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Bookmark or Share- USDA Food Plans: Monthly Cost of Food ReportsUSDA produces four Food Plans at successively higher cost levels: the Thrifty, Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans, illustrating how a healthy diet can be achieved at various costs. Each food plan specifies quantities of foods and beverages that can be purchased and prepared to make healthy meals and snacks at home.
- Food Prices and Spending - USDA ERSIn 2023, U.S. consumers, businesses, and government entities spent $2.6 trillion on food and beverages. Average annual food-at-home prices were 5.0 percent higher in 2023 than in 2022. For context, the 20-year historical level of retail food price inflation is 2.5 percent per year.
- Food Price Outlook | Economic Research Service - USDA ERSThe Food Price Outlook provides food price data and forecasts changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) for food.
- Food Inflation in the United States (1968-2025)As recently as August 2022, the rate of inflation for food at 11.4% was the highest since May 1979. Food is a major component within the BLS’s Consumer Price Index (CPI). This inflation category is divided into two smaller groups: the "Food at home" index and the "Food away from home" index.
- Food prices are on the rise again. What’s behind the increaseFood manufacturers have expanded their footprint across the country to cut down on miles, and a lot of the increase in transportation costs has been because of driver shortages.
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