“It Used To Be Peasant Food”: 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford

The rise in energy costs all through last year have noticeably caused costs to increase almost everywhere. A quick glance at most isles in your local grocery store will confirm that prices have been steadily growing all year.

Internet users are sharing the items they have started to cut from their shopping lists due to inflation. Items like meat and seafood were predictable, but some have even started cutting fresh produce. And eggs, can’t forget eggs! With prices increasing by a third, people are considering ways to limit eggs in their diets.

So, dear Panda’s, feel free to share how you have adapted your cooking to these new food prices and upvote the examples that you’ve encountered.

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford I wouldn't say I'm cutting back, but I'm making more things from scratch and started growing my own lettuce and herbs. I now have a large grow tent in my living room. I know neighbors assume it is weed, but it's the start of a salsa garden and hopefully potatoes.

msomnipotent , Kenan Kitchen Report

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Here in the US, the cheapest generic brand butter is $5 a pound. Not long ago, that used to be what you paid for the GOOD stuff.

eva_rector , Sorin Gheorghita Report

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Lettuce. Went from $1.99 to $7, there's no way I'm paying $10 for a salad.

allcapswan , Bernal Saborio Report

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Forbes Magazine estimates that most household expenses have increased by around 8.6% since last year. Unfortunately, this hasn’t affected all expenses equally. Food in general and staples in particular have been hit the hardest. The increase in food prices since October is close to 10% and economists predict they won’t go down anytime soon. The silver lining? They might not increase either. As inflation continues, income may catch up.

That being said, certain items are likely to remain pricey in the near future. Eggs, meat and other more perishable and energy intensive items are set to remain costly. It doesn’t help that food manufacturers often rely on consumers becoming accustomed to price increases. They hope that we will just accept the new price. So props to the good folks documenting the effects of inflation, since it can help all of us keep food costs in perspective.

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford It's now over $9 for 18 eggs where I am. I looked today, but didn't even end up buying them.

Weatherman_Accuracy , United Soybean Board Report

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford I used to really like those little potatoes but now I only get them once every few months. For some things like bread and butter I just buy brands that are on sale now. I have a toddler and fruit is killing me.

SevereCounter , Hai Nguyen Report

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122points

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford I paid $7.99 USD for a dozen eggs last week. I'm literally counting every one and basing my meal planning around whether or not something is "worth the eggs".

azemilyann26 , Rachael Gorjestani Report

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Inflation can’t take all the blame when it comes to the ludicrous rise in egg prices. Avian influenza has spread its way across chicken populations, in a record outbreak. Typically, the holiday season also causes a spike in egg prices, as people cook and bake more than usual. This year, that spike has yet to decrease. Since poultry farms have to cull their populations to limit the virus, supply remains significantly lower than demand. You can probably see where this is going.

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Fresh berries. Sometimes I’ll find a good sale, other times it’s *$8 for a thing of strawberries*

waterbaby333 , Timo Volz Report

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115points

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Fruit is so prohibitively expensive now! A single apple is about $2.00, oranges are about the same. Strawberries are $8.99 here right now. Only bananas are still available at reasonable prices. I understand fruits and vegetables go up in prices throughout the winter but for the most part they are too expensive for regular purchase. A peach, nectarine or a grapefruit is a special treat these days.

janesfilms , Megan Bucknall Report

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103points

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Seafood. It's absurd because I live on an island. Fish used to be a staple food, a less expensive protein source. Now it's more expensive than a Wagyu.

lazeny , Mike Bergmann Report

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98points

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It doesn’t help that eggs are truly a staple. Most people aren’t eating Wagyu beef every meal, but eggs are a baking and breakfast mainstay for a reason. On the bright side, in places hit particularly hard by egg shortages people might be willing to try vegan alternatives. In California, plant-based egg substitutes have seen sales rise by around a quarter.

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Lunch meat! $15 a pound! That is double what lean ground sirloin costs! I call BS - since when is a turkey sandwich a luxury meal

level 2 jmweiner1 , Hillshire Farm Report

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Meat, primarily

finatra_official , Wilhelm Gunkel Report

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford I don't know if it's because of inflation, but heavy cream jumped in price a few months back and I stopped buying it. For years that's what I used in my coffee but I'm back to half and half bc it's, well, half the price.

spaghetti_poodle , Alberto Bogo Report

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford In Germany, Butter prices are through the roof. Canola and sunflower seed oil as well because they used to be imported from Ukraine.

Also M&Ms. Not an ingredient but man that price...

aminho , jonathan ocampo Report

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77points

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#14

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Oxtail. It was a tasty, inexpensive meal growing up, not so much anymore. Sucks, it was a comfort food for me.

lotsalotsacoffee , titanium22 Report

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77points

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford fresh vegetables, mostly just use frozen now

onions, potatoes & carrots in huge bags when they are on sale. Used to just pick them up when I wanted them but now plan ahead & make lots of meals for the freezer

beef is another one because dammmmm

finding recipes that don't use eggs

EditorNo2545 , Thomas Le Report

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69points

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#16

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Crab. Any crab. Blue, snow, king, dungeness, canned crab. It's all priced like caviar.

Wild salmon, especially King Salmon.

