54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances

54% of young Americans are splurging on luxuries such as groceries and need to learn how to cut back of frivolous expenses

I go to the grocery store and tomatoes will be randomly $7? And next week it's something else. It's like a rolling brownout for the economy.

Historically, food insecurity has been the revolutionary straw that breaks regimes' backs, even in the most repressive regimes. Wall Street is playing with fire here. We all know about the "peace, land, and bread" slogan, and you can be damn sure that it was the "bread" part that most caught the attention of the peasants.

It's becoming more and more real to me that just about everyone is one bad paycheck away from poverty. It sucks so much.

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I have an incredible deal on rent in NYC and shop very conservatively for food. Why do I have to pay almost 30K a year, not counting any other living expenses, to just eat the bare minimum food and sleep in the bare minimum accommodations? If you gave this info to somebody living in the Soviet Union they wouldn’t even believe you because it sounds like such unbelievable bullshit that it surely would have to be propaganda.

Coupons aren't even as effective!

I snip and cut away, use their stupid apps

And somehow only manage to save like 3 dollars????!!!

But I was told that inflation was gone and that the economy is going great?!

no it's not. Inflation is down actually

Please heed our call Mr. Kelogg. People are demanding sawdust-enriched cereals.

I mean, yeah. I only ever "buy" rent, utilities, and groceries. The other shit goes up once a year, but food goes up every week. As a science man, that's bad.

It's groceries sweetheart, how much could it cost a week, $350?

the thing that everyone absolutely must have to live on a daily basis is a huge concern for those people now that the price of it is increasing rapidly?

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My favorite thing about this dystopian nightmare we all exist in is that during the height of the pandemic, food costs basically tripled over night FOR NO GOD DAMN REASON.

ummm i am very surprised the majority are not saying HOUSING COSTS.

But that's probably because a lot of people are just having to keep living at home with their parents forever. which i guess leaves food costs....

I was going to say I don't understand what people could be eating that would make them feel like food costs are a bigger strain than housing costs, but based on the sample size and age target I wonder how much of this is skewed by younger people living with parents, dorms, etc. Rents all over my state have doubled in the past few years. Food had definitely gone up by a few dollars here and there, but none of my regular groceries have doubled in price.

It does seem like every time I go to the grocery store these days I'm dropping $60-70 on not very fancy things

started going to a certain discount eurogrocery store in the city and basically cut my bills in half. and i work at a grocery store (not that one)

shoutout to the "so over this shit" twink that haphazardly throws my food into a cart. i get it, i really do

I would have thought housing would have been the highest.

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i can't afford the avocado toast at the cafe down the street anymore so now i have to make it at home.

Literally every other day Im spending 40-50 dollars at the grocery store on bullshit. I mean like 18 of that is beer but

No shit! Between food and rent I can barely make it.

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Isn't most of this due to Biden's War in Ukraine? I remember the impact on food prices being discussed when it started but 2 years later and I guess people forgot Ukraine produced an assload of food

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