Anyone Hating Food Prices?

I've been saying that for some time. It's very expensive to buy healthy food. It's far cheaper to buy junk food. It's very aggravating especially when many people seem to think everyone should be eating organic and all healthy food. It sounds nice but I can't afford it. Regular milk here is $4 a gallon, the organic is almost twice that. Let alone fresh vegetables in comparison to frozen or canned. I won't even get into some of the other comparisions I could make What really aggravates me is if someone is over weight and doesn't buy the healthiest of food everyone gives them strange or dirty looks. They buy usually what they can afford, I know I do. Yet because they don't buy the healthiest of foods they are judged. That to me is very frustrating.

yup looks like beans and spam thre only thing ya can make and serve more than one day

Well, when I was pregnant I also felt the same way as you do. I kept on complaining that I cannot eat or buy what I want because of the limited budget and high prices of the food that I wanted. It's so frustrating when you can't have what you want. So what I did, I refrained from going to the, restaurants, malls or department stores because the sight of expensive made me feel very hungry. I became contended with what my househelper cooked. Good luck and God bless .

Food is up 20% in sixteen months. It had modest gains for a while before that, but those were offset by other things. If it wasn't for the fact I am feeling it too, I would laugh and point fingers and do a lot of I told you so to all those mommy war mongers who though a war for oil was a good idea. Mothers themselves also have a lot to do with the rise in food prices as well. Despite common sense we have an increasing family size and families are still buying gas guzzling Mommy Mobiles (large SUV) without regard to how it is hurting the economy, the environment, and our future. Food prices will continue to go steadily for probably the next 10 years because of what we have already done. Soon after that you can expect them to skyrocket. I am predicting by the time oil hits $200 a barrel, or maybe even $150, we will have enough incentive to start large scale production of biofuels in America, at the expense of other food crops. Wheat, corn, and soy our traditional big three who are at best mediocre fuel plants will be replaced with sorghum, switchgrass and the best oilseed crops for your area. When this is going full swing you can expect that food will be your number one economic burden again. You can also expect that the federal government to finally act on information information 30+ years out of date that says housing has become the number one budget burden. They will announce after years of careful research that this will now be the deciding factor of how many people are poor. The fewer people the government says are poor the fewer they think they need to help.

Prices of food is going up like the prices of everything else.Milk is a little over 5 dollars where I live.Eggs 2 dollars.Meat is sky high at the market.It is hard for a person to buy a meal and trying to keep things my children like to eat is murder on my pocket book.

I have to agree. Eating healthy is more expensive than eating junk. I can got o Jack in the Box and feed my son and myself for 5 bucks. Is that healthy? No, but sometimes, thats all the money one has. I have become crafty and clip coupons, shop at places with double and triple coupons and benefit cards. This is the only way I can afford at times to put reasonably healthy food on my table.

I totally agree with you. I will be planting a garden also. We don't have alot of room, but I will do what I can.

Yes I do They keep going at People to eat Healthy yes I agree but then drop the Prices instead of making it impossible for People to live Healthy They blame Parents for not giving Kids the Healthy Food, but it is not the Parents it is the Prices of the Food

Yeah I do every time I try to buy healthy foods they are higher then buying foods that are bad for me or like you said hamburger and fries.I mean like last year at Super Walmart watermellon was almost 5.00 a piece or 4.99. Which is high in my town.

Milk is $2.99 a 1/2 gallon on sale right now. Its one of those foods I know is important to purchase and rarely has coupons to lower the price. Fruit is high here and I buy it every week. Its sad to know that there are certain foods I need to buy, but have to pay a lot more today.

I know what you mean. Our weekly grocery bill is over $300! Not much food there either and my mom tries her best to save on the price but it is really hard. I like the 99 Cent store even though the food there is almost expired. We buy some of our DVDs there too for entertainment. We also look on the rack at Wal-Mart of expired food. The clearance rack or whatever you know? We also go through the $5 bin of movies to see if there is anything that looks interesting. I think it's better buying one movie for $5 instead of a $20 movie. Oh, and Wal-Mart also has a $1 movie rack that has some pretty good and rare ones. I buy from that too lol. My mom likes to buy stuff from a company called Lehmans (I think that's how it's spelled). It has books on using the land to live off of, cleaning with natural ingredients, raising animals, ect. They also have lots of stuff to help with canning (I read your comment above about thinking of that) and lots of very useful stuff.

Yes it does seem to be that way I must admit, it will be good for you to grow your own and so much cheaper, I am considering doing that myself. It is wrong, we keep being told that we should be eating good food and not junk food and bad food and yet some people just cannot afford to eat good food. We are on budgets when it comes to food shopping and it is so hard to balance all the meals out and make sure we are all eating healthily. Its wrong, if they want people to eat the right foods then they should put the bad things up and bring the healthy food down in price. Surely that would be a better idea?.

Oh, you are so right on the prices of food. I have to have as much organic as possible because I react to pesticides. I can buy apples and wash and wash them and still get sores in my mouth. I also need soy milk and that cost extra, too. I eat as cheap as I can but I noticed that last month my costs really went up. Ouch. Fast food is cheaper than buying it at the store. Have you seen the McDonalds commercial about the one dollar menu? It's real cute.

The reason why food is so high is because the Federal Government has pumped over 800 Billion Dollars into the economy over a year's time, and retailers feel that the consumer will eventually get access to this money. This is the reason why everything is so high.

Yes it's certainly hurting lately! Growing your own is a good idea, we are trying to start a vegetable garden but unfortunately you can't grow meat, which is really expensive now!

That is why my husband and I have gotten into growing our own food. Though it isn't a full years worth, we do know when we grow our own, whats in it, what has been put on it, and know we are not going to get posioned from it. We have also gotten into going to local farmers to get our meats from. But that too is expensive, but a better quality food, that taste better because it is fresh. When we get meats from the farmers, we save about $50 for a three months supply of meats. Years ago, I was able to barter a deep freezer for us, so we vacumn seal our meat and veggies, and they stay good for months. Start thinking outside the box, you would be amazed at the savings.

Oh I know its really outragous with the prices of food. Well we are in a resession. And hopefully the prices will come down after a certain president gets out of office.LOL

I told someone the other day I could tell I was getting old because I could remember when I bought bread for ten cents a loaf! It is over $2 most places now. I try to eat whole grains, but it gets more and more expensive. I sure don't want to have to go to that gooey white stuff. What puzzles me is why the economists say that the economy is at risk because people are not spending as much money. Excuse me, but I'm spending more money just to buy what I bought before for less. Maybe if they brought the prices down we could buy more stuff and keep the economists happy!

Unless you grow your own food otherwise what can we do? Or shall we not eat?

Do not worry. Tossed up coin will have to come down only. It applies to prices also. Till then no alternative but to look for cheaper and healthy food items.