My grocery budget hasn't changed much in several years. I buy whole foods so they seem to stay about the same price. I don't buy any processed foods or packaged foods. I do buy frozen vegetables. I buy 1/2 and 1/2 for milk. We buy half a cow twice a year so I don't buy beef from the grocery store. We don't like pork that much but we do like bacon and I switched to turkey bacon, my one nitrate loaded food. Poultry and fish prices stay about even. My only big cost is fresh vegetable and fruit, especially blueberries and melons. I don't buy chips, sodas, snack cakes, but do buy ice cream, dark chocolate, and pre shelled nuts. Brazil nuts are our favorite. We seldom eat out, the food has no flavor in most of the chain restarurants around here. No good restarurants with a real chef. :?