Own our home, so yes, food is the biggest hit to our budget these days. Followed real close by gas. Just spent $80 to fill our truck from 1/4 tank. Under Trump, it was less than half that. We used to eat out 2 to 3 times a week. Now we might eat out once a month. Prices to eat out are outrageous anymore and portions have gotten smaller. And it’s not just people food that has taken a big hit. Picked up 2 bags of dog food the other day....it went up $6 a bag from the last time I bought it. It’s crazy that it now cost me $121 for those 2 bags. It used to be about $85.
I suppose rent and health insurance premiums are cheap these days. Nothing like paying 70% of your income just to be alive and not die in the streets.
After house payment, taxes are my largest monthly expenditure.
To be fair my housing costs (mortgage) would be bigger than the food budget, but not by much.
My local grocer had eggs yesterday for 99-cents a dozen. Limit One. And they had a LOT of them, so maybe the Egg Crisis has passed?
Milk is still ridiculously expensive. It was on sale at Kwik Trip for $2.99 for about 2 weeks, but back up to $3.79/gallon, now.
Meat is beyond affordable. Hamburger was ‘on sale’ this week for $3.99/pound! Hamburger!
Other than that, everything else I buy on my daily rounds is still half-again as expensive as it was prior to the 2020 Steal. :(
Gasoline really fluctuates here in the Midwest, too.