Food prices - have you noticed them rising?

[northernhord]

I reckon we're also going to see a lot of scabby spivving and profitering by unscrupulous retailers using this as an excuse.

Defo, there was some mention of those City (traders) parasites profiteering from all of this too, they should be shot in the face at close range by people from Council Estates and have thier assets stolen and sold for spudz.

 

[harpo]

Street markets are way cheaper for fruit and veg. Two melons for a quid, eg, as opposed to one from the nearby supermarket. And it seems to ripen better for some reason.

 

[Sunspots]

Dooooooooom Master!

While I was buying food the other day, I very naively o) thought to myself:

"-Shit, prices have gone up AGAIN! ...-It's getting close to the point where I really cannot afford to buy what I could a few months ago. ...-Still, at least prices can't possibly continue rising this fast in this country."

Then I stopped and just thought:

"-Errrrr... but if it's out of control, then they really can keep on rising too fast here. ...-And they very probably will... -What then? -Food riots here, in a year or two?... -The return of rationing?..."



<-At this point, of course, I was dragged away and discreetly sedated by several members of staff and then kicked out of Tesco for having been so hysterical and scaring the other customers...>

I really can't see how things aren't going to get progressively more difficult in the future, here and around the world.

Soylent Green is looking ever more plausible!...

 

[poster342002]

While I was buying food the other day, I very naively o) thought to myself:

"-Shit, prices have gone up AGAIN! ...-It's getting close to the point where I really cannot afford to buy what I could a few months ago. ...-Still, at least prices can't possibly continue rising this fast in this country."

Then I stopped and just thought:

"-Errrrr... but if it's out of control, then they really can keep on rising too fast here. ...-And they very probably will... -What then? -Food riots here, in a year or two?... -The return of rationing?..."


I really can't see how things aren't going to get progressively more difficult in the future, here and around the world.

Soylent Green is looking ever more plausible!...

In North Korea during the last decade, people ended up eating tree bark from the local parks. Couldn't happen here? Maybe not this year or the next. Can you say it won't be the case in ten, though ...?

 

[bluestreak]

i've not noticed, tbh, the price of cider seems to have stayed at one pound a can.

 

[mattie]

i've not noticed, tbh, the price of cider seems to have stayed at one pound a can.

'kin hell, those London prices.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Thers a bloody price war on posh cider- Gaymers pear cider bottle- 84 p!!

 

[jonH]

chocolate seems to be stable

 

[Detroit City]

Blimey - Frito Lay just announced price increases on many of its snack products such as Doritoes, etc....mainly due to higher ingredient prices

 

[Sunspots]

Couldn't happen here? Maybe not this year or the next. Can you say it won't be the case in ten, though ...?

Well, quite; that's what I'm suggesting. I've always vaguely worried about this kind of thing, and it actually appears to be becoming a very real possibility.

Someone, please: post me a funny picture of Clive Dunn in Dad's Army. Or slap me around the face and shout "-Pull yourself together man!!" at me.

 

[Sunspots]

Blimey - Frito Lay just announced price increases on many of its snack products such as Doritoes, etc....mainly due to higher ingredient prices

Now you're feelin' the squeeze, eh!

 

[Choc]

yes and no. i have noted it a lot in germany. as the prices for food used to be extremely cheap years ago (before i left). then i came to england and everything was much more pricey. now i go back and prices are nearly the same there.

over here with globilisation ie lidl and arabic shops etc i find there is a lot of cheap shopping in the brixton area. ie 3 mangoes for a quit.

but, i have also noted a price increase. mainly on my spelt and rye bread which has recently gone up by a £1, and costs now £4.05!!

 

[Choc]

the countryside is much pricyer for food compared to london btw.

 

[poster342002]

This is the thing: the media talks about price rises in the range of 10 or 17 pence - but it seems a lot of things have nearly doubled!

 

[Geri]

Bacon prices in Tesco have gone through the roof!

 

[Detroit City]

Bacon prices in Tesco have gone through the roof!

the prices of milk have gone up quite a bit here. Few years you could get a gallon for around $2.50....now it's like $3.50.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Here's an article I never thought I'd see in the Wall Street Journal advocating that everyone hoard food:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120881517227532621-lMyQjAxMDI4MDI4MjgyMTI1Wj.html

 

[PacificOcean]

the prices of milk have gone up quite a bit here. Few years you could get a gallon for around $2.50....now it's like $3.50.

A gallon of milk is eight pints over here.

