Food prices that piss you off
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The price of non-steroid injected chicken is pretty crazy.
Sushi is WAY too expensive, especially when you get it at the supermarket.
Milk.
Any beer with actual flavor.0 -
Just curious what foods you guys love, that are healthy, that you can't buy all the time because the price is not worth it/worth it but still a bit expensive to eat regularly.
For me it's gotta be cherry tomatoes (or really tomatoes in general), and frozen fish.
healthy food is always worth it to me, what's more important your healthy or saving a few bucks that I can save by trimming elsewhere?
I think you are missing the point here - for example, I said raspberries because they are expensive in Australia - that doesn't mean I don't think eating healthy is important or that I dont spend my money on other healthy things.
Other fruits in season are not expensive and I can and do frequently buy bananas and mandarines, which I'm sure are just as healthy as raspberries.
But I would like to buy raspberries more often but the price stops me doing so - that's all the question was asking.0 -
All food! I can easily spend £60 on food a week (I don't know what that is in $$$. About $80 I reckon) and when I get it home it doesn't even look like I've bought anything! All fresh produce (meat, fish, fruit, veg, etc) is so damn expensive these days. In the UK it is anyway!0
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meat and nuts seem to be really high IMO0
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Grilled chicken breasts... $7 for 4 breasts is sad.
Berries when not in season (arguably, it's nice to be able to buy them out of season)
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Asparagus!!!!0
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I buy Jack Link's beef sticks for my lunches, but they're five bucks for six of them. Also, I don't really have to explain Quest bars.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PMHLZK/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I buy these as I eat Jack Link's for lunch too.0 -
I hate that the baked chips or snacks cost more than the regular ones, even though you get less in the bag. WHY? Is it because they know people who are watching their intake will pay more? It doesn't seem fair that they take advantage of people who are trying to eat well and bypassing the crap.0
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All the organic produce here is outrageous. When you're on a budget to begin with, there's just no way. I also can't buy a variety of meats because of the price. I usually end up with ground beef and chicken because like others I can find the chicken breast for 1.99/lb and the ground beef anywhere from 2.99=3.75/lb. I can't even afford to purchase protein or health bars. I love Kind bars but I can't validate paying over 5 dollars for a box of 4 tiny bars. Grapes are outrageous here. For a bag of grapes it can be 10 dollars. I like grapes but I don't like grapes that much. Bagged leafy greens! I just can't. Not when they go bad within a day of opening. Most of the time at my store they look awful to begin with and they are well within the best by dates.
Sucks being poor!0 -
Honestly, we grow or raise our food so i dont notice most of it, but milk is outrageous. We're about to buy goats for our dairy (i just paid $5.58 for coffee creamer. I dont think so.)
I noticed a 2lb cornish hen was nearly $11 the other day, i just put one of my laying hens in the freezer due to an injury i couldnt correct. She dressed out to nearly 4lbs and gave me nearly 8 dozen eggs in her lifetime as well. I think pound for pound she ended up being $0.04/lb. It disturbs me how much it costs knowing how little it costs for me to raise them.0 -
As for trimming expenses elsewhere-the only place we could trim is to get rid of our truck. I really hope some of you guys are local though-hopefully my garden does well this year and ill be more than happy to work out a goid deal! Budget shouldnt have to mean going hungry or living on ramen.0
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Also bottled herbs and spices...outrageous! I bought some black pepper a couple of weeks ago, that used to cost 59 CENTS, 20 or so years ago and maybe $1.50-$2.00 a couple of years ago...it was $3.89--and that was the cheapest price, for BLACK PEPPER--nothing fancy--just black pepper. :indifferent:
Buying organic herbs and spices are NOT more expensive than regular ones anymore. Even salt is expensive now...I remember when a big box of salt was 10 cents--those days are OVER:ohwell:0 -
Watermelon. WTF, they are $9 for a REALLY small one (barely the size of a football!)
Makes me miss Texas -.-
Ah! Even when they're in season?That's highway robbery! :noway:
They are *just* coming in to stores now - I don't know where they import from (they can't grow here - too damn cold), but for some reason we never get them before May. They are the complely round sort too.0 -
A few weeks ago, my local supermarket wanted $7 for a cauliflower. For a freaking CAULIFLOWER!
There's always one make-believe story, isnt there?0 -
i live in Asia right now so ANYTHING imported is crazy, including chocolate bars and milk. i went to the us for the first time in January and i was shocked that veggies and fruits are more expensive than junk food0
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Ohhh, and another thing, I'm REALLY keen on making Georgian food atm, but it's kind of ironic that the ingredients that they use a lot (walnut, fresh cilantro and other herbs, pomegrante etc.), are waaaay too expensive to create meal of here - A side dish (pkhali) would end me at about $30+ here; A sauce (satsivi) would add up to maybe $20 etc. etc.0
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EVERYTHING!!!!!!! :grumble:
Milk the other day went up to $4.30 a gallon!!!!! :explode:
Pretty soon it will be a day's wages for a loaf of bread. JS0 -
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
Weird...I think the Aldi Babybel-type rounds are horribly fake, so I don't ever get those. My husband liked them until he tried the Babybel Light brand and then he was floored by how much better the quality/taste was. But I really can't discern the slightest difference at ALL between their fake Laughing Cow wedges and the real ones.0 -
Fresh fish and fresh berries kill me. I love them both, but when I buy them they easily take up the majority of my weekly grocery budget0
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