Do you have any ideas on how to make those food prices go down?!
Answers: if so please list.
Coupons
Grow a garden/ indoors and out
Bargain shop
Check the adds
Don't buy name brand unless that's the only one you like (I have found some off brand cereals that are better than the name brand)
buy cheaper food - if you can't afford dry beans, rice, and fresh fruit/vegetables, breads, and meat on sale - wow. Farmers already have a hard enough time breaking even.
Shop at cheaper stores - in my city, we really have a lot of "flagship" and gourmet grocery stores - I always go to the less expensive stores.
The reason for food prices going up are many. Bad weather during a growing season causes shortages, increased cost of producing and processing (increased minimum wage), and cost of transporting form farm to market (oil prices up due to speculators). I reduce mine by growing lots of my own produce and processing it at home. Each summer I can fill my freezer and can enough veggies to last till the next harvest.
Cook from scratch.
Purchase NO convenience food, even frozen fries.
Do not buy brand names.
Check produce racks for marked down fruits and vegetables.
Check meat case for discounted products.
Make soups and heavy stews.
Buy ONLY what is on sale.
Use coupons.
A few ideas for you.
Buy locally! At Farmers Markets and local grocery stores. Transporation of food costs us all big in gas and pollution. Be on the look out for roadside stands; these guys are totally workable and you can get a heck of a deal.
Cook from scratch. Package food like Rice-A-Roni and Campbells soup might seem reasonable especially when it's on sale (10 for $10!!!) but when you figure out how many chemicals and additives you are getting and how little real food you will realize you should have gone for the big bag of rice and a whole chicken. Add a couple of vegetables and you could have a whole weeks worth of dinners!
Buy items that last a long time in bulk. Potatoes, carrots, rice, pasta, beans. A ten pound bag of carrots or potatoes is like $3! 25 lbs. of good rice is like $10 (or the cheap stuff for $5).
Repeal the fair marketing laws and return to government control on profits.for daily staples.. Huge markets like our Holiday are NOT controlled by the community,, our market is controlled by large cities a hundred miles away,, unlike our 3000..
Consumers can not control prices by doing without.. and simple complaining finds deaf ears..
Require grocery markets post their profit in the local papers.
Disallow the tax deductions for waste.
Require them to justify stocking products and quantities..
the computer inventory control,, with the check out registers allow them know what the community buys..
Hawaiian tomatoes in California are plain silly..@ $3.99/lb
Require uniform packaging (no allowing 10oz at the same price as 1lb = 16oz.. return to 1lb loaves of bread.
PS: I am not against the grocer making a fair profit..
but no one knows what their profit is..or what tax breaks they get or what the city, county ,,offer as discounted services
Like property tax free..
Remember,, if a product goes on sale,, that should be close to the fair market price....
so when you find flour 5lbs@ 89￠ or sugar 5lbs @ $1.89
you know
stop buying the expensive foods and go for the cheap stuff
1) Like you said..go on a weekend shopping strike and not really buy until you REALLY need to?
2) You can go to the shops every 4 days or so just for neccesities, like: Milk, Water (If in your country the tap water isn't exactly clean like in Dubai it doesn't taste very nice), Bread and stuff like that.