The covid pandemic is part of the reason why food as well as food is increasing, life is increasingly difficult, there are buyers who hoard in large quantities, making it scarce. Therefore, the prices of food and food products are increasing.
I don't know which country you are residing in. But here in India, the food prices actually went down after the pandemic started. Food production was not impacted directly by the pandemic, but there was issues in transporting the produce from one region to another. And in urban areas, there was large scale hoarding of essential items, but the government soon swung in to action and arrested those who were attempting to do this. And a lot of people have lost their jobs, and therefore they can't afford food products even if they are at the same price as earlier.
Lucky you that there's no surge in price after this pandemic, from where am I, the price rose up since lots of businesses are closed,
the supply and demands of foods from different regions are affected especially those basic needs.
I'm not sure if this cause by those business owners who managed to facilitate even there's restrictions from some point, they might implementing over prices due to the fact that people don't have other options,
Government are trying to help but even so this kind of adjustments are being felt, budgeting is really hard.