Food prices that piss you off

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.

Raspberries.

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!

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.

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:

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.

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.

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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

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!

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.

artichokes... whole ones

berries, pretty much all of them

milk

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.

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:

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.

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