How are you handling rising food and energy costs?

[Smugpugmug]

ok, two months later.....what are you all paying for eggs. I just got a dozen no nothing eggs for $3.91 from Lidi's. I thought the bird flu was from months ago.

Cheapest eggs I've seen in my area are $3.79 Eggland's Best brand. Store brand is $4.49 and store brand organic is $4.79. As a result, Eggland and the non organic store brand are always sold out whenever I go shopping so I get the store brand organic. I'm in MD.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I paid $5.50 for eggs last week and $3.99 yesterday. Different grocery chains.

 

[Princesca]

My wife usually does the shopping but she's sick, so I went last night and holy cow. A large box of ice cream Drumsticks were over $9! They're obviously not essential, so I passed on them. But jeez. I spent $100 for like five bags of groceries and only got a lb of ground turkey and about 1.7 lbs of chicken breast for meats.

 

[DLgal]

ok, two months later.....what are you all paying for eggs. I just got a dozen no nothing eggs for $3.91 from Lidi's. I thought the bird flu was from months ago.

$5.99 for a dozen large cage free eggs store brand (Lucerne) at Albertson's.

Egglands best are up to $6.99 ($6.19 at Target). I usually buy those, but they were all out.

I'm still okay with 50 cents per egg...

I like buying the 18ct usually, but those have been hard to find lately.

Eggs are one thing that I buy regardless of price. I have a teenage son who doesn't like meat much and eggs are his main source of protein (he eats a dozen a week on his own). That and Fairlife milk, which is also super expensive, but still cheaper than chicken or beef (or meat substitutes), so I don't mind.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Haven’t noticed any difference on our heating bill yet at all.

My kids have outgrown childcare but it’s a fixed rate here at most daycares (set by gov) and hasn’t increased. Probably lots more fundraising going on however.

Groceries - cheaper meals - more pasta, less chicken. Our budge has gone up a bit but not a huge amount. Feeding 3 people rather than 4 also helps with one at college

 

[mrodgers]

Just after Christmas bought an 18 pack of Eggland's eggs, $8.19.

Pork chops are $5.49/lb.

This was at Walmart. I'd hate to see what the prices are at the 50-100% higher prices grocery store.

 

[disneyseniors]

Cheapest eggs I've seen in my area are $3.79 Eggland's Best brand. Store brand is $4.49 and store brand organic is $4.79. As a result, Eggland and the non organic store brand are always sold out whenever I go shopping so I get the store brand organic. I'm in MD.

Our familyowned store had 18 count eggs for $8.88, Yep, almost 9 dollars!!!!
I found some at Target for $4.29 for 18 ct. Some woman in front of me was filling her cart with them, and I;m just lucky I got one. Ridiculous!

 

[DLgal]

Just after Christmas bought an 18 pack of Eggland's eggs, $8.19.

Pork chops are $5.49/lb.

This was at Walmart. I'd hate to see what the prices are at the 50-100% higher prices grocery store.

Walmart is not THAT much cheaper than most large conglomerate grocery stores.

In fact, I won't even shop at Wal Mart because it's less convenient and the savings is negligible on the foods we buy regularly.

 

[BroadwayHermione5]

In an odd twist of fate, the dryer went out in early September so a new washer and dryer were bought and it has saved so much energy and water-and not because it’s considered a water saver either. It’s bigger and new and has more advanced settings so if you have a light load the soil level can be changed. So less laundry is also being done in general because of all of this

However given that’s an extreme circumstance, here is what we are doing:

1) leftovers: eat them.
2) try not to have a lot of leftovers/make for who we have to serve
3) cutting out most soda (saves a lot tbh)
4) Actually looking when going bulk shopping. Lucked out at costcos yesterday between the deals and items we usually bought when necessary we bought in bulk (for example Costco tilapia is individually wrapped in the big bag in the frozen section. So we will get 4 meals out of that as opposed to buying tilapia once a month and having to eat it that day or within a day or two.
5) pre cooking some stuff and freezing for later
6) sticking up now-for some reason ShopRite is the only one to sell red hint sauce products. They are constantly used and we stock up once to twice a year and it doesn’t go to waste
7) blankets and sweatshirts and fuzzy socks abound to keep warm so the thermostat doesn’t go above a certain thing (unless the temperature drops drastically)

 

[Colleen27]

ok, two months later.....what are you all paying for eggs. I just got a dozen no nothing eggs for $3.91 from Lidi's. I thought the bird flu was from months ago.

I wouldn't expect to see improvement until spring. Tens of millions of laying hens were killed by or because of the flu, and it'll take time to rebuild those flocks. Rules aimed at preventing contagion require the culling of all exposed birds when avian flu is identified so the usual "pipeline" of younger birds being raised to replace losses due to age or ordinary illnesses is lost as well. So replacing those birds will mean sourcing eggs from unaffected sources and going through the whole process of hatching (about 3 weeks) and raising (4-5 months) new layers.

