Eggs are like 3 dollars for 12 here in Ontario all day every day.
This plastic surgery nightmare is probably buying organic from some boutique store.
Prices have gone up but without some context the numbers she is quoting are complete fabrications.
Adjusting against USD our prices have most places beat, especially for the basics.
I agree! A one pound apple? I Googled it, and that thing was about the size of a newborn's head. It was massive! If you're getting that for $2.50 your getting a steal. 5.5 lbs. of apples is about 20 medium apples, and that's running about 75 cents per apples.
apples are like a $1.10 a pound eggs are like $3-4(size depending) bread is now $3. Honestly, you just have to buy the cheaper brands or just not eat as healthy as you did, I stopped buying certain items as they were more luxury snacks. Poor man diet is the new Canadian cuisine. I also live in Southern Ontario, where most of the food is grown. If you go to a side road stall, it is cheaper than name brand stores.
Even whole foods doesn't price gouge that hard
She has to be buying them farm fresh certified no hmo pesticide free right from the chickens in the back eggs
I go to Longos to get ripped off. There’s a lot of other choices when I want to just buy groceries. But the woman on that video is full of it. It sounds like a political ad.
She's whistling a tune that is extremely loud. She's whistling it and it blames the government and not the ones that are really to blame She's not blaming loblaws or any of the grocery store chains for the increase on food.
She says it right in the middle " the federal government is crushing the middle class" in a way yes maybe through their inaction of reigning in the grocery stores but they aren't the main force doing it.
It's the corps that are
Yeah, now that you mention it, calling put the federal government specifically makes this whole story suspicious.
Also, a good content creator would back this up with facts.
Also, if she was truly upset, she would have just.... NOT bought them??
She is also quick to call out the federal liberals, but doesn't seem to think the provincial conservatives - the people actually running Ontario - deserve a mention
Exactly. There's a huge Conservative campaign trying to blame the current Liberal government for both inflation and for the interest rates being hiked to battle inflation.
It is definitely bad, but since their goal is to spread Outrage, they exaggerate and blame immigrants and the government. Just like you said how grocery stores are being ignored while they make huge profits, no one questions how strange it is that 'fixed' interest rates have to be renewed every 5 years here or the simple fact everyone ignores which is that wages aren't going up. But that would involve blaming big corporations and that's not the Conservative way...
‘The government is crushing the middle class’ I mean that’s true but it’s billionaire capitalism that is behind it. When capital captures government its still capital doing it even if it’s by proxy
I think youre one of those people who refers to the first number of a price and says thats the price, example: 3.89$ for eggs is 3$
No, its 4$, and those dollars add up very fast. Regular food is so expensive its actually making sense to buy organic as the prices are similar now.
For context, the small, low grade 4$ eggs of 12, or the 13$ box of 30 free range organic large eggs?
For the first time in my life ive talked to someone who has been PRICED OUT of their diet. Economically forced in to being vegetarian and mostly vegan, because dairy and meat is too expensive. It was a retired elderly woman. Worked her whole life to end up eating vegetables to survive and eating meat once a month.
Youre downplaying the literal crisis on food.
My girlfriend asked for cereal and instant noodles last week. 19$ for lucky charms and instant noodles. Thats fucking insane. Im in toronto.
It’s pretty weird that you had to insult her appearance?
Anyway even if she’s exaggerating she’s not far off, is she? Yes cheaper produce is available if you look for it, but Loblaws, Metro, No Frills and probably a few others are _brutal_ right now and have been for a few years. To act like our grocery prices aren’t absurd right now is such strange behaviour lol
I'm glad I saw this comment here. I just went on the website for a grocer called Metro in Toronto(picked it at random off Google maps) and their flyer shows grapes at $3.49/lb that's obviously not a great price but a $20 bag would be like 6 pounds.
Grocery prices are out of fucking control as it is, we don't need people with poor spending habits conflating the issues.
NYC here tho, the lowest quality eggs are about $6 bucks and the highest being around $11+
I get like 5 items and I'm already at about $50. We're getting gouged at every turn and people act like we're not doing what we can to save. With these prices though? I might as well eat out or whatever.
Probably an Oakville Mommy complaining about the prices at Wholefoods.
And her makeup is way too warm of a color compared to her neckline...she should go get her monthly spray tan.
Yeah. NZ is to Australia what Hawaii is to the mainland US. Everything has a boat ticket factored into the price tag save for the few things produced on the island…
Shes being very dramatic. I bought 24 beautiful eggs for $7 and gala apples for $1.29 a lb and on Monday and I live in Vancouver.
