I'll stick my nose in here - Albeit that I won't exactly support your 100% figure (I can't because my buying habits are effected, and thus are not comparable). Costs are way up. I am tightly budgeted and the past four years have been increase over increase for less and less product. But that has driven me to staple goods and canned goods, and toward the generic and bulk... And far away from convenience and luxury foods. I now scratch build almost everything I eat, and it is all simple fare, with very few goodies or treats. Even things like lunch meats and bread are rare purchases.
And bread is a good example - Used to be I could find a good, medium-quality (top shelf, but not designer) loaf for under two bucks, now it's often over four. Instead, I buy the staple goods and make my own bread at less than a buck and a quarter a loaf.
So while I can't explicitly defend your figure, I am most certainly in agreement with you.
(and yes, store bought milk is pushing $4/gal here in cattle country too)
Baking your own bread is very therapeutic, tastes wonderful right out of the oven with butter and honey and makes the house small great. Even given all those benefits, I stick to just biscuits and muffins out of the oven because I’m too lazy to make bread anymore and because Kroger now has a large loaf of wheat, 3% fiber, at $1.00 a loaf.
Simple food has always been and will always be better, IMO. Macaroni and cheese, big pot of chicken and noodles, meat loaf and mashed potatoes. All good stuff.
I said "nearly 100%". Some things are more than that and some things are less than that.
100% is a good, easy to understand number, and it saves a lot of time by rounding up to that, but from what I have observed, it is not quite 100%. I would say it is between 85% to 100%, but the anecdotal data is squishy.
The cost of a quart of oil is up 400%. Anti-Freeze is about double. Batteries are almost double, but not quite.
So while I can't explicitly defend your figure, I am most certainly in agreement with you.
(and yes, store bought milk is pushing $4/gal here in cattle country too)
Can we agree that the figure 25% is utter nonsense? That things are up far more than 25% since 2008? That the Obama government is absolutely lying about inflation?