it’s like every time I buy I have to game it out in hopes of triggering a sale to get the price down to 50 cents a can.

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SouthernYankee80@reddit

I think it's like $.55/can at Costco even!

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I don't think there's one area that's outrageously expensive, more that everything has gone up a dollar or two. Almost everything is like $5+ now. You can go to the store to get some snacks and spend $40 super easily.

I will say soda prices are crazy though, like $10+ for 12 cans if there's no sale.

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Squirrel_Doc@reddit

Yeah I stopped buying soda altogether just because I refuse to pay that much. It’s $12 for a 12 pack near me and that’s just insane. I swear it was like $5 or $6 like 5 years ago.

Yeah, this is my vibe too. No single thing is like "holy shit it's HOW MUCH?" but every item is more than it used to be and sales I used to shop are no longer as good.

SimpleAd1604@reddit

Great Lakes region.

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firesquasher@reddit

I've seen the same on the east coast. We cook at work and live in an area one one major grocery store. Their prices are noticeably more expensive than where I live where there are multiple options. We were going to do stuffed peppers and got to the store, saw they were like $3.50 a piece, then called an audible and changed dinner plans solely because of that.

Ground Beef (or any beef for that matter) is now a disappointing thing to look at. Ground Beef isn't a 5.99lb type thing in my brain. Neither is a similarly priced per lb London Broil.

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Classic_Breadfruit18@reddit

About $1.50 for a green, $3 for a red or orange where I live.

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monkabee@reddit

I'm in subrural Atlanta and bell peppers are $3.49/lb at both Kroger and Publix, and recently pub made green peppers the same price (previously they were .99 each). Rare to find a 1 lb bell pepper but it's usually at least $2, closer to $2.50, for a single one.

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earthhominid@reddit

Yeah I was shocked to see organic bell peppers from mexico for $9.99/lb the other day.

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Ok-Second-5178@reddit

I'm in the middle of a HCOL have never seen similar prices to this lol

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Historical_Tax6679@reddit

What is HCOL?

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Techno214@reddit

High cost of living

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zirroxas@reddit

Ok but where and where are you shopping? Im in a very HCOL area and bell peppers at the chain supermarket are $1-2 depending on variety. If we go organic it rises a bit, and then if you go to the local coop, its about 1.5 times the price in general. That still doesnt get us to your prices. Maybe at boutique produce stalls at a farmer's market, but thats hardly a typical place to shop.

The soda and chip prices are nuts. These aren't things I like to get regularly but now I don't get them at all. AND IT WAS ON PURPOSE! And now they're crying we aren't buying the soda and chips.

Used to be able to get two 12 packs for $5, on sale, but still a very common sale. Just changed which sodas it was.

Freaken $12 or more for a 12 pack now. Ridiculous.

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esaule@reddit

Yeah, soda prices are STUPID. Regular price where I am is also about $1 per can, when sold in a pack. Couple weeks ago, I found buy 2 get 3 free. I bought 10 packs :) making it at about $.30 a can which is what used to be the deal you would get.

But I only find that every 3 month maybe.

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PNKAlumna@reddit

The only way I buy it is the buy 2 get 2 deals our local store had, which brings the price down to about $5 per 12 pack.

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VividFiddlesticks@reddit

Even seltzer water is getting super expensive. Sometimes more expensive than soda at safeway.

I've become very careful about shopping the sales, using the grocery store app and digital coupons. I plan what I'll eat according to what's on sale. I remember my mom doing that when I was a kid.

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Oldfartmakeupguru@reddit

Beef, fresh fruit, chicken which is disgusting.

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geminiloveca@reddit

Pretty much everything. I shop at the cheapest store in my area (Winco) and still....

Any kind of meat. Even the offcuts that used to be cheap are now expensive. I looked at chuck roasts the other day and they were $45-50 for 3-lb roasts that I used to get for $15-18 only 2 years ago.

I completely gave up alcohol 4 months ago for other reasons, but I look at the cost now and just gag.

Their store brand coffee used to be $4.98/lb. Now it's $10.98/lb.

I only buy soda when they have a sale because $10-11 a 12-pack is ridiculous. Otherwise, I buy a lot of those concentrated water flavor enhancers like Mio.

Produce is just stupid - so I only buy what's in season. Or frozen.

I've switched to store brands or bulk bins for a LOT of things - grains, pantry staples, spices, baking supplies, etc.

My big indulgence is milk, because if I don't get A2, my stomach will let me know how badly I screwed up about 10 minutes after I drink it. It's $4.98 per half gallon. (About the only thing that *hasn't* gone up lately. It was always expensive.)

gator_mckluskie@reddit

that tracks, kroger expensive as shit

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Ok_Depth_6476@reddit

Ground beef is more expensive than bacon now. Which is just wild.

