it just keeps getting more expensive... 

No bro. It is still WAY cheaper to cook at home than eat out.

Prices aren't coming down. The money has been printed.

Another thing I have noticed is if I eat out too much I get sick. I have been eating at home mostly this whole year. I have learned it is cheaper in the long run. What you need to do is make your experience at home better than your experience eating out and you will never look back. Been making my coffee at home and completely stopped buying coffee out because my coffee is better at home then takeout.

What makes me feel ill is that not only are we paying more, we're getting less with all the shrinkflation going on

I used to be a cashier at a grocery store years ago and it was completely a rare event that anyone would get close to $100 when buying their groceries for the week. It’s insane how much food is. Especially processed food because it’s not even real.

Never ate more cans of tuna fish and ramen noodles in my life.

Eating at home will always be cheaper than going out. You just need to be slightly more strategic about it now.

“Picking up a few things” has turned into a $100 ordeal for me

The problem is the people, they keep buying it.

The keebler cookies I USED to buy were $2, then $2.09, $2.29, then jumped to $2.69, $3.19, $4.49, NOW $5.69

It has nothing to do with corporations the dollar is losing value cause of government spending

If you want to save money on groceries: 1) Shop at Costco. You will make back the annual membership fee compared to regular grocery store prices after a trip or two. 2) Buy as raw ingredients as possible and cook meals in batches. E.g., buy raw chicken and cook enough for leftovers; don’t buy refrigerated, already-cooked chicken breast, which probably costs twice as much. Buy flour and sugar to bake, not packaged cakes and cookies. 3) Buy frozen fruits, vegetables, fish, etc. Frozen food is relatively low in unit cost and keeps for months. 4) Eat oatmeal for breakfast daily. Add milk and 2.5 minutes in the microwave. Put sugar, Stevia, cinnamon, fruit, or whatever other toppings you like. It’s tasty, nutritious, filling, and costs only about 10 cents per serving (for the oats, anyway) if you buy the big box of Quaker oats at Costco (~$11 for ~110 half-cup servings).

I hate to cook but I just make myself do it because eating out is always more expensive.

$5 Costco rotisserie chicken lasts at least 4 meals.

You can eat modestly for $60 just like that guy did. America has a HUGE issue with overconsumption/portion sizes. Maybe this’ll put a dent in the obesity epidemic. There’s no denying we’re the fattest country.

Something tells me all the people complaining were praising those pandemic stimulus checks a few years ago. This is us paying it back.

Bud it’s not corporate greed. It’s your government printing money out of thin air devaluing your currency.

At this rate rice and beans will be the only thing we can afford

Biggest problem besides inflation here: people are not reducing or eliminating expensive grocery items. If you are buying milk for the kiddos for their calcium, ya don't need cheese. Cheese is expensive these days!! I only buy cheese during BOGO specials and consider it a luxury now! Buy the cheapest no name eggs... same goes for bread. Ground turkey and ground chicken should be your new best friend bc you can make dozens of different recipes with these and stretch the grocery budget. And to the lady who shops at one of the most expensive grocery stores in the US (Publix ), -- Why?? 😮 LOL.

In Canada I spend 2000$/month for our family of 6. Never mind our housing costs. Almost 4K a month mortgage. It’s out of hand. We’re all suffering 😭

That guy complaining about the 140$ groceries. That was a lot of groceries 😂

I see people with footstamps buying expensive groceries because they are spending someone else's money..MY TAX MONEY

I used to go shopping bi-weekly and spend $150 for two people, 3 dogs. Now I can't get out of the store with generally the same items for $220 per week. This wasn't even that long ago.

Ask these people who they voted for. Plenty of money for the Ukranians to buy their groceries.

Chemicals in food, bioengineering of food, shrinkage, and high prices. We are screwed! I've been on an organic, low-carb, clean journey for years. It is getting ridiculously expensive to stay on course.

Companies are getting crushed too. Rent, insurance, payroll, etc has all skyrocketed for us too.

Groceries are ridiculous! We are a family of four. I coupon, I am signed up for store rewards, I shop Walmart, buy the store brand cheapest you can buy, every money saving tip you can think of and we still are spending an absurd amount. I even make a list and buy only off the list with Walmart delivery so that we don’t buy extra stuff we don’t need.

I work for FritoLay for almost 18.5 years now... the prices over the last 4 years alone have went up 3 times... at least $2 total on the family and party sized bags. It's ridiculous!!!

