News flash: Food is expensive! Food prices were up 10.8 percent for the year ended April 2022, the largest 12-month increase since November 1980. The average family now spends about 10 percent of their household income buying groceries—nearly $7,000 a year!
And even while the price of food keeps going up, average wages are not keeping up. Even the thought of losing ground like that is scary when you are just trying to feed your family.
