Essential Food Shopping Costing 25% More

I normally do my weekly shop in Sainsbury.....
and in last few weeks I have noticed my essential food shopping costing 25% per week more!

Has anyone else noticed this increase! and is it the same in other stores!

I know petrol and oil has increased but surely this would not increase my weekly bill by 25% .

[scottishlass]

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Yes Tuttsi I have noticed a difference in the costs of my weekly shop too, I shop at Asda.

[ByTheWay]

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Most definately Tuttsi! I shop at Tesco's mainly, and Asda now and then, and noticed a while back that my weekly shop costs more. Essentials like milk and bread have gone up in price. I put it down to the cost of fuel used for transport by the supermarkets, the cost being passed down to the customers, as usual

It's not good for those on a tight budget, especially if you have allocated every penny out to pay off bills and debts. One cannot guarantee to spend XXX amount on food every week if the costs keep on increasing!

[WendyB]

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I've noticed the shopping bill has gone up over the last few weeks. I'm trying to combat this by not doing a weekly shop anymore, I just buy stuff as and when I need it now, just keep a couple of days worth of food in the freezer. I found that unless I'm really strict (and leave OH at home) if I go to Asda then I tend to pick up stuff that i don't really need. Whereas if i've only got xx amount of cash in my puirse, and I nip in to tesco express on the way home from work, I don't spend as much. I am down to buying the absolute bare essentials.

And we can't afford to go out for our weekly curry any more, sob sob.

But Oh makes a mean Tikka Massala from scratch, so last week on curry night four of us had a "proper" meal at the table, with curry cooked by OH, and a bottle of wine, and it cost less than half the price, for four of us, than going to our favourite curry house would cost for two of us.Mind you, the service is crap in my dining room though lol.

[Amethyst]

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Breads gone mental - I notice cause the kids get through stacks of the stuff so think we might have to go back to blue striped bread (the packet not the actual bread you understand)

I buy as and when - especially in the summer when a weekly food shop just dies by
wednesday and have to chuck half out (not having a lot of fridge/freezer space) so it probably does work out a bit cheaper buying at local walking distance co-op each day than a big saturday shop at tescos - plus co-op doesnt have all the temping bits and bobs that I always seem to end up with on a trip to tescos - and i save the bus/taxi fare too.

[WendyB]

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There was a bit in the paper the other day about how people are buying bread making machines cos the price of bread has gone sky high. They did a review, looked good but the best ones were the most expensive ones, which sort of defeats the object in the short term doesn't it?

[Paule]

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Nooo,

You have to make bread by hand, thats the best way,

then you eat the full loaf in one go while its still warm.. mmmmmm

[WendyB]

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yeah but where have I got the time to make bread by hand. I do have a life you know. Well I'd like one anyway lol.

[Paule]

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Its is a great stress release believe me,
just dont over do the yeast or you get an almighty slap from your missus when the oven roof is welded with bread..lol

[WendyB]

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well I don't have a missus lol. But as oven cleaning is OH's job perhaps I should check with him first......

Seriously, i really don't have the time to faff around making bread. Even my famous chocolate cake doesn't take that long. And I only make the choc cake once in a blue moon so a loaf of bread has no chance lol.

and I have other ways of de-stressing.......none of which include tesco, adsa or anywhere within miles of a petrol station lol

[theGobbyOne]

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My kids love bread we all bread monsters..........and they bloody fussy it has to be Warburtons...............Then hey ho guess what.............I go to Aldi for the fruit and veg thats only 69p (6 different items a week) and pick up a loaf from there for 37p as I cant be arsed going asda too................The result...............the kids blooming love the stuff and I can get 3 of them for the price of 1 Warburtons..........Result for me. lol