Food Inflation / Cost of Living

or Greed & Profiteering is a cunt.

UK food inflation to continue to fall in 2026, says Sainsbury’s boss –
“UK grocery inflation was 4.3% in the 4 weeks to Dec 28th, easing from 4.7% in the previous 4 week period…”

Are you having a Laff ? 4.7% food inflation ? just more MSM rose coloured spectacle bullshit !

My own personal grocery shopping experience is that food prices have risen between 40 to over 100%.

Beef steak (not best) £30/kg
Beef roasting joint at £18/kg has now exceeded £17/kg for Lamb Leg
Whole Fresh Chicken £3 to £6/kg
Potatoes 50p to £1.20/kg

Now generally, I refuse to reward the larger money grabbing supermarket chains, only buying reductions after 5pm ;
Whole Chicken (dated that day) = £1/kg – cook it or freeze for later
Ready meals (luxury usually best reductions) £6 down to £2
Bread & Fresh fruit can be found reduced to less than 25% of original price.

We usually buy a 56lb sack of Potatoes from the Farm Shop at 23p/kg but are still using the leftover bags of Xmas spuds from Aldi (5p for 2.5 Kg)
We buy lots of 5p Xmas veg. Peel, parboil and bag for freezing they are cheap just requiring a bit of time & effort.

We no longer buy from the local chippy. I know we have the highest fuel & energy prices in Europe (3 x Germany) but some of these price increases are sheer greed. Cod at £11 I can sort of understand, but £4.50 for a bag of chips is expensive. £3 for curry sauce & 85p for one pickled onion is greed. Can of Cola @ £1.80 is dear given I can buy Carlsberg @ 52p, but what disgusts me is £3.20 for a 500ml bottle of water, that I can buy in a multipak for 18p.

Rant over……

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35 thoughts on “Food Inflation / Cost of Living

  1. Nah, not having that..
    Everything is down. Inflation down, energy costs down, unemployment down, illegal immigration down..
    And of course IQ’s way,way down.

  2. This is the real damage done by Convid; you put the entire country on the dole and shut down all economic activity, it didn’t take John Maynard Keynes to work out what would happen next.

    Not content with having blitzed £385bn on this swindle, they then spend another £200mn on a four year all expenses paid jamboree for inquiry lawyers.

    And now we live with a “working population” that got used to being retired and working from home, so no one has the interest or motivation in being productive anymore.

    All this presided over by a government flooding the country with third world filth, housing them, feeding them, giving them free healthcare and travel, and now giving £40k to any dinghy scum that wants to be tempted over here to collect their free bonus, fuck off, tell cousin Ahmed in Stabistan about this great wheeze they’ve got going on in that silly place with all the on-tap raping they’ve been telling him about, go on Ahmed why don’t you take enjoy a spot of all expenses paid sex-tourism.

    Meanwhile we can all be really grateful that we’ve had successive governments mothball our domestic energy resources and place ourselves at the mercy of middle Eastern energy supplies, so that we can pretend we’ve everything we need in the shape of a few malfunctioning windmills and an assortment of solar panels sitting in a country that spends 6 months in darkness.

    Yes the supermarkets and the forecourts are no doubt adding a few pennies on for good measure, but if you really want to coordinate a really successful campaign of citizen-fucking endless inflation, that requires years and years of narcissistic psycho lefties running the country.

    • In a nutshell there,Dave.
      Most still don’t get it.
      They’d still stand on their doorstep banging their saucepans if they were told to.

  3. Inflation? Pfft! You younger folks have seen nothing! Us old ‘uns lived with inflation ranging from 16% to 27% in the 1970s. We took on a mortgage in the spring of ’78 with repayments scheduled at £125 per month, by Christmas they were £200. Now that’s inflation.

    • An object lesson in what socialists can achieve when they set their minds to it arfur; and a clear benchmark for our current regime to aspire to

    • I must say though that the price of energy is catastrophic. If we had a cabinet of normal people rather than this bunch of totally selfish cunts, a national emergency would have been declared by now and we would be lifting the coal and oil we’re sitting on as fast as we could go.

      • Like I said arfur, psychos.

        Who the fuck else could wilfully ignore the enormous environmental impact of building useless wind turbines and EV batteries, alongside the fossil fuel products on which their production depends, the fossil fuels required to generate the electricity to power “green vehicles”, the shipping in of LNG from the Middle East and Australia to feed the power stations that generate this electricity, only for these maniacs to STILL harp on about the great advances being made in weaning us off fossil fuels, while we sit there staring at our own resources lying fallow.

