What is your inflation “red line” at grocery stores?

[Anonymous]

As we all know, costs have gone up for many items. Whether you can afford it or not, what are the items where the cost has risen to a point where you just don’t find the value in the product any longer?

I’ll start with Progresso Soup. I saw it recently at Giant for $4.09. Sorry, no.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I haven’t gotten there yet. The only thing I can think of that’ll are sauces, like specialty BBQ/marinade sauces. I won’t pay $5-$6 for a bottle of sauce.

[Anonymous]

Meat - I have become quite the vegetarian cook!

[Anonymous]

$8 for a carton of organic strawberries. Nope.

[Anonymous]

One dozen egg was ~$3.50 at Safeway. Used to be 1/2.

[Anonymous]

I was just going to write the $7.99 strawberries, and I see it is someone else’s sticking point too. Insanity.

[Anonymous]

Hummus for $4.99
Any box of cereal over $5

[Anonymous]

Not there yet

[Anonymous]

I just paid $6 for cream cheese. Won't be doing that again

[Anonymous]

A bag of kimchi for 27 at Hmart. omg

[Anonymous]

I don't really have a "red line" on a particular product or price. More that if there's a less expensive substitute I'd pick it, but if not, there's not much to do. Like a $5.00 can of soup is pretty expensive, but a can of a soup and some bread is still a pretty cheap meal for the family, whether that's a total of $8 or a total of $12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just going to write the $7.99 strawberries, and I see it is someone else’s sticking point too. Insanity.

They're available at my farmer's market for $5, FYI. Locally sourced is less impacted by gas prices I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really have a "red line" on a particular product or price. More that if there's a less expensive substitute I'd pick it, but if not, there's not much to do. Like a $5.00 can of soup is pretty expensive, but a can of a soup and some bread is still a pretty cheap meal for the family, whether that's a total of $8 or a total of $12.

one can of Progresso is one serving.
Wont come anywhere near feeding a family.

[Anonymous]

I have red lines for everything, always. We eat a lot of meat and if brisket is over $6/lb we get pork shoulder. If pork shoulder is over 1.49/lb we get chicken. And so on. I hit my red line on oxtail a couple of years ago when it got to be $8-10/lb. I haven't bought it in years. Hopefully it will fall out of favor with whoever just discovered it and I can eat it again some day.

Produce we buy sales and seasonal. The name of the game is no fixed menus so we can always pivot in the grocery store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just paid $6 for cream cheese. Won't be doing that again

Same here, a few weeks ago. I think it was the first time we managed to finish the entire container, though, because no way was I going to let any of it go to waste.