Posted on 02/14/2023 8:39:52 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Several breakfast staples saw sharp price increases due to a perfect storm of bad weather and disease outbreaks—and continued effects from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Egg prices increased 8.5% in January from a month earlier and are up 70.1% over the past year, the highest annual rate since 1973. The deadliest avian-influenza outbreak on record has devastated poultry flocks across the U.S., leading the price of eggs to rise more than any other grocery item in 2022, according to Information Resources Inc. U.S. egg inventories were 29% lower in the final week of December 2022 than at the beginning of 2022, according to the USDA.
Frozen, noncarbonated juices and drinks—a category that includes frozen orange juice—rose by 1.5% in January from a month earlier, and the 12.4% annual increase is the highest in over a decade. Florida orange growers are harvesting their smallest crop in nearly 90 years, the result of a freeze, two hurricanes and a citrus disease that is laying waste to its groves.
Breakfast cereal increased more modestly in January from a month earlier—just 0.4%—but prices in the category were up 15% over a year, in part because of elevated global grain prices resulting from disruptions related to the war in Ukraine.
Breakfast lovers might be better off just having a cup of coffee—but go with roasted, not instant. Prices for roasted coffee declined by 0.1% last month, but instant coffee rose by a 3.6% monthly increase for instant coffee.
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...or cut out the WSJ subscription?
Thank you.
Breakfast used to be a cheap meal. Sometimes we had eggs and potatoes for dinner. Not anymore...
Yummy 😋 ❣
The perfect storm of Joe Biden, Barak, and ValJar.
Cut the Federal Taxes.
Stop eating entirely and save even more money!
Our ruling class is made up of malevolent morons.
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I personally hate oatmeal, but I suspect oatmeal is still relatively affordable?
But if I couldn’t buy Eggs, Bacon or the other things I like for breakfast I think I’d eat oatmeal rather than skip the meal completely.
Stupid advice from the WSJ.... And now that I think of it, I’m kind of surprised that they didn’t recommend eating bugs like their WEF masters demand. Slaves work better with a little something in their bellies.
Corn flakes: The most expensive corn per bushel.
“Sunrise” breakfast: Two eggs, bacon and toast.
$19
Small sh!tty of the Third Class.
Wall Street Journal writers might be better off getting a real job. Pinheads. That publication really is just a shill for the WEF crowd.
The advice in the article to use roasted coffee instead of instant, based only on month-to-month inflation, would translate to saving me $3/year.
Great advice!
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Thanks a bunch all-so-expert WSJ globalists.
Back in a real world, what the actual F&** should a civil brawl in Eastern Europe have to with the price of eggs here? Unless it somehow involves you and the big guy’s 10% cut perhaps?
If I don’t eat sausage and eggs for breakfast, I’ll eat an apple with a low carb tortilla spread with peanut butter.
I have a banana turning...enough to make tomorrow a peanut butter and banana sandwich day.
That is so gay!
I’m very small, and only eat twice a day. Two pasture-raised eggs every other day and cereal the other days. No oatmeal because, well, gag me with a spoon.
I buy those wonderful eggs at Natural Grocers. They have nothing but pasture-raised eggs, some brands more pricey than others. But all cheaper than other stores. Eggs are, I believe, called a “loss leader” in marketing terms. They get us into the store, then we buy a bunch of other, pricier stuff. Absolutely works for me.
luckily, my dtr raises chickens and has some to give to me....she's been selling a lot and building up her business...
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