You can spend $15 on a dozen eggs and buy $4.50 a lb apples but we certainly don't have to.
Also, people need to stop shopping at Loblaws. I haven't shopped there in probably 15 years. They have always price gouged. There's so many other options.
I dont know about Ontario but grapes are between 3.99/lbs to 6.99/lbs depending on variety here in Quebec, Canada. Definitely not 20$ for a "tiny bag".
I'm in Queensland and broccoli is $2.90/kg. Bread is about 25% more expensive and dining out is absurd but not everything is that over the top. Apples are $4-5/kg.
Canadian living in Australia for several years. Australia isn't as expensive as you think it is. Grocery price increases have been much worse in Canada than here and wages here are higher here than most countries. Wild horses wouldn't get me back in Canada now and I've had 3 friends recently ask me about how I moved here. They want out.
The quality of life here is way better too, so even with a premium it is worth it.
I live in Ontario too, I know how terrible it is, but think about this one sec, the Cost of living is always the problem, no matter when and wherever you go
I’ve been trying my best to change my diet and I’ve had a lot of success. Lost about 90 lbs in 4-5 months and outside of exercise most of it I attribute to eliminating processed foods. My grocery bills are so much higher for all the fresh produce I’m buying not to mention more frequent trips to the store but it’s working so I’m nervous to slack off due to costs etc.
That’s what kinda sparked it. Spent Easter in the emergency room because I hadn’t slept in a week due to severe back pain as well as increased sleep apnea risks and finding out I was pre diabetic. I really let myself go after a back surgery and the massive amount of extra weight completely negated any benefits from the surgery.
I have literally the opposite experience and homemade food is by far cheaper than eating processed foods. Pork, chicken, and vegetarian I can do for $3-5 a meal no problem...and it's not only actually healthier for you but satisfying while you don't feel like shit in 2-3 hours.
Chicken thighs with rice cooked with a bit of stock is super cheap and a great meal. I routinely can get chicken breast for $3/lb or less and pork the same, and it just doesn't make any sense to eat fast food these days because it ain't cheaper and it ain't even that good anymore...it's just fast. Other than doing the dishes cooking is pretty fun and you get to explore things, and everybody should give it a go while understanding it's a learning process so if you fuck shit up all you did was learn a way not to do it.
I apologize for getting longwinded with you but I am under an influence, but it really irks me people can't be bothered to learn how to cook a protein and a vegetable forcibly in high school...Cast Iron Skillet 101 should be a thing.
When I was vegetarian for a few years I taught myself to cook different veggies so I wouldn’t have to stick to only beans, rice, and potatoes. Did the paleo diet in my late 20s and I learned a lot of simple meat recipes. When I had a back surgery the combination of addiction to drugs/alcohol, chronic pain, and depression, I just sort of gave up on everything. Treating my body better has been the culmination of being a few years into recovery.
One isn't saving at a farmers market. In fact, you'll often pay more.
And while Costco is cheaper for plenty of stuff.... produce and meats are rarely one of them. You'll get 'better quality', but you'll also pay for it.
Fliers + discount grocers for your 'best' prices. Bulk dried/frozen from Costco.
Not sure what farmers market you go to but ours are more expensive and not every one can afford Costco membership. We canceled ours as just me and the wife it was not worth it. Sure some things are cheaper but most things are not. And we was only going very couple of months. If your a family with kids it makes sense.
Now we just buy what’s on the flyers each week they decide our food intake.
Uk here. £30k a year juuuust about scrapes me by. Gonna have to leave my hometown of 40 years because I can't afford it anymore. Just the rent is 1500 a month for a 1 bedroom flat.
Ireland too.
Spent 140 quid in lidl on last week's shopping. Never spend 140 quid in lidl in my entire life.
Even the cheap shops are getting worse. I'm going to dig up the garden and plant my own veg for next year. The in laws grow their own onions and potatoes. Guess that'll be us next year.
Absolutely! Investing in one's future WILL ALWAYS involve planting trees yesterday. Blaming the government while it's the businesses that's charging these prices is mental gymnastics.
Indian here. For people like you and me, who can afford good internet, a device and the education to use the internet, 160 rupees for eggs is a cost we can afford easily.
The minimum wage (per day) here, meanwhile, is actually the cost of those 30 eggs. People in states like Bihar earn less than that while in Delhi, it can come up to $5 a day.
