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Prices from the June 2026 BLS release. Updated August 2026. “Healthy food costs more” is one of those claims everyone repeats and nobody prices out. It gets used to explain obesity, food deserts, and the entire American diet, usually with no numbers attached at all. So I priced it out, using the same source as…
This is the kind of dinner I make when the oven is doing most of the work and I don’t want to think too hard about it. Chicken thighs go in on top of parsnips, carrots and sweet potato, everything bakes in a mustard and maple stock that thickens into a light sauce, and you…
I do not cook much. What I do is read numbers, and grocery numbers have been more interesting than most things I look at this year. So when someone says “just cook at home, it is cheaper,” https://americankitchentales.com/the-cheapest-protein-in-america-is-not-chicken-breast-here-is-the-math/my first question is not whether that is true. It is how much cheaper, and whether the gap…
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…