Sometimes niche products are insulated from swings in the larger market, because they have their own supply chain.

During the pandemic, when construction lumber prices went crazy, I could buy qs white oak for less than pressure treated pine.

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mt_beer@reddit

8.50 for a pound of 80/20 (ground in house) at the Whole Foods. . Kroger is not much cheaper at $7.50 for the prepackaged stuff.

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Bugs_ocean_spider@reddit

$4 per pound on sale at Safeway

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SabreLee61@reddit

That’s exactly what we do, except we use gallon bags as we split it into 2-lb. packages.

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Mysterious_Jello69@reddit

Invest in a vacuum sealer.

Yeah, my husband wants to grill hamburgers tonight and I have to hope it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg when I go to the store in about an hour.

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FireBomb84@reddit

Just buy a calf every year and let it live in your back yard. Save money on not needing to mow and will supply you with all the meat you need.

Pro tip: Name it Dinner or Angus.

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Icy_Consideration409@reddit

Can you cut off little pieces as and when you need it?

Distinct_Chair3047@reddit

Yes.

The answer is Yes.

I honestly very rarely buy beef. It's ungodly expensive in my area. Over $12usd a pound(a little less than half a kilogram) for ground beef.

We eke by. I turned off my cable this year. I took a job closer to home 4 years ago which saves on gasoline. A Grocery Oulet opened near me. It is hit or miss shopping, sometimes the shelf dates are close but if you will consume it the price cuts are worth it. They had individually packaged 10 0z beef rib eye steaks this week for $5.99. Onions were very reasonable compared to Walmart. The off name mustard, cream cheese, crackers I have tried are good.

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ReasonableSal@reddit

Poultry, most fresh produce, and anything they think is "bougie," seems like. A tiny little thing of creme fraiche is stupid expensive and at some point, I'm not paying that when I can sub sour cream. It's not the same, but I'm not rich enough to be that picky.

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Intrepid_Art_6628@reddit

It’s not one thing necessarily. Everything is a dollar or two more, which doesn’t feel too big. Just a dollar? If you buy 20 items, that’s $20 more.

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Lead_Bright@reddit

I used to be able to find quite a few ingredients or snacks for a dollar or less during a trip at Walmart but not so much now

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redditsuckspokey1@reddit

I stick to whole foods (not the grocery store chain). And I realized thag between walmart/meijer/kroger/aldis that Wal-mart always has produce for cheaper. Avocados are usually between 55-65 cents but Kroger and Meijer sell them for roughly $2 each!

For beef I take a trip to costco. I use eye of round for making jerky and its usally 5.99/lb. 2 months ago I spent about $200 on eye of round and put it in the freezer.

supermuncher60@reddit

Meat is expensive.

Beef is especially expensive.

Also packaged processed foods such as snacks have gotten MUCh more expensive in the last 6 years, so much that I don't really buy them anymore.

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taleasoldastime96@reddit

I feel like dog food has gotten considerably more expensive recently.

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Sharp_Ad_9431@reddit

I'm annoyed that a pound of dried beans cost $2.00. Rice is almost a $1 per pound.

randomwellwisher@reddit

Coffee is outrageous. I use caffeine pills now - MUCH cheaper, and it really allows me to monitor and moderate my intake.

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CinemaSideBySides@reddit

As someone who only drinks decaf coffee, this is funny to me to meet my total opposite. You can have all the caffeine, I just want the coffee lol

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normiepitbullmom@reddit

i like the crystal light lemonade with caffeine packets…75mg a packet

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mmmbuttr@reddit

This is actual market forces at play and not just corporate price inflation like some of the other things people mention.

Huge disease impact on the robusta harvest in Vietnam, which is actually the world's largest coffee producer. This led to companies that make instant coffee and coffee-extract products buying up more cheap/low grade arabica and driving up the cost of the cheap stuff. American citrus had a really rough year for disease as well, highly reduced numbers coming out of Florida and Louisiana, last time I bought OJ it was $8!

EryktheDead@reddit

Fresh veg and meat. Beef is just silly now.

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CapitalAd7198@reddit

The best thing anyone can do to save money on groceries is learn to pressure can.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

I honestly never look at grocery prices. If you look at the percentage of food costs of income for the average American, they are tiny compared to what they have been, 6% or something.

>Wisconsin

>Booze

Meat, usually.

Even for the "cheaper" cuts of beef it can be $8-9 per pound now.

