Food prices that piss you off

38laura40

:sad: All food!:mad:

AmyRhubarb

Salmon
Honeycrisp apples (these will eventually get cheaper as more orchards are planted - Fujis, Braeburns and Galas used to be sky high, too)

The lime prices are up due to a disease or something that hit the crop in Mexico, where most of the limes are shipped from.

But $8.99 a lb for asparagus? $5 for mushrooms??? Where do you guys live? I forget/often don't realized how spoiled I am with fresh produce here in California, and much lower prices. Of course we pay through the nose on taxes in a lot of other areas, so I suppose it evens out.

Thankful for my year-round backyard garden and easy access to farmers markets. Even our grocery stores, where prices have gone up over the years, have lower prices than what you guys have mentioned. Gotta love living in the "bread basket to the world" that is the central valley of California.

daffodilsoup

I hate when my local supermarket advertises red bell peppers for $3.99 a pound like it's something to brag about. Or cauliflower - $4.00 a head? Come on people!

FoxyLifter

Raspberries.

SunofaBeach14

Pork, beef and dairy vs 4 years ago. Thanks ethanol!

^ Yep. I still shake my head that anyone thought that using potential food sources for fuel was a good alternative.

seltzermint555

Just paid almost 8 bucks for a net of Babybel cheese and I thought that was outrageous. Maybe I'm just cheap.

Nope, that's nuts. I hate Walmart but they have those nets of Babybel for slightly under $5 (in my area anyway) which I still think is kind of expensive!

Same with Laughing Cow. $4-6 for the wheel depending on where you shop. I'm so glad Aldi has their knockoff for less than $2/wheel even though they often just have 1 flavor. This week we scored though...jalapeno, basil & herb, and regular. yay!

jec285

Just paid almost 8 bucks for a net of Babybel cheese and I thought that was outrageous. Maybe I'm just cheap.

Nope, that's nuts. I hate Walmart but they have those nets of Babybel for slightly under $5 (in my area anyway) which I still think is kind of expensive!

Same with Laughing Cow. $4-6 for the wheel depending on where you shop. I'm so glad Aldi has their knockoff for less than $2/wheel even though they often just have 1 flavor. This week we scored though...jalapeno, basil & herb, and regular. yay!

Laughing cow is generally 2.99 for a wheel around here, which is fine by me, I'd rather pay the extra dollar than eat the Aldi's brand stuff, that stuff is so fake

Mangopickle

Pork, beef and dairy vs 4 years ago. Thanks ethanol!

This. And it destroys all my small engine equipment on the farm. We hunt and only eat seasonal veg.

canadjineh

Asparagus $8.99 swear :noway: but I can buy a bag of chips for $1.50! Score!! :laugh:

YIKES! And I was going to complain because the local asparagus was 2.99/lb but a bag of tortilla chips here is 2.50 on sale - I think I'd rather live here...

tierra85

All organics. I still buy them though That and my elixir ingredients... I spent 100 on reishi, chaga, dandy blend and coconut manna today :drinker:

rednpnk

Ha!! I'd kill for limes that price!! I went to the store yesterday and they were $8 per pound!!!! And that was at the commissary, which I cheaper then the other stores. I'm in Puerto Rico, guess they have a problem getting them here.

pita7317

Laughing Cow cheese. Must comment.
I quit eating it when I tried to broil/melt some on a slice of bread.
It would not melt ! Scary.

tl_dr

Cherries and raspberries are so expensive here, even when they're in season. It makes my pie-baking habit so expensive when the filling alone costs $24. :brokenheart:

I'm seeing a lot of people bringing up beef and limes... I guess I should be thankful that I live where I do. That stuff has always been affordable here. I don't think I've ever paid more than 20 cents for a lime at a grocery store, and I was a little appalled by that price. yeuh texus :drinker: :glasses:

Mof3wc

The prices that really piss me off are:
$18.99/bag of cup4cup gluten free flour. (Not optional, I have a celiac kiddo)
Berries - $5/small container on average
Lunch meat - $3/100g for turkey.
Whole roasting chickens!! - between $15-$20 per chicken.
$4.99 for 1 pomegranate
$8/small bag of grapes.

Strokingdiction

Pork, beef and dairy vs 4 years ago. Thanks ethanol!

This. And it destroys all my small engine equipment on the farm. We hunt and only eat seasonal veg.

