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Festive food for less: Christmas dinner with all the cost trimmings

From choosing frozen turkey to shopping supermarket specials, festive lunch need not break the household budget

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2025

Taking the biscuit: consumers spend more but get less as chocolate prices rise by 15%

Poor cocoa harvests have triggered multiple rounds of shrinkflation while luxury brands struggle to make profits

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2025

UK food inflation: why your barbecue meat is becoming more expensive

As burger and sausage prices soar, Britons turn to chicken, but extra demand pushes up costs

The Guardian - UK · Aug 2, 2025

Price of pasta DOUBLES in two years to 95p as cost of food continues to rocket

A standard 500g bag of pasta has risen from 50p to 95p, up 90% according to BBC analysis, while strawberry jam has gone up from 73p to £1.15, an increase of 57%

Daily Mirror · Feb 24, 2023

Shoppers report rising food shortages; growers warn UK leek supplies may run out – as it happened

Proportion of people experiencing shortages of food items has risen over the last year, ONS says

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2023

Cheapest UK supermarket in November named - where it costs up to £27 less than rivals

Food prices have been rising, and now consumer champions Which? have revealed which of the biggest supermarkets works out the cheapest for a basket and a full trolley of food

Daily Mirror · Dec 5, 2022

Christmas dinner costs £5 more this year as prices soar - with pigs in blankets up 42%

Supermarket food prices are rising quicker than inflation and Aldi, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl shoppers need to shell out even more than last year if they want to have the same Christmas dinner

Daily Mirror · Dec 2, 2022

Tesco reduces size of its ready meals - but some are more expensive than before

The downsized meals cost the same or more despite weighing 50g less - and Tesco isn’t the only retailer who has been quietly shrinking its products

Chronicle Live · Aug 4, 2022

Shelf shock: soaring supermarket prices shoppers find hard to swallow

From dog food to coffee, readers are reporting some basic goods’ prices are rising by far more than inflation

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2022