Food/Grocery Doom

It's crazy. Bought the large meal deal for the family last night. Could feed 6. $40.00 at KFC.

This was at the super market. Don't even get me going on beef steak. Hamburger...its what for dinner.

What's more pathetic is Ramen noodles. They used to cost pennies. Literally 5 to 7 cents. Now a multi-pack cost upwards of $2.50 depending where you live. I'm eating a lot of ramen noodles as of late.

Inflation is dramatically higher than what the government's reporting. That's why food prices are shooting up. Take a look at these charts. You'll see what the government's officially reporting versus the actual inflation number (in purple) which is substantially higher.

[link to www.shadowstats.com]

2 years ago we spent $5-8 a day

today we spend between $10-14 a day

we're eating similar stuff

I pay two dollars a pound for my beef. Steak, hamburger, etc.

You eat to much ffs that could probably feed 15!!

Jesus said in the last days that men would LITERALLY work an entire day and pay an entire days wages for one loaf of bread. ( for one meal a day)
A 24 pack of charmin toilet paper WAS $20.99 AT WALMART 2 MONTHS AGO.....NOW ITS $$24.99!!!!!!!!
Bread has gone up from $1.29 a loaf to $2.49 A LOAF!! and my dog LOVES dentastix...for a large pack they were $6.99. In 3 weeks they have jumoed to $11.99!!!! Not kewl......

Do you raise your own feeder calfs?

I am feeling the inflation!! I feed myself and two young girls, and i feel the hit everytime i get groceries now. This time last year we could eat for about $125-150 every two weeks, give or take. Now it is definately over $200. I noticed cereal is expensive now. I have to wait for "sales", so i can get cereal for what it used to cost. So we dont eat a lot of that anymore. Milk is over $6 for 4 litres, so we limit that. It is cheaper to drink pop! For shame. It is cheaper to buy fries than pay $5.99 for a small bag of potatoes - and I live in atlantic canada - a stone's throw from potato farming. I have decided my next steop will be to get a deep freeze, ad start shopping based on sales only. Stock up when the prices are good. After christmas I bought three big turkeys because they were only 88 cents/pound. That is the cheapest thing! But with nofreezer i had to cook them all at once and freeze them in baggies. But for ten bucks a bird that gave the three of us four meals each, it was a perfect thing to do. The thing i don't get is: we are the consumer. We are supposed to rule the world. If everyone stopped buying things at full price, and started making a lot of noise, would the providers of food have to lower their prices? Too many people are getting rich off of me, while i fight to keep food on the table and my utilities from being cut off. It is not right. We weren;t meant to live like this at all.

here in pa - ground beef jumped from 1.79lb here last june to 2.99 in dec and now....drumroll its 4.99lb

my father inlaw raises cattle for him and who ever in the family wants beef. He was told buy the butchers that beef may be around 8 to 10 a pound by winter. We are getting our half of beef for abit over two dollars a pound. Need more input from other people to see if this is on track for the prices.

Tryng ta learn how to butcher chickens from watching youtube videos,bought me some chickens last year and hatching off those chickens eggs this year.

Maybe it will help out on my grocery bills,wish i had some beef in the feild on the hoof but even for a couple of small cows are crazy

SOAB!
8-10 ya say?

Damn,might have ta sale some of my silver stash and just get a couple beef cows.

Kid's eat a lot more dumbass and there are leftovers for lunches. Don't assume dickwad. I'm all muscle and could easily eat the entire meal in one day.

I've used Totino's Party Pizzas as my benchmark quite a bit recently... used to be $0.89-$0.99 each within the last year - now they are $1.50+ each.

Bacon prices are terrible too.

the elito greed is so gross.

MMMM, bacon. Unfortunately, meat eating is something we eat much less of. Maybe every other day. Typically, I've been eating more beans and broccoli. I make fruit smoothies out of frozen fruits. It's cheap and no worry about cane or fake sugars. Trying to eat less and stretch the dollars as much as possible.

However, there are those days that you have no time and order KFC. We are only human. Have not eaten in a real sit down restaurant in over a year.

OMG BAcon! Yes, the grocery store did an odd thing a couple of weeks ago. Bacon i am used to seeing lately for $4 or 5. But during a "sale" there was a cooler full of maple leaf (i think) bacon, on "sale" for $3.99, and the label said regular price $7.99. My fiance and i did a double take, and tried to figure out why it would be so pricey regularly. They weren;t double packs, organic, low sodium. Just ordinary packs of bacon. We eventually decided it must have been a typo of some sort, but i am secretly wondering if bacon prices are going to skyrocket. It seems to be how they do it for big jumps. Keep the regular price for a while, but call it the sale price. probably helps to acclimatize people.

~ Same thing in the UK, prices have literally doubled in some cases over the last year...Plus items have been made smaller!!!

The cost of utilities have continually increased; although as we all know incomes have mostly been frozen, or are forced to worked reduced hours and so on...

However, there are also some members of the local area who are obviously doing something to make profits; as they are having their homes completely 'refurbished' or 're-designed'... I'd like to knock on one of their doors (when their actually home, as most of these ones I mentioned have homes elsewhere too...), and ask, how on earth have you managed to profit so much in this time of hardship? lol

They are price gouging food stamp sales of cooked chicken.

We're grilling out tonight so yesterday we went to buy the food, and while I don't usually look at the price, Kroger only had 5 fillet Mignon steaks, we had to go to three different grocery stores...they should have whole fuck'n cows back it the meat department! Are we running out of cattle?

less actually! When I go shopping I notice that all the boxes and packages are filled with less stuff in them and I swear the veggies and fruits are smaller too!

we are all guilty. WE have caused the prices to go up. Did we really think that there was a free ride.. Free food ( food stamps), free Housing ( Section 8), free Social Security ( people who have never held a job in their lives).
Our walls are crumbling down Humpty Dumpty..

the funny thing is all this "food" that is rising in price.

ITS NOT EVEN REAL FOOD ANYMORE!!!

and thats the SAD THING!!


wait till the soylent green days come !!

I take a whole chicken, about 3.50, and I cook it all day with spices in a crock pot. It comes out juicy and tender and it's a whole lot cheaper then the roasted pre-cooked ones.

I'm guessing you gotta be earning a whole lot more for the same amount of work too. /sarcasm

Brief,dont you remember the big beef sales last year because of the drought?

whole herds were being done away with all over the country because of hay prices.

You don't look at the price because you are too busy checking out the grocery stock boys. Oh such a fag.