Potatroes are so cheap, not worh growing your own ,I grow tomatoes in a hanging basket, each basket cost £3.50, but the yield of premium flavour tomatoes is worth £10 to £15 per basket.
I've grown my own potatoes a few times. I didn't do it to save money but for enjoyment. Sounds a bit sad I know!
Not sad at all, they are superb compared with spuds from the shops. Our favourite is Desiree, we also grow Wilja and Charlotte (a salad variety.) Commercial spuds may have less slug damage, but they are pumped up with water (which my old gardening book says commercial chemical fertiliser makes them soak up) but a lot of them are bruised or damaged in other ways that you can't see and you don't know what sprouting-suppression hormones have been sprayed over them. Make mash on your plate: fresh cooked spud but just crushed with buttre, salt and pepper... my mouth is watering just from describing it!
I confirm the existence of that story. It's on the BBC: Cost of living: People in Cardiff 'eating pet food'
The supermarket where prices have risen fastest
Overall shop prices are now 7.4% higher than last November, up from 6.6% in October.uk.news.yahoo.com
There are, of course, many items where the prices have not increased at all this year (yet). Like the various rates of overall inflation (CPI, CPI less housing, RPI etc) people are affected differently, here few will buy that exact basket of groceries. If it is like the other survey someone posted, it is also based on the same items being sold in every supermarket.
Not sure what that has to do with it, although interesting that in addition to most of the ingredients decreasing in price even the two products that have gone up have fallen by less than RPI.
the top !!It's certainly gone up a lot in the past two years, although this time in 2010 a standard 2272ml bottle was £1.53 in the major supermarkets. This product is now £1.65. This size milk was only £1.00 for the best part of ten years.
Probably is roughly equivalent to 4 milli-pints.
To be fair, that is part of the problem. For many years we have benefited from a low and static price as the supermarkets used milk as a key item in their pricing strategy, but we don't recognise that 'saving' when a big increase subsequently happens. If small and regular price increases had been applied over 10 years would anyone have really noticed?
It is suggested that the increase isn't being passed through to the farmers anywhere close to the extra being paid by the customers. Certainly the egg producers claim that to be the case. There is of course the processers cut to consider as well as the supermarkets.
With all due respect, and this isn't, I assure you, directed at yourself, the chances of this are zero....the supermarkets have been offered the proverbial gift horse in the mouth with inflation /Ukraine / post Covid / Brexit all being conveniently used to justify subliminal profiteering...and they aren't going to be inclined to sudden acts of financial philanthropy when bonus's / dividends and profits can be significantly enhanced.
I did read your post, and specifically stated my response was not directed at yourself...but was intended to qualify why prices won't be reduced .
That's effectively yet another example of 'shrinkflation'.
The website lists both, both at 95p.
Same for 2 pints / 1L both at £1.30 and 4 pints / 2L both at £1.65
The remark about Morrison's supply chain process is accurate. There boxed frozen foods always appear as if people have been playing football with them. It's virtually impossible to find a box that hasn't been crushed or damaged in some way. I've always thouht that they must leave the stuff stacked on pallets, outside a freezer, for so long that it starts to defrost and the packaging starts to collapse.
I think everywhere does that. HOwever, most of the box damage happens when the boxes are wrapped in plastic rather than put in cardboard cartons, and when they are in rubbish customer-facing freezers.