Another this. I actually go out of my way to purchase pure gas for all of our small engine equipment and our cars if we're close to one. There are thousands of stations across the country that still carry it. pure-gas.org has a list of stations across the US and Canada that sell it.

HerkMeOff

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Whole roasting chickens!! - between $15-$20 per chicken.

Where do you live?

I can get a whole chicken for like $6

Beautiful_Pain

Nice non rotten or ugly Sweet potatoes
Name brand cereal

bridgettesweightloss

Any seafood is at least 8 bucks a pound, chicken or ground beef is like 4-5 normally which isn't even much better. We wait til meat goes on sale and then buy a bunch and freeze it :P

Then of course any fresh berries. They're like 5-6 dollars a tiny thing of them, so I almost always buy frozen. Cherries are especially insane, like 9 dollars a bag.

And nuts, not the generic salted peanuts but stuff like raw peanuts or almonds or cashews are always insanely expensive.

I recently moved to LA from Ohio, so I've noticed the difference in prices from one area to another...avocados were like 3 dollars a piece and i can get them 2 for a dollar here!

fitnessf0x

raspberries! a tiny pack is around $5

neandermagnon

smoked salmon - I totally love this and would eat it every day but 6+ dinars for 100g is pushing it.

Blackberries... I live in Bahrain and I just can't *pay* for berries that can be gathered for free in the good ole British countryside. Especially in such tiny quantities whereby you can get about 3x that in less than 20 mins on the common where my parents used to live. And it's painful to pay for other berry varieties that my parents grow in their garden.

seismicmuffin

Fresh raspberries, blueberries, blackberries etc. Frozen are just as bad. I always have to shop around and wait until avocados and mangos are 2 for $1. $1.50 for one mango? Crazy.

ETA: ALMONDS. Love chocolate flavored almonds but they are almost $10 a bag. I can go through one in a week. Also, pistachios.

arainiday1

artichokes... whole ones

berries, pretty much all of them

milk

liesevanlingen

Bacon. Whenever it's on sale anywhere, I bring the flyer to Walmart, get them to price match it and buy pounds and pounds of it. That why chest freezers were invented. For bacon.

Ditto for berries, but we eat them too fast to freeze any.

kikityme

I don't know how much Stevia or artificial sweeteners are in the states, but in Canada you're looking at over $9.00. For fake sugar. (don't judge me on the fake stuff, Diabetic, there isn't an option really.)

And berries! Where I grew up, blue and raspberries were wild, so paying anything for them hurts my heart a little.

I get all my meats and veg from farmers and butchers, so it's a lot cheaper.

MrMax

Everything. I love cheese but the price of it has gone up. Honeydew melons (yum) are $4 right now.

NewLIFEstyle4ME

Dry-aged grass fed steaks and beef
Breads and cheeses
organic milk and nut milks
Organic cruelty free small farm raised eggs and chicken
Pomegranate Juice
in season: Cherries, pomegranates, grapes, apples, pears, and most fruits and veggies I love
fresh berries...especially organic, but even non-organic--MEGA high priced
organic and locally grown foods in general
pistachios and nuts in general
wild caught fish and pole/troll caught Tuna (from the U.S.A. and not from other countries)


most all of the foods I get from Whole Paycheck (I mean Whole Foods), Health Food Stores and specialty stores--foods I love to eat the most, foods I really consider like "staples".. is expensive as all get out!
:sick: :devil: :explode: :sad: :grumble: :noway: :mad: :sick:

The foods from local grocery stores--stuff that is in boxes/cans/bags and the like aren't "that" expensive--but still high as :devil: ...but no where near as outrageously high as the stores Iisted above...but the foods in cans, boxes, freezers, bags, (highly processed foods, loaded with pesticides, chemicals, lots of sugary fatty stuff) etc. are foods I'm not crazy about eating anymore...like I used to when I was younger--my taste buds have changed and the stuff I love is so expensive....it's shameful :frown:

Monicapierce

Nuts

IdRatherBeReading

Ugh, I forgot. Bananas are getting WAY expensive, too. They were 75 cents a pound the last time I went to the grocery store. That doesn't sound like a lot, but when they were as low as 40 cents a pound only 2 months ago....

Wow! I just bought some tonight for 55c a lb. It is the most eaten fruit here, so I buy a lot, but I probably would not at that price.

manda1978

Avocadoes
Tomatoes
Asparagus
Brocollini
Decent Red Meat
Limes
Greek Yoghurt

dawnna76

Blueberries! Them things be $$$$ right now!