my husband hunts and we make our own sausage....
but you got to have milk, fresh veggies, butter, bread etc......
you can make your own bread but with the temps outside at 96 at 3pm who the heck is going be turning the oven on....
the rise in prices DOES have an impact on us, and we are frugal....I can imagine what is happening to people who don't live quite so frugally....
I am hearing it from people that used to just kind of shrug me and my frugal ways off.
I have a friend with a daughter the same age as mine, but she also has one 6 years younger, yet she spent about 3 times more than I did a week on groceries for her family of four than I did for my family of 3.
A year ago we were both stay at home moms that handled most of the transporting of the older girls to whatever, both did volunteer work, did the cleaning and laundry and running the household, but she claimed she didn't have time to cook, at that time I also had a part time job working in the evening, yet I either cooked or planned meals every day.
She now works fulltime, and I've got a part time job again. Needless to say, her grocery bill has now gone up even more because she claims she has no time to shop properly, something she never did before anyway, let alone cook.
My freezer is stocked with fruit, veggies, meat, broth, sauces, and the like. Hers is stocked with Stouffer's. Is it any wonder a friend who recently saw a picture of her 9 year old, at my 9 yar old's b'day party commented the child looked like she was 16 and pregnant?