The impact of the cost of food to your food spending habits?

the appeal is not feeling like driving 15-30 minutes or more there, and 15-30 minutes or more back…that’s when I use them

 

depends

if it’s something like pizza or a sandwich then yeah…if it’s Thai food, Indian food, Chinese food, etc then not really unless they take an hour plus

 

Then just eat closer to home? Or cook?

 

If I planned on cooking on the day I ordered delivery, I wouldn’t be ordering delivery. What if I don’t want what’s closer to home? I stay in Sugar Land, it’s not exactly some hotbed of great food right around me.

 

I can't help you then, Nostradamus.

 

there’s nothing to help…I’m just telling the appeal of a delivery app…not sure why it’s hard to understand why people would use them

I also use them when I’m traveling and stuck in a hotel and don’t feel like roaming the city for a place to eat late at night

 

Boo! Roaming the city for close restaurants/bars, after talking to the hotel staff, is one of the great perks of staying in a hotel in a strange city.

But I get what you're saying, sort of.

 

OK so thank you. I just subbed to America's test kitchen and I am so far very impressed.

 

This touches on a subtopic....

In order to eat a fresh, delicious, cost-effective, and healthy meal at home, we have to ....
plan the meals well ahead of time
choose the days and locations to buy groceries
try to hit sales and use apps & coupons to lower costs
shop for groceries
prepare meals, cook meals, and clean up after meals

...which can be a LOT to do on a regular basis. It takes much more investment in work and time. Some people just can't do that. This has negative side effects on people (less money in their pockets; more obesity, etc.)

 

Inflation for everything else since last June is back in the normal range at 2.4% with "normal" being 2.0%. However, food inflation is running at 7.2% making the overall inflation rate 3.2%.

Don't expect food prices to stabilize for any duration--too many odd things from war in Ukraine affecting the breadbasket of Europe to floods and droughts hitting specific crops to there still being a few distribution issues. Plus, there's the greed factor of corporations, including grocery stores and suppliers, jacking up prices for profit and blaming it on inflation. Looking ahead, climate affects agriculture and will gradually become the primary driver of food price volatility around the world, including here.

 

The bird flu spread to Asia.

Taiwan imports 50,000 hens to crack severe egg shortage, halt panic buying

A severe egg shortage in Taiwan has seen the government import some 50,000 breeder hens, while supermarkets are rationing supplies and consumers are either paying higher prices or cutting back on the source of protein.

Egg shortages emerged on the island last month, with the government attributing the problem to the loss of 130,000 chickens during floods in 2018 and recent weather fluctuations that make laying eggs harder.

“A shortage of eggs is a problem in many countries due to outbreaks of avian flu,” said Gareth Leather, senior emerging Asia economist with Capital Economics in London.

“One implication of this is that Taiwan doesn’t have the option of importing more to ease domestic shortages. Prices in other countries have gone up as well, so there is no advantage of importing more from overseas.”

However, 50,000 breeder chickens arrived on the island this week as part of government efforts to boost egg supply, with another 250,000 set to be imported this year, the Council of Agriculture said on Monday.

The new birds will help farmers “accelerate the phase-out of low-yielding hens”, the government-run Central News Agency said.

Shortages of daily goods are not unusual in Taiwan. The island was hit by a severe lack of toilet paper in 2018, a shortfall in multiple dry goods at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and low supply of paracetamol last year.

Brian Hoie, a Taipei-based analyst and founding editor of the Taiwan-focused New Bloom magazine, said people were cutting back on egg products until the shortages passed, although he added there could be some “hoarding behaviour”.

“However, that eggs can’t last past a certain expiration date may result in less hoarding and panic buying,” he said.


We urge customers that, because expiration periods are short for eggs, to buy appropriately and avoid hoarding PX Mart


Countries from Japan and South Korea to Britain and parts of the United States have also run short of eggs this year or watched prices surge, with bird flu the chief culprit.

In Taiwan, the Carrefour and PX Mart supermarket chains are restricting the number of eggs customers can buy per trip. This rule is a carry-over from shortages of toilet paper.
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Isn't most of the stuff in grocery stores "grass fed"? Maybe not. I used to buy bison from a ranch around Paris, Tx. years ago (when it was cheap-er), and theirs was "grass finished". I think when they're "grass finished", they were fed grass, plants, etc. throughout their entire life while "grass fed" means, sure, they ate grass, but could've also been fed things like grain feed throughout their lives. Cattle that's been eating grass their entire life does taste different - some people dig it, some don't.

 

has anyone bought a 12 pack coke or dr pepper lately? I haven't because I can't afford it.

 

5$ for 2 20oz Mexican Cokes in glass bottles...I use them in cocktails every once in a while