Van lede ? <| sep |> Let ' s work this out . I buy a lot of fresh food as I don ' t have a freezer . So I spend roughly 35 on breakfast and dinners from Supermarkets every week . Which is 1 , 820 a year though I suspect I ' m accounting for a lot less than I buy with the 5 % increase that ' s 1 , 911 which is 91 more expensive . I ' m also going on holiday , and aside from Travel Fares going up by 20 for the return journey , it now costs me 35 more to get an equivalent amount of the local currency that I had just last year . Already I ' ve had over a hundred quid kicked out of me , and now buying a VPN to protect my online privacy . Well there ' s 50 a year . Honestly . I ' m not well off at all but I really fail to see how families that live close to the edge can afford any luxuries or decent food any more . This would be me growing up I lived off discounted reduced to clear food , rarely had a large meal . Everything was frozen and microwaved or bunged in the oven because Mom just didn ' t have time to prepare a meal on her own after work . Treats were few and far in between and she never had the dough to provide holidays or expensive day trips unless she got help from Nan . This was my reality , and I ' m thankful it ' s in the past , but it ' s a reality for many thousands , if not millions of homes across the country . Tighten belts , all .