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Post by ChrisM on Nov 28, 2022 20:49:35 GMT
I picked up a carton of 4 pints of milk from Tesco last night and it was £1.65. It was only £1.55 a week or so ago and it was £1.10 at the beginning of the year! Many food prices have really rocketed in price this year. As examples I used to occasionally buy a supermarket own-brand piece of Brie, 79p at the start of the year and now almost £1.80. The branded packs used to be just over £2 and I'd sometimes buy them when they were on offer at about £1.50. They are now on offer at about £2, normal price seems to be over £3. Mr Kipling packs of 6 cake bars, I used to buy when on offer at £1 per box reduced from about £1.20 or £1.30. They are now around £2 and on offer, £1.20. At least own-brand packs of crisps are just over £1 for a multi-pack of 6. The 4-pint bottles of milk are now indeed around £1.55 / £1.65 but 2 pints are about £1.35. Bizarre and makes you wonder how much the transport costs and packaging contribute to the overall pricing. A large part of my typical weekly/monthly spend is on food an energy bills. When I tried the BC's personal inflation calculator a few weeks ago, it put my personal rate of inflation at about 14%
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Post by michael on Nov 28, 2022 20:56:14 GMT
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Post by Alex on Nov 29, 2022 4:10:33 GMT
Given that we waste enough food in the West to solve all of the rest of the world's food problems this is maybe not a bad thing. Nearly half of all fruit and veg sold in this country ends up in the bin (often because its bought with good intentions but when we feel peckish we can't help going for the biscuit tin instead) so perhaps we need prices to be higher so that we appreciate the value of food. As with petrol and energy the shock we are seeing is not so much a product of prices spiking this year but of too many years of everything being too cheap and too plentiful for too long.
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Post by michael on Nov 29, 2022 8:51:37 GMT
Given that we waste enough food in the West to solve all of the rest of the world's food problems this is maybe not a bad thing. Nearly half of all fruit and veg sold in this country ends up in the bin (often because its bought with good intentions but when we feel peckish we can't help going for the biscuit tin instead) so perhaps we need prices to be higher so that we appreciate the value of food. As with petrol and energy the shock we are seeing is not so much a product of prices spiking this year but of too many years of everything being too cheap and too plentiful for too long. You should go and preach this in a food bank and see how popular these ideas are.
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 29, 2022 10:18:12 GMT
I find food prices are not what I would call cheap. We don't throw food out
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Post by Alex on Nov 29, 2022 18:01:26 GMT
Given that we waste enough food in the West to solve all of the rest of the world's food problems this is maybe not a bad thing. Nearly half of all fruit and veg sold in this country ends up in the bin (often because its bought with good intentions but when we feel peckish we can't help going for the biscuit tin instead) so perhaps we need prices to be higher so that we appreciate the value of food. As with petrol and energy the shock we are seeing is not so much a product of prices spiking this year but of too many years of everything being too cheap and too plentiful for too long. You should go and preach this in a food bank and see how popular these ideas are. I get that sentiment and you are right it would go down like a cold cup of sick. But that doesn't make it any less true and it might lead to a generation that knows how to cook properly and use all the food in their fridge unlike my generation (including myself) who can spend ages walking around a fully stocked supermarket with bugger all clue what to buy for dinner before giving in to ready meals or a pizza to bung in the oven.
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Post by Grampa on Nov 29, 2022 22:05:54 GMT
Still going down: 144.9 here today
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2022 23:39:58 GMT
Something I am pretty happy with is an ability to throw bits and pieces together to make an acceptable meal. I leatned the basica from my ambulance drive who had been a chef in the Ritz in London. How to add spices etc in just enough but not too much quantities etc.
Very useful when your tools do not include a hob or oven.
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Post by Grampa on Dec 6, 2022 11:47:35 GMT
The downward trajectory continues: 140.9 yesterday - 9p drop in less than a fortnight.
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 6, 2022 12:43:16 GMT
The Asda filling station opposite my office has come down 3p per litre since this morning. Now 179.7 for diesel.
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 6, 2022 12:43:41 GMT
The Asda filling station opposite my office has come down 3p per litre since this morning. Now 179.7 for diesel.
