Food prices

[argentus]

I just spent 124 dollars for two bags of groceries... (PS they were out of milk - again.)

Yeah no... all is not well.

Profiteering much?

It should be illegal to jack up prices in times of strife and conflict.   Where I live, even local beef prices rose in accord with the import prices.   We haven't had local beef in this house for years.

[covent]

Price gouging and ramped up profiteering began with global lockdown and the suppliers, retailers and various food industries all have the obliging press telling us how this conflict and that rising temperature are why the price of a cheap loaf of bread has to rise in lockstep at 18%. 

Other basics, half-gallon of milk up 65% over five years. In the last year, cocoa up 50% and coffee up 30%. 

Breakfast cereals (processed crap) up 100% since summer 2020. Dairy, all up, funnily enough, not be the same 65% margin as milk. 

And don't even get me started on the price of olive oil and co-commitant increase in other, more affordable oils. Following Israel's strategic and deliberate bulldozing of ancient olive groves across Palestine, expect to see retail cost of olive oil further increase.

Apparently, weather related negative impact on wheat harvests (cannot remember the details), actual  shortage of flour on UK supermarket shelves. Cannot prove a negative but I think there be some stockpiling going on.

Should any of us trust the veracity of anything those with the most to gain have to say on the whys of price increases when there is very little evidence to support local shortages?

[KKLoco]

Holy Jesus where are you shopping ? 

I'm getting a carton of 18 eggs for less than $4 and a dozen for a little more than $2 and that's at Wal Mart.

My local Safeway. I don't grocery shop at Walmart. Pretty much everything they offer is a cancer conductor.

[SomeStupidName]

150 to feed 2 adults 3 times a day 7 days a week. Is that like $3.60 a meal per person? Sorry I'm not a math-magician am I off on that number?

[argentus]

150 to feed 2 adults 3 times a day 7 days a week. Is that like $3.60 a meal per person? Sorry I'm not a math-magician am I off on that number?

Yep, pretty close.   $150 feeds two of you three times a day for a week.   Well done.  

[SomeStupidName]

I thought so.

[Ravenwatcher]

150 to feed 2 adults 3 times a day 7 days a week. Is that like $3.60 a meal per person? Sorry I'm not a math-magician am I off on that number?

That does not include coffee and such - I dont have breakfast Wife has jam on toast and a processed deli turkey sandwich for lunch out of the packet - I have either a can of soup or a quater pound burger I measured out and froze for lunch and for dinner it's either cheap pork chops or a chicken breast and occasional hamburger helper sides are either potato pasta-rice and packaged veggies -

[Unknownparadox]

That does not include coffee and such - I dont have breakfast Wife has jam on toast and a processed deli turkey sandwich for lunch out of the packet - I have either a can of soup or a quater pound burger I measured out and froze for lunch and for dinner it's either cheap pork chops or a chicken breast and occasional hamburger helper sides are either potato pasta-rice and packaged veggies - So keep your sarcasm to yourself please.

I am spending 100 a week or more for just me. And that is for mostly dinner. I work construction. So I usually eat breakfast and lunch fast food.

[Ravenwatcher]

I am spending 100 a week or more for just me. And that is for mostly dinner. I work construction. So I usually eat breakfast and lunch fast food.

I guess thats the point If you had to feed a Wife and 3 kids how would you do it on your current income on top of all the bills and insurance?

[Unknownparadox]

I guess thats the point If you had to feed a Wife and 3 kids how would you do it on your current income on top of all the bills and insurance?

Good question. The simple truth is. prices have been rising since covid started. And they have yet to stop.