Asda Smart Price Spaghetti is 20p for 500g today.
Asda boil in the bag rice is 54p for 500g, 1kgcosts £1.18
Baked beans are 32p per can but 4 cans for £1
Peanut butter is £1
Farm stores apples are 72p
She is right about the current prices of curry sauce and mushrooms. Asda used to do a jar of value curry sauce but discontinued it years ago so it wouldn't have been that price a year ago, I've got no idea what the price of mushrooms was a few months ago either.
My own shopping basket has risen 7% since July (I put July's basked into a new order). It is a mix of cheap and branded products
M and S dine in for two used to include wine or soft drinks but now contains just food. I used to buy it and save the £6.50 wine for taking to bookclub. If you calculate the inflation without the wine it is 40%.
Charlie Bighams really meals have always been extortionate. (I had the chicken tikka masala on a yellow sticker once and it was amazing).
You're not outside the bubble, Jack. You just spent £100 on cutlery and have talked about going out for meals in your comments from a couple of days ago It sounds like she is playing poverty again, how long before she is doing the £20 shops again?
Shop online at ASDA Groceries. The same great prices as in store, delivered to your door or click and collect from store.
groceries.asda.com
The cost of living rise is terrifying but Jack's stats are all wrong, she talks about someone doing proper journalism but it's not her that's doing it.