Highly Effective Ways to Chop the Soaring Cost of Groceries

Cooking and baking using raw ingredients rather than those that are highly processed or prepared is one of the most effective ways to slash food costs. Pinkyone/Shutterstock

Perhaps you’ve noticed the cost of nearly everything is going up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index, the agency that calculates the U.S. inflation rate, is predicting a very high inflation rate for 2021. Our annual inflation rate at the end of May was running at 5 percent. That is the highest rate since 1981, when the average for that year was 10.3 percent.

Here’s the deal: We can either stick our heads in the sand and pretend that nothing has changed, or we can get smart and fight back.