Well the Bank of England says we have two more years of surging prices. A worrying thought.
I'm cramming my raised beds with veg and salads, and foraging for edibles, I'm lucky in that during the covid emergency, I stockpiled a lot of household items such as bleach, soap, washing up liquid etc. So I'm not having to buy those items.
Finding ways to cut the outlay in our extremely expensive local (gotcha by the er, hrrm hair) supermarket, isn't easy.
It shocked me that six items cost a few pence less than my first weeks wages!
Can't eat from the supermarket for a pound a day any longer!
But even what I consider cheap meals are no longer cheap.
Take a cheap meal i had served up as a kid, £ 4.60 for a packet of fish fingers, £1.80 for a can of baked beans, £1.80 for a packet of instant mash, followed by bread and marge and marmite, honey, or peanut butter.
Honey is crazy at £7.50 a jar...and I'm talking about real honey, not the adulterated sugar water in the value range for less than two quid.
Peanut butter was always a cheap staple, but its gone from 60p to almost two quid a jar!
Please bear in mind I'm talking about my local rip off Co op, which I have no choice but to shop at, unless I can persuade a friend to take me to town and liddels.
I come home from those trips with absolute stupid glee, having spent more than I wanted to, but I have three jars of olives for the price of one Co op one! Havnt been for a while, so it might be two jars now with price increases.
And they tell us inflation is 5%, .........