{"id":20547,"date":"2023-01-10T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=20547"},"modified":"2022-12-29T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:08:13","slug":"recent-rise-in-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/10\/recent-rise-in-food-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Rise in Food Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/food-inflation-food-costs-are-higher-grocery-prices-are-higher-consumer-price-index-man-pushing-shopping-cart-groceries-up-line-chart-arrow_327176-1408.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/food-inflation-food-costs-are-higher-grocery-prices-are-higher-consumer-price-index-man-pushing-shopping-cart-groceries-up-line-chart-arrow_327176-1408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not your imagination. The cost of food is increasing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit of the U.S. Bureau of Labor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/ppi.t02.htm\">recently reported<\/a> on food prices. In November 2022, based on preliminary data, the price of fresh and dry vegetables increased 38.1%, the highest increase of any food category. Other categories of plant foods had smaller increases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fresh fruit and melons increased 3.2%<\/li>\n<li>Processed fruit and vegetables increased 1.7%<\/li>\n<li>Rice increased 0.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some categories of plant foods decreased in price including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pasta decreased 1.5%<\/li>\n<li>Grains decreased 3.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about eating vegan on a budget see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue2\/2020_issue2_vegan_menus.php\">Low-Cost Vegan Menus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/vegan-at-the-dollar-tree\/\">Vegan at the Dollar Tree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2006issue2\/2006_issue2_mealplans.php\">Low-Cost Vegan Meal Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2003issue1\/2003_issue1_quick.php\">Quick and Easy Low-Cost Vegan Menus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/28\/healthy-sustainable-and-affordable-can-we-have-all-three\/\">Healthy, Sustainable and Affordable \u2013 Can We Have All Three?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/02\/report-estimates-the-true-cost-of-food-in-the-us\/\">Report Estimates the True Cost of Food in the US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD It\u2019s not your imagination. The cost of food is increasing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit of the U.S. Bureau of Labor, recently reported on food prices. In November 2022, based on preliminary data, the price of fresh and dry vegetables increased 38.1%, the highest increase of any food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20549,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20547\/revisions\/20549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}