Have you noticed that groceries are more expensive?

My weekly stop at the store where we buy produce and dairy has gone gone up about $10 a week in the last year. 69¢ for a lemon! This is a unionized store with higher prices than most and we DO eat a lot of fresh produce, but still...

would be about right with inflation of 1%.

:toast:

It's gone from $35 to about $45 a week at this one store since last year. I'm trying to figure out if it's prices or if we're just eating more this year. 69¢ each for two lemons, $2.18 for a small bunch of bananas, $7.00 for a hunk of parmesan--it adds up quickly

I don't know what it would be using republican party math. It probably would depend on whether you are one of the republican liars or one of the republican believers of lies.

2 + 2 = 872!

Danke.

Really fuzzy. I've seen math "skills" like that someplace else...

$400 a month equals $100 a week. $10 a week increase equals 10%.

Now, $65 a week for something that cost $35 a year ago is what, an 85% increase?

may have made a wrong turn somewhere. You made a left when I think you meant to go right.

:hi:

... burial expenses?



:shrug:

Actually, asparagus has been dirt cheap lately. I just go with what's cheap; I eat a lot of vegetables, and lately my unionized store has had cheap cabbage, carrots, melon and sugar snap peas.

some of the things I buy on a normal weekly store run have gone up over $1 in the last year. Meat and milk, and veggies. :wtf:

It's partially why I switched to soy milk- it's cheaper than milk most times! :wtf:

It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice because every time you say soy juice you actually start to gag. - Lewis Black

Crazy.

But we drink organic skim milk. WAY expensive, but still not as much as soy.

Isn't that weird?

we're planting a garden this year, tomatoes, cukes, onions, beets, beans and lots and lots of squash (stores well in the winter). We have apple pear, cherry and peach trees. My mother used to put her own food up when we were young and I think with her help I could get quite good at it. so I think I'm gonna give it a try this year.

Suggest you invite little Americans to help you, learn, and hopefully feel empowered by knowing they can take action to take care of their own needs. If you have or know some teens, see if you can get some involved in the canning/preservation part of it. The future will be better for them if they can help themselves.

and their friends are always at my house. I know they'll be interested in the canning/cooking aspect. We made Strawberry Jam last summer and they've been asking to do it again. The garden work is what they'll hate. My parents used to make us girls fill pop bottles with water and stick them down in the soil next to the plant for irrigation purposes. I guess it saved water. I can get grampa to till but no one is going to like weeding and hoeing but I guess my back is good for another few years.

Sometimes just doing chores is a drag. But so many kids just love to let their curiosity & imagination come out to play. Our society doesn't seem to nurture that much. Make the garden a lab. Do experiments. Learn with them. Make the back yard a universe they can explore. Might be worth a try. ;)

Worked for my daughter. We gave her a small corner of the garden where she could plant whatever she wanted. She chose peas and pumpkins.

But this time of year, it doesn't do much for our fresh-produce requirements--all we have left is butternut squash and about a ton of garlic. Even in the summer when we have a lot in the garden, we still seem to spend as much on fresh produce--we just eat a whole lot more vegetables that time of year.

Oil is the driving force. Prices are never going down again.

It's hard to me to specify exactly how much more, because my kids are growing and eating more at the same time, but we are spending approximately $20 a more a week (from about $95 to $115) from a year ago.

I get 4 lemons for a buck in the bodega across the street, but I pay twice what my brother in Nebraska pays for bacon at the supermarkets.

Supply and demand plays the largest role in fresh food prices, like with the temporary tomato shortage, but different stores have different supply chains, and some of them have better deals while others get jammed up.

And, yeah, dairy has gone up a lot.

Don't know why. The people writing these posts about why it'd be good for gas to go to $10 a gallon don't mention rising fuel prices having an effect on anything but Esuvee drivers and Detroit, so THAT can't be the reason, can it?
<sarcasm>

You're learning the painful lesson the "Well, they can take the bus" crowd hasn't. everything you buy to eat or wash yourself with that has to be trucked into your town is going up in price.

My $30-$35 weekly grocery bill has increased to almost $70. No, I'm not eating more, nor have I changed my diet, stuff's just getting more expensive.

:)

TlalocW

... food, housing, and fuel for heating and transportation. :crazy:

I put in a good sized garden every year and have numerous fruit and nut trees on my property. What, you PAY for summer squash? HA!!!

But renters don't really rate in the "Ownership Society."

In most post-apocolyptic novels, there's "Haves" and "Have-Nots".

Or "Landowners" and "Renters", if you wish.

Perhaps the Lord of the Manor will set aside some of his land for us to raise some crops on, minus a 10% "share"...We can work our plots when we're not working HIS...
Worked perfectly fine 400 years ago...

It sucks.

when i shop, i almost always ONLY buy items that are on sale- but i have noticed that the price of beef seems very high- i usually buy stuff that's been reduced for quick sale because it's at the end of it's legal sale period.
and if there's a really BIG sale on something, i'll stock up- if it's feasible.(i.e.- nonperishables)

it's not hard to save money when you shop smart- but the first thing you have to do is abandon the concept of "brand loyalty"

A year ago, Milk was....$1.89 to $2.00 a gallon. NOW, it's $2.89-$3.19 a gallon...for generic store-brand.

A year ago, 6 eggs were around $.59. Now, they're .99

Frozen pizzas---every other weekend or so, Mr Heddi and I splurge on a Red Barron pizza for dinner. I swear to god--not even LAST YEAR, but rather 6 months ago, the MOST you'd ever pay for a Red Barron (not on sale) was $3.00. Slowly they started going up to $3.50, $3.75. Yesterday when we went to the store, they were $5.79 I KID YOU NOT.

I asked "So, I assume the price of cheap dehydrated veggies has increased 2-fold in the last 4 months, eh?"

Even cheapo Budget Frozen Dinners were, as of about 3 months ago, $1 each. Now they're $1.50 for SOME varieties, $2.00 for the majority.

We don't buy alot of frozen food, but when I'm in school, or doing clinical work, sometimes it's just more cost-and-time effective if I take a frozen dinner for lunch rather than make something the night before. The cost of CHEAP, NO GOOD frozen dinners has SO increased.

Recently, we moved from an apartment to a rental house with tons of land and landlords that encourage us to express our green thumbs whichever way we want. So come April, we're planting Tomatoes, Peppers, Cukes. We've already got some Garlic in the groudn that was planted last Summer.....I want an egg-hen, but I don't think that zoning allows for that.

For Me & Mr Heddi, our usual grocery bill USED TO BE about $40-$50 a week for the two of us. Lately, though, it's been between $60-70 a week for the two of us, adn we're NOT buying more. If anything, we're buying less frozen foods, less processed foods, and cooking things like Rice and Pasta and Chicken in bulk and freezing for easy access later.

Strange---the price of everything keeps increasing, but my wage sure doesn't....

The grocery store manager told us - just wait. they may jump another 50% because of transportation costs.

:(

And no "german worker", that's not 0.5% more...

And the fact that we have to pay more for everything we need to survive-- especially energy-- couldn't have anything to do with America's dismal savings rate, could it?

Reminds me of another thread I'd wanted to comment in, the one about Congress cutting the food stamp program. It's not widely remembered now, but when the program was originally proposed, it was sold to Congress not as vital safety net aid for America's most vulnerable, but as a FARM PROGRAM! That's why it's administered by the Department of Agriculture-- it's another price support program. Now that prices obviously don't need any support, obviously Congress can cut that program.