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.

You couldn't afford to live in Edmonton

Here in San Diego i shop for my restaurants and the cost of wholesale food items has skyrocketed in the last 6 months. For example 5 gal Canola oil was $22.00, 6 months ago its now $37.00. Strawberrys $6.00 a tray last May ( thats like 12 retail size baskets ) this May $19.00 same size tray. Potatoes 50lb box Russets was $9.00 6 months ago today $19.95. Sping Mix (salad) was $4.50 a 8 lb box. Today the same box is $9.50.

Crop like these are being farmed less and the cost of transporting is going up weekly.
One of my cafe buys huge boxes of ACAI ( superfruit ) the distributors are adding fuel surcharges that amount to some 7% extra each week !!!!! :321GFY:321GFY

Vancouver is pretty damn expensive compared to other Canadian cities

yeah my buddies who own resteraunts have been giving me similar tales.

very expensive.
these days gasoline costs about 1.55?/liter

this is about 9.12$/galon

yes... places sell for cheap places sell for more :)

Dublin is pretty expensive too. i once bought a double whopper for 6.60? (about 10$) there...

Most of the things I buy have went up around 20-25%. I buy a few things that went from $1 to $1.50. The size has gone down on some things. Ice cream was on the news the other day about a size decrease lol

I know it is hard to change mind frames, but the more you worry about things
the worse you will feel and the worse it will become for you.

Sure everything has gone up, just learn to live within your means...

or make more :)

To be honest I don't really pay attention to prices at the grocery store. I just buy what I feel like buying. It makes no difference to me whether bread is $2 or $3 or $4. If I feel like eating something I will buy it. I don't eat bread anymore anyways because I cut back on carbs. I only eat lean protein and veggies and as little carbs as possible unless sometimes when I get a bad craving.


I care about it in the broader sense of in terms of it affecting the economy and that affecting my sales, but I don't care if I personally have to pay a bit more at the store. I don't care. I could care less if bread costs $2.10 or $2.95. I have better things to do.

I wouldn't say that at this stage I am worried it is just noticeable.

I shop at Trader Joe's mostly and it's pretty cheap. Mostly for dinner I eat fresh atlantic salmon and then some veggies or spinach or a huge salad from either rader Joe's or Jack In The Box... Breakfast is just eggs and spinach. It doesn't taste good but that's not the point, the point is that I want my body to be as lean as possible. It's not about taste. Eat to live, not LIVE TO EAT.

I don't really buy "groceries" like cereal or frozen food, that stuff is just not good for you. I only want to eat foods that make me live longer and make my skin glow from within; mainly fish and veggies. Now that I hit 30 I decided to only eat foods that will make me age better.

Right, and apples are bad.

wroclaw,poland:
good bread: 2usd
0,5 l milk uht: 1 usd
1,5 l mineral water: 1 usd
1kg apples: 2-2,5 usd
cheese: 15 usd/1kg
chocolate: over 1,5 usd 100 g
beer 0,5l: 1-1,5 usd
good muesli: 2,5 usd 400 g
cottage cheese: ~ 1 usd 100-150 g
dinner in low-medium class bar/restaurant but with good food :) : 6 usd

all is ~ 15 % more expensive in last 10 months...

I am sure the cost of some of the food (bread) I buy has gone up, but I haven't really noticed that much here.
I seem to spend around the same amount. I shop at t he real canadian super store, fairly cheap prices.
Probably the cost of some has gone up and some has gone down, so it balances out.
I do not drive, or don't eat out, so not costs there.

well i guess all part of the world has a price increase on almost everything.

Well bread is up and will stay up and all wheat products are up. A bag of rice (some brands) has doubled in price and a lot of other foods are up price.

People forget that the big three India, Russia, China represents around half of the world population wise and their economies are booming. Those people can now to improve their diet. Couple that with fuel prices and other short term disasters like in china/burma etc and you have a recipe for high food prices.

Its definitely on an uptrend unfortunately but of course, we in the west are affected far less than poor people in asia for example, who are barely surviving.

Time to plant those victory gardens again it seems. I know more people than ever this year who have gardens. Some getting into home canning and storage etc. Not a bad idea.

I thought about canning but I simply don't have the storage room. My grandmother lives in a really rural town and she has always had her basement full of things from her garden that she has canned.

