I know this has been discussed many times but even I'm starting to notice.

$4.50 for a box of six Thomas's English Muffins? Seriously?

I'm really starting to notice the prices of some things are becoming outrageous. How do families with children pay these prices?

And on a related note, my preferred lunch restaurant (easily go there 50-60% of the time) has not been open since December 31. No sign, nothing. Just locked and dark. It has totally screwed up my lunch choices.

$4.50 for a box of english muffins.

For a thinking, reasoning human being that should morph into:

1. America has no idea what is causing this.
2. America has no idea who to rebel against.
3. America has no idea what the implications are (this trend, what is to stop it?)
4. America is too apathetic to discover the reasons.

When the entitlements end, is when the lights go out in Georgia. The sheeple are nothing more than amoebas that won't react until they are being stung with something substantial. Until its substantial, they won't risk anything. That's why the Boiled Frog has been so useful. Incremental slavery insures no uprising.

I got a 12 pack of English muffins for $3 a couple of weeks ago and two brownie mixes for a buck each. In TriBeCa where I work half the time, there are a good half dozen dollar slice pizzerias that have opened up recently and the pizza is not bad (which means its great by non NY standards).

I think many stores are however *attempting* to jack up prices but most are failing to pass along the increase. I know tons of people that are bringing lunch to work and not just low earners either.

There's only so much you can take before even the most ignorant sheeple get*****ed off enough to do something about it.

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$4.50 for a box of six Thomas's English Muffins? Seriously?

Holy Toledo, that's only a quarter more than I pay for gluten free English muffins. Gluten free is supposed to be expensive, but plain,'ol bleached wheat flour ones??? So much for wheat subsidies keeping prices low.

Thank goodness for that chest freezer I picked up for $50 last year.

Munchos for $2 a bag continues to see the bag shrink, it's now 4 3/4 oz :-(!

$4 for potato chips, which helps keep me from buying the damned things.

Made monthly tip to town. Lots of small packaging and long time brands disappearing. Gotta buy the large economy size of house brand. And lots of large economy size are more expensive than smaller on per unit basis

Stopped by a Sav-A-Lot yesterday afternoon for my wife after picking our granddaughter up from school.

Two bags of store brand shredded mozzarella
Two cans of Maxwell House coffee(On sale)
Two "Suddenly Salad" pasta salads
One bunch of bananas
One bag of Lay's potato chips

$28.51

As I left the store with two plastic bags that were only close to being full because of the coffee containers and the bag of air with potato chips in it, I lifted it a couple of times and was thinking "I have almost thirty dollars in these two bags". Half of it was the coffee but you're still talking $14 for two bags of cheese, some bananas, a couple boxes of pasta and a bag of chips.

Last week was our monthly "restock the shelves" trip and one thing that stuck in my head was the graham crackers. $4.69 for a box of flipping graham crackers. I told her, "I know you like this particular kind but next time I'm buying the store brand."

Briar,

Drop by a Dollar Store or 99 cent store....I think that is one place folks shop. There is food in them! Not much but more than I expected!!! I even bought a bag of apples the other day...small apples but from the USA and tasty!

generally— I have noticed prices up across the board but what I have noticed —is that it seems like no one knows what to price individual items for.

one day the price for muffins may be $5 and the next— at the same store not on sale— $2.50

It is almost like they aren't sure from day to day whether we are in inflation or deflation.

We started doing grocery shopping at Walmart - except for meat. Prices are 20 to 30 percent lower than Publix for name brands.

3 kids so we notice grocery prices. What surprises me most is the variation in prices for the same products. One day a can of soup is 1.29, the next 1.99. Strip steak one day is 4.99/lb and a week later it's back to 10/lb. Coke products will be 5 bucks a case on day and 8 bucks the next. I often wonder if they are trying new prices only to see them fail and then are forced to flush inventory. I understand how fruit has seasonal variances but soup and coke?

I'm a big substation guy. If the price is it of line, I simply will not buy it and that is often. When the price is good, I buy in volume. I often wonder what the folks who can't afford to buy in volume do as they must get stuck buying many goods atn**** prices when you need them

Some things I just refuse to buy anymore based on the price.

