Nary a peep from the media now.

Not "the airwaves", but it probably counts as a peep.

Half of republicans (aka MAGAs) say groceries are affordable.

I hear this shit everyday on the podcasts that I listen to.

They refuse to admit the price of gas is higher.

They refuse to admit the price of groceries are higher.

They always mention the price of eggs for their rebuttal.

Nor does science

I just wonder how they can even act like there is enough money in their bank accounts to cover the increases that have been made under TFG

Traitor rapist psycho said so.

I am seeing prices rise as I cut my portion sizes. I am spending close to $1,000 a month set aside from Senior apartment rent and a couple of set expenditures for groceries, medications, a few meals out, needed things(glasses, laptop, etc.

Costco is my main store, with a smaller grocery store for things I do not need in bulk. I am still spending close to $400 monthly and it is just me.

I can only imagine grocery bills for families with a couple of kids. Both of my kids are doing well. My daughter has 2 growing and active girls in sports. They need to be fed.

would say yes.

So the sticker shock has been overwhelming this year. For the first time, we both agree that the USA has far surpassed the cost of groceries in Germany, and that is saying something. The old market in downtown Boston is an exception. Five lemons for a dollar there, four lemons for $2 at the food store here on the Cape. The price of fresh fish has just about doubled since last year. I had budgeted what I thought was a generous $500 a week for groceries (we have an average of 4-6 people here at any given time in the house we are renting, since we have open invitations for family to join us). We blew through that in the first four days, although the first day is always cost intensive, since we start with nothing when we arrive.

People who can afford house rentals here can afford the groceries, and because my wife is a master chef, we seldom eat out. Why pay triple for someone to cook when my wife is the better chef in the first place? But the locals? I remember seeing a bumper sticker here many years ago: "Native Cape Codder--Endangered Species." We know a local woman here--actually one town over in Wellfleet--that we met 40 years ago when she was barely twenty. She lives with her wife in a house that she inherited from her parents. It is up a hill and so secluded, she still finds arrowheads of the Pamet tribe. She has a substantial garden, and grows half of what she eats. Very few locals have that advantage, though. The Outer Cape is a tiny sliver of land, in some parts (like where we are in Truro) only six miles wide with the Boston Bay on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other side. Only fresh fish and freshly picked corn are available in commercially viable quantities, and the local fish is 50% more than last year. We haven't even asked about the price of lobster yet. Everything else has to be trucked in.