Price Increase 2021

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Increase I've noticed are meat products. Lidl corn beef up to £1.65 from £1.45 (up 12%). Asda two pack frying steak up to £3.25 from £2.99 (up 8%). You're quite right to talk in percentages SS.

Joe, my advice is max out as much cash you have now on useful preps, especially food. Remember, money is not wealth, it is a claim on wealth, and that claim is steadily reducing as inflation increases, so make the exchange on that claim now. From previous posts you've made it sounds like you have a reasonable sized rural property. I don't know how much storage space you have, but you should consider using every bit of it you can to store long term foods like the dried stuff, rice, beans etc, and if you eat meat consider dehydrating some or use chest freezers for it.

Also skills are invaluable, so maybe invest in some useful courses in something practical.

I've also been hearing the housing market may crash next year, which might benefit cash buyers, if someone has that much saved up.

All it would take is a more severe vaccine resistant strain of the kung flu this winter, coupled with supply chain problems and they'll be a shortage of almost everything, gawd help us...