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ComprehensiveFun6875@reddit

Refrigerated juice, non-frozen fruits & vegetables, and coffee. Meat is often expensive especially if you buy local and don’t want disgusting mass produced meat.

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burlingk@reddit

A lot is going to depend on where you are at.

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Question what do you use to help bind your oatmeal into clusters? Every time I've tried to make it it's just been individual grains and nuts, which tastes good but not what I consider the texture of oatmeal.

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Obtuse-Angel@reddit

I cook it all together in my instant pot. Steel cut oats, brown rice, flaxseed meal, chia seeds, and either barley, farro, or wheat berries depending on what I have. I cook it on the brown rice setting in a 3:1 ratio of water to coconut milk, with vanilla, cinnamon and whatever other spices I feel like.

When it’s done cooking I mix in some honey, nuts, dried fruits, any seeds or other stuff, and a handfuk of uncooked oats. I spread half of the goop onto a baking sheet at 375°, and do the other half in batches in the air fryer. Then I break up the clumps when putting it into the storage bin.

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inthelondonrain@reddit

Hmmm I think the problem might be that I'm not cooking it enough before baking it. The ingredients probably had not had a chance to soften and bind together. Thank you! Your recipe sounds absolutely delicious!

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jigokubi@reddit

If you want it to be like store-bought granola, don't cook the oats first.

Old-fashioned oats are mandatory. Liquid sugar is the key to making it clump. I use either corn syrup or maple syrup depending on the flavor I'm going for, and oil or butter.

Add whatever nuts and dried fruit you want, spread it out on a big-enough pan and cook it around 200F or so, stirring often.

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inthelondonrain@reddit

Well now I am wondering if perhaps I didn't use enough liquid sugar to bind it together. I like to use cane syrup but it's a bit in the pricey side. Next time I will not be stingy! Thank you!

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Obtuse-Angel@reddit

The spoonful of flaxseed meal also helps with the clumping. That shit is like concrete mix

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sadeland21@reddit

Oddly CVS , when in sale , had brand cereal for $2

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Sugah-mama21@reddit

Meats are the bulk of my grocery cost.

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mmmbuttr@reddit

Everything that used to be <$5 is now $7.

Bag of chips $7 Pint of Guac $7 Salad greens $7 Gallon of Milk $7 Napa Cabbage $7 Bag of apples $7 Big box cherry toms used to be $7 at Costco and is now $9

Beef.

Luckily as we get older wife and I are mostly eating chicken now.

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iamasecretthrowaway@reddit

Even chicken got expensive. Chicken thighs used to be so affordable.

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bryku@reddit

It sort of depends on where you are.

In california 99% of the food in the grocery store is 2 times more expensive than what you can buy in say Iowa. Sure, there are a few things that are about the same like chips and pop, but a can of green beans are 2 times the price.

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AdAutomatic6654@reddit

Meat. I don’t eat nearly as much beef as I use to cuz the price of it is very outrageous. Even cheaper cuts like cubed steak has gotten past the point of wanting to purchase it. If I was a millionaire tomorrow I’d eat steak in a restaurant every night but still not really buy it to cook at home.

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LeSkootch@reddit

Beef. I just don't buy it. The only meat I buy regularly is chicken and I'll grab pork (usually a tenderloin to roast) very occasionally.

I live by myself so veggies and fruit haven't been an issue since I'm only buying enough for a couple of days for one. Good bread isn't cheap but I bought some Food for Life sprouted bread on bogo this week and keep it in the freezer. I'll probably buy four more loaves before the sale is over and be set for over a month. 7 bucks for two loaves of quality bread is great. I eat toast for breakfast and love PB&Js, too, so quality bread is a non negotiable.

I been working class/poor my whole adult life so not much has changed tbh. I always get by and eat well enough. I'm also a shop small and often type so I just grab what I need when I need it. I don't waste anything this way

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bluecrowned@reddit

meat is crazy expensive these days. i also spend a stupid amount on tea based energy drinks (they're not real energy drinks tho, just tea and juice)

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tzyarles@reddit

The stuff that wasn't even on my shopping list.

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Wild_Granny92@reddit

Chicken has gone up in price. I only eat chicken, tofu, TVP , eggs and fish, but beef is very expensive.

Produce can be pricey, but I do Aldi and a produce market near my house.

Cheese isn’t awfully expensive at Aldi.

Drinks depend on what it is. I drink water, coffee and diet soda. I wait for sales and stock up. I saw this coming and stocked up on coffee, rice, beans, grains and seeds.

My groceries were around $75 a week before the current administration. Now I spend around $125 a week for the same groceries.

