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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Helen Hawkes

Shopping around grocery inflation: the best-value buys for autumn

Crates of vegetables in store
Look out for seasonal produce for best value buys, including cauliflower, pumpkin and baby peas. Photograph: Graham Denholm/Getty Images for Coles

Global turmoil has trickled into Australia’s supermarket aisles, hiking the prices of many staple foods. But the upward pressure isn’t evenly distributed.

Bread – or, in fact, any wheat product, as well as eggs, meat and coffee beans are just a few casualties of spiralling inflation fuelled by punishing petrol prices, higher feed and fertiliser costs, conflict between major food exporters Russia and Ukraine, and tight global supply.

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