– The shrimp salad I usually buy has gone up, … I think almost NOK 20! Jorunn Beckmann is on his way to the door of a low-price chain in Kristiansand. She is one of many who think new things between the shelves in the grocery store. The local shrimp salad favorite loses. DROPPER: Jorunn Beckmann walks past the most expensive shrimp salad. Photo: GEIR INGAR EGELAND / news – I have switched to crabsticks, says Beckmann. Many of the foods you buy in the shop every week have risen by over 20 per cent in one year Coffee. Ketchup. Pork. Hamburger bread and pasta – are among the worst. See the list of some of the biggest price bombs (source: SSB): 31 percent more expensive – coffee 29.8 percent more expensive – melon 27.2 percent more expensive – Ketchup/mustard 26.3 percent more expensive – pork 24.1 percent more expensive – fresh cod 24 percent more expensive – sausage bread , hamburger bread and pita bread 23.9 per cent more expensive – canned fruit 22.8 per cent more expensive – pasta 22.6 per cent more expensive – butter 21.5 per cent more expensive – cucumber Ketchup from NOK 14 to NOK 19 news went on a shopping trip in November 2021. At a randomly selected low-price chain filled we cart. Not particularly fashionable. Not particularly narrow-minded. In other words, completely standard food for around NOK 1,400. Now in November we did the same round. Same store. The same items. Twelve months was the only difference. And, uh… the price. The shopping cart worth around NOK 1,400 on Rema 1000 had increased by almost NOK three hundred, which corresponds to 19 per cent. At the same time, we checked the prices of identical goods at competitors Kiwi and Coop Extra. It shows exactly the same tendency. Plus 19 and 18 percent in one year. Some regular guests in the fridge have risen a lot. For example, ketchup with a green cap has gone from 13.90 to 18.90. CHECK THE DATE: – I look for date products more often than before and choose less expensive brands, says Kristine Byrkjedal. Photo: GEIR INGAR EGELAND / news Checking date items more often Outside the Kiwi store in Lund in Kristiansand, many people have changed their shopping habits in the past year. We asked ten people for their best advice against high food budgets. Here’s what we got: Buy cheaper brands Drop some expensive items Use an app that scans offers Cook from scratch Hunt for offers in different stores Start your shopping trip in the fridge Make dinner for two days at a time Have your shopping habits changed in the last year? Yes. I think more through what I put in the cart. No. I act as before. Show result – We check the date shelf more often. And we more often buy food from a cheaper brand, says Kristine Byrkjedal. Weekly trade. More plan on things. Go past some of the shelves. She says the boom in prices has given a boost to more organized food retailing. – Then we have to give something up. We cannot eat, for example, steak as often as we like. But I think it’s a good idea to treat yourself to something good every now and then too. Food is important. Sometimes you can skip serving. – You can, for example, go for a walk with friends instead of inviting them to dinner, says Byrkjedal. BUDGET: – As a student, I have to set up a budget and act based on my income, says Roberto Edland. Photo: GEIR INGAR EGELAND / news Student Roberto Edland has seriously adopted an app that checks offers and campaigns. – I check much more often than before. As a student, I notice the rise in prices, so I try to be a bit tactical, says Edland, who relies on his income with a part-time job. – Create a monthly budget, is my tip. Then you can see what you can spend based on your income. 12.9 per cent according to SSB The price boom on news’s shopping cart is somewhat higher than SSB’s consumer price index, which shows that we have experienced a general increase of 12.9 per cent in food prices in the past year. – WANT TO CALM DOWN: Espen Kristiansen from Statistics Norway believes that the price boom in the grocery store will flatten out next year. But we are unlikely to return to the 2021 level. Photo: Bjørn Olav Nordahl / news – When news gets plus 19 per cent, you have picked a few more items that have increased in price more than the average, says section manager Espen Kristiansen at SSB. – Such a calculation is very dependent on how expensive the goods you choose are. And which goods, he says. Statistics Norway’s price index is an average of over 25,000 food products. And when Statistics Norway calculates the overall price increase, the most common goods matter more than the rare ones. In other words, Statistics Norway takes into account how much ketchup is sold in Norway when calculating the figures. In the big picture, “oils and fats” have risen a lot, especially olive oil and sunflower oil. – In the next round, we will see an effect of this in many foodstuffs. In addition, electricity and fuel also mean a lot for the production of foodstuffs, says Kristiansen. RISE: In the low-price chains, Nugatti rose from 23.10 to 32.90 in twelve months. Photo: PÅL TEGNANDER / news Hooray for cooking chocolate The price increase for food is the biggest since 1982. At that time, prices jumped due to the international oil crisis at the end of the 70s, and changes in politics at the beginning of the 80s. Even then, international pressure on raw materials was one of the driving forces. – Should prices continue to rise? – We think the increase in prices will flatten out. But we don’t necessarily think that prices will go down, says Kristiansen. – Will the ketchup return to 2021 level? – Some foods may probably fall back to previous levels. For example, oils, if the situation in Ukraine becomes more normal. But otherwise, we don’t think prices will fall much. And, if it’s any consolation. For those who will be dipping Christmas marzipan in hot chocolate in the next few weeks. One product has – according to Statistics Norway – fallen in price by more than 2 per cent. Cooking chocolate. 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