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. 🙄

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.

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.

I've noticed the creep upwards. I dont scrutinize my receipt but I'll glance over it. We shop in Aldi for the bulk of our food and it is going up. But realistically it amounts to a take out coffee or two a week. Much more important is food management at home.

Gas prices surge. China limiting exports til Jun and a few other things but they are the big ones.

Groceries really have been cheap for a long time. I remember shopping with my mother in the early 90s and her shopping was always around £100. This was for a big family but it was a pretty rigid list with little variety and leftovers were incorporated into meals the next day. We only got exotic fruit and grapes when they were on huge sale. Cereal was always corn flakes and wheatabix. Now we ate very well with loads of baked goods as treats and biscuits etc but it was all managed I can see now quite tightly by my mother.

nowadsys in my own shopping I have so much more variety and what would have been considered luxury foods. However there’s no way I spend as much as my mother did even allowing for family size.

Lidl frozen chicken wings have gone from 2.79 about 4/5 months ago to 3.29 today, there has been two price increases as I remember buying them at 2.99 about 6 weeks back

yeah the mark up on stuff that is processed can be colossal. The best Ive spotted yet is Aldi who sell tiny packets (50 grams I think) of cooked streaky bacon. It is listed on the price label at 25.99 a kilo which is insane given you can buy a packet of it uncooked for 1.09

Jack Monroe (@bootstrapcook on Twitter) is a brilliant follow if you're interested in how inflation affects food prices at a far higher rate than the published percentage. She's in the UK but much of it is relevant here too. She's also very vocal about how rising food prices disproportionately affect those on lower incomes, having been on the absolute breadline (no pun intended) herself for many years.

I bought two ribeye steaks in Tesco the other day for €9.50. They were seriously good steaks. Stand out good.

If I think back to 20+ years ago - you just couldn't get decent steaks in the supermarket. If you wanted decent steak you had to source from a good butcher and I remember, distinctly, paying £5 (not €) per similar sized striploin steak.

So, what I can now buy for for €4.75 would have cost €6.35 over 20 years ago.

Food has gotten extremely cheap over the last 20 years - no question.

I accept that this is little consolation to anyone genuinely struggling to put food on the table.

Takeway from that. Cook more from scratch. Its never been cheaper.

Spuds down, veg down, kilo of rice for 99c, kilo of carrots for 99c, 2 kilos of flour for €1.85, 2kg of spuds for €2,