Have you noticed your everyday essentials going up in price?
The price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years, new research for the BBC suggests.We've been tracking the cost of a small basket of 15 everyday essentials. The total has gone up by £5.34 - from £15.79 in 2021 to £21.13 in 2023.
The items are a mix of everyday essentials, from oven chips and strawberry jam to pasta sauce and potatoes. They were chosen so we could compare some of the most popular items across the value and standard ranges. Kay Staniland, director at Assosia, said the figures show the real price rises that shoppers are seeing each week.Prices were already rising rapidly last January and that was before the war in Ukraine which then triggered a huge increase in the price of gas as well as disrupting supplies of grains, vegetable oils and fertiliser. That's when the cost of groceries really started to rocket.
One big reason is the lag between food producers being hit with higher costs and when their products end up in store, said Mr Walton, from the IGD. According to Assosia, 10,000 products went up in price over the new year - but this is more than double the number that rose in price during the same period last year.Kitkat maker Nestle, for instance, recently announced it would raise prices again this year despite an 8.2% increase in 2022.which we rely on from overseas at this time of the year. And British growers have been planting fewer crops like tomatoes and cucumbers because of the huge heating costs for greenhouses.
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