Inflation basket

The Office for National Statistics has announced its yearly update of the nation's shopping basket – the goods and services of which prices are tracked to determine inflation. Smartphones and mobile phone apps have been included for the first time 'to capture price changes in these rapidly expanding markets'. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Mobile phone apps, such as this musical keyboard, are included in the ONS basket for the first time. Photograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features

What price love? The ONS will now be able to tell us if finding someone dear is getting dearer, dating agency fees are to be included. Photograph: Susie Adams/Getty

Sparking wine is in, so much for austerity Britain. Photograph: Alamy

Tracking currant prices… dried fruit has made it into the nation's shopping basket. Photograph: Angelo Cavalli/Getty

An oven ready-joint has been included while pork shoulder joints are out, as people buy more prepared food. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features

MDF is in, replacing hardboard. Photograph: Alamy

The number of categories of TVs covered has been increased to include those bigger than 32 inches, reflecting the growth of home cinema systems. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

It's not all big tellies and mobile apps. The ONS has also included craft kits in the nation's shopping basket. Photograph: altrendo images/Altrendo

Fiction hardback books have been given their own category this year - previously covered under books and newspapers - to 'improve coverage of books which has been identified as an under-represented area of the basket' Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Hair conditioners have been given their own category. Are we becoming better groomed and coiffed? Photograph: Iconica/Getty

Pork shoulder joints are out. It's all about oven-ready prepared meats now. Photograph: Alamy

Vending machine cigarettes are out and legislation will see them withdrawn this year. Shop sales of cigarettes will still be tracked. Photograph: Universal Images Group/Getty

Women's fleeces - soft, cosy but firmly out, both in fashion and basket terms. They will still be covered in women's casual outer jackets but will no longer have their own category. Photograph: Alamy

Hardboard is out, ignominiously pushed aside in favour of MDF 'reflecting the relative spending on the two items'. Photograph: Alamy

Mobile phone apps replace mobile phone downloads. They have been 'introduced to capture price changes in this new expanding technology'. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty

Rosebushes have been removed from the gardening products category, snipped as 'a low weighted item in a section which is over-represented'. Photograph: Alamy

The snip has been snipped. Vets fees for spaying a kitten are out as 'in some cases spaying may be free'. Vet fees for annual booster jabs remain in the basket. Photograph: Laurie Cinotto/Getty