Groceries are going insane

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine went down just a bit, maybe change where you are shopping?

If your grocery bills went down a bit, please let me know where you shop and what you typically buy. Also which area.

[Anonymous]

I'm eliminating whole categories of groceries I used to buy. No premade snacks, no chips, no half and half (use milk instead).

Basically buying only veg, fruit, meat, bread, pasta and a few dairy products and it's costing more that my grocery bills in 2020 with all the snacks and prepared food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

SureOP, sure. Butter, flour and sugar will run you $15 max- all pantry staples. No fruit is in season except strawberries, and those are not costing you $20.

Butter: $8.50
Flour: $8.79
Sugar: $5.99
Berries: $7.50

Add tax. $35.

Go back to your expired food section in the lowest of the low store, Carol. I bet you buy flour with weevils in it, then brag about how thrifty of a shopper you are, lol.

Safeway:

Butter: $4.39 for a box
Flour: $3.49 for 5 lbs
Sugar $4.79 for 4 lbs
2 lbs strawberries: $3.99 (online Safeway coupon)

Total: $16.66

Yeah, these prices are closer to what I’ve seen. Butter is a little higher at 4.99 and strawberries are higher — without coupon. So I’d say $20 or less depending on the coupons. OP, where are you shopping? At Whole Foods, butter and flour don’t have to cost that much.

The economy IS a disaster, but these prices could easily be a lot lower, even without coupons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

Flour: $8
Butter: $5
Sugar: $5

fruit... $8? What kind of fruit?

Where the eff do you shop, and how do you not have flour, butter or sugar on hand? Being out of one and needing some fresh fruit, I can see. But... You never bake? You never cook? How are you on E already?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

SureOP, sure. Butter, flour and sugar will run you $15 max- all pantry staples. No fruit is in season except strawberries, and those are not costing you $20.

Unless you buy at a DC farmers market, like Eastern Market, where buying enough strawberries to fill a pie really does cost $20

Yeah, if you want to do that, you could. Or you could get 2 pounds of strawberries for $6 at Giant. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A 3-pound bag of yellow onions costs $2.79 at Safeway.

Or you can pay $1.49 each.

bag - https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.184450030.html

each - https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.184450054.html

This is OP. Thank you for the link but I stay away from bag of onions. The innermost 1-2 onions are almost often rotten. Also, the link shows $3.99 per 3 lb and not $2.79.

Dude... Even if you toss the "innermost 1-2" that you claim are "almost often rotten", you still come out ahead.

Some of y'all don't have inflation problems, you have a lack of basic home ec skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No idea what you are talking about.

My groceries went from $275/cart to $400/cart in 2021. Been about the same ever since, except for Aldi. I do feel like their prices have gone up a bit, but still super cheap.

For generic stuff, Aldi is up 20% recently compared to a few years ago but they held out for longer before raising prices and shrinking packages to weird sizes. They also go up and down in response to specific produce shortages, since they have such low profit margin in their supply chain.

Aldi has always had some name brand stuff that went up like everywhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No idea what you are talking about.

My groceries went from $275/cart to $400/cart in 2021. Been about the same ever since, except for Aldi. I do feel like their prices have gone up a bit, but still super cheap.

Bananas more than doubled at Aldi in the last four months.

The organic sugar at Aldi went up about 30%.

Those are the two I can think of most readily, but DH and I buy 50% of our groceries there and the bill has gone up considerably.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A 3-pound bag of yellow onions costs $2.79 at Safeway.

Or you can pay $1.49 each.

bag - https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.184450030.html

each - https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.184450054.html

Yellow onions were 3lb/$2 before pandemic and briefly afterward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No idea what you are talking about.

My groceries went from $275/cart to $400/cart in 2021. Been about the same ever since, except for Aldi. I do feel like their prices have gone up a bit, but still super cheap.

Bananas more than doubled at Aldi in the last four months.

The organic sugar at Aldi went up about 30%.

Those are the two I can think of most readily, but DH and I buy 50% of our groceries there and the bill has gone up considerably.

Bananas aren't up near me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

SureOP, sure. Butter, flour and sugar will run you $15 max- all pantry staples. No fruit is in season except strawberries, and those are not costing you $20.

Butter: $8.50
Flour: $8.79
Sugar: $5.99
Berries: $7.50

Add tax. $35.

Go back to your expired food section in the lowest of the low store, Carol. I bet you buy flour with weevils in it, then brag about how thrifty of a shopper you are, lol.

Where are you shopping?!

I priced this out at the store we shop at with the items we buy

Kerrygold butter 8oz 4.99
King Arthur flour 5Lb 5.99
Store brand organic sugar 32 oz 4.99
The berries I'll give you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No idea what you are talking about.

My groceries went from $275/cart to $400/cart in 2021. Been about the same ever since, except for Aldi. I do feel like their prices have gone up a bit, but still super cheap.

For generic stuff, Aldi is up 20% recently compared to a few years ago but they held out for longer before raising prices and shrinking packages to weird sizes. They also go up and down in response to specific produce shortages, since they have such low profit margin in their supply chain.

Aldi has always had some name brand stuff that went up like everywhere else.

As a long time Aldi shopper, no the 20% increase is not recent. That happened during the pandemic. Eventually, Walmart began to edge out Aldi on some groceries so Aldi then dropped some of the prices they raised during the pandemic to compete with Walmart. Now Walmart is raising their prices so Aldi is as well.

A tip about Aldi, they price their products based on your location. I am in Alexandria, same products cost less in Springfield.

Also neither Aldi or Walmart need to raise their prices. They make a tremendous profit and I have no sympathy if they make 20 billion this year vs. 23 billion last year. Boo hoo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

SureOP, sure. Butter, flour and sugar will run you $15 max- all pantry staples. No fruit is in season except strawberries, and those are not costing you $20.

Butter: $8.50
Flour: $8.79
Sugar: $5.99
Berries: $7.50

Add tax. $35.

Go back to your expired food section in the lowest of the low store, Carol. I bet you buy flour with weevils in it, then brag about how thrifty of a shopper you are, lol.

You’re not using all 5 lbs of flour and sugar in you pie. Well maybe you are if you’re a fat a$$

[Anonymous]

Welcome to Republicans economy

It’s only just beginning.

Prices are going to increase 10 fold in the next quarter.

Bread lines coming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

SureOP, sure. Butter, flour and sugar will run you $15 max- all pantry staples. No fruit is in season except strawberries, and those are not costing you $20.

Butter: $8.50
Flour: $8.79
Sugar: $5.99
Berries: $7.50

Add tax. $35.

Go back to your expired food section in the lowest of the low store, Carol. I bet you buy flour with weevils in it, then brag about how thrifty of a shopper you are, lol.

You’re not using all 5 lbs of flour and sugar in you pie. Well maybe you are if you’re a fat a$$

If you've never cooked before: you have to buy the whole bag of flour and the whole bag of sugar, etc .. before you make something, whether or not you use it all for this particular dish.

The trolls really need a better education system.