So the BBC has finally woken up to the fact that some food prices have gone up by nearly 40% over the past months. I sometimes wonder why they seem to be so slow at delivering up to date news.
The roles in our house have some what reversed and I now do the majority of the shopping, prices have not just gone up! They have been going up for years.
For example last year a 1kg bag of UK new potatoes cost £1.00 in ASDA, this year the cost went up to £1.30! That’s a 30% increase. I could go on and on about how expensive it is in the UK, the same amount of potatoes at a small market in southern France in the summer cost me the equivalent of 59 pence!
I’m all for the free market, but somewhere in the UK there are a minority making a lot of money off the back of the high prices that UK residents have to pay for food.
On the other side of the coin, I should not really complain too much, as I am not in the same position as the starving of this world, when I live in a society that throws away such huge amounts of good food and we flush our toilets with cleaner water than many of the worlds poor have to drink on a daily basis.
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