Anyone else noticed the spike in food prices the last couple of weeks?

[Shad]

Our family follows a strict budget and we buy the same exact things every single week so it's not like we are buying a lot of extras that we don't need and in the last couple of weeks the same items that usually cost us around $160 has jumped to over $200. By comparing old receipts with the recent ones it looks like the big culprit is meat because we eat a lot of sandwiches and things that can be cooked quickly in the microwave because we are always on the go and don't have a lot of time to stop and cook a big meal. I might add that's $200 after using coupons and our Kroger card which this past week saved us over $48 so factor in without the Kroger Card savings we'd have paid around $250 a week.

Pretty soon it's going to be cheaper to just stop by a fast food place and order off of the $1 menu 2 meals a day for 7 days a week that only comes out to what $3 per person x 14 = $42 that's a lot cheaper than $200. lol

[Guest LadyC]

as long as diesel fuel prices are over $5/gallon, food prices are going to continue to sky-rocket.

[Shad]

as long as diesel fuel prices are over $5/gallon, food prices are going to continue to sky-rocket.

That and the fact that all those millions of acres of corn got washed away in the midwest floods which is going to raise the price of everything from Milk to Eggs to Meat to just about everything.

If I like vegetables I'd start growing my own food but I'm not a big veggie guy I'm more a meat and potatoes guy which is why this is killing me having to cut back on the amount of meat and quality of meat we can buy. It's now down to the $.79 Land O Frost meat compared to the $3 + butterball stuff.

[Guest LadyC]

i understand... i hate veggies too. but here where i live, prices skyrocketed on everything long ago. a loaf of bread here averages about $3. i used to hit the deli counter at walmart neighborhood market for lunchmeats because they were the cheapest place around, but even there i'm having to pay 8-9 bucks a pound for peppered turkey for my husband's lunches. there've been times that i've broken down and bought those little bitty packages of carl buddig lunchmeats. heck, even those are almost a buck now. i used to get them three for a dollar.

[kat8585]

as long as diesel fuel prices are over $5/gallon, food prices are going to continue to sky-rocket.

That and the fact that all those millions of acres of corn got washed away in the midwest floods which is going to raise the price of everything from Milk to Eggs to Meat to just about everything.

If I like vegetables I'd start growing my own food but I'm not a big veggie guy I'm more a meat and potatoes guy which is why this is killing me having to cut back on the amount of meat and quality of meat we can buy. It's now down to the $.79 Land O Frost meat compared to the $3 + butterball stuff.

Don't forget the cost of ethanol.

[kat8585]

Our family follows a strict budget and we buy the same exact things every single week so it's not like we are buying a lot of extras that we don't need and in the last couple of weeks the same items that usually cost us around $160 has jumped to over $200. By comparing old receipts with the recent ones it looks like the big culprit is meat because we eat a lot of sandwiches and things that can be cooked quickly in the microwave because we are always on the go and don't have a lot of time to stop and cook a big meal. I might add that's $200 after using coupons and our Kroger card which this past week saved us over $48 so factor in without the Kroger Card savings we'd have paid around $250 a week.

Pretty soon it's going to be cheaper to just stop by a fast food place and order off of the $1 menu 2 meals a day for 7 days a week that only comes out to what $3 per person x 14 = $42 that's a lot cheaper than $200. lol

I've been noticing it for quite a while. Everything has gone up by at least a third, even at Walmart.

[mizzdy]

Pretty soon it's going to be cheaper to just stop by a fast food place and order off of the $1 menu 2 meals a day for 7 days a week that only comes out to what $3 per person x 14 = $42 that's a lot cheaper than $200. lol

I have been trying to use this as an excuse not to cook but my husband doesn't buy it at all! I am not sure if the others in my family would eat off the dollar menu! We are a meat and potatoes family, 3 grown people eat a lot! I tend to stick to casseroles and that type of thing and I always hope there are left overs to freeze so I can get two meals. I also make large pots of soups that freeze well. I hear it mentioned a lot that one reason our meat is getting so high is because of the growing demand in China and elsewhere in the Asian market. The veggies at some of the stores here are just terrible looking and do not last but just a few days if that.

i used to hit the deli counter at walmart neighborhood market for lunchmeats because they were the cheapest place around, but even there i'm having to pay 8-9 bucks a pound for peppered turkey for my husband's lunches

LadyC,

Wow I shop mostly at WalMart and have only seen on occasion the price you mention. I usually pay around 6 dollars for a pound of turkey for sandwhiches and find that its about the same price as the other stores. My husband dislike the buddig meats but I like them myself. Remember when they were like 20 cents a package?!

[EricH]

My guess is that it is more than a "spike". With the storms that destroyed many of the crops in the midwest (corn and soy beans in particular) prices could continue to rise. thats God that s believers we serve a God who is greater than our circumstances

[Guest]

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[Guest LadyC]

mizzdy, yes! i remember when they were about twenty cents!

i think the price may have just gone up recently... the walmart market at lamb & charleston is where i paid... i think it was 7.99 this time for the jennie-o peppered turkey. i used to pay 5.99.

heck they used to be the one place you could find bread for under a buck, as long as it was their brand. just a few months ago, they sold their brand for seventy two cents. now even that is 1.12 i think.