I have just returned from the supermarket, one pack of 4 grainary rolls £2.27 ($4.50).   Poxy normal size ones, that would go in a small childs lunch box. Our cheapest sliced white loaf is £1.45  call it obscene, I moaned all the way around the ailses,  Pasta used to be 30-40p a bag now it is over a pound,  What is happening to this is way above cost of living pay rises.

I agree it's way above the annual raise.  Would be bad enough, and made worse by the fact the corporation I work for gave diddly squat this year. 0%

At least I still have a job.  We'll see what next month brings.

Tanya I know exactly what you mean - food has gone through the roof - it's actually scary. And you know as well as I do that even if oil goes down - bread and pasta won't. One more excuse after another. No one is losing except those at the bottom of the supply chain, namely, the consumer.  :-/

I raise the wheat that makes your bread and pasta.  My fuel,seed and fertilizer prices are through the roof.  Just wait they ain't done with us yet.

           Potter

I think I picked a good time to go grain free...

It is the cost of everything that has gone up.  Getting another price increase on equipment July 1st, last month it was an increase in pvc prices.  We are paying our suppliers way more than what we used to charge our customers for parts and equipment.  If I want a quote on copper, the price I get quoted is good until the end of the day.  An average installation has almost doubled in cost in just the past few years.

It's only gonna get worse folks.............

Beth

Wish the idiots would stop putting corn in the gasoline.  That'd help alot of the food problem.  Of course, gas would go up even further, but if it was a choice, I'd rather pay more for gas than food.

We grow as much as possible tho and buy the beef & pork from family members who butcher (farms).

The price of gasoline wouldn't go up without ethanol.  The only reason you see is lower at the pump is tax incentives.  It costs more to make than the gas itself.

Jerry

I too went to the store today and about died at the prices of food. The basic stapels in ones diet bread, milk, rice, meet, etc has all gone through the roof.  I really feel bad for the people in third world countries.

Karla wrote on May 27^th, 2008 at 3:09pm:

I really feel bad for the people in third world countries.

You could even start feeling really bad for the people in first world countries - yourself and your neighbors. ;)

Karla wrote on May 27^th, 2008 at 3:09pm:

I really feel bad for the people in third world countries.

When I go to the grocery store and have to pay the prices there I have a little trouble feeling sorry for these third world countries that we're shipping our "surplus" goods to.

My mama always said, "Chairty begins at HOME!" Maybe she should have said it to OUR government!

We're eating less bread and growing more veggies. Meat is optional.... I'm actually spending less at the grocery store than I did a year ago in protest. And I think we're eating a little better.( You'd be surprised how many things you can do with a pot of pinto beans).  Of course we still sneak out for a Big Mac occasionally (old habits are hard to kick).

Hugs BD

We're all in the same leaky boat. I go to a store here that sells milk for $1.99 a gallon as a loss-leader. It works as it's the only thing really cheap in the place. A old man in line had 8 gallons in his cart. Turns out he takes orders from the people in his building

He probably has to drive a SUV to haul the stuff around. Have a yard sale and chow down kids.

Charlie