I eat peanut butter and jelly without the bread. I make up tea and Kool Ade instead of buying juice and soda. I have chickens for eggs. I feed my chickens scaps, sunflowers, and wild grasses. I grow my own potatoes and onions. I buy 10 pounds of ground beef, 10 pounds of chicken, 8-10 pounds of beef, at a time, and cook in bulk. I put meals like taco bowls, chipotle chicken bowls, bbq pork, bbq brisket, roast beef bowls, spaghetti meat sauce, pot roast, chicken teriyaki, etc... in the freezer. I pull out food from the freezer for daily meals. I make fudge with cookies and specific candy bars I like, instead of buying the miniature over priced candy bars at the store. I recently made pizza from scratch after watching a You Tube video, it turned out really well. I going to learn how to make ice cream, soda, and beef jerky from scratch. I going to start growing more of my own food instead of buying overpriced and poor quality produce from the store.

That dude showing $140 worth of groceries, tbh, you are being a lot of high end stuff.

I only splurge on olive oil and toilet paper. Everything else I buy is the cheapest I can find. You can't be cheap when it comes to olive oil and toilet paper.

Give me a break. That lady said she spent $35. You think she's going to spend $35 at a restaurant for a family of four?! it's still cheaper to eat at home.

we also have brokeflation where products dont last for instance my dad is looking to replace his washing machine the new ones only last about 5 years depending on how many loads you wash every week. they used to make things that lasted. i went to look at used washing machine one guy wanted 450 dollars when for the same price i can go to home depot and get a new one.

During my saving and investing years, my eat cheap but healthy recipe was just black beans, canned tuna, onions, and hot sauce or salsa (for flavor) under 2 dollars per meal. it almost never got old, I still love it, despite food costs being nothing to me now. I will still prepare this on late nights when i don't want to cook.

I've been ordering k-cups on Amazon for years. They just raised the price of my Newman's Own from $40 per 96 cups, to $52. I canceled the subscription, bought a cheap drip coffeemaker at Walmart for $13, and 1.5lbs of organic store brand coffee for $11 at Hannaford (New England based chain). I love my Newman's but I am not paying $50+ a month for coffee, f*ck that noise.

Bidenomics is "WORKING"!😮 Can you feel the Joy😂😂😂

😂❤I spend 200 dollars a month as a single person. No eating out. No garden. Just buy what you will eat. No junk food..

You need to know, the real problem is government spending. That’s why inflation is so bad. So while we fund wars, take in 15 million migrants and invest in climate change. The consequences are government overspending/printing money = inflation

Not being picky is a superpower. If grapes are too expensive per pound then buy apples. If you can’t afford the chicken buy pork. If you can’t afford to go to the store until payday, you’ll have to eat what’s in your cupboards. You might have to have eggs and pancakes for three days but it might be necessary. Sacrifice will be key to surviving this.

Once again, SINGLE people living ALONE complaining about how they are starving and can't afford to live. Where did all of the young people get the idea that you are supposed to be in your early 20s and living by yourself? That has NEVER been a thing. We have always had to live with a significant other or roommates. I am Gen X, and in my 20s every person I knew lived with someone else. NO ONE lived by themselves. They couldn't afford it. Stop your whining and get a roommate!!

People should be shopping at Aldi whenever they can. They never have $7 ketchup

3 years ago I saw the storm coming, I started storing food, vegetable garden, hunting weapons and gold

I must live in another dimension, because we buy to cook at home and we can eat (3 of us) for $10-15 using raw ingredients. I am not talking about some basic pasta stuff, I'm talking about making full course Mexican meals at home from scratch. Something like pasta and some ground beef we eat for like $8.

Groceries shouldnt be first. Cut out the luxury foods, sub in economical staples, rice, potatoes and pasta to stretch the budget and provide bulk calories. Entertainment should be first cut. Unnecessary subscriptions gone

I just made a pot of $100 soup.... NO IT DIDN"T COST $100.... it SAVED me $100. I spent $22 to make a pot vegetable soup and fed 2 people for 3 meals. So that saved us at least $100 on meals out!! I know things are more expensive, but it's mostly about choices...

The way to lower prices... do 2 things, 1 stop printing money and 2 drill baby drill!

More of our meals are rice or pasta based now, to save costs.

It’s true, spent $15 for some eggs and butter. Like I can get a full fast food meal for that lol

ya'll got it wrong, u dont buy cheap based on what you want, you buy what is cheap and on sale with coupons that will do. kroger had 1.35 raspberries after 2 digital coupons and 1.49 kettle chip bags.

