Depressing

[TeeDee]

Well, I've just done a shop that cost me £100, and I haven't got one item for the preps. I am truly shocked at how much the price of groceries and household necessities has gone up in the past 8 weeks.

I thought it was worth mentioning although you probably appeciate it and understand it completely that its most likely not that it costs MORE to produce the Eggs / Milk / Sugar etc in your Trolley but that the Value of the £100 has gone down , or is worth-less.

QE + Created Inflation. Nasty Combo.

[nickdutch]

Well, I've just done a shop that cost me £100, and I haven't got one item for the preps. I am truly shocked at how much the price of groceries and household necessities has gone up in the past 8 weeks.

And only four tins of baked beans in that shop! So I'm still at an all time low in bean stocks.

Maybe start to live (before the "fall" so to speak) as if the "fall" was here already. Start only shopping for necessities. Cut back, ask yourself if a household necessity is really necessary?

I cold tell you how to do it, but I am sure you have already guessed.

[KalPrep]

Well, I've just done a shop that cost me £100, and I haven't got one item for the preps. I am truly shocked at how much the price of groceries and household necessities has gone up in the past 8 weeks.

I thought it was worth mentioning although you probably appeciate it and understand it completely that its most likely not that it costs MORE to produce the Eggs / Milk / Sugar etc in your Trolley but that the Value of the £100 has gone down , or is worth-less.

QE + Created Inflation. Nasty Combo.

Exactly. I shop at local farmers shops and previously, buying locally seemed more expensive. Now, as you say, the cost of things has not neccessarily increased, it's just that pounds sterling isn't worth as much around the world where we seem ship everything from.

Buy locally, support your farmers and local producers, and you will soon realise you get better value for your money.

[itsybitsy]

Well, I've just done a shop that cost me £100, and I haven't got one item for the preps. I am truly shocked at how much the price of groceries and household necessities has gone up in the past 8 weeks.

And only four tins of baked beans in that shop! So I'm still at an all time low in bean stocks.

Maybe start to live (before the "fall" so to speak) as if the "fall" was here already. Start only shopping for necessities. Cut back, ask yourself if a household necessity is really necessary?

I cold tell you how to do it, but I am sure you have already guessed.

Well, I don't intend to live on beans and rice, or cheap crap that I don't like the taste of. I have cut back on luxuries, and what I got *are* necessities. Well - for me at least. Everyone will, of course, have their own idea of what a 'necessity' is.

[diamond lil]

They are talking on other forums about ROSSPA - saying the fruit & veg is really good quality and everything is well packed and insulated etc. I not had time to look yet.
http://www.rosspa.co.uk/

[itsybitsy]

They are talking on other forums about ROSSPA - saying the fruit & veg is really good quality and everything is well packed and insulated etc. I not had time to look yet.
http://www.rosspa.co.uk/

I use my local greengrocer - he doesn't have everything I need, but I get as much as I can from him. Half of the price of the supermarket for most items. Plus, he's at the end of the street. Perfick.

[itsybitsy]

Well, I've just done a shop that cost me £100, and I haven't got one item for the preps. I am truly shocked at how much the price of groceries and household necessities has gone up in the past 8 weeks.

I thought it was worth mentioning although you probably appeciate it and understand it completely that its most likely not that it costs MORE to produce the Eggs / Milk / Sugar etc in your Trolley but that the Value of the £100 has gone down , or is worth-less.

QE + Created Inflation. Nasty Combo.

I think both of the things you mention play a part. But it IS costing more to produce AND transport food, due to a number of factors:

Rising fuel costs
A depreciating ££ which has increased import costs (the UK imports around 40% of the food we eat)
Increased oil prices increases the cost of the plastic food packaging
A rapidly increasing global population
Increased wealth in developing nations leading to a change in dietary habits (China and India, namely)
Many crops are now being diverted to make biofuel, which is pushing up the cost of staples such as corn

Let's also factor in the recent extreme weather events that we've seen around the globe, and it makes for a pretty worrying picture, overall.

[Eatmoreveg]

hi guys , at the mo is it not an idea to spend your food money on food for after the shtf and now while we have all this waste " do the supermarket bins " ps ive been away a while.. but things are moving so fast any one seen gasland i know about fracking from a guy in aus its realy **** up the water table now go to frack off .org and check how many locations are going to drill here ,, so a year ago we had an earthquake epicenter market raison about 20 -30 miles from a new well < i once asked an arab in the desert what was the punishment for poisening a well he said well you can guess what he said i said what was the punishment for poisening all the wells he said they dont have a name for that nor a punishment! well it wountnt hapen would it > i know we need to keep warm but with no water and no food bieng able to grow we are dead forget your years worth of pot noodles this is scary