We compared prices at Asda, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's and Morrisons - here's what's gone up again

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Prices continue to surge as the cost of living crisis shows no sign at all of stopping - with fuel, electricity and gas prices rocketing. Struggling singles and financially challenged families alike are feeling the pinch in the supermarkets - with food prices also stealthily rising.

For the last two weeks we have compared the price of eight basics in various 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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Last week Aldi came out as cheapest overall, at £9.13 for the lot, but a week later it's cheapest butter had risen from £1.48 for a 250g block to £1.55, Morrisons' milk had risen from 95p for a two-pint bottle to 99p and Lidl's chicken breasts had risen from £1.79 for 300g to £1.99.

Aldi still came out as cheapest overall, at £9.26 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 budget Savers range, came in at £10.18 overall, followed by Sainsbury's, which was most expensive at £10.55.

The only slight difference in size was the baked beans, ranging from 400g in Sainsbury's and 410g in Asda and Morrisons, to the standard 420g in Aldi, Lidl and Tesco - which shows you to keep an eye on the size as well as the price. And where the 300g packs of chicken differ