When you are shopping on a limited budget you are certainly more aware of the rising cost of food. This has to be one of the first months in a very long time that I have had to use my money carefully after paying out for work on the car I realised that if I did not rain in my spending that this would be the first time ever that I went overdrawn!

It was pretty easy to see where the cuts needed to be made as I keep everything on a spreadsheet and after all the direct debits the only thing that I had any control over was my food budget and it has been going really well but last night when I was doing my weekly shop with £11 in my pocket I noticed that prices in the supermarket had increased by a stupid amount within a week for no apparent reason.

A few weeks ago I discovered that Tesco were selling Curry sauce at a bargain price so bought a tin and made chicken curry – it tasted good so last week I bought a few more tins of Tesco curry sauce as they only cost £0.04 and with some chicken and a few other things added can make a good and more importantly cheap meal. However last night the price had doubled to £0.08 a tin, now they were not on special offer last week and I should not be complaining as £0.08 is still good value but why the sudden price increase. I then get to the frozen foods section and see that the stir fry chicken which only cost me £2.49 last week would now cost me £2.99. I do wonder how many people would just do the shopping and not realise that the prices had increased – I don't expect them to put a sign up telling people that the prices have increased but I will certainly be paying more attention to the prices I am paying.

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