Cherries and seafood up, turkeys and mangoes down: Who invited inflation to Christmas lunch? | tom_cowie
It’s nearly that time of year again – when shoppers brave the hustle and bustle of food markets to stock up on provisions for Christmas lunch and dinner.Mangoes will be a cheaper topping for this year’s Christmas pavlova.Higher cost-of-living is hitting just about everything that goes into a trolley, with the most recent CPI figures showing a 3.2 per increase in food and nonalcoholic beverages in the September quarter.
Hams have quite a long shelf life, which means they are not as impacted by different price and supply shocks. Pork farmers begin preparing in July to make sure there are enough hams to go around at their busiest period. Jason Hagan, from Victorian Berkshire free-range ham producer McIvor Farm, said he was keeping his prices the same this year despite input costs rising.Coles and Woolworths have also said they are keeping their ham prices the same as 2021 at $8.50 per kilogram.Turkeys are another product that are popular in Australia at this time of year. And in some cases they are actually cheaper than at previous Christmases.
However, Shaun Lindhe, spokesman for Ausveg, said this was going to impact varieties used for frozen potato products, rather than the classic types that go with a roast.“There might be some gaps in the availability of those products,” he said. Salad vegetables were being harvested at the moment and should have good supply, he said.Chris Hopkins
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