The supermarket which was among cheapest now ranking as most expensive

A supermarket which ranked third cheapest behind budget stores Aldi and Lidl is now ranking as most expensive.

It was a year ago when we started tracking the cost of the same eight essentials at the six main supermarkets.

As the cost of living crisis began to hit people hard, we looked at the prices at the budget stores, as well as Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco to see how they fared.

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Lidl was just a penny more, at £9.14, and it was Asda in third place, at £9.44. The bills at the other supermarkets were Tesco £9.52, Morrisons £9.69 and Sainsbury's £10.45.

At that time, it was Aldi which came out as cheapest overall, with a bill of £9.13 for the shopping basket, which included a two-pint bottle of milk, a loaf of bread, a pack of chicken breasts, a pack of mince, tea bags, coffee, beans and butter.

Over the last year we've seen prices soar at all the stores, so much so that the shopping basket of goods now costs £12 or more at every store except for Lidl - and that's not too far behind at £11.88.

The bill for all but one of them has risen by 25% since our first comparison, but the most drastic rise of all has been at Asda, where the cost has gone up 32.4% to £12.50 - currently the highest of all the stores.

Aldi is the next biggest increase, 31.4%, followed by Lidl and Tesco's 30% and Morrisons' 25%. It's actually Sainsbury's which has seen the lowest rise of 17.8%, but it did start out in the unenviable position of the most expensive of the lot.

This week it's improved its position to fourth cheapest following a price rise at Tesco, which has increased the cost of its cheapest Stockwell coffee to 99p for a 100g tub.

Morrisons, which briefly fared