We were talking about rising food prices yesterday and I remembered that back in April 2023 I did a Challenge to see if I could live for a whole week on just £3.50, so I decided to see what the prices of those same items would be if I were to go shopping for the same products today.
Could it still be done?
These were the prices I paid back then.
So I went onto the Sainsbury's website and filled my basket with the same things, and found out that it would now cost me £4.61.
I had to buy two loose potatoes to make up the potato weight because sneaky Sainsbury's have reduced the bag of potatoes from 2.5kg to just 2kg ... and I hadn't even noticed!!
The only thing that has gone down in price are the peach slices, the onions seem to be cheaper but they are dependent on weight when you get there.
So the shopping basket has gone up in price by £1.14, which doesn't seem that much, until you go to the shops with your £3.50 for your weeks food and realise you can no longer afford to buy it.
I wonder if there's anyway of changing the shopping to make it manageable again, or is it now just totally impossible?
Sue xx
Sue, if anyone can answer your last question, it's you!!! But you said you had finished with challenges ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm reading about war-time food production and how before the war the poor lived mainly on bread and dripping - seem like we'll have to go back to that at the rate prices are still rising.
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