Customers are shelling out up to 58 per cent extra for essential grocery items than they used to do three years ago, as per the figures published today.

The cost of tea has spurt up by 30 per cent whilst the price of staple foods like bread and eggs has mounted by 18 per cent since 2007.

But the largest augment has been in the value of rice and pulses like lentils or beans that have shot up by 58 per cent.

Figures assembled by the price contrasting website mySupermarket. co. uk depicts that parents with little children are also being strike mainly stiff.

The price of baby wipes, creams and bath wash has mounted by 38 per cent. Baby food and snacks have tossed up by 21 per cent whilst the baby milk and drinks have amplified by 29 per cent.

Still pets are establishing to be an escalating deplete on families, with dog food moving up by 20 per cent and cat food getting higher by 13 per cent.

The towering prices are in distinction to the complete inflation rate that is at present 3.2 per cent a year.

Britain's high food costs are also at probability with many of the European neighbors, who have witnessed their grocery bills descending progressively above the previous year.