$10 for one cabbage! ( about £5). Eeek.

Not where I shop.

Where do you live?

Nanna lives in Australia RosiesMaw

My son told me the price of cauliflowers in NZ Nanna and
I nearly fell off my chair

Allotments are very popular in my area in the UK.
It might be possible to grow some vegetables yourself? Tomatoes and mushrooms for example?
Fuel prices here have risen but it’s unsurprising given the political situation. Putin must be very happy!

I wondered how the cost of living compares with the UK -just looking at individual prices isn’t helpful without an idea of wages etc.

My daughter and family live in Victoria, Australia. I haven’t visited for some years now but I gather that, whilst salaries are generally good (she's a senior buyer for Cotton On), they have to pay into a medical insurance scheme. Imported goods are inevitably expensive due to their location. Food prices seemed higher than here generally.

DD thinks meat, fruit and veg are expensive.

Don’t forget visits to the doctor and prescriptions are charged for also over there.

I've given up trying to compare prices from country to country, county to county.
£6.50 for a bunch of asparagus in Cornwall last week, but it was delicious!

That certainly is very steep, nanna8! Is it perhaps down to adverse weather conditions - drought or flooding?

I was shocked at having to pay €4 for a cauliflower in France not long ago - and this was at a Carrefour, a bog-standard supermarket. It was a fairly big cauli, though.

nanna8 is the cost of vegetables particularly high at the moment because crops have failed in Australia due to the weather? My sister lives there, and I know that nearly all your fruit and vegetables are grown domestically, so if you have a poor harvest the prices must increase?

We certainly have the same issue with fuel, I paid £1.61 a litre for diesel this week, the price is creeping up week on week again. Having said that, my local town was heaving with tourists yesterday, I think people were so excited to feel the sun for the first time since last September that they thought sod the cost of the petrol and made up for months of being stuck at home.

nanna8 it was the price of cauliflower's* that took my breath away earlier this year

With the weather in the U.K. I think that we are going to notice a hike in prices too.

Joseann

I've given up trying to compare prices from country to country, county to county.
£6.50 for a bunch of asparagus in Cornwall last week, but it was delicious!

I’m in Spain at the moment Joseann and bought two bunches of baby’s finger asparagus for €2 which we scoffed as a starter, fried in butter and sprinkled with black pepper 😋

I paid 5€ 29 for a ropey cauliflower in France.
Then came home and saw French ones in Waitrose for a quarter of the price!

Here are veg prices in waitrose and of course lidl and aldi are much cheaper

www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/browse/groceries/fresh_and_chilled/fresh_vegetables

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Joseann

I've given up trying to compare prices from country to country, county to county.
£6.50 for a bunch of asparagus in Cornwall last week, but it was delicious!

I’m in Spain at the moment Joseann and bought two bunches of baby’s finger asparagus for €2 which we scoffed as a starter, fried in butter and sprinkled with black pepper 😋

😋 sounds lovely.
Asparagus is my favourite, I like the really thin sticks without any need for bad butter!
(The only downside is smelly wee! Sorry!)

Olive oil 😳 when I was shopping a few days ago.

Beechnut

Olive oil 😳 when I was shopping a few days ago.

There was an article in yesterday’s Times about what to use instead!

I grow a lot of my own stuff on my allotment I m now off to pick my first rhubarb of the season all for free 🤣

Fruit and veg takes up quite a lot of my food spend. £5 for a cauliflower would be too much for me. The last one I bought was under £2.

I can’t grow much unless I put nets over everything because we have so much wildlife here. Mostly possums but also owls, parrots and unknown creatures of the night ( foxes?) I grow parsley and rhubarb but covered up. Tomatoes are hopeless, they eat them as soon as the first little fruits appear. Carrots are still cheap here and onions. Bananas are also cheap . It is worse than I remember price wise this year.

nanna8

That was this morning at the greengrocers. It is usually fairly cheap at that particular store. How on earth can people eat the healthy amount of veg each day with prices like this? Cheese has also rocketed up and as for the price of petrol… aaargh. Is it like this where you live or are we living in an ‘unfortunate pocket’?

I remember when the banana plantations were wiped out, then when they recovered I saw bananas in a big farm shop so bought some for a treat.
When I went to pay they were about A$12 for five 😯

Actually, food is cheaper here now than in Australia which is the reverse of 20 years or so ago, nanna8.

It's not the fault of your farmers, it's the big supermarkets, Coles and Woolies; they screw the farmers right down, mishandle the produce and charge the customer about ten times what they pay the farmer!
Is Aldi better?

RosiesMaw

I wondered how the cost of living compares with the UK -just looking at individual prices isn’t helpful without an idea of wages etc.

Minimum wage is higher in Australia. Farm workers are generally paid about $28 per hour, plus holiday, sick and superannuation contributions. That all adds to the price of food. Add on all the endless bureaucracy and the demands put on farmers by the supermarkets too and no wonder prices are so high.

Blame your government and the supermarkets nanna8.

That certainly is very steep, nanna8! Is it perhaps down to adverse weather conditions - drought or flooding?
Yes, that too. Some crops have been destroyed by floods.

My sister is in Western Australia, it’s very difficult to grow your own vegetables there because it’s hot and dry, and water supply is restricted. You can only use the irrigation system three times week for the garden for a limited amount of time, so everything tender just can’t survive. Fruit does much better, she has enough lemons to keep a small town going.