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

[Anonymous]

I don't find most pre made items to be worth it.

[Anonymous]

Ok so I'm not a super price sensitive shopper these days but I get away with that by getting a CSA and growing a lot of vegetables (CSA is not "on" right now and it's may so no meaningful veggies yet) and mostly supplementing that with things like pasta/flour/etc. I also cook 90% of my family's food and make our own cookies, crackers, stuff like that. But, I've noticed prices sort of explode recently too. Whole Foods (yeah, yeah) had two cartons of non-organic store brand 2% milk available the last time I was there -- the organic name brand version was $9.50 and to me that's "you live in Alaska in the bush" prices. That would be a red line to me (I bought one of the two remaining store brand cartons).

I used to be a very price sensitive shopper and cooked even more than I do now, but my family's income rose. I think I might start moving back in the direction of lentil soups and homemade pita instead of buying pita from the store, a recent luxury.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$8 for the cheapest block of feta (I'm shaking my fist at you, tiktok).

What did tiktok do?!

[Anonymous]

Hot dogs for $8 at Harris Teeter today. GTFOOH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$8 for a carton of organic strawberries. Nope.

+1. Almost $8 for a little container of regular blueberries, and this was at a low end grocery store, not Whole Foods, etc.

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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.

Very odd that you're telling me that what I do about twice a month is impossible? A can of soup is 2 servings, there's 3 of us but between that and, as I said, a loaf of bread, it gets the job done.

Wow. You’re the Cratchit family.

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

This is mine too.

People, it's April. No one in DC should be buying strawberries. The price of strawberries from another part of the globe should always be high.

I agree, but it usually isn’t anywhere near this inflated, thus the red line decisions.

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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.

Very odd that you're telling me that what I do about twice a month is impossible? A can of soup is 2 servings, there's 3 of us but between that and, as I said, a loaf of bread, it gets the job done.

Are you all malnourished or trying to re-create life in Ireland in the 40s?

I gotta say that this is comical. One can of soup for three humans, which likely includes two adults.

+1. PP makes me think of the infamous weirdo in one of the crazy marathon threads about people who “close their kitchens” to their guests where the person said if a guest was hungry, they could take an orange out of the fruit bowl and eat it sitting outside on the porch.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t eat beef/chicken/pork either. Neighbors with dogs have been surprisingly helpful.

This sentence…concerns me.

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Anonymous wrote:I get the feeling I'm being ripped off. I don't believe the farmer really suddenly needs to charge $8 for strawberries.

All these companies screaming inflation and yet they are making huge profits.

+1
I believe there’s inflation alright, but I think much of it is companies just messing with us under the guise of “inflation.”

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Anonymous wrote:$8 for a carton of organic strawberries. Nope.

+1. Almost $8 for a little container of regular blueberries, and this was at a low end grocery store, not Whole Foods, etc.

I haven’t seen that and I shop at MOM’s.