        This is a monumental commitment to an absolutely insane ideology, a kamikaze philosophy that unambiguously expresses contempt for the people it’s supposed to protect, and an unfaltering determination to take us all down in flames with their doomed vainglorious mission, a situation that would have Hitler blushing and saying maybe we’ve gone a bit too far with this one.

  4. Think what the rate of inflation would be if Ange hadn’t started offering BOGOFs and pensioners at half price on Mondays because of her reduced circumstances.

  5. I can eat very well on £25 a week buying only orange sticker co-op goodies and maintaining a well stocked freezer.

    That and home brew, works out way cheaper to make 40 pints than to buy a case of pisswater beer which also has minimum pricing slapped on it.

    Some chickens on the croft where the only predators are fucking sea eagles provide plenty eggs, some light exercise in the form of diving for scallops and some fishing on the kayak or from shore.

    But how urban families survive on low pay with none of the above options besides orange stickers beats me.

  6. One of best bits is the blame game,it’s never the present government’s fault,just like the welfare and cannabīs dependent single mother living in some run down rathole,someone else is to blame…

    Gas and electricity bill through the roof? Oh that will be the Russians invading Ukraine….except energy prices had gone mad months before Vlad had even started mobilisation,all because of the consequences of the Covid Magic Money Tree Experiment.

    Now of course that’s old news,now the complete insanity of leaving millions of barrels of oil and gas in the North Sea for the Norwegians is coming hone to roost again,it will be Trumps fault for stopping a nuclear war that’s made petrol and LNG even more expensive.

    I was also going to ask Mrs Terry about the price of mince but it’s like jumping into a volcano so I’ll give that a miss.

    This country is obviously run by total cunts ,maniac communists and mental vegan scúm.

    The ayatollahs flying carpet Oven.

    Good morning.

    • I doubt leaving some oil in the North sea is of any significance, Its not like the UK done anything sensible with oil money anyway.

      Much like we never had the sense to keep hold of our own fucking water or energy infrastructure.

  7. Sorry to hear youve fallen out with your chippy, Benny.

    Hope you manage to work it out.
    Chippy guidance counselling?

  8. The price of everything has gone mad.

    Your getting less for more money.

    A bag of cadburys mini eggs for missus Miserable a fiver!!!
    What the fuck?
    Im not a premiership footballer.
    No wonder everyone is shoplifting.

    Weve started using headtorches rather than have the lights on.

    Anyway,
    Im making some potato farls today.
    I love irish cuisine.

    Italian? Bag of shite.
    Indian? Rancid.
    Chinese? Its got tentacles
    No,
    Irish foods the pinnacle of fine dining.

    Them spuds peeled yet luv?

  9. We all know that the published inflation figures are a pack of lies, with CPI/RPI being cherry picked BS. The rise in prices is also personal to the individual and what they have been purchasing. For example, anybody who has had a building project or house renovation recently will know that the price of labour and materials has been eye watering. Having to renew a car has become very expensive. Gas and electricity were cheap compared to now, up until around six years ago.

    The other thing is that it isn’t just about the ticket price but the amount and quality you receive. We also have shrinkflation, where the chocolate bar is now what used to be “fun size”, getting three crisps in a packet, and the quality of things is often terrible. Taking all of this into account, I suspect we have had inflation as bad as the 1970s. Maybe worse.

    It makes me laugh when the politicians and idiots in the media tell us that inflation will “fall”. Do they mean that the rate of price increases will be lower? Because if the inflation rate goes from 5% to 4% for a given thing, the prices are still going up – and this is on top of all the previous increases. There isn’t anything to be happy about as a consumer unless the prices fall, and that would be a negative rate of inflation, or deflation. Or your income has risen and outstripped the inflation, but this is most definitely not the case for most people.

    Balsamic Dave has hit nail on head for the covid causes. It was all absolutely predictable, but everybody was too busy being swept up in the stupidity of the scamdemic. Banging their pots and pans, putting their dirty face masks on, following the arrows in the supermarket. Being terrified of a glorified flu, where the average age of death was higher than the average life expectancy.

    There was also the easy-credit monetary policies and money printing from 2008 onwards when the stupid government bailed out the banks. This should have been an emergency, short term measure, but it went on for ten years and then got put on steroids during covid.

    The idiots in charge had been fooled into thinking this doesn’t cause inflation, as CPI and RPI were relatively stable and low up until around 2020. The general public had cheap shopping bills so no complaints there. However, this was most likely because we were importing so much cheap stuff from China and importing so much cheap labour. In other words, the inflation that should have happened was disguised by other phenomena, that were very damaging in their own right. Also, asset price inflation, such as the stock market and housing, gave the game away. So bailing out the banks has probably been a major driver of destroying this country, in addition to covid. In a sense, you can look at those ugly skyscrapers in London and see that England has been ruined to pay for a global financial hub.