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the-quibbler@reddit

Toxic caffeine beverages. My addiction.

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r2d3x9@reddit

Beef is ridiculously expensive now because the limited rural areas it’s produced, lack of slaughterhouses due to regulations, and industry consolidation. Fruits and berries are more expensive. Near East rice pilaf actually costs more than beef. Deli foods are too expensive. Chocolate prices have exploded, coffee is high. Soda has doubled in price, juices and drinks are much more expensive and lower in quality. Very hard to find pure fruit juices these days, and hard to find domestic juices. Chips cost twice what crackers cost, why?

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QuokkaMom@reddit

We used to eat beef and seafood more often but we've had to scale both of those way back. Mostly the seafood.

Hungry_Cranberry5905@reddit

I would say packaged food (breakfast cereal, etc) and BEEF!!! A pound of hamburger used to be a cheap meal, now it's an extravagance.

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LetterheadClassic306@reddit

meat and cheese are the biggest wallet punches here. beef especially - a pound of ground chuck runs $5-7 in most places. cheese is weirdly expensive too, like $4-6 for a small block. eggs had that crazy spike but calmed down a bit. produce depends on season and region. if you want to really understand prices before moving here, a grocery price tracker app can help you compare stores. dairy and organic stuff will make you sigh every time. chicken and pork stay reasonable though.

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Cool_Log_4514@reddit

Coffee has doubled in price.

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BokChoyJr@reddit

Oddly, apples.

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Fuzzy-Simple-370@reddit

The food.

In all honesty though, every single food item has increased by a dollar or two in a relatively short amount of time. In March 2006, a dozen eggs were $1.30 on average. In March 2026, they are $2.58. a loaf of white bread in March 2006 was $1.04. March 2026, a loaf is $1.81. 1 lb of chuck beef was $2.57 in March 2006, and in March 2026 was a whopping $6.68. A gallon of whole milk went from $3.16 to $4.07. so when every single grocery item is a dollar or more expensive over the course of 20 years, you may not notice a single item as ridiculously expensive, but the overall grocery shopping trip has increased significantly. This isn't even mentioning if you buy snack food or sodas, which have also increased significantly and also have a higher tax (in some states).

I'm in dfw. We have great grocery stores. I feel my Family on $100 a week. I cook all meals

what about your groceries is expensive?

Chicken, turkey and pork is really cheap and beef is really expensive.

The fancy seeded bread used to be 2.99

I don’t know what it costs me to eat for a week, but it can’t be much. I do eat a lot of beans and rice tho.

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

It's quicker to list thing I buy that haven't gone up a lot in the last 4 years

Milk by the gallon

Produce.

Bought 3 apples recently and they weren’t even organic and it was $7 usd

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What isn't?

If I have to choose, it's beef. I'm not allowed to buy any beef anymore except hamburger.

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MaddCricket@reddit

I got tomato’s, bell peppers, radishes, jicama, cucumber and one red onion and paid over $20 for all of it just a couple of days ago. Was so livid.

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Prior_Particular9417@reddit

Coffee has almost doubled. Coke is pretty pricey. Meat, milk are noticeably up. Butter, half and half, potatoes, chocolate, chips are more expensive. Coffee is my most noticable thing but if you look at our monthly spend from last year and 2 years ago it's up at least 30%.

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Nivlac93@reddit

Around me it usually is a fresh fruit or vegetable, or meat. But overall everything has just gradually gone up.

Eggs are a cliché, but those have settled now that the last big rush of avian flu has seemed to get more under control.

Around me soda is still cheap, empty calories. Especially if you're buying 2lt bottles

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Zoe_118@reddit

It fluctuates a LOT but right now, in my area, it's meat.

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WalterWriter@reddit

Beef has to be the single item that has gone up the most. Here in Montana, the last time I bought chuck roast it was $10/lb at the cheaper grocery store.

SabresBills69@reddit

the factor are

in the winter/ spring many fruits and veggies are imported. yiu got importation fees attached. some seasonings/ specialties are almost always always imported
now we are starting to get USA grown farms produce things in the south and California but fuel costs being up, you have higher prices because extra shipping costs are added onto the price.
crop shortages ( weather factors) causes prices to climb and also turn to imports
with manufactured products like potsto chips, if they are only done in a few plants, you run into added shipping costs.

