8 Ways to Combat Inflation in Your Kitchen

For a few weeks now, news pundits and strangers in frugal Facebook groups have been squawking about inflation and how groceries are way more expensive than they were a year ago. To be sure, inflation jumping as high as has been reported is something concerning.

However, economy experts agree that the cost of things hasn’t increased for manufacturers, but rather manufacturers have hiked up their prices because people were told inflation was coming, and they’ve accepted that things will cost more. Corporations that make our food and pharmacy products were already raking in huge profits.

Then they decided to increase their prices because consumers were told to expect inflation. It’s sort of a chicken and egg scenario. Is inflation happening because someone said it would happen, or was it always going to happen? And who’s causing inflation, the market or the manufacturers?

We can’t control the prices a corporation charges for their goods, but we can control whether we get suckered into paying that bloated fee. Just like housing costs since 2020. If you paid way over asking for a home in the past couple of years, don’t expect to be able to sell that property for a profit in five years.

1. Food Stamps and Food Banks

I’ll start right off with the one that’s going to trigger a lot of people. Go to a damn food pantry. If you can’t afford groceries, you need assistance, and there is nothing wrong or shameful in needing…