on extra layers of clothing as well as using energy saving lightbulbs and buying clothes from charity shops. We do these things by choice rather than being forced to by sheer poverty but I suspect a lot of people on benefits and very low budgets are going to be forced into debt just trying to survive on the basics.

organic_wanabe

The programme that I was watching - can't remember which one - said that supermarkets were saying that prices had, on average, risen by under 5% as they were absorbing as much of the increases as possible. However, the programme then produced a shopping basket of staples (bread/milk/butter/potatoes/etc.) and showed that a month or so ago it totalled just over £10 and now the cost had risen to over £12.50. One wonders whether, if we have a better Summer and vegetable crops don't get hit again, will they remember to reduce prices!

patchwork_cat

Butter has gone up a phenomenal amount. It seems to me by nearly 75%. I seem to remember not that long ago buying butter for aroung the 50p mark now it is 85p.
However for some unknown reason I have an order confirmation on my emails from jan 2006 and smoked mackerel for example is the same price, but Krackawheat have increased by 21% and bread has increased 37% on the same loaf. Oragnic skimmed milk has increased by 16 % over 2 years. My husbands wage however has only increased about 5%

Hardup_Hester

I admit I panic when I hear that everything is going up yet again, I'm really not sure how much more I can cut down. It's not just food prices, it's the utilities aswell, I'm sat here with my coat on & the heating off as I'm the only one in at the moment. My council tax went up last year from £86 to £120 a month, I'm awaiting my new bill with trepidation. I've joined some of the challenges in an attempt to cut down further & earn some more money. There is a limit, which will soon be reached when we really can't manage & then what?

lil_me

Just sat and worked it out, we're spending almost as much a month on gas and electric as food at the minute. Average a day at the minute (based on last 10 days) for both is £7.70, price increases effected our bill from 4th January but only got the letter this week, my budget max for food is £10 a day. I think my 'limit' is here. Need to do something serious about it, just can't carry on like this...

ceridwen

It is worrying. Just as well I am learning all this O.S. stuff to help me keep pace.

Markets - what are they? I dont have one of those anywhere near me - I wish.

But - as others say - it is the prospect of rising fuel bills that concerns me most (particularly with my well-known liking for being positively toasty warm!). I'm picking up all the O.S. hints on that as well - I dont tumbledry at all now - it all goes on airers to dry off and I'm now equipped with various fleeces and warm clothing I didnt have and experimenting with using them - they certainly help a lot and I am coming back of an evening and switching off the central heating now (rather than leaving it on all evening) and if I feel cold I will switch on a halogen heater instead for a temperature top-up. I refuse to be cold - but think I can possibly at least keep my fuel bills to the same level, rather than having them rising in line with the current round of increases.

vivaladiva

patchwork_cat wrote: »

If the average family's shopping went up by £15 a week and that is 2/3% then the average family has a serious supermarket habit!

Does anyone know what is the average spend per family ( who are not MSE friendly!)

I make that £500:eek:. You've got to be joking. It sounds like some figures have been mixed up in the report. £500 per month is more like it - surely?