The cost of a full English breakfast has risen to the highest level on record even as broader measures of inflation ease, a sign of just how hard it is for British consumers to shake off rising food prices.
The total cost of a basket of goods needed to make the fry-up rose by 57 pence to £36.15 ($44.81) in August. Bloomberg’s monthly Breakfast Index uses product sizes provided by the Office for National Statistics to crunch prices of sausages, bacon, eggs, bread, butter, tomatoes, mushrooms, milk, tea and coffee.
"Shoppers are still seeing supermarket prices go up at an alarming rate, with increases on some foods far outstripping others,” said Sue Davies, head of food policy at consumer magazine Which.