A basket of 63 basic foods rose by €2.40 in a week to €255.95. Cod and tomatoes are up 35% on a year ago
A basket of 63 basic foods, whose prices the consumer association DECO PROteste tracks every week, costs €255.95 this week, €2.40 more than a week ago. Before that, prices had fallen for two weeks in a row (Jornal Económico).
Since the start of the year the basket has gone up by €14.12 (5.84%), over the past year by €11.61 (4.75%), and since January 2022, when DECO began tracking it, by €68.25 (36.36%).
From 28 October to 4 November the biggest rises were for Maria biscuits, up 14% to €2.89, wholegrain cereal flakes, also up 14% to €4.06, and ground coffee, up 12% to €4.97.
Over the past year the biggest rises were for plum tomatoes (tomate chucha) and large salt cod (bacalhau graúdo), both up 35%: the tomatoes now cost €2.89 a kilo and the cod €21.98. Pointed cabbage (couve-coração) went up 22% to €1.71 a kilo. Since 2022 the biggest rises have been for stewing beef, up 120% to €12.80 a kilo; cod, up 107%; and eggs, up 79%.
