What to drop from your supermarket shop​

In comparison, the price of granulated white sugar sits at just £1.12. But while this may sound like a steal in comparison, white sugar has seen the steepest price increase of all food and drink items, up by 53.4% annually. 

Olive oil has also seen a considerable increase, now costing us 41.7% more, with cook-in-sauces sitting third in the table with a 33.6% jump in price. 

Other items to make the top 10 include hard cheese (+31.3%), cucumber (31.3%), pickle (+30.5%), onions (+29.1%), frozen beef burgers (+29.1%), iceberg lettuce (+28.1%) and canned tomatoes (+27.3%). 

In fact, almost every food item on the list has seen a price hike other than kiwi fruits (-5.7%), blueberries (-2.3%), spreadable butter (-0.9%) and honey (-0.4%).

However, it still remains cheaper to shop yourself, with the average cost of a takeaway or restaurant item currently sitting at £5.47, 29% more than the average cost of a supermarket item - despite seeing a more marginal year on year increase at 9%. 

Takeaway burgers have seen the steepest price hike, now 14.6% more expensive than they were a year ago. Muffins and cakes are up 12.9%, with fish and chips (+12.8%), pastries (+12.6%) and pizza (+11.4%) also ranking within the top five takeaway items to have seen the sharpest cost increases.