Food prices up?

[john70t]

Italian sausage was $3/lb and now going up to $5.
Bacon was $3/lb and going up to $7. Yikes.
Frozen pizza is still around $6. Same as back in 1990. I choose Freshetta because Digiorino is a Nestle product.

(I am trying to cut my meat consumption ratio way back into flavoring level btw and mostly stopped eating pizza).

Milk is still $2-3/gallon. Same as 1990.
That is the hook to bring shoppers in though so it don't count.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by john70t

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Milk is still $2-3/gallon. Same as 1990.
That is the hook to bring shoppers in...

I thought milk was regulated (maybe showing my age)...stopped a local baron from eliminating the competition and then charging whatever he wanted back in the day? Similar to other monopolies but on a much smaller scale...community by community back then. Times change...

[widgeon13]

What about dog food? That's always a good alternative.

[vash]

that $1.50 hotdog and unlimited soda at Costco is looking good math-wise right now.

yea..groceries are up. eating fresh and healthy is costly.

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

I've never understood why potatoes cost 3-5x as much as bananas per pound.

Because bananas grow on trees!

[Tervuren]

Foods that compete with ethanol meddling that don't have their own meddling will go up as a direct result.

On top of this, weather has not been steady the last few years, a lot of volatility that can mess with food production.

[Evans, Marv]

Food costs are especially stunning if you remember bacon at 39 cents/lb. & bananas at 12 cents/lb. along with comparable prices for everything else. A bunch of it is accounted for with inflation, but sometimes I wonder how some families get by on today's prices. I remember how much I ate as a thin, over energetic teen and wonder how much it would cast now days to feed a kid like that.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

Foods that compete with ethanol meddling that don't have their own meddling will go up as a direct result.

On top of this, weather has not been steady the last few years, a lot of volatility that can mess with food production.

Yep, we burn food (corn) as fuel. We spend billions in tax subsidies for farmers to grow the corn and turn it into fuel for our cars. The energy used to produce that ethanol is less than the energy we get as fuel so it is a net loss for everyone except the ethanol supply chain. Add in the fact that all that feed corn or human food is diverted from food production and prices go up.

[ckelly78z]

Ethanol production is a government designed program to fund big job making projects/farm subsidies in select congressional districts for thier constituants...nothing more.