Food prices that piss you off

Cant wait for the Summer, when tomatoes are $0.30 a kilo (2 pounds).

i have to watch my grocery bill, but grew up in a house where everything would be skimped on in order to buy good food. We ate massive amounts of produce, and fish twice a week (i still ended up fat - although the lack of junky food at home kept me better in check until I moved out). I think i've picked up the habit now of prioritizing food in my budget too. Nope, don't have a tv or cable subscription, nor newspaper/any magazine subscriptions, and a bunch of other stuff that's eats up money thoughtlessly. I don't miss those things. If there's a frugal gene, I have it. Not enjoying shopping makes life easier. I've started to think about food prices are price per unit of nutrition. Junk food is cheap - but you don't get anything for your money. I hate a bad deal! If you buy junk and then have to buy vitamins, also expensive - you could have bought the real food with the vitamins that are more usable to your body upfront.

HerkMeOff wrote: »

Milk.

Milk is almost $4 a gallon, and I live in Wisconsin. I can't imagine what people are paying other places....

lecanto1 wrote: »

Paid $3.38 for a small head of cauliflower this week at Sam's club, and I thought that was high. After reading this, I guess not. Going to look into frozen cauliflower prices, though, cause I am the only one who eats it. It went a little brown before I finished it, & I hate it when food goes bad. Hate wasting food.

If cauliflower gets a little brown, but isn't slimy or moldy, you can just trim the brown part off and the rest is perfectly fine to eat.

For me gluten free foods.........E.g A small bag of gluten free porride oats for £2.50 when i can get a huge bag of smart price oats for 50p (it says it may contain gluten, but ive eaten them with no effects)...outrageous

Also since when has cheese cost as much as steak.. its just manky milk gone hard and milk is dirt cheap. when i was a kid cheese was dirt cheap, my mum called it poor mans meat

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

Almost everything at the grocery store - $5 lb for brussel sprouts, $4 head for cauliflower, $4 for a pack of greens, $2 ea for red pepper, $2-$5 lb for mushrooms. $30 lb for fresh fish, $20 lb for antibiotic free meat.

This is why we garden, raise chickens, fish and hunt.

Wow this is so expensive! In comparison here in the Netherlands/Holland:
Cauliflower: $2-$2,50
Red pepper:$0,70-0,90
Mushrooms: $1
Fresh fish: Salmon $30/kg (=2,2 lb)
Brussel sprouts: 1,10/lb
I hate the prices of pine nuts $60/kg

Fresh berries. I only buy them when they go on sale, because $4-5 for a pack of strawberries or blueberries is insane to me, especially how quickly I go through them (within a day or two). Luckily I often see them on sale ($1.88-$2.50) in the flyer of at least one store most weeks, and my local grocery store price matches.

Limes, though I understand the recent cost impact as my boyfriend's coworker imports limes and explained it to me a few months back over beer at Hooter's, oddly enough.

Milk (Skim ofcourse)... now way more than a gallon of gas!