ETA: I did actually have to buy grocery store eggs for the holiday cooking, and they're $4.49 for 18 at our local grocery.

 

[Smugpugmug]

Our familyowned store had 18 count eggs for $8.88, Yep, almost 9 dollars!!!!
I found some at Target for $4.29 for 18 ct. Some woman in front of me was filling her cart with them, and I;m just lucky I got one. Ridiculous!

That's crazy! I just came back from Safeway and I saw 18 count Nellie's eggs for $7.30. The store brand was completely sold out, even the organic brown eggs they have.

 

[mrodgers]

Walmart is not THAT much cheaper than most large conglomerate grocery stores.

In fact, I won't even shop at Wal Mart because it's less convenient and the savings is negligible on the foods we buy regularly.

Perhaps not where you are, but I have one grocery store (one company, with 2 stores) and it is 50-100% more cost than Walmart.

Or at least it use to be. Now that pork chops are $5.49/lb rather than what it was prior to Covid "shortages" at $1.99/lb, Walmart is catching up to the grocery store with rising prices.

 

[NotUrsula]

I was at WalMart last night and for some reason they were awash in eggs (totally out of butter, but I digress). They were running about $3.50/dz, or $5 for 18ct. They had filled an entire freezer case with them (temp turned up of course)

I did score a turkey for $1.10/lb on sale. That's defrosting now and will give us a lot of extra meat for sandwiches and pasta dishes/soups the next couple of weeks.

 

[Robbie Cottam]

I complain a lot

No one listens, I keep complaining, prices keep climbing....

 

[lowlight]

The eggs I get from the local farm are now 5/dozen and frequently sold out. When the farm eggs are sold out, the eggs I end up getting from the grocery store are 7.99/dozen, frequently discounted to 6.99. Store brand eggs and the cheaper eggs are sold out so often that I don't even count them as a possibility. In fact, most of the dairy aisle is just huge holes and gaps, they used to be able to hide it by spreading out product widely enough, but now they can't and it's just two foot empty sections in eggs, yogurt, milk, and cheese. This is right after stocking periods, as well.

The price of services is going up across the board, and electric rates just went up wildly. Another indicator that things aren't great right now is that the once vacant new car lots are filled to the brim again, except Toyota, maybe because their cars are actually still quality. I noticed the Subaru dealer is using their overflow lot again.

Something I'm not sure people even register as having increased so much is a lot of the imported junk from China on Amazon. I buy a lot of things in 3-4 month intervals and watching the prices climb on things like battery packs, drywall anchors, filters, etc. is frightening. A pack of clips I use for a hobby went from 2-3 bucks for 100 clips to $9.

 

[focusondisney]

. I spent $100 for like five bags of groceries and only got a lb of ground turkey and about 1.7 lbs of chicken breast for meats.

$100 for 5 bags of groceries doesn’t seem that bad. It’s pretty good actually, unless you have only 2 items per bag.

 

[QueenIsabella]

I paid $3.61/dozen at Lidl this morning. We bake a lot, and my youngest loves eggs for any meal, so I had to get them.

OTOH, I got a bone-in ham, originally $1.99/lb, marked down to $0.49/lb, then 30%. The checkout clerk couldn't believe I got a big ham for less than $3! We'll get several meal out of that, from ham slices to ham and as ingredient and then split pea soup!

 

[Princesca]

$100 for 5 bags of groceries doesn’t seem that bad. It’s pretty good actually, unless you have only 2 items per bag.

At least one bag was a lot of dry goods I had gotten on clearance :/ And they were the plastic bags, and I didn't cram them full. IDK - just eyeballing it, didn't seem like much. A few snacks/staples, and basically the ingredients to make lunch for three days and one dinner.

 

[mrodgers]

$100 for 5 bags of groceries doesn’t seem that bad. It’s pretty good actually, unless you have only 2 items per bag.

I couldn't tell you the last time I didn't have only 2 items in each double bag. It's been a long while since you bag your own groceries.

Even when I tell them I'm perfectly capable of carrying a bag with a 12 ounce box of cereal, can of cheese, and a bag of tortilla chips, they still put them in 3 separate double bags.

 

[focusondisney]

I couldn't tell you the last time I didn't have only 2 items in each double bag. It's been a long while since you bag your own groceries.

Even when I tell them I'm perfectly capable of carrying a bag with a 12 ounce box of cereal, can of cheese, and a bag of tortilla chips, they still put them in 3 separate double bags.

Jeez, not here. No plastic bags, you bring your own reusable or pay for paper. Now that we pay to buy reusable, the cashiers pack the bags. I get so annoyed because now most of my bags have tears from how heavy they get packed. One of our chains lets you scan & bag as you shop, I totally love that. Wegmans took away that option last fall so my bags are overpacked again.