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If you think paying $10 for a pound of bacon or $6 for a pound of butter is bad, it's about to get more expensive.
Pretty soon, you'll be paying even more for just about everything when it comes to eating in or dining out, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"All food prices are now predicted to increase," the USDA's Food Prices Outlook for 2022 March report said.
I was at the dock today. Got some shrimp. Whole Foods picked up oysters, mussels..other store crab cakes. I'm set for dinner tonight night.
Prices were about the same.
Whole Foods had lobster tails on sale and rib eyes. Surf and turf for Christmas maybe?
This is so tone deaf it's funny. Enjoy your whole food oysters. Lol I don't care but you know you come off as a bit of a sick to those rationing hot dogs to their kids lol you are a true liberal indeed. I bet Pelosididnt notice much change on her Jeni's ice cream either.
One trend I have noticed in my local Grocery Stores (Publix) is some products have not moved at all while others are nearly double. It seems all the junk food and processed stuff has jumped up quite a lot but the main stables of fruits, veggies, dairy, and bread have not moved much.
Same with meat as well. Cuts of meat have not changed much but processed meats like bacon and sausage have jumped up considerably.
My take is some of this may be inflation and the store offsetting prices of fresh stuff with the processed stuff (chips etc) but I also have to say there is some price gouging happening as well. There is no reason some items have increased or shrank as much as they have in the past 6 months.
I imagine if you buy a lot of chips, cereals, and processed foods then your bill will be much higher than before but again I am not sure if this is all inflation or if gouging is involved.
One trend I have noticed in my local Grocery Stores (Publix) is some products have not moved at all while others are nearly double. It seems all the junk food and processed stuff has jumped up quite a lot but the main stables of fruits, veggies, dairy, and bread have not moved much.
Same with meat as well. Cuts of meat have not changed much but processed meats like bacon and sausage have jumped up considerably.
My take is some of this may be inflation and the store offsetting prices of fresh stuff with the processed stuff (chips etc) but I also have to say there is some price gouging happening as well. There is no reason some items have increased or shrank as much as they have in the past 6 months.
I imagine if you buy a lot of chips, cereals, and processed foods then your bill will be much higher than before but again I am not sure if this is all inflation or if gouging is involved.
Dairy, fruits and vegetables have all went up, it's not just processed foods. Meat seems to have gone up the most.
Conversely, prices for ( non- organic) vegetables/ fruit are not keeping pace with inflation.
I live in a very competitive grocery market area and competitive shopping has been a long time hobby. When we travel, I always check out grocery prices.
It must be a bumper crap year for asparagus, peppers, Florida tomatoes and berries. I have no recollection of prices this low. $0.69/ lb for asparagus has been the norm. ( Necessary to blanch before freezing).
Green Giant frozen steamable vegetables, .79- $1.00.
Oscar Mayer bacon $3.99/ lb has been rotating store to store.
Various brands of frozen pizza are easily available at pre pandemic prices. One local brand of so called premium frozen pizza cut their price by $4-5.
Local CVS has the best prices for milk.
Snagged prime baby back ribs for husband for 4.99/ lb.
This does not mean I have not noticed big increases on some products, especially prepared foods, breads and stuff packaged in cans, including soda, my vice.
I wonder if people will start panic buying, driving prices up still further?
I personally started buying more each week starting about six weeks ago as we have a freezer and ample pantry space, but I am only buying what we would use in a year, and I am careful not to buy anything that will go bad before 2024.
P.S. And I call B.S. on those articles that say prices will increase only about 5-6% overall. I have already seen an average of 10-15% increase in food prices, with some things (like eggs) increasing almost 100%. (However, I was told that was due to bird flu.)
Try buying a steak at a chain grocery store or at a restaurant. You can't. Now they're getting ready to jack egg prices through the roof with an avian flu scare.
Go to a local butcher shop and things are at least somewhat normal.
It must be a bumper crap year for asparagus, peppers, Florida tomatoes and berries. I have no recollection of prices this low. $0.69/ lb for asparagus has been the norm. ( Necessary to blanch before freezing).
not here. $1.99/lb on sale is as cheap as it gets for asparagus. nearly all of it coming from peru and mexico.
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Try buying a steak at a chain grocery store or at a restaurant. You can't.
sure you can. they just cost one helluva lot more than they did a year ago.
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Now they're getting ready to jack egg prices through the roof with an avian flu scare.
Go to a local butcher shop and things are at least somewhat normal.
it's way more than a scare. 23 million birds dead since the beginning of the year.
Dairy, fruits and vegetables have all went up, it's not just processed foods. Meat seems to have gone up the most.
Interesting. I am seeing prices on fresh ( non- organic) vegetables/ fruits at near record lows, for this time of year, in my area. Assume most of it is coming from Florida and gas for transportation has no impact.
It must be a bumper crap year for asparagus, peppers, Florida tomatoes and berries. I have no recollection of prices this low. $0.69/ lb for asparagus has been the norm. ( Necessary to blanch before freezing).
Green Giant frozen steamable vegetables, .79- $1.00.
From article linked above:
“No food category, the USDA said, decreased in price in 2021. And now the USDA revised its forecast upward for all food categories, including meats, poultry, eggs, dairy products, fats and oils, and more. The only category that the USDA revised downward was fresh vegetables.â€
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