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“Is $200 a week too much for groceries” and “is $200 a week too little” both get searched constantly, which tells you the honest answer: it depends entirely on who’s eating and where they live. The USDA actually publishes an official number for this instead of leaving it to guesswork, so let’s start there before…
Eggs have dominated the grocery-price headlines for two years, and this year they’ve finally been giving shoppers a break: prices have fallen well off their 2025 peak. Milk hasn’t gotten the same treatment. In the latest round of federal price data, milk posted the largest month-over-month increase of any staple tracked — bigger than beef,…
If you have ever wondered about the farmers share of the food dollar, USDA has been measuring exactly that since the 1990s. Hand over $60 at a checkout and a specific, published fraction of it reaches the people who grew the food. The dataset is called the Food Dollar Series, and it is the most…
Nobody sells food by the calorie, which is strange, because calories are the one thing every food in the store has in common. We buy by weight, by count, by package. A pound of ground beef and a pound of flour are the same number on a scale and completely different amounts of food. So…
Category: Grocery Prices I spent years doing inventory control, which mostly means I spent years counting things and then arguing with people about the count. One habit sticks with you from that work: you never trust the box. You trust the unit. A pallet of “24 cases” tells you nothing until you know what a…
Remember when a dozen eggs was just… a dozen eggs? No drama, no headlines, you just grabbed them and moved on with your life. Yeah, those were simpler times. Let’s actually walk through what happened to grocery prices over the last six years, because the vibes-based version (“everything got expensive and never came back down”)…
Every budget grocery article tells you to buy chicken breast. It has been the default advice for twenty years, repeated so often that nobody stops to check it against a price tag. So I checked. Not against my local store, which tells you nothing about your local store, but against the Bureau of Labor Statistics…