But everything has gone up a lot price wise in the last five or so years. Eggs used to be 99c/dozen and now sit between $2.50 and $3.50 when there isn’t some avian flu driving them over $6/dozen (for regular boring conventional eggs, not the fancy organic cage free whatever). A gallon of milk is now $5.29, up from about $2.50. Cheese was $2/8oz, now is $4.25. Bananas were 15c ea, now 45c ea. and on and on and on. A 12 pack of soda/sparkling water was $3.50 (on sale 4/$12), now they are $8.99, and if you’re lucky you catch a 2/$12 sale. When I first moved here, I was living on $150/mo for groceries. Buying the same cart of food is easily 2x the price or more today, 10 years on. (And, spoiler, my salary has not doubled).

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AddyTurbo@reddit

I don't buy deli cold cuts, but the local grocery ads are advertising deli meat for nearly $11/lb. Where does this end?

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beek7425@reddit

Gluten free everything. Crackers, flours, breads, pizza crusts, etc.

Obviously, I could just not eat those things and not worry about it, but the fact that a box of crackers is $6 and a box of regular crackers the same size is less than half that is a bummer. Sometimes you just want some cheese and crackers.

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SkyPork@reddit

Meat of all kinds, nuts, cheese.

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sweetT333@reddit

All of it.

Fresh, pantry, frozen, bakery, I'm sure fish, meat and dairy which I don't buy, but the alternatives have gotten so expensive I'm not buying unless on a deep sale. Add in cleaning supplies and health care items...yeah, it's all gone up. Every single department in the grocery store.

Egg prices have leveled out but have not decreased.

I'm bringing home smaller/fewer bags but paying much more for it.

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princessglitterbutt@reddit

I’m bringing home smaller/fewer bags but paying much more for it

Pre-2020 $100 could get you a full shopping cart but just the other day $100+ only got me like 3 bags worth of stuff

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rando24183@reddit

Yeah, I eat a mostly vegetarian, whole food diet. The price of beans and lentils have gone up, to the point that I'm switching to dried occasionally. It's rare for me to have a grocery run under $60 for just myself, even at Aldi. I used to be able to do a full grocery run for $40 without much planning.

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JMS1991@reddit

Egg prices have leveled out but have not decreased.

They have absolutely decreased from where they were in 2021 or 2022.

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TheJokersChild@reddit

And drastically so from the bird-flu era 2-3 years ago when they were $9, $10 a dozen.

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nerdymom27@reddit

Yeah I paid just under $9 for the big 60 pack at Walmart because we eat a ton of eggs. Pandemic era had that thing dang near $30 at times

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Spooky_Tree@reddit

Same, ours are $8 something a flat where I live too. They were $7 something pre covid so you won't catch me complaining about them!

Beef though? Oof

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shelwood46@reddit

But still triple what they were in pre-2020. I used to pay $1/doz, not it's $3.

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the3rdmichael@reddit

Wine

Coffee

Laundry detergent.

What? Absolutely not. Europeans even in the more expensive countries are paying WAY less for comparable groceries and theirs are better quality. If you just compare item for item theirs are maybe 20 percent cheaper. If you look at quality level you can't even match in a lot of cases but if you try you will pay at least double their price.

Most Asian and Middle Eastern countries are way, way less.

The only places I have traveled that are close in price or more were in Mexico/ central America and Oceania. New Zealand and Australia and all the islands do have some significant grocery costs.

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ivhokie12@reddit

“As a percentage of income.”

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Classic_Breadfruit18@reddit

Percentage of income is somewhat irrelevant because it just depends on the overall health of the economy in any given country. Poor people in the US pay a lot higher percentage for food than wealthier people too.

That said, even if you are going with averages, I would imagine if corrected for quality it would be a lot closer. For example in any European country you can get a fresh natural baked preservative free loaf of bread for 2-3 euros. In the US you might be able to find a loaf of bread for $2-$3 but it isn't going to be healthy or good. Artisan loaves, which are just regular loaves in Europe, can run $8-$10. Same with almost everything else: butter, cheese, cured meats, fruits and vegetables.

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TheBotchedLobotomy@reddit

Having spent a lot of time in germany and the the Netherlands i find this to be quite untrue.

Unless you're excluding europe.

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Scubasteve1080p@reddit

Meat mostly, but also anything processed. Cereal, chips, drinks. Alcohol too. Its not worth it to get a drink anymore now that it's around the same price as an entree, and when theyre half the price, it's because entrees have jumped to $20. It seems like the last year or so every restaurant near me has their normal prices set to an average of $20.

To keep things low, we make pretty much everything from scratch now, and get cheaper cuts of meat in bulk, or other large items from Costco. Then most of our groceries at Aldi. Anything else we can't get there, we go to any other shop nearby. For awhile we were able to keep things around $40-50/week but it's recently gone up to around $60-80 at least. We do have an occasionally large bill when we have to get refills on tp, papertowel, dog food, etc., but it's getting harder to stick to our budget the last few months.

