The Grocery Inflation Thread
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wrote on 24 May 2022, 23:37 last edited by
1lb. chopped walnuts = $13.69
A 2lb. loaf of Pepp Farm bread = $5.19
An 8-count pkg Ball Park beef franks = $6.49
1lb. Philly cream cheese = $7.59
Fresh pears = $1.39 ea
Bananas = $.28 each (wasn't that long ago they were 28 per pound -- sale price, at least.)
Cantaloupe = $3.99 each
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wrote on 24 May 2022, 23:52 last edited by
Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
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wrote on 24 May 2022, 23:57 last edited by
Hie thee to Aldi. Great prices.
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Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
wrote on 25 May 2022, 00:12 last edited by@jon-nyc said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
Yeah, shopping for groceries via Amazon makes this easy, hence my post.
I'll look at more items tomorrow. Right now,
I've had too much (cheap) Scotch)I'm too oldI'm just too lazy -
1lb. chopped walnuts = $13.69
A 2lb. loaf of Pepp Farm bread = $5.19
An 8-count pkg Ball Park beef franks = $6.49
1lb. Philly cream cheese = $7.59
Fresh pears = $1.39 ea
Bananas = $.28 each (wasn't that long ago they were 28 per pound -- sale price, at least.)
Cantaloupe = $3.99 each
wrote on 25 May 2022, 00:25 last edited by@Catseye3 said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
1lb. chopped walnuts = $13.69
A 2lb. loaf of Pepp Farm bread = $5.19
An 8-count pkg Ball Park beef franks = $6.49
1lb. Philly cream cheese = $7.59
Fresh pears = $1.39 ea
Bananas = $.28 each (wasn't that long ago they were 28 per pound -- sale price, at least.)
Cantaloupe = $3.99 each
Sam's club, 2lbs $12
Don't use PF, but I can get something like SL honey wheat for $3
Bought all-beef Oscar-Meyer at Kroger last week for $1.99
Unless we're making a cheesecake, I'll bypass Philly for a store brand or by the block at Sam's. I want to say the last was a store brand at about $4lb.
Fresh pears, about the same. Come summer, I have a friend who will give them to me, and we'll can them.
Bananas, bought them at Albertson's last week for $0.29/lb.
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@Catseye3 said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
1lb. chopped walnuts = $13.69
A 2lb. loaf of Pepp Farm bread = $5.19
An 8-count pkg Ball Park beef franks = $6.49
1lb. Philly cream cheese = $7.59
Fresh pears = $1.39 ea
Bananas = $.28 each (wasn't that long ago they were 28 per pound -- sale price, at least.)
Cantaloupe = $3.99 each
Sam's club, 2lbs $12
Don't use PF, but I can get something like SL honey wheat for $3
Bought all-beef Oscar-Meyer at Kroger last week for $1.99
Unless we're making a cheesecake, I'll bypass Philly for a store brand or by the block at Sam's. I want to say the last was a store brand at about $4lb.
Fresh pears, about the same. Come summer, I have a friend who will give them to me, and we'll can them.
Bananas, bought them at Albertson's last week for $0.29/lb.
Cantaloupe, about the same. -
wrote on 25 May 2022, 00:51 last edited by
Things I bought last week...4 chuck roasts at $3.49/lb, 10lb chicken leg quarters for either $3.90 or $4.90 (I'm old, I forget), Jimmy Dean sausage $5/2lb. Store brand drinking water $1.99/24pk. Ground chuck $2.99/lb. 12oz Cokes $2.99/12 pack. Kroger brand complete buttermilk pancake mix $1.50 box. Yellow onions $1.99/3lbs. Bell peppers 3/$1. Eggs (large) $1.59 dozen.
I bought some other things, too, but that's what I remember as bargains go. I shopped three stores to get those prices, but that's normal for me.
BTW, the wife and I picked snap beans yesterday and between us and her mom, we put up 30 jars (1.5pt jars). I'll pick again Thursday and should do close to the same. I've already gotten a few squash and cucumber, but that stuff is still in the early stage. First two rows of field peas are blooming, and I have four more rows of peas stagger planted behind them. My corn is a huge disappointment this year and if I make fifty ears, I'll call it good. I normally do over 200.
I built two more small raised beds this spring (5x6) and they have butterbeans about 6" tall. I also have an experimental bucket planting with 17 buckets planted in rattlesnake pole beans.
I don't do Amazon, too costly, at least in my world. I grocery shop when I need to go to town, combining it with another trip, and I grocery shop like a fiend.
The garden does cost me in terms of diesel, seed, fertilizer (about 50lbs) and time, but I do put up quite a bit. I could cut the cost if I went to all heirlooms and saved the seed, along with using more mulch and stomp (barnyard) fertilizer.
That's what some common items cost me when compared to Cats and what I'm trying to do to keep the food bill down. If I had any sense, I'd get me a couple of settin' hens and a couple of young barrows, and have planted a half-acre of field corn. But Lordy, that's hard work.
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wrote on 25 May 2022, 00:53 last edited by
@Catseye3 said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
@Jolly Thanks, but I'm restricted to Instacart right now.
Tough row to hoe, then.
Are you able to tend (and have room for) a couple of 4x8 raised beds?
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My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
wrote on 25 May 2022, 01:06 last edited by@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
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Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
wrote on 25 May 2022, 01:27 last edited by LuFins Dad@jon-nyc said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
@jon-nyc said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
Ok, ground rules for this thread.
You can’t just post a price. That’s meaningless. How TF are we supposed to know what it used to be?
Post a before and after.
Well, I can’t say what it cost last time, but I remember refusing to buy Progresso for $3.00 last year because I could normally find it for $1.50-$2.00…
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@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
wrote on 25 May 2022, 02:38 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
All I can say is that it looks and smells about the same, before and after it’s put to its intended use.
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wrote on 25 May 2022, 02:41 last edited by
Prepackaged salad “kit”, from $2.50 pre-COVID-19 to $3.00 these days.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2022, 01:50 last edited by
My local supermarket used to sell watermelon at $5 or $6 each. Now it's $.56 / lb. Normal watermelons now cost more than $10, but you don't know until you weigh it.
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@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
wrote on 19 Jun 2022, 03:08 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
@Horace said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
My go-to bag of dog food doubled in price. I've been skipping from brand to brand now trying to find reasonable prices.
Have you noticed any taste difference?
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wrote on 19 Jun 2022, 12:14 last edited by
That's because it is a loss leader.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2022, 12:20 last edited by
@Jolly said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
That's because it is a loss leader.
LOL I know. It's also delicious.
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wrote on 19 Jun 2022, 12:57 last edited by
@89th said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
The Costco (big) hot dog plus soda combo for $1.50 hasn’t changed since 1985.
Along that line, a full bird rotisserie chicken seems to have been holding the line at $4.99 for a long time as well at Costco.
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Costco:
- dozen of butter croissants, from $4.99 to $5.99
- mixed green salad 1 lb. box, from $3.99 to $4.49
McDonald's:
- ice cream sundae, from $1.25 to $1.99;
- "Dollar Menu" now presented as "$1, $2, $3 menu."
wrote on 19 Jun 2022, 17:05 last edited by@Axtremus said in The Grocery Inflation Thread:
p- "Dollar Menu" now presented as "$1, $2, $3 menu."
They've been doing that for about a decade now.
