Parkrose Permaculture

I'm doing some reading this morning on food insecurity in 2025 America.

Do you find it more or less difficult to afford food than a year ago?

Also: if you're willing, could you share in the comments if you are making changes to the kinds of foods you buy now? And why you're making those changes?

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@VeyraFeyl

I’ve also noticed brands repackaging with less food, but at higher prices. Edit: Yes, I know it’s been happening for years but I’ve noticed it becoming more apparent recently, with almost-rotten produce and smaller meat portions joining the mix. I also want to highlight the Shrinkflation Reduction Act that was shot down by Republicans during the Biden era. I’m stockpiling shelf stable goods like rice, dried legumes and pasta. I’m buying seeds to grow my own produce on my patio.

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@RosePatterson-tx2wi

I’m a retired senior on social security. I stopped buying fresh meat and vegetables and fruit. These things spoil too quickly. I’ve gone to canned meat, veggies and fruit. Now I am having to even rethink canned fruit because the one place I could get brand name fruit for $1.25 per can has raised their price to $1.50. While it may be still less expensive than most places still, it’s still a 25% increase while my check stays the same.

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@RalphLaak

I'm single...retired...living on a fixed income...I buy the same items every week...the ONLY THING that varies is weighed items...my grocery (that old fashioned word 🙄)in May was around $80.00 a week...this week was $113.00...don't piss on me Donnie and tell me it's raining...and by the way I paid $3.19 a gallon...I couldn't find that $1.98 gas you keep talking about...my neighbor who's worked for 23 years at the same company was just laid off and his sister just closed her business...thanks Donnie..

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@MelzGuysdotter

(Non-us American take) Our habits have changed quite a bit with cost of living and now tariffs. We don’t get any American snack foods or beverages anymore, all our money has been going to local farms and Canadian grocery. We also stock overall less food.

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@bigcrazewolf

Not only food it's, insurance, electricity, water&sewer, and natural gas for my family as well.

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@mattb9664

My maga friends were complaining about the cost of groceries last week at our bbq smoker party and kids get-together - had to bite my lip the entire time especially once the alcohol started kicking in. I remained neutral about Charlie Kirk- and they were the ones bringing up the roomers as well. I just played dumb and spaced out like usual. The new thing with these people that somehow voted for this is how they are back-peddling their opinion of the individual they voted for- they are all starting to do this 'well I'm neutral on the issues' thing-- which we are too. But when the one candidate is evil and the other clearly isn't- you don't vote for the one that evil!

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@nancymcshane5080

I’m stocking up on more canned goods and dried rice and beans and buying less fresh produce and meat because I can’t rely on my monthly social security disability check in this scary political climate. Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to grow my own food. 💙🙏

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@12_4_LifeGoHawks

I was unemployed for over a year until last month. I have a wife, toddler, and 2 cats and I prioritized spending what little we had on getting food in their mouths before mine. I probably cut my average daily caloric intake by about 35-40%. Food honestly stops tasting as good and the desire to eat at all is greatly diminished when you are trying to shield your loved ones/dependents from the constant stress of food insecurity.

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@mdnlegends3617

As retired seniors on a fixed income, food and many other daily needs are more expensive.

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@trishayamada807

We started during the pandemic to make as much possible at home. I can now make, yogurt, cheese, any kind of yeast bread, etc, but even the prices of single ingredients is getting so high. We have 3 chickens for eggs as well. My husband picked up part time work. Things are not getting better. I am though proud of my family for leaning in and learning how to get back to basics. We aren’t buying new clothes, but wearing our old clothes until they can’t be repaired and then I save the material to make cleaning rags, or to make into fabric pieces for quilts or for making patches. We are hoping for a big garden next year. This year we struggled as my mom passed away in spring and I lost my will there for a while to do anything but survive.

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@Laurita-x5y

I'm a senior citizen , my entire income goes to pay rent. Groceries are now so expensive that I now live on rice and beans , can't afford fruits and vegetables . What meats and fruit and veggies I get from the local food bank . The struggle is real and taking a toll on my mental health. I became a widow a year ago and this sucks!!!

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@JanissGoddess

I think one of the biggest problems concerning food insecurity is ignorance – meaning the ignorance of people with privilege who have no idea what so many people are going through. Being removed from this issue makes it something abstract and not personal and that’s a really horrible thing. I say this as somebody who does have privilege and can spend what I want on food. I’m constantly reading posts about people who don’t have that and who are struggling. I need to remind myself what I’m fighting for - and who I’m fighting for. I wish everyone with privilege would make an effort to be closer to others in their community who are struggling. Because the truth is, billionaires and mega millionaires aside, this could be any of us at any time. All it takes is a job loss, a car accident, or a serious medical emergency to lose that privilege. I think a lot of people forget that. I never do.