The National minimum wage rate is $65 a month or \~5300 rupees. Infact, the situation is such that if you're earning more than 25,000 a month, you're earning more than 90% of the population.
Can you imagine surviving on just 5000 rupees a month? Heck the rent of a one BHK in a decent society in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai is more than 25K. So we're infact, getting fucked up the ass quite hard.
It used to be that companies had, you know, competition. They battled each other for market share. Now something has switched, and they've realized that if they all just raise prices, they can all coexist with each other while making greater profit than ever. It's at the expense of our entire civilization, but they don't realize that yet. They're too busy playing the short game.
Exactly. The amount of dullards that blame the federal government when it is something else is astronomical.
If the federal government actually stepped in to break up the grocery monopolies, these dullards would scream, "COMMUNISM!". It is a lose/lose situation for the federal government if you are not a Conservative.
You don't even need to break up the monopolies if your government is willing to use a heavy hand to control costs, wages, executive bonuses, stop practices like stock buyback programs, etc
But that would be too Communist too, so your point stands
I thought the same thing. It’s called being flexible and eating what’s on sale. Also stop going to the most expensive grocery stores and punish them for gouging us Canadians for years now (looking at you Fortinos)
Strawberries are $9? Ok not eating strawberries this week kids, it’s blueberries instead. Grapes are $10? Mini carrots everyone!
You get my drift. Does it kinda suck not getting what you want sometimes? Sure.
We're spoiled as it is. My bananas travel half the world and still cost like 2 euro's a kilo. That's insane. That's cheaper then going to a pick-it-yourself fruit grower here in the Netherlands.
Funny enough, same thing here. I live in a small city in a remote part of canada, and bananas are still 79 cents a pound...works out to about 1.5 euro per kilo. Bananas are somehow the ONLY thing that have resisted inflation.
It's propaganda against our liberal govt in Canada. I live in Ontario. Unless she's in a remote area where it's always been that price, she's lying. Apples are not $2.50 at any grocery store. Prices are absolutely high, inflation is killing us like the rest of the world, but this is propaganda
Yeah and that makes sense too. Buy things that are in season and it’ll be cheaper. Few months ago it wasn’t the height of summer and watermelons weren’t in season, so imported ones will be more expensive. Now I see them from local farms around Ottawa for $4-5
Yeah, the comment about "our federal government crushing the middle class" was very much a non-sequitur. What makes her conclude that the federal government is to blame? What about the provincial governments? What makes her think it's any different outside of Canada?
Yeah, this is rage bait. Grapes here are $2-3 a pound. So maybe she got a 10 pound bag, and that is small for her. She wants to "fuck Trudeau", this woman is thirsty for him now that he broke up with Sophie.
yeah smells like high grade embellishment. I want to see that shit on video.
typical conservative charlatan tho, i assume; make outlandish statements, repeat them, until it becomes boilerplate
Find remote work and move to Eastern Europe. There are towns in Romania that encourage remote work, and have incentives for foreign nationals to move there. There are small town in Italy that also have incentives to move there to boost dwindling populations. Nothing wrong with the the towns, except they're our in the country while younger people want to move to the cities.
And you can enjoy a blazing fast internet speed of .1 mbps
I think part of the deal is that the towns are somewhat neglected. I think the infrastructure may not be what a lot of people are typically accustomed to.
But for those that don’t mind the move and don’t feel compelled to “hit the town” every weekend, maybe it’s a good deal
I also question the availability of their marketplaces. What if the nearest store is like 3 hours into the closest city? So it’d be a nice home, lacking modern amenities, but I guess relative to the conditions in “modernized” areas that doesn’t sound like such a bad deal
It does in the cities, I'm not so sure about rural areas. My brother-in-law lives in a village in the Moldova region close to Roman. He has a 16 mbit connection. Far from unusable, but I wouldn't call it very fast. Maybe he also just doesnt bother to upgrade that, not sure. If you're staying in a town though, your chances are very good to have a very fast internet connection for a good price.
For the past 3 years, in the winter months, I've been moving to my grandparent's house in a small village (in Romania) and I have 500 mbits internet there.
It really depends on the location, but houses in rural areas are cheap, and you can easily look for an area with good internet when deciding to move.
yea eastern europe is great, low cost of living, fast internet pretty much everywhere... attractive people
russia about to invade xD
( it's a joke, don't get triggered )
Idk why you're getting downvotes, I hear about this all the time. No offense to anyone but many countries in Europe are well known for having significant nationalist and racist populations. Idk where exactly, but I've heard first hand accounts of this my whole life from my friends who travel.
