The cost of a shopping basket at the six main supermarkets has reached a new high this week as prices continue to soar.
With the cost of living crisis continuing to hit families hard, each week we've been comparing prices of essentials like milk and bread to help shoppers find the cheapest available.
This week, for the first time since we started our comparison back in March, the bill for every supermarket has topped £11.
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When we first began monitoring prices, looking at the cost of a basket of eight items from Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons, Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's - none of the bills had even reached double figures.
Now the cheapest you can buy them for - a two-pint bottle of milk, a loaf of bread, coffee, teabags, butter, beans, chicken breasts and mince - is £11.01 at Aldi. With the most expensive still being Morrisons at £11.55.
Last week we reported how Lidl had lost its crown as the cheapest supermarket for the first time since June, after it increased the prices of bread, milk and butter.
This week it reduced its cheapest loaf back down from 39p to 36p, but overall, it's still coming in slightly more expensive than Aldi, where the bill is now £11.01.
Aldi has put prices up too this week though, raising its coffee from £1.69 to £1.85. Sainsbury's Aldi price match scheme means it's followed suit.
The other changes this week are with milk - Aldi reducing its two-pint bottle from £1.25 to £1.19, but Morrisons increasing its from £1.25 to £1.30.
With Lidl more expensive than Aldi for the first time in months, we decided to see how it fared on other prices this week by repeating a bigger shop from just over 12 months ago. 13 of the 16 products had risen in price, with the overall bill up by 23.5%.
Despite the rises in our own comparisons, Lidl has just been named cheapest supermarket for the third time in a row in The Grocer's 'Super Grocer 33' index.
The index, which compares the price of 33 everyday grocery items across the UK’s seven major supermarkets, found Lidl to be £15.44 cheaper than Morrisons, and £27.88 cheaper than the most expensive retailer, Waitrose.
Where are you finding is cheapest for your shopping at the moment? Have you changed where you shop? Let us know in the comments here.
Here's the full list:-
Aldi
Loaf of white bread 800g - 39p
Milk 2 pints - £1.19 (reduced from £1.25)
Coffee 200g - £1.85 (up from £1.69)
Teabags 160 - £1.29
Salted butter 250g - £1.99
Beans 420g tin - 26p
Chicken 300g - £2.25
Mince 500g 20% fat - £1.79
Total £11.01 (up from £10.91)
Lidl
Loaf of white bread 800g - 36p (down from 39p)
Milk 2 pints - £1.30
Coffee 200g - £1.89
Teabags 160 - £1.09
Salted butter 250g - £2.15
Beans 420g tin - 22p
Chicken 300g - £2.29
Mince 500g 20% fat - £1.79
Total £11.09 (down from £11.12)
Tesco
Loaf of white bread 800g - 39p
Milk 2 pints - £1.25
Coffee 200g (2 x 100g) - £1.86
Teabags 160 (2 x 80-pack) - £1.30
Salted butter 250g - £1.99
Beans 420g tin - 27p
Chicken 300g - £2.40
Mince 500g 20% fat - £1.79
Total £11.25
Sainsbury's
Loaf of white bread 800g - 39p
Milk 2 pints - £1.25
Coffee 200g £1.85 (up from £1.69)
Teabags 160 - £1.29
Salted butter 250g - £1.99
Beans 400g tin - 25p
Chicken 300g - £2.50
Mince 500g 20% fat - £1.79
Total £11.31 (up from £11.15)
Asda
Loaf of white bread 800g (Just Essentials) - 39p
Milk 2 pints - £1.30
Coffee 200g (2 x 100g Just Essentials) - £1.66
Teabags 160 (4 x 40-pack Just Essentials) - £1.24
Salted butter 250g - £2.15
Beans 410g tin (Just Essentials) - 25p
Chicken (bigger 350g pack for £2.80) equates to £2.40
Mince 500g 20% fat - £1.99
Total £11.38
Morrisons
Loaf of white bread 800g - 79p
Milk 2 pints - £1.30 (up from £1.25)
Coffee (2 x 100g) - £1.70
Teabags 160 (2 x 80-pack Savers) - £1.30
Savers Salted butter 250g - £1.89
Beans 410g tin - 29p
Chicken 300g - £2.49
Mince 500g 20% fat - £1.79
Total: £11.55 (up from £11.50)
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