Grocery prices can vary widely depending on location. The absolute cheapest Walmart ground beef I can get is $4.50 per pound and milk is $3.62 a gallon. Pasta is a $1 pound and eggs are relatively cheap here. Produce has gone through the roof.
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Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 1 year agoIdk man ground beef is still like $3 a pound for me, milk $2.70 a gallon, pasta $1 a pound. I’m not saying some things haven’t gotten more expensive because they have, but my grocery bill from 2 years ago is like 20-30% more expensive now.
RufusFirefly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
jcit878@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lucky. in Australia milk +50%, bread and rice +100%, pasta only about 20%, meats are almost out of reach ($12aud for 12 shitty supermarket sausages about 1kg worth is about as cheap as it gets. fruit and veg has always been volatile and fluctuates but I would say on average 20% more now
RufusFirefly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People in the US scream about inflation but many of them have no idea how bad it is in other countries. Places where food products are sparse or imported are extremely expensive. There’s not that much stuff we don’t produce or grow in the US.
_TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 year ago
Where I am at,ground beef is more in the $5-6/lb range, as a comparison. We have some dairy farms local so milk is a bit cheaper, but basically everything else is significantly more expensive, especially meat.
Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I can get $4 a lb ground beef in a convenience store
Saneless@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends where you’re at. Ohio? Same. Florida? 2-3x
Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Florida: not even once
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 year ago
California has leveled out quite a bit too.
Florida has regional problems due to their ahem “policy choices” as of late.
whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. A 20-30% jump in a grocery bill is unprecedented in my life time. I’m skeptical it’s even that low for most. Pre-pandemic, I was buying eggs for 1.39, they’re 2.49 now. Jarred spaghetti sauce used to be 1.99, it’s 3.49 now if I catch a sale. I used to be able to regularly buy chicken breast for like 1.49-1.99, now if it’s less than 3 I buy as much as I can afford and freeze it. This time of year in my area, corn would usually be on sale 4/$1. The cheapest it’s gotten is $0.79.
Just repeat ad nauseam for everything. The other day I was in the store thinking to myself, “I’m not sure I can afford convenience foods like canned beans.” Canned. Fucking. Beans. The luxury.
Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m spending $2.30 for 18 eggs, buy spaghetti sauce at $.99 or so, and generally pick up chicken at about $1 a pound. Never seen corn on the cob for more than $.50 a pound, usually less than that. Bush’s beans, we just picked some up at $2 a can.
strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They likely live in a different place than you do Sounds like you got it way better, congrats
dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems like you have a sweet deal somewhere. I can’t remember when I last saw spaghetti sauce that cheap and my chicken is 4.59 a pound.
Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 1 year ago
S&S market in my town of Clovis always had some cut of chicken at that price. Shit, if I really want to cheap out, Walmart has chicken leg quarters for $7 for a 10 lb bag