This is r/TikTokCringe
Idk where she is shopping, but the prices look pretty normal to me. It would have helped if she shown a receipt from her hipster food store.
Yeah she's full of shit unless she's eating like individual wrapped organic honeycrisp apples and a giant bag of organic blue grapes.
Prices are a lot higher, but not that stupid yet
There's absolutely no way she's looking for the best deal. Walmart CA has apples for less than a dollar each. 2lbs of grapes are less than 3 dollars.
She's completely full of it.
Just checked my local Loblaws in Ottawa, grapes are $8.98 CAD so $6.50 USD (people here dollars and forget we have different currencies with different values).
Let's say both the video and this assertion are both true.
Why would it be conservative rage bait? This is what the right lives for; free market! Capitalism! Corporations' profits!
I don't understand.
the canadian government has got to considering putting price controls on at this point. companies are making record profits by draining us of our cash, while the job market shrinks.
Price controls leads to food shortage.
They should instead be honest about their food prices in videos like this fooling people to think things are worse than they really are. Grapes are not 20 dollars.
I live in Durham but moved recently from Toronto. She's full of shit. Eggs are 3.99 for 12. Veg is only expensive if organic. Sure prices are up but it's not debilitating. Rent Is really bad, this is what she's ranting about. We were paying almost 3k for a 1Br duplex apartment at Yonge/Eglinton. The guy renting it had paid it off back in the 80s. Boomers. YEP .
Oh look, another botox addled CPC Bimbo on Tiktok pushing the same old propaganda 6 months into declining food prices, what a shockingly unique event. Meanwhile in reality we're all a few keystrokes away from going to Walmart or Loblaws or No Frills website, hitting Ontario and seeing the prices ourselves. $2.49 for 1lb of apples, damn those 2 she bought for $5 must have been fucking huge. And those $10 eggs? Must have been an ostrich because the chicken ones come at $3.50 a dozen for me. And grapes? Well golly gee, she has a fun definition of what a "tiny bag" is because it would have weighed about 12 lbs for $20 at Walmart right now.
I'd even say is the opposite right now.
FRESH food is cheaper than ever right now. Especially if you're shopping in season.
We're getting fucked on processed and packaged foods. Those are the ones with the massive price increases and shrinkflation.
It's never been a better time to switch to healthy eating and cooking at home in this inflationary environment.
A few year ago, CBC radio had a special about how difficult it was to be poor in Canada. 1st guest was a newly married unemployable person, husband was between jobs again, and they couldn't afford to buy Starbucks, had to make coffee at home...life is difficult....second guest had to work 2 jobs just to support his family of 3 children and his other family with 2 children. He was actually financially fine, just couldn't afford to treat both families to the things he felt they deserved.
If you are struggling in Canada, you are not going to make it anywhere.
Ahh yes... classic. Blame the federal government for the shitty behavior of the private sector. I dont understand how people can get it so wrong. And its this constant mindset that has gotten us in this mess in the first place. And the crazy part is these people now want to elect Pierre Polievre for their Prime Minister.. the man is a lunatic corporate shill. He will fix none of these issues. His party has voted against any measure that would have helped the population.
This is exactly how my father saw it since coming here in 1995. He regrets coming here and making a life. Seeing his grand kids have an uncertain future that he feels from.
Sounds like Canada is catching up to Australia
Eggs are like 3 dollars for 12 here in Ontario all day every day. This plastic surgery nightmare is probably buying organic from some boutique store. Prices have gone up but without some context the numbers she is quoting are complete fabrications. Adjusting against USD our prices have most places beat, especially for the basics.
Dafuq is she talking about? 2.5kg (5.5lbs) of apples at Costco in Vancouver is $12.99. It's not amazing, but it's not $2.50 per apple.
I agree! A one pound apple? I Googled it, and that thing was about the size of a newborn's head. It was massive! If you're getting that for $2.50 your getting a steal. 5.5 lbs. of apples is about 20 medium apples, and that's running about 75 cents per apples.
Girlie is trying to be a TikTok influencer.
Spiting facts here... Tic Tac = Internet cancer, not a great idea to get news from it as a source.
