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I cannot imagine what you buy that your groceries have not increased in price in the last eighteen months. We too track every expense, and the grocery costs hav
by hcurtiss 5y ago
I cannot imagine what you buy that your groceries have not increased in price in the last eighteen months. We too track every expense, and the grocery costs have increased 20-30%.
- brailsafe 5y agoIt's plausible, but not on a medium to large scale. Of all my consumption expenses, certainly coffee has gone up per cup, but everything else is roughly the same. Oats, deli meat, fruit, pasta, that's about it. Canned beans have gone up a little, maybe butter too.
- Redoubts 5y agoI have not seen price raises anything like that at grocery stores
- spamizbad 5y agoFor what it's worth, his experience mirrors mine. I don't itemize down to extreme detail, but my wife and I actually do more cooking at home now in the last 1.5 years than we did previously yet our average grocery bill is actually down about $12 a week this year. Honestly, it's kind of shocking. And before you ask: No, it's not because we switched from buying prepackaged/processed food to raw ingredients. We just order-out less. Some of it might have to do with the fact that I live in Chicago, a major logistics hub, in a middle class neighborhood that has price-sensitive consumers and multiple major grocery stores.
- ashtonkem 5y agoLast month was the lowest spending month our household has had in nearly five years, for what it’s worth. And that’s with some home renovation (DIY) and a new hobby. The biggest factor for us is changing what we buy, not prices. Buying less alcohol and fewer pre-packaged foods has made a huge difference in our grocery bill.
- hellisothers 5y agoIs it possible that on the high end of expensive groceries it hasn’t gone up as much? For instance a 12oz bag of my favorite coffee beans were $20/bag in 2019, they’re still $20/bag…