We compared Asda, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's and Morrisons - and butter, milk and chicken prices have risen in a week

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With the cost of living rising dramatically everyone is feeling the pinch.

Gas and electric prices are somewhat out of our control so most families are trying to claw back where they can. One of the ways we can all try to do this is in the supermarket, and while it's not always that easy to see where savings can be made, it's well worth keeping an eye on the ever changing prices.

Last week we compared the price of eight basics in the six main supermarkets - buying the cheapest of everything available. On our shopping list was a loaf of bread, a two-pint bottle of milk, coffee, teabags, butter, beans, chicken breasts and mince.

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Aldi came out as cheapest overall, at £9.13 for the lot, although it pipped Lidl to the top spot by just one penny. We've done the comparison just a week later and there are some notable changes already.

Aldi's butter has risen from £1.48 for a 250g block to £1.55, Morrisons' milk has risen from 95p for a two-pint bottle to 99p and Lidl's chicken breasts have risen from £1.79 for 300g to £1.99.

While it's only pennies, it all adds up at a time when families are struggling to make ends meet - and it doesn't bode well when prices are rising by as much as 10p in just a week.

Aldi still came out as cheapest overall, at £9.20 for the lot. That was with 25% fat mince though, compared with 20% at all the others. In second place was Lidl at £9.34, followed by Asda's £9.44. Its budget Smart Price range helps to keep prices down, with its coffee in particular, at £1.40 for two of its 100g jars, the cheapest of all the supermarkets.

Tesco's Aldi Price Match helped keep its bill down to £9.52, while Morrisons, which has its