Inflation
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The good news is " UK inflation steady as crackers and cake drive monthly food price fall". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68285819

"However, the monthly drop in the price of food, including items such as crackers, cake and crisps helped offset the rise in electricity and gas costs.
The 0.4% fall marked the first decrease in more than two years, with cooking sauce and instant coffee costs also easing."

We must be on the Letter C this month - Crackers, Cake, Crisps, Cooking Sauce and instant Coffee! 
Don't know about you but none of these items feature regularly on my shopping list and I wouldn't notice whether they cost less in January or more. I'd class all of these as non-essential items - apart from, maybe, coffee. Any "savings" I made from this price drop would be negligible whilst the rise in electricity and gas costs is significant. 

Which items on your food shopping list would be more representative of a food price fall? I'd choose cheese and butter, eggs, bread and dog food...and Seeds. Big Grin
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My shopping list would include organic milk, bread flour, cheddar cheese and eggs. Organic Aldi oats and Aldi baked beans. Coffee Direct Machu Pichu and Divine 85% chocolate. Then Zaytoun olive oil, olive soap, dates and maftoul.
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Maftoul is a new word for me!
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(14-02-2024, 04:53 PM)Veggie Wrote: Maftoul is a new word for me!

It's a large grain Palestinian couscous, much nicer than couscous though, we eat it with a tomato vegetable sauce or such like.

Yotam Ottolenghi's maftoul recipes in the Guardian from 2013.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...ottolenghi
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Thanks. Big Grin Sounds interesting. I'll look out for it.
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I need to move to the Falklands? Apparently the only thing that survives reaklly well there are sheep. Hence mutton and lamb are the staple diet and very cheap! Big Grin Everthing else is delivered on a ship, twice a year! Cry
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How about the frozen north where they live on whalemeat and blubber?
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(15-02-2024, 12:48 AM)Veggie Wrote: How about the frozen north where they live on whalemeat and blubber?
Got no fancy for living in an igloo! Tongue Anyway I  haven't tasted whalemeat or blubber (I'd give it a try though?) but really enjoy eating fatty lamb! Cool
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Matfoul was new to me too.

I'll have to dig out old receipts to see whether prices are lower, I can't say I'd noticed. Crisps, crackers and cake aren't usually on my shopping list. Milk, eggs, juice, chicken portions of some sort, cereal and veg are on the list most weeks.
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This seems to be the source of the inflation information. https://foodfoundation.org.uk/initiative...s-tracking

Looks like a Tesco shopping basket/prices.
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