Lunch meat, I mean seriously.

Ennion , Mae Mu Report

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69points

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Certain cheeses. They hopped up not too long ago, now I try to avoid dishes with a lot of cheese.

YakBig1676 , Waldemar Report

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68points

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#18

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford I rarely buy avocados or beef anymore

thriftingforgold , Gil Ndjouwou Report

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64points

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#19

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Lamb (Aus). It used to be peasant food :(

bigbagofbaldbabies , Sebastian Coman Photography Report

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61points

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford In addition to items that other posters have mentioned, celery. It’s now $2.99 a bunch. I use it for recipes like tuna salad, potato salad, etc and rarely use a whole bunch before it gets old. It’s gotten too expensive for me to want to buy it. (Location is in US, the Midwest).

TinaKayyay , Hello I'm Nik Report

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59points

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#21

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Salmon. My favourite fish :(

Librarycore , CA Creative Report

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57points

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#22

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Lemons. I used to keep them on hand but now just buy what I need.

BurroCoverto , Julia Peretiatko Report

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56points

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#23

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Watermelon. Large seedless watermelon was “on sale” for $12.99 USD in the store this weekend

friendlyuser15 , 张嘴 Report

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53points

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#24

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Corn syrup. I use it for my small candy business. At the restaurant store, it used to be $7.99/gal and now it’s $21.50

dentalgirl74 , karthik reddy Report

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51points

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#25

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Sunflower oil went from €0.90/L to €4.50/L due to the war so I'm using other oils as much as possible now.

dradoyu , RF._.studio Report

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50points

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Enoki Mushrooms. They used to be $1 for 2 packs at my local supermarket, now its about $6 for 1 pack. I'm not sure if this is due to inflation but the price increase is insane.

unsu23 , m.shattock Report

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47points

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"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Eggs. I don't like egg-centered dishes that much to begin with such as omelets, eggs benedict, fried or scrambled eggs, etc. They're now more than double the price where I live so I mainly just use them for when I need them in baking.

Darwin343 , Jakub Kapusnak Report

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46points

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#28

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford $3.50 for 3 shallots? I can get a kilogram of chicken thighs for that. Shallots would be off my menu if they cost 30 cents each! I buy them when they are 35 cents for a pack as no one seems to buy them from my local place so they are always discounted.

I've definitely eaten less ribs and pork belly though.

captain-burrito , Ruth Hartnup Report

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41points

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#29

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Calamari, it used to be so so cheap. I could pick up tubes for $1 a piece, now it is $20 a kg.

Imaginary_Dirt29 , Farhad Ibrahimzade Report

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35points

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#30

"It Used To Be Peasant Food": 30 People Share What Products They Can No Longer Afford Buying whole ducks and roasting them has replaced a lot of beef for me.

jlangfo5 , MorNa Tang Report

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32points

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What do you think ?

Oerff On Tour 1 year ago

Do you all realize that the farmers who produce all these foods, are now being paid LESS for their products? The mark-up is going straight to the shareholders of the multinationals who own the supermarkets

36points

RP 1 year ago

It depends. Certainly the farmers are not the cause, I agree. But in this case, corporations aren't really the root cause. Where I am, the cost is being driven-up by the rise in fuel prices and the lack of key ingredients due to the war and (nessessary) changes in engery policy to reduce emissions. Flour has become insanely expensive (and so all flour-based things like bread as well) because we can't get wheat from the East for instance. The price of fresh produce has risen because fuel for farm machinery / greenhouse heating has risen. It is not so much corporate greed (although the supermarkets are not willing cutting profits to help - but what business does?!) as a direct result of supply-demand relationships. The fact that we are running out of resources like water on a global scale is a major factor too and will become increasingly relevant.

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Mabelbabel 1 year ago

There's a chef in the UK, Jack Monroe, and she's famous for producing meals on a low budget-she was a single mum on benefits when she started out. She had a twitter thread a while back showing that the cost of staples from supermarket economy ranges and own brands like pasta, rice, tinned veg etc had gone up disproportionately in comparison to the cost of their luxury ready meals-the "Finest" range, those "Eat in for 2 for £20' deals. The burden and main bulk of price rises fell on those who were more reliant on the economy brands to start with, so the least able to manage. And the fact the companies had these price differentials meant a lot of the rising costs was simply price gouging-they aren't paying suppliers or farmers more, but the companies are making more profit.

11points

ISeeWendiGo 1 year ago

I usually do my grocery shopping for the entire month and then just have to pick up things like milk, bread, and produce later on in the month, y'know, the stuff you normally run out of. My monthly items are pretty much the same items with different items occuring seasonally. For my son and I plus 2 dogs and a cat it usually runs us about $300-$350 USD. Yesterday we bought less as some staple items are outrageously overpriced and I refused to buy them. Out total after sales items and coupons was over $430. I'm on disability, so a very fixed budget. I know there's lots of people that are in even worse financial shape and people with more mouths to feed and I can't imagine the amount of stress they're under considering how high my stress level is. I refuse to go to food banks because I don't want to take from some that needs it worse. We've all gotta eat, so what do you do?

7points

Jessica Taylor 1 year ago

Food banks end up throwing food a away I’m some places

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