Americans Depend On Food Banks Like Never Before As Food Prices Skyrocket

In the recent past, most Americans thought of food banks as strictly a place for homeless people to get a hot meal but now a HUGE amount of everyday Americans rely on food banks to feed their families as food prices have gotten to the point where affordability is no longer a thing.

I have been buying organic milk for decades, yesterday I paid $14 a gallon for good milk and I was stunned. The same brand was about $6 a gallon just a few years ago but it keeps climbing and is pretty much not affordable for most Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Fortunately, we are better off but these prices are getting close to unaffordable for us too, especially meat. A few good steaks can easily be $60 these days and that is just not affordable.

Many of those Americans are forced to look for alternative ways to feed their families.

Katherine Charles, a 40-year-old single mother, said Biden’s inflation made it more difficult for her to feed her family. Her young children “are at the age they are eating everything in front of them,” she told the Associated Press.

My brother paid $28 for a pumpkin pie and $75 for a cooked turkey breast for Thanksgiving. Sure, he can afford it but none the less was taken aback by how much it was. A few drinks at Starbucks can easily top $11 dollars and these costs seem to just go up and up. Where does it end? How much do they think people can afford?

I’m afraid this will end badly if the trend we’re seeing continues, People are being forced to eat a carb-rich diet and avoid the more pricey meats, proteins and dairy most people are accustomed to eating. These foods can be tasty if you know how to cook with them, but I prefer eating these foods as a choice, not a requirement because of cost. The next few years will be interesting, to say the least