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Noodles. I used to be able to get them for about 25p each. Now they are a pound each
Pierogi. My preferred brand is like seven bucks now for a box of twelve. Used to be about three not too long ago.
The luxeries like housing, electricity, dentist
Electricity has been noticeably going up for me as well and its quite honestly insane. I live in a single-wide trailer with 1 other adult, we're not running heat or AC right now because its spring, we have been actively trying to conserve energy because of how high the bills are so we're making sure to turn stuff off, I unplugged my deep freezer and consolidated to just the fridge, I only do full loads of laundry, with cold water, etc. My electric bill is still over $300!
I feel like we're living like cavemen and we're still somehow using $3000+ of electric, I don't get it.
Literally everything. Leaving supermarket with a basket full of food and you've spent £80. Co-op's oat milk was 85p when I started buying it, now it's £1.60
Fucking hell that's a jump
Meat. Chicken thighs used to be 99 cents / lb and ground beef was $2.99 but I'd wait for it to go on sale for $1.99. This was in 2020.
The silver lining is that the price hikes have resulted in eating far less meat. I eat around 1 lb per week of fish, chicken, or turkey (rarely red meat) whereas I used to eat probably half a lb or more daily.
Thankfully chicken is still low for me (used to be .69 cents a lb on sale, now .99) but holy hell, ground beef is like unobtainable anymore. They want nearly $6 a lb for the 70% ground beef and I just can't ever justify it. We've mainly just been living on chicken, and pork when there are good sales, but yeah lots of meatless meals.
Ground beef prices are wild. I've been finding occasional good sales on ground turkey, sometimes even $1.99/lb. I use it as a substitute for ground beef in tacos and such, and it works well enough.
Orange juice, about tripled in price
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/orange-juice
Looks like it's mostly dropped back over the past couple months.
EDIT:
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025/03/19/orange-juice-price-fall-explained/
The price of orange juice stopped climbing and began to dramatically fall just before the start of 2025. One of the reasons for this is the significant fall in demand.
High prices and the poor quality of orange juice have led to this decreased demand. According to the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (Cepea) from the University of São Paulo, major players have said that the orange sugar/acid ratio was below the desirable level for crushing activities, decreasing quality.
Furthermore, the fruits have had an excess of limonin, a bitter compound commonly found in citrus fruits, due to ‘heterogenous’ harvesting. This has increased the juice’s bitterness and decreased consumer acceptance in major markets such as the UK and US.
This low quality has also reduced exports from Brazil significantly. According to Capea, the July 2024 to January 2025 period has seen exports of not-from-concentrate 3.4% lower than in the period the previous year.
Another reason for the price decreases, reports Food Manufacture, is an exceptionally large crop in Spain, one of orange juice’s biggest exporters.
Tofu. It's never been cheap but it's ludicrously expensive now to the point I can't justify buying it
Really? What does a brick of tofu cost where you are ?
Housing and home repair services are the first thing that come to mind. Services like restaurants and salons have also increased their prices, though I don’t visit them often enough for it to affect me.
Beer cans are absurd. I've been out of the UK for just under a year but my friend says the prices have jumped nearly 20% in the time I've been gone
Haven't noticed anything really. Perhaps, with the removal of the carbon tax (thus lowering the price of gas) transportation costs have edged prices down.