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PJWanderer@reddit

It’s everything that has gone up at least a dollar, sometimes 2. I used to get a few frozen meals to eat when I didn’t have time to fix something. The ones I like used to be 3.99, but are 5.99 now, so I don’t buy them anymore. I used to get flavored sparkling water that you could get 3 12 packs on sale for 10. But now they go on sale for 2 for 10.

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BAMspek@reddit

Almost always the meat but it always sucks when I have to buy shampoo or soap or other hygiene items. But that’s typically only every couple months. Meat prices have skyrocketed lately though. I’ve been wanting to make meatloaf for a while now but I need 2-3lbs of ground beef and that can easily be $25-30.

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hawthornetree@reddit

My perception is that the price has gone up slightly more on prepared foods. I was stunned by how cheap it was when I visited Canada and bought a quick meal that included something from the hot bar and a pastry at a supermarket. I find myself more steeply incentivized to buy only ingredients in the US.

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skadi_shev@reddit

I think processed or convenience items are the ones that tend to shock me the most (snacks/chips/cookies, soda and other drinks, candy, frozen meals like chicken tenders, etc). I don’t buy those items as often, and every time I do buy them, they seem to have skyrocketed even more.

Odd-Percentage-4084@reddit

Packaged, processed foods have gone up the most. Produce has been pretty stable in my area, certainly not up more than a couple % a year. Even the much-talked about eggs and milk go up and down, and are now not much more than they were 5 years ago.

But a box of crackers is 30% more expensive, frozen foods are up at least as much. Coffee is up 50%.

I've stopped buying meat, except for the cheap, individual packages of luch meat. I did buy a rotisserie chicken for $6 and it's already provided 3 meals and there's enough for at least 2 more.

I eat a lot of vegetarian meals. Homemade mac and cheese, beans and rice, baked beans with bread and cheap ramen with peanut butter and hot sauce-poor man's Thai peanut noodles. All of these are less than $2 a serving.

Fortunately, I have a lot of frozen vegetables so I'm still eating balanced meals.

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wieldymouse@reddit

All of it. The cost is inflated because everything has to be shipped on a barge.

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KittyCubed@reddit

Produce is the costliest part for me along with yogurt. But that’s basically my lunch and breakfast.

That said, everything in general with groceries has gone up in price. It adds up. I used to be able to get two weeks worth for $75 (I live alone). Now those same items are $100-125 depending. It’s been a slow but noticeable creep. And I don’t even get name brand except for some items where the store brand just isn’t as good. I look for sales and use coupons where I can.

Between this and gas, it’s forced a lot of cutting back elsewhere.

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Soft_Data_1623@reddit

Two years ago, my weekly Walmart pickup was around $100 and that’s generally most of the same items week to week. Last year it was around $150 and today it was $175. It’s just everything added together. I don’t pay a ton of attention to individual items.

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sourmysoup@reddit

Yesterday I paid $12.96 for 12 rolls of store brand toilet paper. It's the most expensive thing I buy regularly.

In 2023, most of the single serve Greek yogurts were under a dollar, now they're around $1.25. Shit is getting our of hand.

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Auntie_Venom@reddit

I love that OP said “dranks” 😆

I have to eat Gluten Free because if celiac disease and I’m also allergic to casein in animal dairy. So we already know fresh produce and meats are expensive, but as soon as they add “Gluten Free” and “Vegan” to items it often doubles the price. I get that non-standard ingredients cost more, but some items were already naturally GF and they jack the price up. Frozen pizza is the worst. Like my grocery store has sales on standard cheap pizza for $2.99 ea, the GF version of that brand is $6.99. GF and Vegan, there isn’t a cheaper version available and not only are the $10-$12 each, they’re smaller than standard GF pizzas that are smaller than regular gluten/dairy pizza. Do I have to get those? No, but they are handy in a pinch when I’m out of energy to make a meal. Since there’s very few drive thrus I can order food from.

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ThatThingInTheWoods@reddit

Dairy is my biggest one I guess. Shredded cheese, which I usually just shop around and buy on sale, and I'm very particular about brands of yogurt I will eat, which is my breakfast 5x weekly. And maybe pre-made frozen foods, which i do like to have on hand. I can afford them full price but it pains me so I often wait patiently for sales.

