How expensive is basic living getting where you live?
 

I am talking just buying food never mind fuel. Bread has certainly gone up big time here in the UK over the last year but I am starting to really notice the increase in the price of things like fresh fruit too. For example, a bag of red apples that I buy pretty much every week cost me (translating to dollars) about $2 this time last year and this week that same bag cost me just about $4.

What basic food things are you noticing really going up in price over the last year or so where you live?

a loaf of bread about $2 a dinner in the restaurant about $7 - $10 a beer about $1 - $2 the quality doesn't always do justice to the price.

I don't do much shopping though..

it is between 15-20% more expensive then the US at the moment.

Bread is about 80 cents, beer about $1-2 at a restaurant/bar.

how different is that than a year ago?

Everything is about 10 - 12 pct. more expensive than what I remember, although the local currency is pretty strong.

in the end the things that are happening are just a logic consequence to the suffering in Africa


now we can feel too what it feels like that common things like food and water become an issue . . mark my words

Seriously, I have not noticed any dramatic increases - maybe some things are 5% more expensive than last year but thats it.

housing, food and gas all up ...

the water supply to my house has gone up 13% in 11 months and i just got a notice about another 5.5% increase coming soon. even better, the city i live in said i cant dig a well so im stuck paying whatever they decide to charge me. basicly, our local water supply is running out thanks to large cities like los angeles stealing all of it. good times
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I know this about food prices but we noticed our electric and gas has shot up. And as you say bread, milk and basic food stuffs is going up.

i dont doo the shopping for such things....but i havent heard any complaints from my wife..who is uber on top of such things

Prices skyrocked since last year... food seems about 10-30% more expensive...

I'm up in the Seattle area and it's so expensive here. We have a 2 bedroom apt. for $1,700 a month. Gas has hit $4.25 a gallon and Daycare for the kids is $800 a month for our 4 yo and $300 a month for our 6 yo.

Our apartment is an old wood building too. It is a nice area about 2 blocks from a police station and a shopping center but $1,700 a month for a 2 bedroom. Right now the kids are sharing a room what happens when we need to separate them.

I work for a software company up here, you are all most likely using their software right now. ;)

I don't disagree totally the grain shortage globally combined with fuel charges is knocking things up across the board.

Prices are a joke just now. And it's only gonna get worse by the look of it. Where will it end... :Oh crap

Why even bother worrying about something you can not control? We are not the first people to experience this.

Yeh but bear in mind you live in London, where everything is priced extortionately. However, yes I have noticed everything going up.

I eat seasonal, and a huge market's just opened right next to me, so spending less money, I get about 15 kilos of fruit/veg a week for 20 euros at the moment, winter will be more expensive, bread hasn't gone up here, veg oil has gone up but olive oil down, and I mainly use olive oil.
Wild fish prices have gone up, cause of fuel costs, farmed still the same, but if you eat healthy local fish, sardines, mackerel, its still stupidly cheap.
Meat prices are pretty stable, eggs and chicken prices have gone up for the factory farmed ones. freerange/organic are still the same.

It isn't just a London thing for food prices. Most people I have talked to in the UK have similar prices especially as the supermarkets tend to price nationally.

I do not need to visit a single store to have all the food I can eat and water I can drink. I'm pretty sure that's the problem with Africa.

Norway is very expencive all over.

One beer out (0,5L) is 12$
Gas is 2,6$ per Litre (11,7$ per gallon)
One little box of strawberries is 6$

To be honest I haven't really noticed a difference.

A McDonalds meal over here costs around US$7.50.

I noticed a huge increase in the price of milk from last year to current.

Rice grains is now expensive here in our place, knowing that it's our basic food.

I remember last year, it only cost (converting to $) .70-.75$ per kilogram. Now, it's more than $1 per kilogram! And that's really a pain to average earners.

Agreed! which is giving us headaches!

Yes, and this phenomenon continues... :disgust

nobody should ever pay that much for that much crap

Some things are up, some things are down. I don't know... I still don't think it's that bad and people are getting way too worked up, which is only fueling "hysteria", and making things worse.

Everything rises constantly in Sweden.-

Here a meal is about $10 more or less.

I just bought a loaf of bread at the market for $2 - 2bedroom apartment is about $1400. Southern Ca is pretty expensive

The biggest increase on something I buy a lot of so I pay attention to it, is milk. I paid $5.99 for a gallon of organic fat free a couple of days ago. I'm going to start putting gas on my cereal.

I pay close to four dollars for bread... it depends on what you buy. I get the expensive stuff, hasn't changed all that much.

I saw eggs for one dollar... everybody was telling me they were getting so expensive.

a 16 year old starting at mcdonalds makes $24+ an hour so yep, stuff is seriously expensive up here.. bread is roughly $5, gas is $2.6-2.7 for a liter

BUT compared to what we make up here it's not that bad.. ($80k average)

bread and milk are going up drastically, and gas, shit....2 months ago I was paying about 15$ less than I am now....its really sad

I've noticed that food prices are up here. Bread doesn't seem to have gone up that much. I paid $2.39 for multi-grain the other day. The place where I notice it the most is in meats. I paid $3.99 a pound for ground beef and close to $8 for 3 boneless skinless chicken breasts.

I bought eggs for $4 - brown, organic free range. hmmm.. as a matter of fact, i think i'll go make myself an omelet right now. :)

Not much increase here in France. Bread has always hovered around 80c/baguette for a good 5 yrs, prime rump beef at $12/kg and free-range eggs around a few euros a dozen. Most our staple food though is bought from local shops and veggies come from the local farmers delivered as 'paniers' every thursday, so we only shop in the supermarket for stuff like toothpaste, washing up liquid etc etc.

Rice in the supermarket has gone up as have breakfast cereals. Apart from that, can't realy say things seem more expensive for us.

Milk is up over $4/gallon here, it's just terrible. How the heck am I supposed to eat cookies if I can't afford milk :(

$1.30-1.45 (litre) Gas.
$2-3 Bread
$723 a month for a Studio Apartment
$3.50-5 a beer Restaurant/Bar.

Holy (expensive) cow. Thats a lot for a gallon of milk. I buy 1% but it's still hovering around $2 a gallon for all kinds here.
Advantage of being near dairy farmers I guess.

btw: 1% is not bad, and it lasts longer in the fridge ;)

rice, flour. milk, oil they all increased :(

I noticed my condoms have gone up in price! MAGNUM XXXXXXXXXXL

I drink a LOT of milk - it never needs to last longer :winkwink: And because I drink so much, fat free is the best for me. And no, I don't like the soy, almond, etc. "milks". I had to work my way down to fat free and now anything stronger tastes like cream. Again, at 80 calories a cup and as much as I drink, this is a good thing :)

I buy 10 baguettes for 2$ they are each about 4 inches long and about 2 wide. So a good size. Beef here is about 9$ a kilo for USDA porter house. Sometimes a little higher.

Boneless skinless chicken is about 3$ per kilo and milk is about 3.50 a gallon

Shit, at the wal mart nearest the Hotel zone here, Milk is 6.75 per gallon.

shit i just came back from grocery shopping and plenty of items with a full couple bucks more than i last remembered. :Oh crap that's crazy fast ...

I live deep in the heart of the country, prices are not bad here.

Not too sure I just buy the crap I need.

Yeah, bread has been up for a long time now but stuff like the fruit I mentioned is mostly over a couple months.