Literally this week I cut back to one meal a day… Groceries DOUBLED in price over the last 12/18 months…
Wages stay flat, insurance goes up, rent goes up, food goes up, electric goes up… The only things I have control over are food and electric…
Is this serfdom with extra steps?
Serfs had more vacation days
Groceries double in price, and various talking heads argue about whether inflation is 7% or 15%
My guy you shouldn’t be skipping meals when rice and dried beans are insanely cheap. You mentioned lack of cheap local stores but dried lentils and beans can be shipped to you and still be insanely cheap.
I’m already doing something similar, but I’ve been concerned about blood sugar getting high so I had to stop eating too much rice. I just get a can of mixed vegetables, mushrooms, and chickpeas that I throw into a slow cooker with chicken breast and mess with seasonings so it’s not always exactly the same. That’s pretty much all I eat all week now.
What I had to stop was getting anything “extra.” So that meal I make has to make it through the week, but before then I was also getting whatever meat was on sale and frozen veggies to have for dinner. If I replace that with more of the same stuff I have during the day then I’m just trading one thing for another and the cost isn’t much different. Also the $15-20/week to feed my cat isn’t helping, but she shouldn’t suffer just because food corpos are too goddamn greedy! lol
Do you have an Aldi in your area? I’ve been exclusively shopping there and saving a bunch.
I don’t unfortunately. Part of the problem for me is limited options for shopping. Thanks for the suggestion though!
“We just need to shut down the world economy for over two years. Nothing bad will happen.”
It’s not to pay for AC… groceries are just stupid expenses so I’ve cut back. I’ve always had AC money and we’re obviously going to be paying more in AC because it’s hot. correlation does not equal causation
Yep. I switched grocery stores because of the price gouging. Now, instead of walking to Giant, I drive ten minutes to my nearest Aldi. My grocery bill is probably like 1/3 of what it was right before the switch. Every so often, we need things that Aldi doesn’t carry, so we have to go back to Giant. They have a bunch of shit locked up now, they’ve closed half of the entrances and exits, and now have a loss prevention guy at the door, so I guess that means there’s been a ton of shoplifting. Well, buying like 4 items there adds up to what a week of groceries from Aldi costs, so maybe they should blame themselves for that one.
The DoJ and FTC should be investigating corporate grocery stores for manufactured price hikes, especially because so much of it started during a pandemic and it yielded record profits for them. If you see nothing wrong with holding food for ransom from lower and middle class families for the sake of funneling more wealth to their wealthy shareholders, but you do see something wrong with people stealing food from these same greedy grocery store corporations, then you’re part of the problem. Stop defending the oligarchs like you think they’ll drop a few extra crumbs in your food dish in exchange. They don’t care about you.
we’re obviously going to be paying more in AC because it’s hot.
That actually is how it usually works.
Food is produced for people to eat so then why is it so expensive? In other countries food is affordable and it’s obvious that this is the way it should be. I see a lot of people talking about their grocery bill increasing in the last year or two, but I’ve seen a steady increase over the last 10+ years. Food has been expensive for a while.
I hope you all are cooking- rice, beans, chicken or veggies, soup, etc and not just buying frozen dinners. That stuff isn’t affordable. You can get giant bags of jasmine rice and pinto beans at Costco. They are huge and cheap.
I’ve been on the rice, beans, pasta, and veggies diet for years. I used to brag my grocery bill was never higher than $50 a week. I now spend about $80 a week. I know that’s still nothing compared to my friends and family but I’m still pissed that even the poor people food hasn’t been spared by the price hike.
Food is produced for people to eat so then why is it so expensive?
I’m sorry, but you are mistaken. We live under Capitalism, where food is produced for shareholders to profit by. The fact that people need to eat food is just a market force that generates an exploitable demand for food products.
We get those huge bags of beans, not canned. Huge bags of rice. Staples that’ll feed ya. May not be pizza rolls or frozen lasagna, but it fills ya up