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Post by Tim on Dec 6, 2022 13:23:02 GMT
The cheapest petrol I've seen round here is still 157.9
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Post by Boxer6 on Dec 6, 2022 13:37:49 GMT
The Asda filling station opposite my office has come down 3p per litre since this morning. Now 179.7 for diesel. I'm not really paying attention to petrol prices I'm afraid (much to Herself's annoyance!), but Costco's diesel when I filled up yesterday was 169.9ppl. Still bloody expensive, but heading (slowly) in the right direction.
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Post by johnc on Dec 6, 2022 14:39:35 GMT
153.9 for unleaded and 181.9 for diesel in the Esso station beside the office. However I am expecting fuel to go up again with the Opec+ members deciding to restrict production (at the request of Russia! and for the others financial gain)
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Post by Tim on Dec 6, 2022 16:10:56 GMT
A report into the movement of forecourt prices compared with wholesale www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63871270Guess what? Prices go up immediately when wholesale increases and then fall slower when it reduces. No shit!
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Post by Big Blue on Dec 6, 2022 16:32:36 GMT
A report into the movement of forecourt prices compared with wholesale www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63871270Guess what? Prices go up immediately when wholesale increases and then fall slower when it reduces. No shit! Yep. Check the day ahead wholesale gas price chart. It’s still 7 times what it was a year ago but half what it was when the initial panic made household bills jump.
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Post by Andy C on Dec 6, 2022 17:38:09 GMT
The Asda filling station opposite my office has come down 3p per litre since this morning. Now 179.7 for diesel. I drove past there today and noticed diesel is almost 20p more than petrol
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Post by michael on Dec 6, 2022 17:42:36 GMT
The Asda filling station opposite my office has come down 3p per litre since this morning. Now 179.7 for diesel. I drove past there today and noticed diesel is almost 20p more than petrol Apparently that’s down to refinery capacity to produce diesel.
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Post by Alex on Dec 6, 2022 20:32:25 GMT
A report into the movement of forecourt prices compared with wholesale www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63871270Guess what? Prices go up immediately when wholesale increases and then fall slower when it reduces. No shit! Apparently the same reporter recently got a scoop when he reported on bears shitting in the woods.
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Post by Tim on Dec 7, 2022 8:51:22 GMT
It's not so much the reporter as the body that's spent over 6 months working this out - calculations are based on March & April costs!
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 8, 2022 9:22:01 GMT
The Asda filling station opposite my office has come down 3p per litre since this morning. Now 179.7 for diesel. I drove past there today and noticed diesel is almost 20p more than petrol Diesel has come down again and is now 9p per litre cheaper than on Tuesday morning, at 174.7 now. Unleaded is 22p per litre cheaper, at 152.7. Perhaps I should get an AMG E63?
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Post by johnc on Dec 8, 2022 9:39:57 GMT
Down to 152.9 for unleaded and 179.9 for diesel at the Esso station next door. And I think an E63 AMG would be a very good idea!
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 8, 2022 10:20:40 GMT
I drove past there today and noticed diesel is almost 20p more than petrol Diesel has come down again and is now 9p per litre cheaper than on Tuesday morning, at 174.7 now. Unleaded is 22p per litre cheaper, at 152.7. Perhaps I should get an AMG E63? Both have just dropped another 2p per litre while I went down to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee.
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Post by Martin on Dec 8, 2022 12:03:44 GMT
I drove past there today and noticed diesel is almost 20p more than petrol Diesel has come down again and is now 9p per litre cheaper than on Tuesday morning, at 174.7 now. Unleaded is 22p per litre cheaper, at 152.7. Perhaps I should get an AMG E63?Makes sense to me.
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Post by johnc on Dec 8, 2022 12:35:31 GMT
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Post by ChrisM on Dec 8, 2022 12:38:51 GMT
Cheapest petrol I've seen around my place is 161.9 with diesel around 187.9
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Post by Martin on Dec 8, 2022 15:52:09 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Dec 8, 2022 16:47:23 GMT
Paid 175.9 for diesel this afternoon.
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Post by Roadrunner on Dec 8, 2022 18:26:50 GMT
Very nice colour scheme as well, but if I was spending that sort of money it would be on another old relic to keep the Alvis company in the garage.
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Post by Martin on Dec 11, 2022 17:11:42 GMT
I paid 172.9 for diesel this afternoon. I had to check myself when I thought it was nice to see the total cost under £130…!
I had a look back at Fuelly and when I bought the car back in June 2020, the £123 fill up today would have been £83.
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