Don’t flip out, but the cost of making a simple pancake has jumped by more than a third since 2020. The Central Statistics Office’s (CSO) breakdown of pancake inflation, published to coincide with Shrove Tuesday, indicates the cost of a basic pancake mix – eggs, milk, and flour – has risen by 35.2 per cent in the last five years. Pancake inflation is higher than general food-price inflation, which was put at 27.3 per cent for the five-year period. Higher food prices reflect the lagged effect of higher energy prices. One consolation was that the price of sugar was flat as a pancake last year.

Source: The Irish Times February 17, 2026 18:00 UTC