I added significantly to my survival stock last week when Albertson's had Pasta Sides and Rice Sides on sale for 83 cents each (with store coupon). I'm going to start scouring that booklet they put out monthly for other such opportunities.

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I often wonder if they are trying new prices only to see them fail and then are forced to flush inventory.

86, you might be on to something. Trying to see if they can pass on the rising costs? I was surprised to hear Kraft laying people off.

It's scary the foods that we always ate our whole lives that we are now close to not eating anymore bc their prices are putting them on the levels of foods we never could afford.

Growing up, you hear of certain expensive foods that your parents couldn't afford to buy, like lobster, caviar, prime rib, nice cheeses, etc.

Now we are looking at phasing out most store bought meat of any kind (we buy butchered meat by the several hundred lbs), ANY cheese, a lot of the various chips and crackers out there, a lot of vegetable produce when they are at certain prices, like lettuce at $2 a head, pop at $2 a 2 liter, A1 Steak Sauce (this is an odd inclusion, but we do like it on our meat and we haven't bought this in maybe 8 years, but growing up we did have it for some reason), all name brand cereal products, laundry detergent (we make our own), name brand salad dressings, non-wholesale bread products, and on and on.

I've seen prices go up by a noticeable amount. I mainly watch meat prices. Ribeyes at Costco are now $9/lb, when they were around $7.50-8.00 a year ago. I don't eat much processed food, so I have no gauge for that.

Eighty6thebs
that is exactly what I was saying and see

its like they don't know how to value the USD

I buy (and eat) almost exclusively meat and veggies, and prices have definitely risen on average, though not anywhere close to the degree that processed food has. Fortunately I live in New York, where ethnic markets abound, so the prices I am paying are as low as they have ever been (I have been shopping/cooking for myself for 6 years).

I almost never pay more than $5/lb for steak (my most common meal), $1.29/lb (usually .99/lb) for ground turkey, $2.49/lb for ground beef, .50/lb carrots, dollar a head lettuce, 2/$1 cucumbers, 2/$1 green peppers, etc. Cheese has been the biggest problem for controlling costs as it has been rising dramatically, although I can get feta for $4/lb at the local greek place, which is a steal!

I eat a LOT of cheese, and my solution is to buy enough to bridge sales. I can USUALLY get away with this; I rarely run out before it goes on sale again.

People will always buy food. It's the other stuff they will go without. I see vacations in the future as simply not happening.

Started shopping at a mexican meat market about nine months ago. HUGE, thick T-bones and ribeyes for $4.15 a pound, and they'll often have sales for $2.00 per pound. Ginormous boneless skinless chicken breasts. Best quality meat I've ever bought. I'll never buy meat from CloneMart ever again.

Yep Landshark, that is the way to go. Just watch out, they sell some weird body parts at the Mexican groceries.

hmmmmm, we have Mexican meat markets all over the place. Maybe I should check them out. I keep trying to do low carb and end up breaking it after about five weeks. Better steaks might help.

KD, uh....what's your budget for Phillips Milk of Magnesium?

I second the Hispanic markets for produce, sometimes meats.
99c stores have food in SOME states. AZ yes, CO no.

Gen - for cheese, go to Costco and save 1/3. Eg 5# shredded for $8 or so. Block cheese at 2.50/lb.

I get very thin sliced boneless rib eye from an asian market for bulgogi at $4/lb. Beef tenderloin was 6.95/lb there for the whole bag.

I buy half my groceries from ethnic markets.

Pieter -- block cheese can be had for $2.50/lb around here if you time the sales, and I can get it in 8oz packages, so it keeps longer and if I don't wolf it all at once it doesn't get stale.

I just have to pick when I buy it.

Lately there has been some sort of glut in pork ribs and similar cuts -- I don't know why, but I do know I like it a lot, as that meat in general is one of my personal favorites that I will not buy at "normal" prices (it's just too damned expensive) but when I can get it for $2.50/lb or less I'll buy all there is and eat it like a madman. Cooked low and slow, rolled in my special spice mixture first and slathered with BBQ sauce on top during the last 45 minutes or so. YUM!