Learn so shop sales. If it's not on actual sale, then u don't need it

In the great depressions families would take turns eating every other day. And waiting for good deals at the grocery store.

If you non single people can't afford groceries now, good luck in the future! 🤣

If a person is spending $33 for one meal for even four people. Then they don't know how to shop. Why don't you make a goal of $20 for four people. Or if you don't have four people make a goal of $10 for two people. It can be done. You Can't Always Get What You want. You need to get what you can afford. I just ate a 42 Cent loaf of bread from walmart, and a $2 can of chili. And this is expensive. If you cook it yourself it can be even less than this.

Even in restaurant depot, price rises like crazy. Beef was $4.59 last week, and now $5.59. In percentage, that is over 20% increase! That is definitely not because of the magic word "inflation."

In GREAT DEPRESSION They canned all their OWN FOOD and processed ALL their own meat and you were given FOOD RATION STAMPS ((NOT FOOD STAMPS THAT DIDN'T EXIST TILL LATE 60s)). You were allowed to buy w ration stamps ONE 20 LB sugar, ONE 20 lb flour. The milk came from cow. Everything was canned including ketchup. They made own bread, butter, jelly. Cottage cheese, Ice cream. Everything was 100% non processed and HOME MADE they didn't have restaurants or sodas, they had ONE 'SMALL GENERAL STORE' and they helped each other ( these days of helping others are extinct). All meals were home cooked.

You all need to learn a lesson from the generation after WW1 that literally was cooking soup out of the whatever they could find on the cheap. Luxury days are over for us poors. Dont even pretend your middle class anymore because your not. Were all poors, 99% of us

*Actually people don't need to eat that much anyway. If they plan their meals properly, one meal a day can suffice. Drinking enough liquids is also important and it's healthier not to constantly burden your body with breaking down food. Fasting once a week is healthy as well.*

Dozen “large” brown eggs 3.98, 8 low carb tortillas 4.96, big bag shredded mozzarella 8.49, fancy good seed bread 5.98, 1 lb organic strawberries 4.18 ~ North Texas

It’s true the condiments these days are super expensive!

There's ALOT of stuff I have quit buying lol... I am sending them the message, have been for months.

Sometimes I have a nap...for dinner 😂😂😂😂 omg thats too real

I eat once per day and half the time its 6 eggs. $120/month (: people need to sacrifice and just not buy so much. If the masses just did this for 2 months it would change. People be like im reducing to 2 meals a day now, and im like what was it before 3, 4???

My grocery store CEO admitted to raising prices insanely over COVID and still doing it because he could.

My husband and I have six little ones. I know we pay about $400 to $500 a week in groceries 😢. Going clothes shopping is no where it use to be a few yrs ago. Everything from cars, food, household items, etc is crazy.

Stop buying luxuries like ketchup if you can't afford them. Every purchase is a signal to the market that it's priced right.

i am guilty of portion control failure and not counting the food we dump in the trash it has a value ..make smaller portions so there are no leftovers that end in the trash .

I mostly go for the off brand/cheaper items aside from the few things I have to get the name brand of, like my Jif peanut butter! And I buy the expensive pasture raised eggs cause they DO taste better and the yolks are bright yellow rather than dull greyish color

Every dollar you save is a dollar that can be used elsewherr

You also don’t need cereal that stuff is over priced crap.

Off brand with: foil, ziplock bags, paper plates, napkins, parchment paper, toilet paper 🧻 (but good quality). On brand: anything consume.

Yes it’s bad!!! Ty Jesus I was following some of these preppers and I STOCKED UP my deep freezer. I’m dwindling that down and will need to restock. That’s what I’m afraid of

What you're forgetting is the producers' costs are all rising too, with the cost of fuel being a huge factor - it affects the price of everything.

The woman saying she needs to grow tomatoes and learn to make her own ketchup has no idea how expensive, time-consuming, and how much knowledge you need for gardening. I feel like you have to have your garden(s) completely set up, make your own compost, be very knowledgeable (or naturally a green thumb), as well as dedicated time to make gardening a reliable long term source of food that saves money.

Single man here. Beans and rice I stopped buying meat except some slice ham I buy for sandwiches I bring to work.

I make dinner for my husband while I have a snack in order to save money on groceries. I eat a large breakfast because it's the cheaper meal. I make my husband's lunch at home. Short of eating child size meals, there are few options for cutting costs. It's ridiculous.

I resonate with everything said. I found it is possible to save money eating at home by deliberate advance meal planning. Yes, it is time consuming and sometimes I feel like I need a degree in mathematics, but I can’t save by just buying individual ingredients for one meal at a time.

