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Cooling the price hikes – Malta Independent Online

Jun 8th, 2022

The talk around the table this weekend could possibly focus on the vertiginous ascent of prices, notably food prices. What used to cost x now costs x+ after just a week.

There is talk that COLA could go up by some 8 a week or so but the trouble is that the next increase will only come in with the next Budget and be implemented at the beginning of next year, which is just too late for the people it is meant to help. Some have suggested a mini-Budget in mid-year but I do not think this is plausible.

With any idea of price control being unthinkable in the current world, what can be done to help those most in need? Some mention food banks and similar charities. These are very welcome and a good example of mutual help.

But it would be far better if all of us change our consumer habits and our food intake.

Over the past days I have been made aware of a very different form of dieting from the one we normally use. Our previous experience, a rather short one, consisted of going to see a woman in a remote part of Malta who would weigh and then give you a paper that any Sixth Former could draw up. You had to pay quite handsomely for this service and this woman was simply inundated with people clamouring for this service.

Of course this never worked, until last week or so when chance drew our attention to a dieting website, not based in Malta, that is a million light years away from this only in Malta scam.

First of all, and this for me was a first, it is a website that responds to what you write, that takes you seriously, that is not just after your money. It costs, of course, but you end up not regretting the money you spend.

It helps you plan your day and your meals. It offers alternatives for every meal. The basis of this plan is not to cut down on meals, as this would render you feeble and susceptible to illness. Rather, have smaller meals at different times of the day.

I am not saying one ends up paying less for food like this. The jury is still out on this and the first days can see you spending more until you build up your stock of food items (and you can find yourself going round different supermarkets from the ones you usually use). But you will be learning to be more careful about the food you ingest. And your menu will become more varied and interesting.

We are also finding the advantages of buying basic foods especially vegetables from one of these old women with a pram who go round door to door and who sell produce from their own fields rather than the big chains of imported goods whose quality is generally inferior and costs more.

I notice, and this has been remarked on even abroad, that the disruption caused by Covid has led to renewed interest in home cooking, even baking your own bread. Again, here we have one of the paradoxes which the Covid crisis has brought about people are endlessly creative.

Up till some years ago our needs were met by the small village shops. Then they slowly died down and soon we got more and more supermarkets that are now engaged in battle after battle for survival. Somehow the small corner shops have survived. You can check this by watching the innumerable delivery vans that clog our streets from very early in the morning.

There are of course wider issues such as the invasion of Ukraine and the impact on grain exports but I do not think we can accept rising prices because all prices are going up'. The government is quite right to question the 1 a month increase on mobile phone contracts. (I warn there are other underhand ways these companies are trying to squeeze more revenue from the consumer). And they could beef up their services to clients while theyre at it.

The relative inaction by the government to tackle rising prices is shameful. At the very least we should not accept rising prices in areas where there is no reason to raise prices, especially in government services.

And we must be strong and refuse to be pressed to pay higher prices eg in restaurants who try and recoup last years losses from todays clients.

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