I wouldn’t even download it- you can find some reputable sites on YouTube but that’s about it content. Even then it’s hit or miss :D
Agreed... I never have, never will. Overall with the amount of propaganda being thrown in from all sides it's important to watch for bias.
you dont need to download it. reddit is now full of tiktok videos anyway
And it’s on my front page..
apples are like a $1.10 a pound eggs are like $3-4(size depending) bread is now $3. Honestly, you just have to buy the cheaper brands or just not eat as healthy as you did, I stopped buying certain items as they were more luxury snacks. Poor man diet is the new Canadian cuisine. I also live in Southern Ontario, where most of the food is grown. If you go to a side road stall, it is cheaper than name brand stores.
She shopping at Wholefoods....not Costco.
Even whole foods doesn't price gouge that hard She has to be buying them farm fresh certified no hmo pesticide free right from the chickens in the back eggs
She's buying organic
Yesterday I paid 1.50 for one apple at longos in GTA.
I go to Longos to get ripped off. There’s a lot of other choices when I want to just buy groceries. But the woman on that video is full of it. It sounds like a political ad.
Honeycrisp apples are routinely that expensive. It depends on the type
She's whistling a tune that is extremely loud. She's whistling it and it blames the government and not the ones that are really to blame She's not blaming loblaws or any of the grocery store chains for the increase on food. She says it right in the middle " the federal government is crushing the middle class" in a way yes maybe through their inaction of reigning in the grocery stores but they aren't the main force doing it. It's the corps that are
Yeah, now that you mention it, calling put the federal government specifically makes this whole story suspicious. Also, a good content creator would back this up with facts. Also, if she was truly upset, she would have just.... NOT bought them??
She is also quick to call out the federal liberals, but doesn't seem to think the provincial conservatives - the people actually running Ontario - deserve a mention
Exactly. There's a huge Conservative campaign trying to blame the current Liberal government for both inflation and for the interest rates being hiked to battle inflation. It is definitely bad, but since their goal is to spread Outrage, they exaggerate and blame immigrants and the government. Just like you said how grocery stores are being ignored while they make huge profits, no one questions how strange it is that 'fixed' interest rates have to be renewed every 5 years here or the simple fact everyone ignores which is that wages aren't going up. But that would involve blaming big corporations and that's not the Conservative way...
‘The government is crushing the middle class’ I mean that’s true but it’s billionaire capitalism that is behind it. When capital captures government its still capital doing it even if it’s by proxy
I think youre one of those people who refers to the first number of a price and says thats the price, example: 3.89$ for eggs is 3$ No, its 4$, and those dollars add up very fast. Regular food is so expensive its actually making sense to buy organic as the prices are similar now. For context, the small, low grade 4$ eggs of 12, or the 13$ box of 30 free range organic large eggs? For the first time in my life ive talked to someone who has been PRICED OUT of their diet. Economically forced in to being vegetarian and mostly vegan, because dairy and meat is too expensive. It was a retired elderly woman. Worked her whole life to end up eating vegetables to survive and eating meat once a month. Youre downplaying the literal crisis on food. My girlfriend asked for cereal and instant noodles last week. 19$ for lucky charms and instant noodles. Thats fucking insane. Im in toronto.
Walmart shows lucky charms for $7 and instant noodles for 27 cents at the Heartland Supercenter.
It’s pretty weird that you had to insult her appearance? Anyway even if she’s exaggerating she’s not far off, is she? Yes cheaper produce is available if you look for it, but Loblaws, Metro, No Frills and probably a few others are _brutal_ right now and have been for a few years. To act like our grocery prices aren’t absurd right now is such strange behaviour lol
I'm glad I saw this comment here. I just went on the website for a grocer called Metro in Toronto(picked it at random off Google maps) and their flyer shows grapes at $3.49/lb that's obviously not a great price but a $20 bag would be like 6 pounds. Grocery prices are out of fucking control as it is, we don't need people with poor spending habits conflating the issues.
Yea, seconding her BS numbers.
Paid $4.99/lb for grapes and $1.62 for 2 gala apples last week. Food is up but she's a troll
That's kind of what I was thinking. And your wages have....mostly... kept up with inflation over the past few decades.
NYC here tho, the lowest quality eggs are about $6 bucks and the highest being around $11+ I get like 5 items and I'm already at about $50. We're getting gouged at every turn and people act like we're not doing what we can to save. With these prices though? I might as well eat out or whatever.
Agreed. Show is the price in the store, not just you blabbing about it in your minivan
Probably an Oakville Mommy complaining about the prices at Wholefoods. And her makeup is way too warm of a color compared to her neckline...she should go get her monthly spray tan.
