Food Inflation (click on the link and watch a Business Week video explaining causes of food inflation in a pop up).
Been to the grocery store yet this week?

It made me nostalgic for last week. . . last month . . . last year.

The price of wheat has gone up 80-something percent and now retailers are reporting difficulty finding it. There is a world wide food inflation and food shortage. Asia’s got a rice crisis and we’ve redirected part of our corn crop to make fuel.

Over the past 12 months milk prices have doubled as demand for corn, the …read more

I took a major action step to Save Myself. It wasn’t easy, there were a few fights and one angry letter to Suze Orman over my using $50, of our already very tight budget, to Save My Self by opening a TD Ameritrade Account.

Rewind: Suze Orman had a Save Yourself Plan in her book Women & Money. Women who signed up for a TD Ameritrade Investment Account before March 2008 and automatically save $50 a month for one year will be given a free $100.

So far I’ve saved $100. But, I don’t know what to do with it. The market …read more

Two years ago we, a family of four, were able to eat for $100 a week. I thought that was a lot. At some point I realized groceries had become so expensive we raised the budget to $150 so we could stop feeling guilty for exceeding the budget every single week. Except now we’ve noticed we’ve been exceeding even that.

As I’ve been shopping lately I’ve noticed a few tricky trends.

Juice boxes went up 50 cents but they stuck a Sale sign behind them to make me believe I was getting a deal. The garbage bags I drive across town to …read more