The items added or removed over time offer a fascinating insight into our changing tastes, trends and lifestyles.<\/p>\n
Wild rabbit was one item included in the first list in 1947. Tea bags only made it in by 1980.<\/p>\n
This time 27 items have been added and 19 have been removed, to finish with a total of 760 items.<\/p>\n
The ONS said 0% beer and houmous had been added due to their growing popularity and consumer spending. Caravans were already in the basket but, often expensive, motorhomes are now part of the mix too.<\/p>\n
Dashcams represented the growing number of security products available for drivers and allowed the basket to keep up with new technology.<\/p>\n
And pet owners were now more likely to use grooming and care treatments for their pets beyond the services offered at a vets, the ONS said.<\/p>\n
“Houmous has been a staple of lunch boxes for years but as a plant-based source of protein and fibre it’s becoming more and more popular,” investment platform AJ Bell’s head of financial analysis Danni Hewson said.<\/p>\n
She said the trend was accelerating with the increasing take-up of weight loss drugs. A desire to lead healthier lifestyles has also helped no- and low-alcohol alternatives to beer and other drinks into the basket.<\/p>\n
And she pointed to a boom in households buying pets during the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular “Doodles”, or poodle-cross dogs with curly coats, driving higher demand for pet grooming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The items added or removed over time offer a fascinating insight into our changing tastes, trends and lifestyles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}