Fuck. Food prices are just getting unreal. We just returned from the local grocery store. Sticker shock all around.
Eggs - $3.99/dozen
Barilla Large Shells - $2.49
Starkist Tuna - $2.49/pouch
Ground Round - $3.89/lb.
Potatoes - $3.49/#5lb.
This is what will make me stick to a diet. I remember when…well, what all older people say. Two years ago eggs were less than $1.50/dozen. Time to start plowing up the driveway for a garden.
Make sure you plant the chickens at least 6 inches apart and no more than 2 inches deep. 
Are these eggs from the golden goose? Free-range golden goose?
StG
Be sure to plant pointy end up.
Maybe you need a better grocery store. Those prices aren’t quite as bad as Whole Paycheck, err, Whole Foods, but they’re worse than Safeway.
In this week’s ad flyer, 80% hamburger is on sale for $2.49 a pound, and if you’re not fussy about the brand, they often have pasta on sale for a buck a box.
Last time I bought eggs, (about a month ago) they were something like $2.79 for 18 at Costco.
Man, those are some expensive groceries!
I am in Manhattan and I get eggs for less than $2/dozen and pasta for 75 cents per 1 lb box. I don’t know that I have ever paid that much for ground round or potatoes either. Tuna I don’t know about though…I don’t eat seafood of any kind so I can’t really compare prices there.
I get Barilla up here in Lancaster 2lbs/$1 silenus! Are you grocery shopping at AM/PM?
(Although I will note that ramen rose to a whole *dime *a package. Not exactly highway robbery, sure, but it’s a sign of the times).
That sounds like the cost of free range eggs in my local supermarket. Yet it’s no problem to pick up honesty-box side-of-road offerings at little more than half that.
Okay, I stopped by the grocery store on my way home. A dozen Grade A Extra-Large eggs were $1.89. A dozen non-caged, hand-picked eggs was $2.39. I didn’t check the rest of the prices.
StG
I paid 99 cents for a six pack of eggs on Monday.
No no, the pointy end goes down! Otherwise the eggs have too far to travel to the surface!
$2 for a dozen at a local CVS… shop around some. I know it’s California, but there’s got to be a better deal somewhere.
Hmm…beware silenus when your wife suddenly offers to give you a back rub and you notice she is using sage and oregano and she has oddly already pre-heated the oven.
I paid 89 cents a dozen at Aldi’s last week. Which is a dime cheaper than they usually are.
Their pasta, on the other hand, was up by about 20 cents. But at least the kitty litter was still only $3.99 for a 15 pound tub.
Except for the eggs being about $2 to $2.50 here everything else seems right for our local store, I can’t afford food from. Ground round is about $4.50 a pound too.
Thank God I got a ride to Madison to buy my months groceries.
Stop! You’re making me hungry.
Did you get the super eggs, the super large ones that often have double yolks ? Those are $4 here. I buy those or the eggs from happy organic hens. YMMV but I feel they taste much better than the run of the mill eggs.
I went to buy a 200ft roll of aluminum foil and it was damn near $10!
WTF? Man, it’s like thirty to fifty cents a pack for either store brand or name brand on sale here (name brand can go to eighty cents normally). Of course, price goes down when you buy it in bulk, but only a dime? Kee-rist! When is Canada going to get our prices treated like American ones, seeing as we’re damn near on par?
That’s a lot of hats!
Just for shits and giggles I noted egg prices today at the independently owned grocery store in my town (central WI):
Eggland’s Best: $3.13/dz
Sparboe Farms brown veg-fed eggs: $2.26/dz
Sorry, I forgot to catch the size on those.
IGA (store brand): ranged from $0.87/dz to $1.37/dz for medium through jumbo size; $1.67 for 18 large IGA eggs.
I used to pay $1.50/dz for eggs from a local free-range source, but I haven’t been to that little country store in the last week or so.