I recently noticed that the price of eggs were over $2.00 when they were only .79 cents not too long ago. I know prices must go up, but for how fast they are rising it is becoming ridiculous. Too bad our pay checks don’t rise as quickly.

It is said by the media that the grocery prices should go down in about two years. Since when does this ever happen? In all of my life since I can remember going to the grocery store, prices either stay the same or rise. Therefore, I have no hope that prices will go down anytime in the future or ever. There are a couple of factors leading into why the food prices continue to go up.

One reason food prices have been rising is due to weather. There is a drought that has been going on in Australia that is drying out crops. This in particular has hurt the world exports for milk and wheat. Over the past couple of years the weather has damaged crop production in Europe, Ukraine, and parts of the United States which will lead to higher prices.

The economy in China, India, and Malaysia is doing well enough that there has been more purchases of food and a larger demand on the global food supply there. The tremendous population that they have in China and India in particular has increased on the need for more food. This has created another problem for the rising cost of food.

Since the dollar continues to lose its value it has a direct effect on the food surplus. The food goes overseas which inevitably rises prices here.

We cannot leave out the fact that the cost of gas a part in it. In order to send the food to various parts of the country it costs more money since the large trucks have to pay more for gas to get to their destination. This causes problems for companies to maintain an income without losing too much by having consumers pay a part of the cost.

Have you noticed how much bread has gone up from the past price of $1.29 to almost $4.00? There used to be a store down the street from my house that only sold bread. All of the bread was sold for only $1.00 each. They have gone out of business since they couldn’t maintain the low cost any longer. Milk has gone up to $4.00 a gallon when it used to be $2.50 and that was considered high.

The only way to not spend too much at the grocery store these days is to use coupons that can be found in newspapers either daily or weekly. Only buy the item if it is on sale unless it is like milk and will never go on sale and you can’t live without it. Despite buying milk that isn’t on sale, if most of everything else you buy is on sale or you have a coupon then this will help you not have to continue to pay the increasingly high prices.

For instance, if you see an item that you enjoy eating and you can freeze it for awhile without it spoiling then buy several of the same item when it goes on sale. Items you can live without do so. If you think about it, as we continue to decrease the food we eat and increase the amount of walking or biking we do in a day (since gas prices are so high that we would rather not drive) then imagine how much healthier we will become.