As my middle daughter would say...

[crazychicknlady]

"It's not that everything is more expensive, it's that your money is worth less."

Sigh.

I pride myself on being a kick-ass home economist. You know, the sort of Stay At Home Mom, who does her share financially, by keeping costs down.

Today, though, I have come to the depressing conclusion that I just cannot feed my family the way I want to feed my family on the food budget we have been living with for the past several years.

Hubby and I need to have an emergency budget meeting and allocate more money (I'm figuring on an extra 40$ every two weeks) to our food envelope.

Sigh.

Comments

[catnip13.livejournal.com]

Food prices have gone up, a lot. I've noticed a 20%-30% increase on several of our staples in the last couple years.

[crazychicknlady.livejournal.com]

Ayup, prices go up and container sizes go down. It's just that we have discussed inflation, not just increased cost of doing business with said middle child, so she likes to point out that end of the equation to me when I gripe about food prices.