Rising Food Costs does it affect Your Family?

Yes, it's experiencing exorbitant rates along with the inflation. It is concerning everyone very seriously and government is struggling to bring up measures to mitigate these. Am trying to see how else extra cash can be obtained and am on the run.

it is absolutely affecting my family. my husband owns his own business and things are more than slow right now. we are using up what we have to eat and drink in the house and not going food shopping because frankly we cannot afford to. i have called a local church for some help with food and the salvation army as well. i shop at stores like aldi's when we do have the money for food because their prices are so much better than the mainstream grocery stores but even then it is hard. i work from home doing several different jobs to pull in money to help out but my main reason for being at home is to be here for my little boy both before and after school. he will be better in the long run because of it but we do struggle financially without me working full time.

i think it affects me as well.its affecting all. yes, it is referred as silent tsunami, i think now for the oil price increase, the oil producing nations should be held responsible. for this the prices are skyrocketing. i think my country will try to combat it.

Rising food cost affect my family too much. Do you know a spinach in my country is very cheap in past. But now, it rise fivefold. I think if it continue rise, maybe I don't eat because I don't have enough money to buy it.

We are from a middle class family so every hike in the price of our day to day needs take the toll on our family budget for only the price of the goods are increasing not our income hence it causes a dis balance between the income and the alloted budget, hence it hinders the growth of the middle class which ultimately hinders the growth of the country for the countries growth really depends on the growth of the middle class people

It's already affecting my family, and I believe it'll affect most of us. The point is, when will the price stop skyrocketing if ever? I'm still not quite sure what cause the recent food crisis though.

We need to come up with another way to make fuel instead of using our produce. So far the food crisis hasn't affected my family yet. I have been lucky to find a store that sells milk at a low price. We don't cook with a lot of rice, and don't eat a lot of bread. We need to stop using corn for fuel. Farmers needs corn to feed cattle, corn for us to eat. I saw on a show that Canada has oil shells, it's a long process and messy, but you can get oil from them, same as oil dirt here in the states. This is only going to get worse as gas prices are going up. I read somewhere that the president of Iran said 118 dollars a barrel of oil was to cheap. I don't think people not driving isn't helping anymore, because it's still rising.

Yes it is bad and being a diabetic makes it worse. I was already paying almost double what other people were paying and now these items are going up too. I can't eat regular bread so a loaf of whole wheat bread is now almost $3.00 a loaf. Meat and vegetables go up every week. And milk is at $4.50 a gallon. What hurts the poor people sure does benefit the rich. Don't you know all those big Oil men in Texas are whooping it up. This country runs on oil. We should have seen this coming and Bush should have been prepared to see that it didn't go this far. More people are going on food stamps and welfare every day. They can't afford to drive to work nor pay for daycare. Pretty soon they will be putting a limit on what we can buy. Just like back in the days I have heard my mom talk about.

While I'm not really struggling, I have to really budget and try to save wherever I can when it comes to grocery shopping. I've only been living out of hom for a couple of years so i guess I was thrown straight into it. I never really had the opportunity to experience what it was like before this. It's crazy, you can go shopping for one bag of basics and it costs $30. When I shop I'm always looking out for things on special and I rarely get to buy myself treats like icecream or marinated olives etc which I really like. If I want to splash out a bit at shopping it means I can't buy anythign else for myself and have to cut back in other areas. It is getting ridiculous.

Yes we are badly affected by all this as well as all the other BS I have been under lately. First of all my husband was working maintenance at the hospital but the hospital closed the doors as a hospital and is now a nursing home. hubbys job was cut to half time well that works out to less than our house payment and bills. I had already sold my car thinking we would be OK and bought a van. Not good. He lost his job but being a pretty good worker no problem he went to the next town down, city actually 45 minute drive and he got a job at Home hardware for 14.00 an hour. Well we pay over six dollars a gallon for gas and with our truck it's costing 50.00 for gas every other day. No can do. Now there's no money for gas left because our house payment is 650.00 and the pay check was 800.00 there's food to buy and utilities to pay. Good luck to us. Like you said the food bill has increased as well. This is a very serious situation we have here and I think it will affect everyone pretty soon.

The situation here is is in no way less severe than that of yours. The prices of essential commodities are spiraling up making us feel really hard to lead a modest and comfortable life.The problem which is a universal one is feared to reach alarming proportions in the near future.Yes we have to behold a silent Tsunami in the offing!

Yes the rising cost of food affects us. We struggle to find the money for food every week and it seems that no matter how much we cut back the bill keeps rising. I do not know what we can do about it. There is enough money in the world but it all seems to be in the hands of a few while everybody else struggles. What ever happened to the world where families could live on one salary and do ok? It seems the people who have all the money are just too greedy these days and do not care if the rest of the world starves.

I am not really sure what food banks are, although I keep coming across them in many discussions, I kind of have an idea but not 100%. In UK, the cost of food is rising and in the last 3 weeks the total cost of my shopping has gone up over £10.00 per week, which is quite a jump because that money is what was going to other things like clothing for the children and such so this is going to affect us a lot, I do not know what will happen long term.

yes it has indeed affected me and my family. rice here in the philippines has already increased its price and it's really frustrating because you can't buy as much as you want too. then other food start to increase in price as well. it's really sad.

I am pretty immune to it so far, and the accomodation I make is to eat out less. I buy what is on sale, and I try to shope when I know things are being marked down. That is just the way I have always shopped. We who can need to grow as much as we can ourselves. That will free up food for those who canno.

It has not directly affected me yet. But I plan on doing the same thing that I have always done and that is to trust God. I also notice that some major cooporations have been cutting jobs and some businesses have been going under. The Bible promises that there we be what it calls famines in the land. The only way to prepare is to grab hold of Jesus' merciful hand and ride out the storm.

yes it effects all of us, I know we get a little over a $100. now in food stamps and I think I figured it out to be $29. a week to eat on, eggs are $2. a dozen and milk is $$. a gallon, can't afford to buy the meat, can you tell me with todays prices how a person eats a whole week on $29.00. I will buy extra rice when we buy groceries, I don't know what the rice problem is first I heard about it was the other day, I buy a lot of my stuff at the Dollar Store or the Family Dollar Store, they have good meatballs, only $2.50 a pack. Some times I think they trying to get rid of us senior citizens, they have made gas so high we can't afford to make doctor's appointments, and they sure don't want you to have no food. Here the food bank we have to go to sucks. They give out food that has expiration dates sometimes a year ago, and they have bread out in a cart in the hall they want you to take I swear you could hit someone and injure them with it. So I don't go there unless it necessary, and all they give you is beets and pumpkin, what am I going to do with that.

I've been watching the news all about this and it's almost surreal in a way, and yes I've heard that it's not so much that there is an actual shortage of food per se, but so many foods are being grown as alternative fuels instead of as food, and that rising costs are due to also shipping the food. Thankfully I do get food stamps, but I've been noticing that my benefits aren't stretching out as far as they used to. Everything has gone up...even "cheap" white bread is now $2.00 a loaf near me...heck for that amount maybe should just switch to the healthier whole grain breads..same cost! Dairy products are even more ridiculous in price, including eggs

Yes before we are able to eat the foods we want but now its already limited. Before we always have Roast Pork and Beef but now its so rare. Its so hard to live life now adays

It is not affecting my family yet but it will in the near future. Luckily my husband works at a feelot so we get beef for free from there it saves thousands of dollars a year on beef. I have seen the price of milk go up to $4.00 a gallon though and cereal don't get me started. We will have to start being careful buying things we don't need.