Huge changes to supermarket food prices affecting every shopper -see full list
| Published date | 22 January 2022 |
| Publication title | Birmingham Mail: Web Edition Articles (England) |
To begin with, it was easy to put it all down to increased visits to the local convenience store while out on daily exercise during lockdown, as well as more food being eaten because everyone was at home all day raiding the cupboards and fridges.
But it's more than that. There has been a huge increase in the price of many foods, with inflation up to 5.4 per cent in December. Inflation is now at its highest rate in 30 years, latest figures show.
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Households have seen the price of some food rocket by more than seven times faster than the average.
The cost of the average basket of groceries rose by 4.2 per cent in the year to December, the Office for National Statistics said.
In its latest report, it said the largest upward contribution to the change in the Consumer Price Index 12-month inflation rate came from food prices.
The biggest contributory factors to food inflation were bread, cereals, meat and vegetables, it said.
An 800g loaf of white sliced bread is now 3p more expensive than a year ago at £1.07.
Some of the biggest increases have been seen in the cost of fresh meat, the Mirror reported.
Lamb chops have risen nearly 9 per cent per kilo in the past year, from an average £13.46 to £14.65.
A kilo of minced beef has jumped by 25 per cent, from £5.09 to £6.39. And the cost of a Sunday roast has soared, with a kilo of roasting beef surging in price from £8.81 to £11.33 -a 29 per cent leap.
However, the largest increase overall seen in the ONS’s data for December was for margarine, where it said an average 500g tub had shot up in price by 31 per cent in the past year, from £1.35 to £1.77.
Milk, another staple purchase, has risen by 3p to an average of 46p a pint.
Below we have detailed how the prices of common items in your shopping trolley have changed.
In some cases, the increase is shocking. But for a few items, there is good news in that the price has come down.
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Changes in your shopping bill
SOURCE: Office for National Statistics
MEAT
Beef kg -up 4.9 per cent
December 2020: £6.09
December 2021: £6.39
Increase: £0.30 4.9%
Steak kg -up 12.5 per cent
December 2020: £14.46
December 2021: £16.27
Increase:£1.81...
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