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@rachellehardy3964

My family here in Northern California are creatures of habit with our favorite meals. We cook almost every night and buy the same things most weeks. We try and stick to meal ingredients but still enjoy a few treats as well. We have noticed a $40-$50 increase in our overall bill without deviating from our list. It's hard to budget since the cuts have to be elsewhere in our household. UGH I hate our current administration SO BAD!!!

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@jamiegallier2106

While acknowledging my utter privilege not having difficulty affording needed purchases, it’s impossible to miss how much literally everything has gone up. I know if this had happened even ten years ago when we were struggling to make ends meet; we’d be royally screwed. Even the simpler poverty style meals I was used to making back then would be very hard now with today’s costs. I never leave the store guilt free. I never forget the struggles to make sure my kids were fed healthy food and I see moms trying to do the same for their little ones. Adding stress that shouldn’t be a part of parenting.

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@bethmoore7722

You motivate me to get busy writing, now. Letters to the editor, guest columns, if I can get them, and other forms of activism besides marching down the street. I’ve been to countless protests since 2002, but I’m 72 years old, and my cane is not motorized. It was a hard walk, at the No Kings. My partner, daughter, and grandson and I live together, to the benefit of us all. Having a three-generation household is a great advantage, in both childcare and finances, for all of us. I get “food stamps,” and rely on my Social Security money for rent and other expenses. If I lose the food stamps, we’ll be okay, but it would be easier if I could keep them. My partner still works, at 76, but he does home repair and construction.I’m worried about everyone else, now. We all are. We donate a good bit of food, and we have a month’s worth of food stored up. We’ve just put in a few things regularly over the past three years, and it adds up. We need to put back more water, and try for a couple of months’ more in food. Part of my emergency preparedness is in light and power sources, should we need them. We live in Texas, and I was prepared for hurricanes, so that all came in handy when hell froze over. Aside from our own preparedness, my daughter and I want to start volunteering with Food Not Bombs, feeding the homeless. I’m also looking for other ways we can help make sure people get food. She’s been making little kits to give the few homeless people we see here. Houston is about thirty miles from us, and that’s where the protests happen, and the most homeless people are there. We could be homeless, ourselves, at some point in the future, given the fact that our government has declared war on its own people, using DOGE as its weapon. It was quite the spectacle, the sight of two billionaires taking poor children’s lunch money. That’s exactly the way we need to see our government, because that is reality. We are not governed. We are owned.

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@michaeltelles161

My wife and i started in COVID lock down learning how to jar veggies and other items, drying meat buying grains and seeds in bulk, even learning how to make tortillas and different types of bread. We've gotten pretty good at it thank God. We saw this coming even from back then. Not only jar fruits and veggies but dry freezing them to. I having a really green thumb started growing veggies in homemade planters and spaces in our yard. Now sharing with neighbors and family. I remember growing up my great grandmother and grand mother doing the same and living a simple but good life. Both lived past 90 years of age still cultivating their food and preserving it in different ways. Thank you grandparents and perants for teaching me the old ways.❤❤❤

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@joleighva

We are fortunate, and we have always lived below our means. We both worked very hard in Public Safety which means that we both have pensions, as well as having saved and invested money throughout our 30 year marriage. We can absorb the higher prices for now and have some left over to donate weekly to our Food Bank, so others who were not as lucky as we’ve been can continue to eat. 💜

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@Jaazar88

I help at a local food bank and there are a lot of people who are struggling with food right now. If this is you, you arent alone. Theres no shame in checking out a food bank and taking what you need if you find yourself in dire conditions.

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@trishn2340

My husband drove past the food bank site here in our tiny rural town and he said there were nice cars lined up all the way down the road. That’s not normal for our community. *this original comment wasn’t about the cars that people were driving per se. just a comment about how our very small town is reacting to what they have voted for. I don’t care about the cars they were driving. Again, it’s an observation.

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@RaLune79

We have noticed prices increase to the point where I've cut out makeup, buying clothing even when we need it, perfume, and non-essentials. Food will be the last place I cut, as someone who grew up food insecure. We're thankful we are only at this point of cutting out non-essentials (except clothing for our son).

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