Grocery Shopping

How about fish prices. We enjoy eating fresh fish and found that the prices have gone up substantially. The prices will only continue to skyrocket with our economy looking so dismal.

Have you ever been to your local Farmer's Market? When you buy from them, you cut out the middle man, and you can usually get your corn cheaper.

Yes, even though we are living in a different country, not only you are experiencing the suddent price hike for things. Here the same thing is happening. Lately, in fact just yesterday the news announced a sudden increase in beef. This is particularly due to the stopped import of beef from India. Our government used to import almost 80% of beef from that country and that explains the price hike. I hope the problem can be addressed soon because here most of us are going to celebrate Ramadhan the moon of fasting. A month after that we are going to celebrate Aidil Fitri where all of us prepare food. Meat is one of the compulsory ingredients for the celebration purpose.

It all comes back to fuel , corn is going up , it's food for us and chickens, gas prices are up , eventually everything goes up but out salaries

NO NO, sell it to the fuel people!! Get corn out of the daily diet!!! Get corn starch out of normal foods!

The price for a gallon of milk in my area is $4.39 and thats for the store brand. If you want name brand you could be paying over $5.00 a gallon. I can't believe how ridiculous it is that groceries are going up so much. Who's gonna be able to afford food if the prices keep raising??

I have noticed the price of things is getting higher..perhaps to compensate for the money going out for the war and troops and everything else..I don't know why for real.

Using grain for alternative fuel also affects dairy. The main thing I have been told is that it is transportation that is costing us so much for everything. I find buying programs that let me do group buying--Prairie Land Foods, Angel Foods--and look for milk on sale,it will freeze. I buy things from farmer's markets to get them more economically. I would like to grow my own of some things. The other thing is that the weather has been unpredictable, droughts, floods, etc. If the climate is changing we will need to learn to adapt to it, and grow whatever suits our particular climate the best.

OK so its become a worldwide phenomena has it? I thought only we Indians were suffering. Prices here have increased so much in the past few years that middle-class existence has become a real act of juggling. Eggs, milk products, pulses, wheat, fish, meat, vegetables...everything's gone through the roof.Pulses which sold for Rs. 30/kg are now selling for upward of Rs 50/kg. Eggs (poor man's only source of protien) has double in just one year. Regular consumption of fish and fresh vegetables is becoming impossible. only rice has been spared somewhat. national and state-level budgets come and go but the common man's plight does not improve.

Everything went up...With the cost of gas the truckers charge more to do deliveries and the people who have to use these truckers had to increase the price to make ends meet. They are using corn to make the additive they are putting in the gas so everything that has corn in it has also risen in cost. No matter what it is if it rises in cost something else that depends on that product will have to raise it's cost...It's like a domino effect. Until gas goes down we the consumer will have to suffer. Watch for a gradual increase in all food products. And here's the kicker everything goes up except the wages so more people are going from middle class to lower class. I hope they all apply for assistance so our government will open their eyes to what is going on in the USA and start supporting us instead of foreign countries.

I know! Meat has gone up 54% in the past year. Someone I know did the math up for them selves and I was shocked. It was hard enough to live on a budget before. Now I feel like I am struggling to keep my family full with out feeling like it was all junk food. Junk food should not be cheaper then healthy alternitives. We have just started eating more TVP, Textured Vegitable Protien. My husband is a meat and taters kind of guy and he cant tell the difference when I put in spaghetti sauces or tacos. It makes me feel pretty clever! It is like $2.00 a pound but it is dehydrated so you get a lot for your money.

Yeah I noticed it too. They are outrages oh my (sigh) I told my hubby we need to think of something cheaper to eat but not noodles all the time and he don't care for that anyway so I try to come up with a gool meal so I am going to look at my cook book and see what I can find and I love corn too! I will never give up corn.

Actually we had corn on the cob this week when I went shopping and it was 8/$2. I bought some and made some last night...it was really good. I was going to buy some apples or oranges till I saw that a 3Lb. bag was between $9-$11!! Forget that!! Milk is $4.65 for 2%!! Eggs went up about a month ago to almost $2.00 for a dozen. I don't know why all the prices are going up so much but hopefully they will come back down. Also I can't hardly remember what I'm supposed to get and not get so far as whats been recalled or whats contaminated. I miss when we were young and my Dad grew all our fruits and veggies. He still does it and raises his own meat...too bad I live so far away!! AT PEACE WITHIN

I've noticed that as well. The corn thing has been going on for years. I come from New Jersey, where there were so many roadside produce stands you could get a dozen ears of corn for a dollar and the most I ever saw it in the grocery store was 4 ears for a dollar. When I moved to Colorado (where we ALSO have a lot of locally produced stuff), it was more like 2 ears for a dollar and that was considered a good price. I love corn, and would love to use more fresh corn in dishes. But the price makes it pretty prohibitive. Fortunately I don't use a lot of milk. But butter, eggs, cheese and potatoes are things I use pretty often. Fresh fish prices are higher here than I'd like, but not so high that I don't buy a lot of it. It's really not much higher than I would find in a coastal area.

I haven't noticed specifics.. I just know it all costs too much!!:)

As the wife of a truck driver, I have an unusual insight into this problem. The cost of food is going up primarily because fuel is so high. My husband's boss has sold half of his fleet because he can't afford to pay for fuel and pay his drivers. Stores are passing on the higher shipping costs to consumers. In a way, it lets me know that people will have to respect the truck driver more, because without trucks, we have nothing... think about it.

Yes I have noticed this and think it is ridiculous . Things that we need all the time or things that are healthy that we should be eating are so expensive it is no wonder you see some people with only junk food in their house as it is the only thing they can afford especially if they don't have higher paing jobs . It is bad enough the gas prices have jumped so high but now we have to pay these ridiculous prices for everyday groceries we need to survive . It cost me a fortune on milk as I have five growing children who need their milk intake a day and yet I had to cut back on what they were drinking because we just simply can't afford to buy what we used to get .

Hi carpenter5! here in our country, we are also experiencing increases in every commodities. I guess it's because of high prices of fuel which is being reported in our national news. I did my grocery two days ago and everytime that I do, I notice an increase of the things I buy and so I cut down on some of the items I could do without. :)

Corn prices are rising due to the fact that the government is using all the extra corn for alternative fuel. Don't forget that the farmers don't get the extra money. They are still getting about the same price as always. The average dairy farmer only gets about 32 cents per gallon of milk. About 5cents for a dozen of eggs. Beef ranges from about 95 cents to 1.20 per pound for the farmer. Everything else goes to the middle man. I know as I speak from experience here, We raise goats on our farm.

Things now days are so expensive... Why it isn't old time with 3kg of butter for 5cents?