date:Feb 18, 2013
While this is the largest increase in a single month since July 2011, food prices often rise in January months.
In January, higher food prices reflected more expensive grocery food, after falls in recent months. We also had seasonally higher fruit and vegetable prices, prices manager Chris Pike said.
The rise for grocery food (up 1.9 per cent) was led by cakes and biscuits (up 5.4 per cent), yoghurt (up 9.0 per cent), and bread (up 2.3 per cent). Olive oil (down 17 per cent) was discounted in