Last year the Irish Mirror bought twenty like-for-like items in two major supermarkets, Tesco and Aldi, to find out which store is the best value for money.
However, grocery prices have since hit record levels of inflation, with recent data from Kantar showing that families' annual food shop costs are now more than €1,159 more expensive than the same groceries bought last year.
We wanted to see how much the same groceries on our shopping list would cost now - and we were shocked at the difference.