Are food prices rising?

I haven't noticed groceries or ingredients costing more (perhaps this is just inattention) but takeaway food and low to mid priced dining prices have increased massively as far as I can see.

€10 sandwiches hardly raise an eyebrow, now.

yeah thats been my observation as well. Its not uncommon to see pizzas in restaurants/pubs for 16-18 euro now which is quite a rise. Other items like burgers asking a similar price. And as you say 10 euro seems like almost a default for sandwiches. Was in a Lebanese restaurant in a provincial town a few weeks back and almost every main course was 20 euro or over. It wasnt even that nice either, had to send the shish lamb skewers back as they were so dry and over cooked. First time Ive had to send food back in years but I wasnt paying an already over priced 20 euro for a couple of dry lamb skewers with bread and salad.

I think it’s more about availability than pricing but I’m sure rises are on the way.

The price of fuel though. It’s up 25% in the last year but no one’s taking to the streets protesting. Disguised as carbon taxes, not a cent will be ring-fenced for the environment. 🙄

I cant say I have noticed individual prices but overall my grocery shopping is up. Id say 20 per week on last year.

Definitely notice 10% on some products products - Skyr in Aldi was 1.99 now 2.19

Maybe it's a dairy issue though as I believe milk has increased across the board

Chicken in particular has risen in price due to the miniscule margins. So any increase along the supply chain will see a retail price increase.

In the meat industry feed has jumped, covid costs in factories are a cost and cost of processing has jumped due to energy cost increases.

All leads to 10%++ increases at retail.

I used to like buying a tray of decent-sized chicken wings and spicing them up, did for two meals at low cost. For the past several months I can no longer buy quality wings, they are scrawny broken up things that are as tough as rubber when cooked, no way they will crisper up. So this is one item where quality has plummeted.

No size change. They used to bring the UK cans of coke, Fanta and sprite in but now source locally and they are the taller thinner cans - still 330ml.

Indo has a graphic today. Not sure how true it is as Milk has risen ~15%, Pasta ~10%

I’m with you on this, Aldi are a noticeable culprit in the last few weeks, from frozen fries to fresh soups, all up by 10-30cent

Basic burger buns 69c 79c. Frozen chips 1kg 69c 79c. Both a 14.5% increase.

I notice a lot of small increases seem to be the common when it comes to groceries. Just small enough that you wouldn't notice.

But some of them are big enough that they catch your eye. I noticed that Supervalu 1lt milk went from 75c to 85c in one go, but that was away back in late 2021, before all this inflation talk hit the headlines. That was an 11% rise overnight, much more than inflation.

And just this week I notice their in-store made Lemon Meringue went from €4.50 to €5, funnily enough another 11% rise.

Maybe their costs are rising, and so is product being supplied to them, but I'd say knowing Ireland some retailers are using this crisis to allow them to make a pile of price increases.

In fairness, milk price has not risen to the consumer for years, possibly a decade. Same for bread, margarine, and other staples

Agree with Danzy on medium term price rises.