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oaky-afterbirth-97@reddit

A pack of ground beef is 7+ dollars

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throwawtphone@reddit

Everything has gone up. I noticed that non organic foods are hitting prices I would typically what I would pay for organic foods or more.

splorp_evilbastard@reddit

Coca Cola is pricey as hell. Cheap cuts of beef (that I use for making my chili) used to be $2.99-3.99/lb. Now I'm lucky if I can get it for $6.99/lb.

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common_grounder@reddit

All of it. Everything is a little more expensive for one reason or another. There are numerous factors contributing to cost, and they're not all the same for every food category. All those slight increaes in every category add up to a noticeably higher total at the register.

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CharlesAvlnchGreen@reddit

I'm in Seattle, WA, and before prices skyrocketed (over the past few years), it was always puzzling to me that produce generally cost more than meat per pound.

It was easy to find chicken or pork on sale for $1.99/lb, but not apples (which are grown in-state and can be stored for quite awhile after picking). Even frozen fruit was not cheap. Bananas were one exception, again weird because they don't grow here.

Not sure where you are from but I know a friend from Sri Lanka has complained how expensive coconuts are here. They are all imports so the products are going to be pricey compare to Sri Lanka and places where they are produced locally.

I’ve also heard beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks are generally more expensive in the states compared to other countries.

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SamScoopCooper@reddit

Meat and alcohol are the expensive

Generally, bulk grains and beans are around 70¢-$1 a pound, vegetables are 70¢-$1.00 a pound, fruit is 50¢-$2 a pound. These basic prices haven't actually changed all that much, it's just harder to find them for those prices so I stock up when I do.

Meat is usually at least $1 a pound and can often range much higher. Michael Pollan wrote "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly vegetables." That's sound wisdom.

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honorthecrones@reddit

Prepared meals are the worst. It’s cheaper to buy ingredients and make things yourself but in the US we have been sold on convenience. We want to eat quickly or toss something frozen from Trader Joe’s into a microwave at 3x the price, twice the calories and 5x the sodium.

I can, with a little planning, cut my grocery bill down to something reasonable.

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Bluemonogi@reddit

For my family meat is the more expensive part of our shopping. Beef has become too expensive to buy very often. We buy bone in chicken thighs or chicken drumsticks instead. I use ground turkey more. Sometimes we get pork or sausages.

Vegetables and fruits are not too bad. I buy things like onions, carrots, celery, garlic, potatoes, cabbage, frozen vegetables often.

If you buy packaged foods and drinks some of those have gone up in cost. I tend to buy the generic store brands.

As everyone is saying, it’s every single item that’s gone up. Some I’ve seen.

Vital Farms eggs went from $5.88 to $8.99 Amy’s frozen meals were $4.99, now anywhere from $5.99 to 8.99

I saw a gallon of organic store brand whole milk priced at $9.99 yesterday.

Kashi cereal was $4.50, now $6.99

It doesn’t matter what you buy, either store brand or higher end. If every item on your list has jumped $1-2, it’s easily $50-$75 more than it was even 2-3 years ago.

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Sweet_Cinnabonn@reddit

As others have said, it's no one single thing that's gone up outrageously.

I just got back from the grocery store. I was grabbing snacks and a soda, and it's too expensive to grab at the convenience store.

Every single item is up. Just enough. I bought chips - up 50 cents from a year ago. I bought chip dip - up 25 cents from the last time I bought. I think that was in November.

I bought a box of brownie mix and a lemon pound cake mix, each up 50 to 60 cents.

I got a 20oz bottle of Dr pepper Cream Soda - sodas are up about 50 cents each.

In all, the bill was about 5-6 bucks more than I mentally expected. Small amounts, but this was like 10-12 items.

Everything. It's fucking sickening.

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Zaphied@reddit

All meats are pricey. Sodas (which are pure poison) are ludicrous. Decent butter can be 5$ a pound. Last chance just before the cashier candy is over 1.5$ now for basic bars, which is more than what king sized used to be. The cheap maruchan ramen noodles aren't cheap anymore; I remember 10 and even 20 for 1$.

Even during mid-covid 100$ in groceries went farther than now and filled out a cart. 50$ for a bag or two is now the norm.

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Starfoxmarioidiot@reddit

Fish, I’d say. Unaffordable at the moment. It depends on how you measure expense, though. My girlfriend made a quiche that put me in the hospital so that would put eggs in the lead by $1486 dollars.

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CombatAnthropologist@reddit

Cant remember last time I bought steak

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Pretty-Kittie@reddit

As far as kitchen staples go: I find myself surprised by how expensive fruit is, especially basics like grapes and strawberries. Cereal and snacks are straight up absurdly expensive. I stopped buying beef. I get deli meats for my kid's lunches, and it's like $10 for a pound of sliced cheese.