Below are the top 50 countries by population in 2005 ( there are 206 but i got tired of typing)
Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom) Date
#1 China: 1,304,500,000 2005 ...
#2 India: 1,094,583,000 2005 ...
#3 United States: 296,410,400 2005 ...
#4 Indonesia: 220,558,000 2005 ...
#5 Brazil: 186,404,900 2005 ...
#6 Pakistan: 155,772,000 2005 ...
#7 Russia: 143,113,600 2005 ...
#8 Bangladesh: 141,822,300 2005 ...
#9 Nigeria: 131,529,700 2005 ...
#10 Japan: 127,774,000 2005 ...
#11 Mexico: 103,089,100 2005 ...
#12 Vietnam: 83,119,000 2005 ...
#13 Philippines: 83,054,480 2005 ...
#14 Germany: 82,469,400 2005 ...
#15 Egypt: 74,032,880 2005 ...
#16 Turkey: 72,065,000 2005 ...
#17 Ethiopia: 71,256,000 2005 ...
#18 Iran: 68,251,090 2005 ...
#19 Thailand: 64,232,760 2005 ...
#20 France: 60,873,000 2005 ...
#21 United Kingdom: 60,226,500 2005 ...
#22 Italy: 58,607,050 2005 ...
#23 Congo: 57,548,740 2005 ...
#24 Burma: 50,519,490 2005 ...
#25 Korea, South: 48,294,140 2005 ...
#26 Ukraine: 47,075,300 2005 ...
#27 South Africa: 46,888,200 2005 ...
#28 Colombia: 45,600,240 2005 ...
#29 Spain: 43,398,150 2005 ...
#30 Argentina: 38,747,150 2005 ...
#31 Tanzania: 38,328,810 2005 ...
#32 Poland: 38,165,450 2005 ...
#33 Sudan: 36,232,940 2005 ...
#34 Kenya: 34,255,720 2005 ...
#35 Algeria: 32,853,800 2005 ...
#36 Canada: 32,299,000 2005 ...
#37 Morocco: 30,168,080 2005 ...
#38 Uganda: 28,816,230 2005 ...
#39 Peru: 27,968,240 2005 ...
#40 Nepal: 27,132,630 2005 ...
#41 Venezuela: 26,577,000 2005 ...
#42 Uzbekistan: 26,167,370 2005 ...
#43 Malaysia: 25,347,370 2005 ...
#44 Iraq: 24,360,110 1999 ...
#45 Saudi Arabia: 23,118,990 2005 ...
#46 Korea, North: 22,487,660 2005 ...
#47 Ghana: 22,112,800 2005 ...
#48 Romania: 21,634,350 2005 ...
#49 Yemen: 20,974,660 2005 ...
#50 Australia: 20,329,000 2005 ...

Total: 6,390,873,631.39 ( of all 206 countries)

yes it is, but it's also often 'speculation' like communists somewhen were saying ;-)

Milk is a big one I have noticed.
We buy them at Costco in a 2 pack now to try & save a little & end up finding ourselves racing to finish the 2nd gallon before it expires.

Freeze the second milk..most milk freezes fine.

Someone mentioned on GFY, I think, that adding a pinch of salt to milk will lengthen the freshness. And it was someone who I would trust though now I can't remember who it was ;)

My aunt's basement was always packed floor to ceiling for a good 20 ft stretch of wall too! Veggies, sauces, fruits, jellies, jams, preserves.. just crazy ambitious. Old school style. But they also had a very LARGE garden that they'd harvest from almost all year long.

I think maybe 2 good tomato plants would be as deep as I'd try to dive into it, lol.

:thumbsup

Same... and 30-40% more for electionics and cars

damm wat else is goin wrong wit this shit 2day

I pay approx $2.50 for bread. A bag of apples is $5+. McDonald's for the family costs $62 (including a burger for the dogs to share haha).

I grocery shop once per week and spend anywhere from $350-$450/week. That includes cleaning supplies, but does not include things like alcohol, pop etc. that we buy elsewhere. We eat steak once per week, but the rest of the week we eat the old fashioned standards that are not too expense such as chili, lasagna, pasta, tacos etc.

I don't know how lower income people get by.