$20 for a week's groceries for 4

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There's a Perry Mason episode where a running gag was how a restaurant could charge $1 for a cup of coffee. It must be made of gold. This was in 1957. That reminded me of when I was a kid and my mom came in from grocery shopping, and she was all upset. OMG! She spent the unheard of sum of $20 for a week's groceries for a family of four. What was this world coming to?
Yesterday, I just needed a few things, it cost $107.48.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
There's a Perry Mason episode where a running gag was how a restaurant could charge $1 for a cup of coffee. It must be made of gold. This was in 1957. That reminded me of when I was a kid and my mom came in from grocery shopping, and she was all upset. OMG! She spent the unheard of sum of $20 for a week's groceries for a family of four. What was this world coming to?
Yesterday, I just needed a few things, it cost $107.48.
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You're not kidding. A few things this morning cost me $89.
 
A few things yesterday cost me $82.77. This was by no means a large order and no meat. It was mainly produce, bread, eggs, milk, just ordinary groceries and not many of them. It did include dishwasher pods on sale.

That said, I’m thankful I can pay but all this talk about inflation getting better is not proving true at the grocery store, IMO. These little jaunts to the store used to be a lot less for the same things. I wonder how much it will be next time I do a big pickup order. :oops:
 
It's pretty obvious that those who give us the "inflation" statistics probably do little or no grocery shopping. Around here, there are dozens of items that have nearly doubled in cost over the past 2 or 3 years.
 
jujube said:
I remember when the price of a gallon of gas was approaching $1. End of the world! The sky is falling! NOBODY is going to pay a dollar a gallon!!! People will just quit driving!!!!!

And here we are......
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There are some areas of the US where gas is less than $2.00 gallon. The US pumps more oil that Saudi Arabia or Russia.
 
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You used to get 5-6 bags of groceries for a hundred bucks. Now? You're lucky if you get 3 bags full.

All the while grocery chains are making hundreds of millions in profit. I'll say it again...these companies have used Covid as an excuse to gouge John Q. Public at every turn.

I really don't know how Joe Sixpack and Sally Housecoat get by these days. They must be debt-ridden.
 
Two years ago I was spending 200/month on groceries. Now I spend between 300-400. I shop at Winco which is the cheapest grocery store locally. I really only eat one meal a day as breakfast is yogurt and a granola bar and dinner is 6 crackers and string cheese. I do cook for friends once a week.
 
I'm cutting carbs and upping fiber. So tonight was some cubed potatoes cooked until soft, then onions and peppers and some shredded beef, then spaghetti sauce over that. No pasta, no added cheese. No bread, no dessert.
 
Cutting the food budget is the one area that I can actually do something with as opposed to utilities which are pretty fixed in most cases. Now I can't even keep the food budget low due to inflation. One small bag of groceries and it costs me $50.
 
Beezer said:
You used to get 5-6 bags of groceries for a hundred bucks. Now? You're lucky if you get 3 bags full.

All the while grocery chains are making hundreds of millions in profit. I'll say it again...these companies have used Covid as an excuse to gouge John Q. Public at every turn.

I really don't know how Joe Sixpack and Sally Housecoat get by these days. They must be debt-ridden.
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The increasing prices at some point were necessary, but companies in all types of business, at first fearful of raising prices became bold and kept on increasing them. And we kept buying at the same rate so they keep on raising them.
 
I heard on the radio that it costs $120 to get what cost $100 in 2019. But I think if you add everything including utilities, it could be more.
 
Remy said:
I heard on the radio that it costs $120 to get what cost $100 in 2019. But I think if you add everything including utilities, it could be more.
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That doesn't sound right at all. Food, cleaning supplies, clothing, it all seems to have increased far more than that.
 
My Dad was a military veteran and we would grocery shop at the commissary. I recall the bounty of food that would feed our family for a few weeks and it might have cost $100. My Mom was an exceptional cook and she made most things from scratch (no mixes, nothing canned).
 
When I look in the meat case at the grocery, I think, "I the early 1960s, my mom could have fed 3 people for a week on what one package of ground beef cost now." Of course, back then $50 a week was a good blue collar wage.
 
birdy said:
Cutting the food budget is the one area that I can actually do something with as opposed to utilities which are pretty fixed in most cases. Now I can't even keep the food budget low due to inflation. One small bag of groceries and it costs me $50.
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Same here one small basket and it's goodbye £50 in most supermarkets
 
I went to a smaller market yesterday, bought nothing terribly exotic, and came out with two grocery bags of food totaling $75...but with many single items costing close to or above $5, that’s easy to do… 😩
 
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