{"id":866607,"date":"2026-06-14T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/866607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:34:14","slug":"tell-us-how-are-higher-prices-affecting-your-food-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/866607\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Us How Are Higher Prices Affecting Your Food Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

“What’s for dinner?”<\/p>\n

For many Americans, the nightly question is often as much about taste preferences as it is about economic realities.<\/p>\n

My own family’s mealtimes invariably require tradeoffs of time, money, and skill that we must navigate every single day.<\/p>\n

Now, rising inflation<\/a> is once again squeezing families’ finances across the US.<\/p>\n

Food costs have so far held relatively steady this year<\/a>, with increases and decreases mostly offsetting each other in a basket of goods. But soaring gas prices<\/a> and other consumer expenses are eating up a larger share of household budgets, according to the latest consumer price index.<\/p>\n

For some families, that might mean cutting down on restaurant dining in favor of home-cooked meals. For others, it’s swapping out beef for a less expensive protein.<\/p>\n

Time-strapped shoppers may find themselves increasingly eyeing their grocery store’s prepared foods options<\/a> as a lower-cost alternative to getting delivery.<\/p>\n

At Business Insider, we want to know how our readers are navigating these decisions, and how that has changed in the past year.<\/p>\n

In my family of four, for example, my wife and I decided to sharply reduce restaurant and delivery spending. By cooking more meals at home, we have basically stopped ordering delivery, and we eat out at restaurants about once a week. According to our budgeting app, we’ve cut our spending in that category in half.<\/p>\n

How have you been balancing food costs with other expenses over the past year? What changes, big and small, have helped you feed yourself well and save money?<\/p>\n

We also want to see the receipts.<\/p>\n

What have you stopped buying? What do you now spend more on? What do you splurge on? How have gas prices affected you?<\/p>\n

Please get in touch via email<\/a> or share your info in the survey below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“What’s for dinner?” For many Americans, the nightly question is often as much about taste preferences as it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":866608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,4381,30571,13654,79,99956,337484,91487,6459,353108,353106,13331,353107,6620,353109,67,132,68,1628],"class_list":["post-866607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-business-insider","tag-decrease","tag-delivery","tag-economy","tag-favor","tag-food-cost","tag-mealtime","tag-money","tag-other-consumer-expense","tag-own-family","tag-price","tag-restaurant-dining","tag-time","tag-tradeoff","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116748252967541988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}