Milk, cheese, bakery items, water and savoury pies all saw higher-than-average price increases in the 12 months to December. Across all retailers inflation for food and drink stood at 15% last month.
The price of grocery staples - including butter, milk and cheese - has risen by up to 30% in the last year, according to a new Which? inflation tracker.
In December, food and drink inflation was at 15% overall across the retailers - but butter and spreads were up almost double, at 29.4%. Which? looked at the some of worst examples in these categories for the three months to the end of December 2022. Waitrose Duchy Organic Homogenised Semi-Skimmed Milk went from 65p to £1.22 - and at Tesco, Creamfields French Brie 200g went from 79p to £1.43 .The worst individual price hike on a food item across all the supermarkets was Quaker Oat So Simple Simply Apple at Asda which went from £1 on average in December 2021 to an average £2.88 in December 2022 - a sharp increase of 188%.
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