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1930s food prices make my wallet cry
By Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD, PREVENTION, on Tue Aug 5, 2008 8:59am PDTThis past weekend my parents were in town and we visited lots of New York City attractions. One of the most fascinating was The Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As we toured the apartments, we learned the true stories of some of the more than 7,000 people who lived at 97 Orchard... Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (19) | Blog
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Money poll: How are you adjusting to higher gas and food prices?
By Dory Devlin, Shine staff, on Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:21am PDTGas prices are hitting everyone hard, but as Christine MacLaughlin writes in a blog post for the Houston Chronicle, they can hit single parents even harder.
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She puts it so simply and well: "All over the nation, as the gas prices creep up, we're all taking a pay cut." She's right. Salary raises are not keeping pace with the rise in prices at the gas pump and the grocery store. Gas prices jumped 10.5 percent last month, The New York Times reports, compared with an increase of 4.7 percent in April. And food prices rose 0.3 percent last month, which doesn't seem like a lot but they are up bigtime over last year.
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Another Day Another Lost Dollar!
By Bbee, on Sat May 17, 2008 12:54pm PDTMitchell and I went grocery shopping this morning. I spent over $90.00 and did not get half of the foods I normally do. I looked for specials, I had my coupon pouch and I had my discount card and still I have hardly any food We went to three different stores for different things. The... Read More »
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Money poll: Have higher prices altered your food-buying habits?
By Dory Devlin, Shine staff, on Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:15am PDTStunned by how much just the basics cost at the grocery store these days? It’s a recurring complaint, true, but the prices of staples like meat, produce, bread, eggs and milk have risen in what economists are calling the worst case of food inflation in 20 years.
Record-high energy, corn and wheat prices during the past year have raised prices across the aisles of our grocery stores, and families are responding by eating out less, making fewer trips to supermarkets and big-box stores, and paying closer attention to sales and what they put in the cart every week, as the AP reports.
So, no, you’re not imaging things. Food prices rose an average of 5 percent in just one year, and more of the past three years. Here’s a quick look at some average price spikes:
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