Food costs, wages, and how far a dollar/euro will go.

[m2pinggggggg]

I used to work for a grocery store. Then I was a salesman and sold potato chips for a snack food company. Today I was shopping at a grocery store and priced a banana for 75 cents a pound. I thought that was pretty high. So I thought maybe to save some money I could just peel the banana's ( that's what I really wanted, not the peel) and cut inflation. Since this store had self serving checkout they wouldn't know the better. The store would understand. My groceries came out to 28.47 and I had 29.00 on me. And of course I didn't succumb to peeling the banana's.... but I wanted to. I know prices in stores have gone up. I used to budget money for trips and go to one store. Now I have to go to three stores to keep the budget on track. My prices haven't gone up for gas or dump fee's for a small dumpster corp. I started three years ago. I'm lucky to have any clients because most of the Contractors are out of business, since people can't get equity out of their homes to landscape and pay off their credit cards or cars. Sometimes I wonder how far a euro goes in Europe compared to how far our dollar runs out before the month. But you know what.... If I hadn't gotten a little greedy and was a little more patient, would not not have owed on my car, my truck, maybe even rented longer - lived within my means like I was instructed by Jesus, I wouldn't care about the cost of a banana. I'm still blessed to eat a free banana in my free house in my free state of Calif, in my free country of The United States! And I'm still free to tell you that Jesus loves me.... this I know!:yeah

[BeNotAfraid]

Awesome post! I bought bananas today for .60/lb and thought how outrageous it was. They used to be .49/lb or .39 on sale. Many things are twice as much money and packaged even smaller so we don't notice (4 lb bags of sugar, anyone?).

[Mitsy]

Try $2.49 per kilo in Aust and we grow them? That's supposed to be a good price.

[SummerSailing81]

Bananas are one of the few items in my area that haven't gone up in price. Still .59 lb. For the past month or so sweet onions have been a real bargain at .79 lb., but a 5 lb. bag of navel oranges has gone up from $4.99 to $5.99 (didn't buy a bag this time).

[lilbitsyspider]

Try $2.49 per kilo in Aust and we grow them? That's supposed to be a good price.

Painful. :twitch

[Tammy]

I got bananas yesterday and never looked at the price. Just got my slip out 2.99 lb. I guess I better look the next time before I buy.

[Patti311]

I got bananas yesterday and never looked at the price. Just got my slip out 2.99 lb. I guess I better look the next time before I buy.

Tammy...bananas at $2.99 per pound???? :faint Where do you live??? Oh my goodness. Well if that is the trend I guess no more homemade banana pudding for my family!

[icebear]

69-79 cents # is normal up here.... now $2.99# is completely ridiculous

i have seen organic nanners for around that price, but to me organic isn't that special

[Amanda's mom]

I got bananas yesterday and never looked at the price. Just got my slip out 2.99 lb. I guess I better look the next time before I buy.

Now I know why God let me be allergic to so many foods....He knew the price would be too high for me to afford and He didn't want me to feel sorry that I didn't have the money to buy them so He made the price of eating them completely unaffordable. :aha

[Tammy]

Boy do I feel stupid. I looked again at my slip it was the price above .49lb. The 2.99 was grapes but they were on sale for .99lb.