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| Prices of pasta, tea, chips and cooking oil soar | Prices of pasta, tea, chips and cooking oil soar |
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| The price of pasta, tea, chips and cooking oil has soared, according to new data, with vegetable oil going up by 65% in a year. | The price of pasta, tea, chips and cooking oil has soared, according to new data, with vegetable oil going up by 65% in a year. |
| Overall, the price of budget food items rose by 17% in the year to September, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. | Overall, the price of budget food items rose by 17% in the year to September, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. |
| It comes as inflation is at a 40-year high, with prices up 10.1% in a year. | It comes as inflation is at a 40-year high, with prices up 10.1% in a year. |
| Food prices drove the latest rise in living costs in September, along with energy bills and transport costs. | Food prices drove the latest rise in living costs in September, along with energy bills and transport costs. |
| The ONS found sharp increases in the price of some household staples in supermarkets. Pasta prices rose by 60% in the year to September 2022, while tea prices went up by almost 50%. | The ONS found sharp increases in the price of some household staples in supermarkets. Pasta prices rose by 60% in the year to September 2022, while tea prices went up by almost 50%. |
| 'My Christmas lunch will be a microwave meal' | |
| Food prices rise at fastest rate in 42 years | |
| People delay turning heating on as food prices soar | |
| Other everyday grocery items such as chips, bread, biscuits and milk also recorded large increases. | Other everyday grocery items such as chips, bread, biscuits and milk also recorded large increases. |
| But some other items fell in price during the period, including orange juice and beef mince. | But some other items fell in price during the period, including orange juice and beef mince. |
| The rise in the cost of groceries has been accelerated by the war in Ukraine, which has disrupted grain, oil and fertiliser supplies from the region. | |
| "What we are seeing is that the price of low-cost goods is going up at the same rate as food across the piece with some real highlights... cooking oil and pasta, I would add tea, chips and bread to that - really going up and very, very few things going down at all," the chief executive of the UK Statistics Authority, Prof Sir Ian Diamond, told the BBC. | |
| "We are really seeing that the squeeze on people who buy the lowest cost things is pretty hard at the moment." | |
| When asked whether things are getting worse, he said: "I think things are tight. I think we are not seeing much of a getting worse at all but we are seeing things remaining really tight." |