Food Costs are skyrocketing! Up over 50% for me anyway.

Costco is the only place I trust for ground beef. Everywhere else seems to sell what could only be considered as pink slime.

Here's a tip:

I buy about $40 worth of hamburger (apx. 10 lbs.) then fry it up with onion, pepper and celery. The veggies add bulk. Then I package recipe-sized servings in freezer bags.

It's amazing how many meals I can make from 10 pounds of burger. Casseroles, spaghetti, etc. And usually, there are left-overs from each recipe to boot!

This a great idea thank you.

We go to Costco monthly to feed a family of 4 and have for several years.

Over the last year, we have spent between $422-$465 per visit. We buy very similar items each time.

My wife and I play a little game guessing how much the total will be to pass time while they are ringing us up.

Last visit, she guessed 435 and I guessed 475.

OUR BILL WAS $769 bucks!

I blew a gasket.

Things we bought but don't normally buy-

Batteries- 1 pack each AA AAA D- $45 bucks

Everything else was similar. The highest increases were for beef.

We go to Costco monthly to feed a family of 4 and have for several years.

Over the last year, we have spent between $422-$465 per visit. We buy very similar items each time.

My wife and I play a little game guessing how much the total will be to pass time while they are ringing us up.

Last visit, she guessed 435 and I guessed 475.

OUR BILL WAS $769 bucks!

I blew a gasket.

Things we bought but don't normally buy-

Batteries- 1 pack each AA AAA D- $45 bucks

Everything else was similar. The highest increases were for beef.

Prices rise...

Product gets smaller...

This happened in one of my stores when I was in retail.
Not a big group like that. But they would take 20 Guess jeans off the rack and run out the front of the store.

Half inside job. They would pick the gay sales associate guys and threaten to gang rape him if he didn't cooperate.

But this is why Amazon and Walmart delivery will be the only shopping in the future.

There's nothing quite like living in BIDEN'S AMERICA!

You trumpers always neglect to mention this started a year and 6 month before trump left office. Trump started it and Biden continues it

We go to Costco monthly to feed a family of 4 and have for several years.

Over the last year, we have spent between $422-$465 per visit. We buy very similar items each time.

My wife and I play a little game guessing how much the total will be to pass time while they are ringing us up.

Last visit, she guessed 435 and I guessed 475.

OUR BILL WAS $769 bucks!

I blew a gasket.

Things we bought but don't normally buy-

Batteries- 1 pack each AA AAA D- $45 bucks

Everything else was similar. The highest increases were for beef.

check consumer food price index 2018 to 2021

I got 5 fresh corn for $2 the other day and felt like I hit the jackpot!

Prices are going up. As we have a rather large stockpile, we try to buy things that are on discount--regardless of we need those items or not atm.

Of course, with many items that can't be done--milk and bread for instance. The large consumption items can still be had cheap--if you had time/stockpiles to wait.

Those without large reserves of food, and barely adequate income are in for hard times.

Some of my stockpile items, such as Spam, have gotten so damn expensive that we reduced our rotation times of stockpiles--some things have gone up a lot more than others--foods that store for long periods are amongst those.

Costco is the only place I trust for ground beef. Everywhere else seems to sell what could only be considered as pink slime.

Here's a tip:

I buy about $40 worth of hamburger (apx. 10 lbs.) then fry it up with onion, pepper and celery. The veggies add bulk. Then I package recipe-sized servings in freezer bags.

It's amazing how many meals I can make from 10 pounds of burger. Casseroles, spaghetti, etc. And usually, there are left-overs from each recipe to boot!

Recently here:

Butter 2.99/lb down a buck.
Grass fed burger 4.99/lb steady
Organic eggs 4.15/lb. steady
Bacon end & pieces 3/lb steady
Fresh Jalapenos .69/lb mercado
Watermelon .33/lb mercado
Espresso grind 4.00/60-70cups
Sliced ham/turkey 3.50/lb
Organic milk 8-9.00/gal

Chicken various ways running .89 - 1.29/lb
Beef is up. Pot roast running 5-6/lb. Nicer cuts 12-15/lb and up.
Pork is climbing a little.

Try Aldi for food, and for durables like batteries, order online after comparing prices on ebay.com, walmart.com, and amazon.com.

Try Aldi for food, and for durables like batteries, order online after comparing prices on ebay.com, walmart.com, and amazon.com.

costs are actually lower than a year ago.

Another point I want to make.

I travel for work virtually every week all over the US.

My trip lengths are typically four days long.

I use Oracle for our corporate expenses, which has tracked my expenses and my team members over the last 4 years

In 2017, my average weekly expenses for travel were 1117.00. My team's (27 of us) expenses averaged 1110.22 per week.

In 2019, our expenses averages 1178.59 per week.

January of 2021 (back on the road after COVID), we averaged
1215.00

Over the last 90 days, we have averaged 1532.22!

The per diem is the same...rental cars up 27%, taxes up 4.2%, hotels up 18.5%, airfare up 36%!

Without sounding spoiled (being on the road is a bitch) we can longer afford to stay in the nicer places. We will be in Holiday Inn's, flying Spirit airlines and I am trying not to reduce the per diem. It is high, but it is a way I can compensate the team a bit...again traveling weekly is a bitch

Organic Apple Juice cost me $6.49 today

Philadelphia Cream Cheese- $3.99

Pita Chips- Small bag $2.99

Cat food- $8.99

With Tax today over $24.00

You Americans have actually been in the opening stages of hyperinflation for years. It's only that so far all the freshly printed money has stayed in the markets, chasing imaginary profits. But now all that hot money is starting to breach the containment, with some of it seeping into the real world economy, driving up prices of anything tangible.

It was inevitable this would happen sooner or later. NO-ONE has ever printed unlimited amounts of currency without utterly destroying the nation in the end. NO-ONE.

But you're GLP-ers, you should be prepped by now, right?