Avocados, artichokes, and asparagus--3 of my all time favorite foods.
I find I'm having to splurge on these items now, too.
However, other products have also risen to the point where there's not so much price difference.
The cost of eggs has upped the price of mayonnaise so much, avocados don't seem like that pricey a substitute.
I so hear you! Yesterday I went to Petsmart to find out that the bag of dog food we buy had gone from $8.99 to $10.99. And while that's a "little" thing, when you add it to all the others - milk, cheese, gas - it's starting to really affect us as well.
Don't spend *any* of the stimulus check frivolously. Sock it and use it to pay off bills. Wasting any of it will be something you'll regret.
Makes me appreciate the $0.79 artichokes I saw last week just south of San Francisco! Locally grown and cheap and delicious.
I hear you. Grocery shopping stresses me out like all heck at the moment. It doesn't help that everything needs replacing all at the same time, either.
I hear you on the avocadoes - we love them in the FB household, but lately I'm wishing that we lived somewhere a touch more tropical and could just grow them ourselves!
I've really noticed the price of meat increase in the last year or so. Good sales are fewer and farther-between. Chicken breasts seem obscenely expensive, and even simple ground beef is regularly $2.50 a pound. We've really had to learn to use less popular cuts of meat to get by. Fruit is ridiculous too. Grapes are routinely about $2 a pound. All we've really been able afford all winter is apples, which are usually on sale for $1 a pound somewhere. I'm getting really sick of apples though. We've got a great garden growing, but honestly, once you add up all the electricity for starting the seeds, time spent planting and tending to them, and the cost of watering all summer, I'm not sure we're really ahead in terms of $. Guess it's time to slim down!
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