    By the way, I’ve seen one claim that, according to the obese cretin, Boris Johnson, he agreed to the massive “Boris Wave” whilst we were all locked down as the treasury advised him that this would help to control inflation. Well, inflation has been bad and much of that cheap labour has been zero-skill garbage that has gone on the dole or into prison. So it has been an utter disaster. But this does shed some light on how these imbeciles think. Mass immigration is seen as a way to offset their profligate and inflationary fiscal and monetary policies. But as with all things, there is a price to this. There is no free lunch in life.

    Unfortunately, most people are ignorant about economics, and none more so than politicians and certain trained economists who believe you can have your cake and eat it too. Inflation is a dishonest shadow tax for a profligate state that fails to control spending. It is also a regressive tax, stealing relatively more from the less well off and transferring it to rich people who own more assets.

    All the ideological detritus about multiculturalism and “diversity is our strength”, ad nauseum, is in the service of all that ^^. Indeed, the use of the word “racism” went up exponentially, both here and in the US, following the bank bailouts. Make of that what you will.

    • V.well put sir. The other driver of inflation, or deflation of personal wealth is the tax the Gov. pull. Council tax is the obvious “pay more, get less”
      Mornin’ all

      • It is the fucking council tax that really pisses me off. Not content with charging me £3,000 pa all of the council services for which there used to be no charge such as bulky item disposal no longer exist or have to be paid for.
        £3,000 pa for our 180 litre bin to be emptied every fortnight is a monumental piss take.

  10. One of my biggest gripes is the cost of meat currently, and it just so happened that the ever reliable BBC yesterday, posted a lengthy article about the decline in demand for lamb.
    There was much blathering and propaganda about the environment and protecting grassy uplands from greedy, grass eating sheep, and about trade deals with the US and New Zealand etc, but fuck all about the ultimate reason.
    The reason being that the price of Lamb, especially, is fucking extortionate.
    I’m all for backing British farmers, but there are limits, I’m afraid.
    Anyway, the article did offer a silver lining at the end. Or at least a BBC type of one.
    ‘How Muslim communities could make a difference’
    They love a bit of lamb, bless ‘em.
    Well, goat actually.
    But never mind. Crack on with the bullshit you leftie cunts.

  11. The Lib Dems enjoy paying ridiculous prices for organic yogurt. To their way of thinking it is a sign that they have achieved the absolute pinnacle of human existence. The other sign is the wearing of socks with sandals in public.

    Good morning, everyone.

  12. First of all I haven’t established if any of you are actually getting up off your arses and walking to the shops, or going by bus such as I’ve always done. It depends on whether I do a big shop and have a taxi bring me home, or manage a rucksack full with a bus either way and if in good weather cycle each way. I’ve never complained about the cost, but love a bargain when I see it. Always have room for plenty of fruit and the only meat is the occasional chicken. Due to rheumatoid arthritis, mainly in the hands, I have to buy ready meals, but they are the healthiest ones and always make sure everything else doesn’t have red labelling on them. Due to being used to the early days of rationing I love a good fasting. After a diabetes scare a few years ago I immediately cut out cakes, biscuits and sweets and I’m back on the rails, just like I did when also stopping smoking and drinking. I pride myself on having willpower second to none. I like skating past the fatties with my shopping trolley and also when I’m out walking, taking pride in that I’m older than they are, knowing for certain that they’ve never reached my age.

  13. Hi-Vizzers don’t seem to be having one, when it comes to them queuing in packs out the door and half way down the street from every single fucking bakery and cafe up and down the country every day until gone noon.

  14. Everything is free under labour…. Isn’t it

    Free child care
    Free school meals
    Free Breakfast clubs
    Free housing for channel scum
    Benefits untouchable

    Don’t work, you know it makes sense.

    Anyway, Cat food is up so kitty is on a diet.

    Stop penalising farmers for not being green enough, I mean how that fuck can you grow a green carrot.

    I am going to write to Mad Ed, he and his mate Starmsy love China so much they should start building modern coal fire power stations like China, apparently (don’t know if it correct) they can be run on fast tick over (20%) and can be ramped up quickly if required.
    Bring back Coal!

    Drill baby Drill

    Deport, deport, deport

  15. Sainsbury’s have a wine offer on at the moment, %25 off 6 of more.

    I’ve cancelled tmy alcoholic anonymous membership.

    The more you drink, the more you save..🍷

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