Food prices in the UK and Ireland have reached Scandinavian levels according to the EU statistics agency, Eurostat.
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In Ireland last year, milk, cheese and eggs, for instance, cost 126% of the EU average, compared with 104% in Sweden and 110% in Finland. The price of the products in the UK reached 115% of the EU average.
The cheapest countries to buy dairy products in the EU were in Poland at 67% and Latvia at 75%.
Buying meat products in the UK and Ireland was also expensive (at 126% and 129% above the EU average) and very costly in non-EU states Switzerland, Iceland and Norway, where prices approached double the EU norm.
Meat was cheapest in Bulgaria at 48% of the EU average and in Latvia, where the cost of meat was half the EU average.
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By GlobalDataThe best deals on bread and cereals were found in Bulgaria at 41% of the EU average and in Slovakia at 56%.
