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I'm doing a lot more cooking that's for sure

Pancakes can really go with anything, they're basically a large flat biscuit. Not to mention they keep quite nicely if frozen or simply put in the fridge

Prices haven't gone up that much where I live, and some of the things that have risen in price have actually started going back down recently. But I guess it all varies from one place to another.

But in general, I shop the sales flyers, I get things that are discounted such as meat that will expire soon, and I get the cheap staples like rice and beans. I stopped buying name brand items and unnecessary snack foods. I also use the Ibotta app which gives me some cash back. Usually not a lot, but over the course of a year it's meaningful.

Grocery Outlet and Trader Joe’s. For GrocOut just go and see what’s cheap, don’t shop off a list. Make sure the prices of the stuff you’re buying is about 50% off or more. At TJ’s everything is priced pretty fairly, just buy what you want to eat.

Don’t drink alcohol or soda, or anything canned really.

I started harvesting stinging nettle to replace spinach

Grow my own raspberries and strawberries. Blackberries grow on the property as do salmon berries, huckleberries, and elderberries.

I have a cherry tree but the squirrels and the jays get to those before I do lol

In the garden I can grow a handful of veggies that'll last the year.

For meat I hunt or buy directly from the rancher/butcher when I can. I can get crayfish out of the creek every now and then as well.

Woodman’s

I am lucky enough to have a yard, so grow leafy greens in most seasons and some other veg.

Other than that, what I noticed about the food inflation is that prices converged, whole foods were already expensive but their prices came down a little while our regular grocery and the cheaper place increased theirs a lot, regular grocery prices worse than whole foods in quite a lot of the things I actually buy so I just buy stuff at whole foods and local ethnic groceries now, not much from the chain grocery.

Dried beans and canned beans we use for near every meal but have always done, that's not a change.

Housing here has increased way more than food. Rent and purchase prices went crazy and are now dropping so slowly.

I mostly buy ingredients and cook bulk batches of food. Before, we were splurging on instacart, but they got crazy expensive with their upcharges (MINIMUM 15% increase in item cost, + service charge, +delivery fee (or the annual delivery fee), +tip (it started to feel like 15% was too low, on top of the 15% grocery upcharge).

We stopped that and we actually spend less now even after this inflation.

I taught myself how to cook and it's been life-changing.

i'm homeless personally. where once i could survive on $5 a day, i'm always coming up short on the $20 needed nowadays just to eat. so i fast lots, my skating suffers.