We enjoy a soda every now and then but a 10-pack of mini cans is like $8. But that's something I'd consider a treat.

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MakeStupidHurtAgain@reddit

Meat. The cheapest cut of beef besides ground beef, in the cheapest store in my area, was $8.50 a pound.

Vegetables are cheap if you buy what’s in season, and I’m fortunate to live where most of them are grown.

Some of the little treats are stupidly expensive, too. I like a potato chip but at $6.50 for a bag of chips I’ll buy some potatoes and oil.

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We've been shopping at Walmart for years, ever since they built a store in our neighborhood. They always have deals, plus we like (and often prefer) their store brands. We but basically the same groceries we always have. We've noticed in the last couple of years that our grocery bill has gone up fifty to sixty dollars a week. Well, along with utility bills, insurance, medical bills....

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I'm glad that beef is expensive. The negative externalities alone, in a just world, would make the price high regardless of inflation.

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Classic_Breadfruit18@reddit

All the things you have mentioned are expensive!

Fresh vegetables are very high with fresh herbs being the worst. Where I live it's $3 for a small bunch. I have taken to growing as many as possible so I can just cut what I need when I need it. The cheapest vegetables are actually in the freezer section.

Meat is pricey, especially beef and fish. Also there are a bunch of different quality options, and if you want high quality meat you will really pay.

Cheese and dairy is the same. There is a commodity quality cheese and butter in every American grocery store that isn't too expensive, but if you want high quality cheese and butter it is really a lot (and often imported).

Beef. I now choose pork and chicken as the cheaper option sometimes or get when it’s on sale.

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Mamapalooza@reddit

Beef is off the menu unless it is gifted, lol. Pork is not far behind.

It seems like everything is approaching twice as much as it cost 5 years ago.

2021, my favorite corn chips were 1.29. Now they’re 3.50.

My favorite store brand jar of pickles were 1.80 now they’re 2.60.

These don’t sound like huge changes but it’s EVERY. Single. Item.

Some are just unjustifiable to buy at this point. Like I used to get a big bag of almonds once a month to have a few handfuls as a snack throughout the day. I can’t justify spending 17$ on one snack item. I just can’t. Almonds aren’t that good to me.

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Sweaty-Discipline746@reddit

I live in Hawaii, milk is about $8 a gallon, eggs can be between $6-13, a bag of chips is about $6, a thing of berries is about $9, a loaf of bread is about $5-9

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Careless_Ocelot_4485@reddit

Meat. Rarely have beef as it is expensive. We eat chicken mostly. We’ve started doing more meals that revolve around beans and rice.

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crimson_leopard@reddit

Beef is a lot more expensive now.

Snacks/chips/soda is also expensive if you buy those often. I rarely buy those now.

Recently peppers (serrano, jalapeno, thai) were kinda expensive as well in my area. Right now the cheapest I found were $4/lb, which is crazy. I'm pretty sure I bought some for $1/lb a few weeks ago. I stock up when they're on sale.

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YB9017@reddit

Food wise? Meat. I’m trying to make more dishes with less meat. Or buying unconventional cuts that will last.

Meat.

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HermioneMarch@reddit

Beef

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chameleonsEverywhere@reddit

The single thing that has spiked surprisingly high is ice cream cookie sandwiches. The chipwich or nestle brand. The price has doubled AND the size of each cookie sandwich is smaller, so it's an even worse deal than you think you're getting just by looking at the box.

Luckily that's a luxury. But literally yesterday my husband bought some as a rare treat and I said to him verbatim "we're gonna go bankrupt if we start buying these chipwiches again."

Everything across the board is just a bit more expensive and deals are less good / rarer to come by. None of my staples are unthinkably expensive, but they're all at least 10%-50% more per item than just a few years ago.

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Fire_Mission@reddit

Everything is up, but beef is what I notice most.

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subliminalFreq@reddit

Protein, especially beef and lamb, and fresh produce.

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Ninjasloth007@reddit

I’m in California and delicious organic produce gets me every time

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Certain-Monitor5304@reddit

Meat and out of season vegetables.

ActuaLogic@reddit

Everything has gone up, so it's more a question of what's not expensive these days.

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OwnLime3744@reddit

Chocolate.

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like_shae_buttah@reddit

I’m vegan so prices haven’t increased that much for me. Only when I buy processed stuff does it get expensive. But produce has been cheap. Things like canned bans have increased a lot percentage wise but are still very cheap.

This means I can shop for the highest quality stuff and still pay less than most people. If I do budget pricing, it’s very very cheap with decent quality.

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