{"id":89600,"date":"2026-05-24T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89600"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:09:08","slug":"six-eggs-used-to-be-1-why-everyday-essentials-cost-so-much-more-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/24\/six-eggs-used-to-be-1-why-everyday-essentials-cost-so-much-more-now\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Six eggs used to be \u00a31&#8217; &#8211; why everyday essentials cost so much more now"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/633e\/live\/c1987f90-55e3-11f1-8b8c-6d33e1d5abb6.jpg\" alt=\"Bread, eggs and a jug and glass of milk on a table\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Many of us have been buying the same supermarket staples every week for years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd6pw4zg5p9o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Many of us have been buying the same supermarket staples every week for years. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cost-of-living-crisis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Food-inflation.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89612,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89600\/revisions\/89612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}