> Disastrous season means UK shoppers could pay 50% more for pasta
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> Price of durum wheat up by 90% after drought devastates harvest in Canada, one of the biggest producers
Was out shopping at the weekend and was astonished at the prices of Margerine, couldn’t get a 500ml tub for under £2 and many of the main brands (I can’t believe its not butter etc) not on display, no supermarkets own labels on display either.
‘Have you tried buying cheaper food?’
For now you can still get 500g of spaghetti for 20p from Tesco.
It’s still fairly cheap. I’m glad I laid in a stockpile last year when it became obvious that this was coming, but even now it’s not too late to spend a few tenners and get a buffer stock in.
Mp tells peasants to use budget brands, iirc?
r/unitedkingdom members trying to go one day without complaining about food prices challenge (impossible)
I remember when lettuce was 35p, cucumbers were less then 50p. It was last year. Pasta is goingg up, everything is going up and the supermarkets don’t give a shit. They seem to be working together to keep prices high via price matching and won’t realise that if they price people out of goods, people won’t use them.
Magic Stars are now £1.60 and I’m furious.
Not in the education sector especially at the lower end.
I’ve noticed that yeh, a few of the budget staples have gone up more than whatever the average increase is. Like the cheapest tins of beans from 35p to 45p (28%), black beans from 45p to 60p (33%). Asda’s own-brand rice went up about 10-20% too, but they’ve put it back down to its pre-covid price and “locked” it, which is very cool.
Last month you could get 50 packs of savoury rice for a tenner at asda (20p each). Now, that only covers 35 (28p each). Which might seem insignificant, but to someone who’s trying to budget down to the last few pennies, that’s 15 meals just gone.
Yet every supermarket I’ve just looked at has pasta at or around 30p which they’ve had for ages
Is budget pasta filling or one of those that you’d feel hungry after a few hours?
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The main ingredient being wheat
This has been know about for some time and now figures show it did actually ripple through to the shelf price.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/sep/09/penne-in-your-pocket-uk-shoppers-could-pay-up-to-50-more-for-pasta
> Disastrous season means UK shoppers could pay 50% more for pasta
This article is more than 8 months old
>
> Price of durum wheat up by 90% after drought devastates harvest in Canada, one of the biggest producers
Was out shopping at the weekend and was astonished at the prices of Margerine, couldn’t get a 500ml tub for under £2 and many of the main brands (I can’t believe its not butter etc) not on display, no supermarkets own labels on display either.
‘Have you tried buying cheaper food?’
For now you can still get 500g of spaghetti for 20p from Tesco.
It’s still fairly cheap. I’m glad I laid in a stockpile last year when it became obvious that this was coming, but even now it’s not too late to spend a few tenners and get a buffer stock in.
Mp tells peasants to use budget brands, iirc?
r/unitedkingdom members trying to go one day without complaining about food prices challenge (impossible)
I remember when lettuce was 35p, cucumbers were less then 50p. It was last year. Pasta is goingg up, everything is going up and the supermarkets don’t give a shit. They seem to be working together to keep prices high via price matching and won’t realise that if they price people out of goods, people won’t use them.
Magic Stars are now £1.60 and I’m furious.
Not in the education sector especially at the lower end.
I’ve noticed that yeh, a few of the budget staples have gone up more than whatever the average increase is. Like the cheapest tins of beans from 35p to 45p (28%), black beans from 45p to 60p (33%). Asda’s own-brand rice went up about 10-20% too, but they’ve put it back down to its pre-covid price and “locked” it, which is very cool.
Last month you could get 50 packs of savoury rice for a tenner at asda (20p each). Now, that only covers 35 (28p each). Which might seem insignificant, but to someone who’s trying to budget down to the last few pennies, that’s 15 meals just gone.
Yet every supermarket I’ve just looked at has pasta at or around 30p which they’ve had for ages
Is budget pasta filling or one of those that you’d feel hungry after a few hours?