Even “non-luxury” items are luxury items.
18 months ago, ....
- store brand graham crackers $0.99 / 14 oz box. Today, $2.19 / 14 oz box.
- Store brand coffee creamer $1.89 / 16 oz. Today, $2.99 / 16 oz.
And the real inflation rate = [what]? We all know the people keeping the official inflation rate have to lie about the real rate of inflation in the marketplace because the feral givernment would go bankrupt in less than 48 hours.
I read an article yesterday that the only number one can believe from the feral givernment is how much revenue it takes in. Consider everything else they say to be false. The ferals took in 4.4 trillion for 2023. Real revenue is dropping ... we are already in a real recession [since 2020] ......hence the need for 81,000 IRS agents... need for electronic currency to replace paper currency... the need to [unconstitutionally] take unrealized wealth....
We now cook nearly all our meals at home. Don’t do fast food, take out or any eating out, mostly cost but I have some mobility issues. Most meals are cooked pretty much from scratch, we try to avoid store bought prepared meals but do use them sometimes to take a break from cooking.
Only exception is delivered pizza for birthdays etc.
Can still do that and have enough for 2 meals for us at about $30 including $5-7 delivery driver tip.
We can’t cut back much more on food.