How Are You Dealing With Rising Food Costs?
This week on our Wednesday food shows, we're looking in to how rising food prices in our area are changing the ways people shop and cook.
We're wondering if you've been changing the way you cook and shop - and your overall household budgets - because of the increases in food costs. The Capital Area Food Bank's Director of Nutrition Education, Jodi Balis, will be here sharing some tips for stretching dollars at the grocery store. For example, Balis teaches people about her "$16 Shopping Bag" that she designed to feed an individual 16 times:
If you'd like to share your experiences of cutting back or altering your shopping and cooking habits, take our survey and let us know what ways you've come up with to stretch your budget. Are you trying new recipes, or turning to old family recipes that were originally designed to feed more people with less?
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I have been combatting rising food prices by reducing my expenses for nonedible items. Given the choice between a less expensive soap, shampoo or detergent, and a less expensive food, the cleaning bill is the first thing to get cut. I wonder how effective similar strategies would be for other low-income grocery customers.
P.S. Frankly, bread and fresh fruit are more expensive than oats, bulgur, and frozen produce. I found that out a decade ago.
Hi Terrence, thanks for your comment. Yes, the Capital Area Food Bank's Director of Nutrition Education, Jodi Balis, talked a little bit today about the problems people face when the healthiest foods, like fresh fruit and veggies, are also the most expensive.
Jodi talked with us for a while before the show today, and we shot some video of her explaining her $16 grocery bag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2VKTJ4-qHM
Other listeners said they like to buy and cook in bulk and then freeze meals for later.
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