What does food cost where you live?

It depends on where you buy things. I live in Columbus, GA and absolutely everything is overpriced. Publix costs $4.09 for a gallon of milk. If I go to Sam's Club or the local IGA, I can find it for $3.39-$3.49. I try to keep my eye out for coupons on milk. I subscribe to the baby club at some stores even though I don't have kids just to save money. With a coupon, I can get it for $2.50 not including Ibotta.

For bread, it depends on brand. I buy the Sara Lee 100% Whole Wheat 45 calorie bread and it is about $2.50 but I typically make my own to cut cost. A dozen eggs here cost $2.39.

I spend the weekend in Atlanta every other week and choose to shop at the local Farmer's Market. Everything is MUCH fresher and at a highly reduced price. We don't have a Kroger or a Safeway nearby. When I visited my cousin in New Mexico, I really enjoyed shopping at Safeway because of all the sales/coupon match ups.

Midwest here so food is not too bad. I still use coupons and shop sales to save money when I can.

It depends on the type of food (and where you buy, of course. I'm referring to the cheaper places).

Israel is pretty known for having cheap and pretty high quality vegetables and fruits. Most fruits and vegetables cost about one dollar/kg or less, when they're in season. That's excluding expensive things of course, like mushrooms, asparagus and other special and imported fruits and veg. Most of them are locally grown. You can walk into a store with only 10$ and buy bags full of fruit and veg.
Other staples like rice, legumes, etc. are also cheap. But of course, brown rice is more expensive than white rice, whole bread more expensive than white bread etc.

Dairy is expensive though. Even before I went vegan I stopped consuming it, both because my stomach didn't react well to it but also because it was too expensive for me. One small package of low fat cream cheese was about 1.5$. One liter of milk was the same. One plain yogurt/with fruits is at least 1$. I'm sure now it's higher.

I know meat is very expensive. It can cost up to 10$ per kg normally. Fish are considered more expensive. Since I don't buy these things I'm not sure.


But soy milk is relatively expensive as well. It usually costs around 4$ per liter, depending on the type and quality. Nuts and seeds are very expensive, over 4$ for 100 grams!
I think all the packaged and frozen foods are really expensive too. As a student I could never afford to buy them.

Breads I'm not sure. I bake my own bread and the flour is really cheap. Again it depends, you can get the simple, white, unsliced, basic, supervised bread that costs less than 1$. If you want so-called healthy bread (meaning it has whole wheat flour, but it's still highly processed which is why I bake my own), prices go up to 3-4$.

I live in the UK and here we have supermarket cheap brands which are the best for a budget. E.g. A KG of rice might be £2.50 for a branded pack but Sainsburys Basics or Asda Smartprice will do the same thing for £1. Supermarkets do EVERYTHING in these ranges (everything from vodka to shampoo to lettuce).

Meat and fish are the more expensive things - a pack of 2 decent salmon fillets can be £5 and a pack of 5 chicken breasts can go up to £6.50ish. Always best to buy in bulk!

I buy 1lb of fresh turkey breast steaks from Waitrose (UK) for £4.99, which equates to $8.33.

600g of strawberries (1.32lbs) is £3.00, which is $5.01

2.5g of potatoes (5.5lbs) is £2.95, which is $4.93

Dozen eggs is £3.10, which is $5.18.

Waitrose is by no means the cheapest supermarket, so I would think pikey places like Aldi or Netto would be a lot less. I've also found fruit much cheaper in my local greengrocer's, but who has the time to visit different shops for meat, veg, fish any more?

Here is New England prices do not seem to bad

Dozen Eggs $1.69
Gallon Milk $2.99
Bread $1.29
Ground Beef $3.29

These are all store brand. Brand name is more expensive.

And there is no tax on supermarket food here.

Waitrose is by no means the cheapest supermarket, so I would think pikey places like Aldi

Oh my god you total effing snobish thunderc*nt I shop at both Waitrose and Aldi thankyou very much (and sometimes my local farmers market when I get the chance as the meat and sauces are brill), Aldi is absolutely fine especially for vegetables and basics, just wouldn't buy wine from there.

To all the people who don't know, pikey is a racist term for the Traveler/Gypsy community and sometimes used as a catch all insult for the poor in the UK.

Waitrose is by no means the cheapest supermarket, so I would think pikey places like Aldi or Netto would be a lot less.

Oh, beautifully put.

I shop in Waitrose AND ‘pikey’ places like Asda, depending on what they have there that I like. I find Waitrose do the nicest fruit, but you can pick up a gorgeous steak at Asda for half the price. Perhaps I’m a part-time pikey!

My sincere apologies for that comment, it was thoughtless and you're right, very snobbish.

Well, kudos to you for apologising. Not many would.