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Bookmark or Share- Food-at-Home Monthly Area Prices | Economic Research ServiceThe Food-at-Home Monthly Area Prices (F-MAP) product provides retail food price data over time and across areas. The F-MAP includes monthly average unit prices and price indexes for 90 food groups across 15 geographic areas.
- Food Prices and Spending - USDA ERSIn 2023, food prices grew by 5.8 percent, while household energy prices increased by 1.6 percent and motor fuel prices declined by 10.6 percent following relatively large increases for each of these categories in 2022.
- 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 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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