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The prices of many household food essentials are rising at more than 10 per cent a year, fuelling the cost of living squeeze.
A tsunami of price increases on everything from beef and bread to milk, eggs and peas has been revealed in a survey for the Daily Mail. Industry analysts looking at five major supermarkets typically see around 2,700 increases in early January, but this year it is closer to 4,400.
Across all food retailers, almost 10,000 products have shot up in price over the new year.
Research by price tracking and retail analysts Assosia looking at a basket of common products found an average increase of 6 per cent in the past year.
Retail research has found that supermarket prices are soaring in the UK
For someone spending £430 a month on groceries, around the UK average, that adds up to an extra £25 a month.
Some of the increases on big-selling household name products are particularly startling.
The survey picked up an 18 per cent hike on a tin of Heinz baked beans and 12 per cent on beef mince, frozen peas and Jordans cereals. The increase was 11 per cent on supermarket-brand chocolate digestive biscuits, 9 per