How the hell do you drink that much milk before it goes off?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

the prices of milk have gone up quite a bit here. Few years you could get a gallon for around $2.50....now it's like $3.50.

Try $4.00 here, and we produce a good bit of it.

 

[Funky_monks]

I'm seeing many reports of prices of animals going down while feed prices go up. if you have freezer space, it's possible to buy bulk meat from ethical producers for less than the supermarkets sell crap for.

If you can get porkers for £25 a piece, you'll pay about a tenner - £15 to have em slaughtered and another £20 to have em butchered.

£65 Quid yer entire pig.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

A gallon of milk is eight pints over here.

How the hell do you drink that much milk before it goes off?

we get through 4 pints a day in our house and there's only 3 of us.

 

[Gavin Bl]

butter and eggs, various wheat products - pasta notably so. Some veg, but I think this might be more down to transport costs, re: price of diesel.

 

[Detroit City]

A gallon of milk is eight pints over here.

How the hell do you drink that much milk before it goes off?

it is usually good for 14 to 18 days if you get a fresh batch.

 

[toggle]

we get through 4 pints a day in our house and there's only 3 of us.

4 of us, we're going through 6 pints a day atm, because milk seems to be one fo the few things that settles my stomach when i get pregnancy related indigestion.

 

[toggle]

If you can get porkers for £25 a piece, you'll pay about a tenner - £15 to have em slaughtered and another £20 to have em butchered.

£65 Quid yer entire pig.

I tend to want to take the opportunity to get a named breed from a named supplier with good welfare standards, outdoor reared, would pass organic certification, costs a bit more, but still cheaper than anyhting i can buy round here

 

[Badgers]

Here's an article I never thought I'd see in the Wall Street Journal advocating that everyone hoard food:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120881517227532621-lMyQjAxMDI4MDI4MjgyMTI1Wj.html

Not nice reading and I don't like the idea of 'stockpiling' food or the potential worst case scenario.....

One person has food hoarded in their property
Another person did not hoard food

Hunger will make people do more desperate things

 

[Greebo]

In the last year:-
A 4 pack of Heinz baked beans (have to buy these - can't find another brand which is onionfree) has gone from approx 99p at lowest to £1.86-£2.
800g loaf of Lidl's cheapest sliced wholemeal bread has gone from under 40p to over 50p. The same goes for a pack of 6 rolls.
A 1kg tub of marge (for spreading, not cooking) has gone from approx £1.80 to £2.15.
A sack of basmati rice in Lidl has gone from slightly over £8 to approx £10.50.
Half a dozen free range eggs has gone from approx 89p to approx £1.17.
The cheapest litre of UHT skimmed milk (haven't been able to afford fresh milk in years) I could get last year was 39p, now it's 45p.
These aren't luxuries, these are staples. But benefits don't keep pace. The basket of goods for working out the official inflation rate keeps changing - it no longer includes housing or fuel (which have also gone up), but it does include DVD players, other electrical goods, and clothing (which have mostly gone down).

What with having to shop around a lot more and having to make things go even further, I really haven't got the time or energy to take to the streets in protest.

 

[mentalchik]

I have definitely noticed prices rising........i quite often have to shop at Netto (as it's the only shop nearby and sometimes i'm too tired to spend all saturday tramping around with shopping)even their prices are going up ! I reckon my normal sort of shop there has risen by a good £10 !

If only my income rose by the same !

 

[Funky_monks]

I tend to want to take the opportunity to get a named breed from a named supplier with good welfare standards, outdoor reared, would pass organic certification, costs a bit more, but still cheaper than anyhting i can buy round here

The point I was making was that even using the cheapest feed, theres' no way anyone but the largest pig farms could grow a pig to porker weight with £25 worth of feed, so its more or less certain that the farmer was making a loss on those saddlebacks.

I like to have 'random crosses' for pigs. They are cheap - the big boys don't want em cos they won't grow long and lean, the niche market folks don't want them cos they aren't a named breed.

Last lot I had were Old Spot x Long White. Tasty, longer and leaner than an old spot, but still with some fat as oppose to the obscene amounts you sometimes get on Old Spots.

New lot we just got are Duroc/Long White x Old Spot/Long White. They look as though they'll grow well enough for me.

I'm not gonna fork out for Organic nuts though. They can have normal ones plus sacks of veg trimmings (unwashed before anyone shouts F&M regs!) we get off the market.

I bet it costs me a hell of a lot more than £65 to grow em to market weight.