My family cooks too large of meals and are incapable of getting over their collective autism to put it away

I'm a good cook, I cook five nights a week from scratch. Good cooks enjoy cooking. If someone says they're a great cook but they hate cooking, they ain't that good.

The cost of food has never went down!

Going out to the local pub is cheaper than cooking at home.

Why would you spend for a membership, to go grocery shopping. It's crazy.

This episode reminds me Dave Ramsey’s favorite food: rice and beans 😂

Chemicals in your food matters, it's worth the extra price to get clean food.

The lady saying she needs food stamps used to be on food stamps and sell crack. Now she’s a famous comedian with her two TV shows

Ketchup hack; every time you go for fast food ask for as many ketchups as they will give you. Do that every time and you can stock up on ketchup very fast. Mayonnaise hack; buy 2-3 of them when they go on a descent sale. Just bought 3 Hellman’s 30 ounces for $3.50 each.

Ketchup has to be HEINZ. Coffee has to be FOLGERS.Raisin Bran has to be KELLOGGS

They need to start to budgeting

16 dollars this morning for 3 litres of milk, 1 litre of creamer and some pretzels. I’m shocked

It's called beans, rice and flower. Get used to them.

Spoiled Gen Z considers cooking "optional.". They think groceries grow at WalMart Plus and Door dash and the farm is on their phone 🙄

Dude we've been in a recession for over 8 months, realistically

I clean and pick through my grapes, count them up between 3 people, and put them in zip-lock bags. I do not know how people with families can afford this insanity.

Let the whole thing fall apart and reset prices I’m ready for it fudge it

I've experienced a whole lot of negative in my past and never got the hang of a budget, opposite of now. When i realized my problem i was able to get my budget in order to feed myself, children are grown, on a very small budget. I became accustomed to eating inexpensive items. It may not have been what I wanted but I did not go hungry. I still in this day am able to feed myself on a small amount, it can be done. For families a different story.

I am an off brand person almost every time unless a specific brand does something REALLY well.

where i live, and its not in the west, i spend 70 USD a month on a total of 3 freshly cooked (to my mind gourmet) meals a day (which comprise vegetables, white meat, grain, seed, fruit, eggs, dairy, oils, everything else, (but often use just 2 of those 3 meals) for 2 people. that 70 usd amounts to a very small fraction of the average monthly income. i spend another 45 usd a month on a cook to cook it up. having the help of a cook with ingredients that meet the health standards we decide on, disincentivizes eating out, but i still ocassionally order in sometime which probably doesn't exceed 15 usd a month.

One week buy all bake goods and beverages, the next week buy refrigerator items. I cut a lot of stuff out of diet due to cost.

No...go back to the store my friend. Look at peoples faces & the carts, the actual items are WAY less. 5-10 items tops. I go shopping for 2 weeks and am afraid Ill get robbed leaving the store. Yikes! People are cutting back

Yes, everything is WAY more expensive, but people keep buying. Notice what foods they're getting- salmon, sweet potato fries, lamb, convenience meals- all expensive things. Even that eat 2 meals a day girl was eating what looked like a frozen pizza. The Costco kids ate everything on the Costco menu- it made a cute video which they may have made some money off of, but it shows and possibly encourages over-consumption "just to try it." Even cereal lady was bashing the cheaper store brand cereal over Cheerios- although she was hilarious and has a point, she made it seem like she'd rather pay the $6 for name brand cereal. Unfortunately most people are probably purchasing on credit cards too, which means likely adding another 25% on top if they don't pay their cards off each month. We all know most people don't. If people would buy the cheaper stuff and make more things from scratch, it would really help. Yeah, it'll be more expensive than if you bought the exact same things a few years ago, but that's the point- people are complaining about the increase in prices, yet still purchasing the most expensive items in the store! If people stop buying the luxury and/or name brand items, their grocery bills would go way down!

My family buy name brand for the basics and off brand for discretionary. I watched Mom do this while growing up and I do the same thing now; she would clip coupons on a weekly basis. Nowadays, I taught Mom how to use the iPad for flyer app. For brand names, we only buy when they are on sale and buy enough until the next round of sales. If not, we wait. Supermarkets in my area price match and with a digital flyer app, the search tool is a time and money saver. Make a grocery list, make a list, and make a list.... then shop off of that list with your flyer savings. Also, eat before going shopping. JJ, chips at Costco is an awesome deal vs family size from traditional grocery stores, plus they go on sale too.... a double dip in savings.