The Price of Food

I can not believe what is happening with the cost of food lately. I food is now the biggest monthly expenditure in my family’s budget. I have thought lately that we’ve been spending too much on food, but today I decided to run the figures and see for myself. I wish I could say I was surprised with the results.

We now spend more money on food during a month than we spend on rent and utilities, transportation, and even those crazy miscellaneous expenses. We are a family of four and we don’t eat lavishly. I wish I had some good records to see just how much more we are spending for food now than 6 months or a year ago.

I really feel for people in a marginal economic situation. I know when I lived abroad, I know people who would only eat rice with sardines, Malanggay leaves or even just salt. With the way prices are going up, I can imagine that they have no way to cut down on expenses any further and they are just going to resort to being hungry.

I think this means that we will be donating more in our fast offerings using the money we are going to cut from our food budget.

Tags: food prices, rice crisis