As the cost of living crisis continues to worsen, it has become impossible not to notice how much more expensive a food shop is becoming. Just this week, a report found that food price rises in the UK could hit 15 per cent this summer.
A year ago, my colleague tried to do a weekly food shop at Aldi with just £10 so I went to see how much more that same shopping basket would now cost. Trying to stick as much as I could to the items purchased a year ago, I found the same shopping basket now costs 20 per cent more - from £10.06 to £12.14.
A tomato soup has gone up by 10p (from 35p to 45p) - which is a rise of more than 28 per cent. All the other tinned items I bought had gone up in price as well: baked beans (29p to 35p, +20%), sweetcorn, (37p to 41p, +10%) and kidney beans (45p to 49p, +8%).
