[JerseyHighlander]

Been a strange 2 years in many ways, I was dumbfounded when I added up all my supermarket receipts for this month.

Today this article comes through my rss reader.

[JRandomFreeper]

I looked out at the garden and I didn't see any inflation. The chickens look ok as well. Wild hogs are a problem in Texas and legal to hunt at night. Flour, sugar, and lard have gone up some, but who buys those more than once a quarter?

/johnny

[taildragger]

Boy....

I have a friend a diesel wonk that tells me the new trucks and their fancy emission systems deal with a great deal of thermal stress and may not have the longevity that their predecessors had. That means more rebuilds sooner and greater fleet cost passed on to consumers. When will that be added to this inflationary mix?

[GeronL]

“we can’t eat as much as we want to, drive as much as we want to, turn our thermostats as low as we want to.....”

“skyrocket electric rates” are necessary under his energy plan

What should we have expected?

[pnh102]

It took these morons this long to figure this out?!?! Food prices have been going up well, since for forever now.

[Red_Devil 232]

Pinging the Weekly Gardening Thread.

Food for your soul - if you can afford it!

[cripplecreek]

My usual ground turkey went up something like 40% this week alone.

[Alice in Wonderland]

Meet Ribeye Joe and Sir Loin . . . beef @ $2.00 +/- per pound.

[Cindy]

Thread bump.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

US Misery Index is up again. (Inflation + Unemployment)Still five, six points below The Carter Years, but Bammy will speed that up REAL quick with the Cap-n-Tax Cr@p he’ll be pushing next!

http://www.miseryindex.us/customindexoneYear.asp?StartYear=2009&submit1=Create+Report

The red bar show that inflation is rearing her ugly head again...

[Lorianne]

related: Hidden In The PPI Data Was The Largest Food Price Spike In 26 Years

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hidden-in-the-ppi-data-was-the-largest-food-price-spike-in-26-years-2010-4#ixzz0m9wpTMmk

[Popman]

I keep detailed records of my household budget and my food bill has grown at least 15% to 20 % in the last 18 months.

I've been threatening to put a garden in and I'm going do it.

[Othniel]

Wait for lettuce and oranges to go up. The Central Valley of Calif. has been suffering from no water due to a *fish* that is supposedly more important than jobs. All the fields that went empty last year are on their way to the same condition because the water's being diverted to Gay Bay and their sewage. Gotta save that little fishy, though. 40,000 people out of work is another benefit of Obama's ineptness and Der Guvernator's spinelessness.

[cherry]

what I'have noticed is plain old yellow onions.....can't t the find them for much less than a dollar a pound when you used to be able to get them for 39cents apound....

I bought 48 cans of tuna yesterday......2 for a $1 but they were only 5 oz....

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Food stamp usage in the U.S. has now increased for 14 consecutive months. There are now 39.4 million Americans on food stamps, up 22.4% from one year ago.”

Wow. I’ll bet the vast majority of these newcomers were hard working taxpayers who for the first time in their adult lives have had to resort to this.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[metmom]

Easy. Start your own garden and learn how to can.

[tob2]

I know what you mean. To makes matters worse, as a diabetic, I can’t buy cheap foods. Having even a small garden helps. Noticing lots of neighbors who are first time gardners.

[phockthis]

it’s coming

[bray]

Higher oil prices and the ethonal boondoggel is the reason.

Pray for America

[who knows what evil?]

Saddle up that black horse...