Just a quick trip to my local ALDI this morning. Noticed these prices:
Pasta sauce was £0. 59p. Now £0.74p each.
Olive oil 1L used to be around £2.30 . Now £3.99
Pasta used to be £0.59p Now £0.72p
Sunflower oil £1.09 Now £2.30
Thats price changes that went live yesterday then.
As sunflower oil has been £2.10 for a while wondered if oil would continue to rise.
I think pasta sauce and pasta both went from 59p to 69p so 3 increase on pasta and 5p on sauces..
Noticed yesterday there's 10p difference in sugar 1kg in aldi 85p in lilds 75p used to be 65p a couple months ago when brought a few bags.
I used buy my kids the 69p
aldi do similar version.
£2.20 is crazy rise.
The worst for rises are Aldi which affects everyone else as tesco always price match to aldi and lidls catches up eventually.
Morrisions just don't seem to care about being competitive I mostly only buy branded offers or reductions in there.
Can still get reduced bread in there.
I do better at my tiny Morrisions daily on reductions they always have the Morrisions fresh pizzas half £3.49 down to £1.50 and I freeze them.
Other day got 5 packs reduced free range eggs 60 going to whisk 12 separate and freeze in silicone cake cases so 1 egg per portion to use in xmas baking.
Every little helps.
Brought 4 sugar lilds yesterday when realised was cheaper than aldi.
I'm going have pay new higher price of 43p puree.
But I beat the 20p rise on baked beans as went to big lilds 2 weeks ago as noticed some items cheaper than aldi.
They had massive stack of 4 pack beans and they were all in clingfilm so a tray had 6 4 packs.
So said to husband let's get 2 trays as that's 48 cans and got 1 extra loose 4 packs means I have 52 cans.
Only 3/4 kids like beans
I don't like them.
I would say we eat once a week as side and sometimes not even a whole can so if I split the can in half into small tupperware tub with lid and plan beans as side or on toast lunch or cooked breakfast I should have 1 years worth.
Based on what I brought 13 x4pks I saved £2.60, as 20p rise but they could go up again within next year.
I have a years worth value pasta so spaghetti and penne as been buying a couple Every week this year so not clearing the shelves.
When I started im Jan the penne was 28p bag abd spaghetti 20p.
Now aldi price is 28p spagetti and 41p penne.
Morrisions worse 32p spaghetti and 45p penne exactly same product and weight so my advice is do shop around.
I have no idea if may go up further as the durum wheat harvest was bad because heat..
I think our pasta wheat comes from Italy not Ukraine.
Standard bag non value pasta is 90p in tesco 89p Morrisions and 69p lilds.
Oil when Ukraine War started I really thought if I buy a years worth for family of 6 how much.
I settled on 12 bottles 6 sunflower and 6 olive as use both in any given month.
I paid £1.30 for sunflower and £2.79 lilds oil and £3 branded oil.
Now its £2.30 and £4
Its now nearly end of 2022 and I have 4 bottles of each left so think before xmas despite higher price might buy 2 more of each so can last all of 2023 without i buying cooking oil .
Had hoped get a air fryer on black Friday. Still can't decide which one I want.
I'm not doing years worth of everything so don't have space or the budget.
Just the everty day essential we use large volume that are going up.
If meats too pricy we have pasta/ oil/ rice/ beans/ lentils / herbs / spices and tomato products plus noodles still got some left of those we won't go hungry.
Be interesting next year see how much brings my grocery bill down and I will wrote down price at start of year and price end of year.
Do they think food inflation has peaked?
Wont xmas food shops mayhe boost this.
Dreading budget day thur.
