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In reply to the discussion: Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)They've gone up some, but I didn't notice any large jumps. Maybe I don't buy the things that jumped the most.
My bread has gone from $2.89 a loaf a couple of years ago to about $3.11 last week. (low cal, 100% whole grain, double fiber...yum. I love the stuff.) Bulk bags of apples at Sam's - about the same. Chunk of cheese - very pricey, but I buy it occasionally to splurge; it was about the same as a few weeks ago. Organic fat-free milk was about $3.89 to $4.09 depending on brand, which was about 10 cents higher. Fresh fruits are pretty expensive and have gone up, but not a whole lot.
The junk food you're avoiding, though, is probably cheaper.
I am lucky right now in that I have expendable income. It won't last, of course. Nothing does. But when I was poor (and I was really very poor once), I bought bagged rice, pasta, dry beans and things like that. I could make a big pot of bean soup now for a few dollars and eat on it for days. It freezes well, too. Dry pasta and beans and grains are very inexpensive. A plus is that they are healthier than anything in a box or can or package you can buy.
Everything keeps going up, though. I heard on the news that gas will go up here to over $4.00 gallon this summer. That will make everything else go up.
I hope you can manage until things even out. I wish you luck, in the meantime. Hang in there.