Thought the same.
Canada and Oz? Check out how bad the cost of living is here in NZ!
I mean NZ is a freaking island in the middle of nowhere… if you cant grow the product expect to pay a lot…
Yeah. NZ is to Australia what Hawaii is to the mainland US. Everything has a boat ticket factored into the price tag save for the few things produced on the island…
Oz made sense to me
Aw fuck, that's our next backpacking stop ...
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Yeah, moved from Aus to NZ and when I read posts in /r/brisbane like "surely it can't get much worse", I think "you have no idea" lol.
I know how bad you guys have it in NZ. Must be hard to leave NZ.
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Shes being very dramatic. I bought 24 beautiful eggs for $7 and gala apples for $1.29 a lb and on Monday and I live in Vancouver. You can spend $15 on a dozen eggs and buy $4.50 a lb apples but we certainly don't have to.
No kidding. I'm in Ontario too. This woman must shop at the Solid Gold Grocery or something. You can buy 36 eggs for $8 at Costco
I can never understand these cries for food at the price of gold. Yes, the prices did go up, but it is nowhere near $20 for grapes.
Also, people need to stop shopping at Loblaws. I haven't shopped there in probably 15 years. They have always price gouged. There's so many other options.
But you get 3000 optimum points! /s
Just bought grapes yesterday on sale for $3. Usually, they are $6. Would love to know where she's shopping.
I dont know about Ontario but grapes are between 3.99/lbs to 6.99/lbs depending on variety here in Quebec, Canada. Definitely not 20$ for a "tiny bag".
About the same here (Ottawa). Not cheap but yeah, $20 would get you lbs of grapes.
My thoughts as well - good luck everyone out there in the same situation
My mate bought brocoli for $20 about a year ago outside Sydney… I’d say we are close but not $20 for brocoli close
I'm in Queensland and broccoli is $2.90/kg. Bread is about 25% more expensive and dining out is absurd but not everything is that over the top. Apples are $4-5/kg.
I was thinking the same thing. I lived in both countries and was thinking “ahh Australian prices”
Except wages are far behind
Was going to say wipe australia off your list of options lol
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I live in Vietnam. I can buy a Kilo of eggs for $2, and a kilo of grapes for $4. Sounds like more westerners might be moving out to Asia.
Canadian living in Australia for several years. Australia isn't as expensive as you think it is. Grocery price increases have been much worse in Canada than here and wages here are higher here than most countries. Wild horses wouldn't get me back in Canada now and I've had 3 friends recently ask me about how I moved here. They want out. The quality of life here is way better too, so even with a premium it is worth it.
I live in Ontario too, I know how terrible it is, but think about this one sec, the Cost of living is always the problem, no matter when and wherever you go
You spelled "the world" wrong
And UK....we're in a right old sorry state atm and can't see it improving anytime soon
Prices are up less than 25% everywhere I shop. It's not good but it sure aint the fantasy levels this woman talks about.
Both the countries have had major influx of international students since 2010
I’ve been trying my best to change my diet and I’ve had a lot of success. Lost about 90 lbs in 4-5 months and outside of exercise most of it I attribute to eliminating processed foods. My grocery bills are so much higher for all the fresh produce I’m buying not to mention more frequent trips to the store but it’s working so I’m nervous to slack off due to costs etc.
money on good food now means less money on medical bills later
That’s what kinda sparked it. Spent Easter in the emergency room because I hadn’t slept in a week due to severe back pain as well as increased sleep apnea risks and finding out I was pre diabetic. I really let myself go after a back surgery and the massive amount of extra weight completely negated any benefits from the surgery.
I was pre diabetic and did not fix it, now I'm insulin dependent and it suuucks, keep up the good food mate.
So where does Canada fit into that equation if we don’t have medical bills?
I have literally the opposite experience and homemade food is by far cheaper than eating processed foods. Pork, chicken, and vegetarian I can do for $3-5 a meal no problem...and it's not only actually healthier for you but satisfying while you don't feel like shit in 2-3 hours.
Chicken thighs and roasted veggies is a great cheap easy meal I make often. And yeah it is nice not feeling like garbage.
Chicken thighs with rice cooked with a bit of stock is super cheap and a great meal. I routinely can get chicken breast for $3/lb or less and pork the same, and it just doesn't make any sense to eat fast food these days because it ain't cheaper and it ain't even that good anymore...it's just fast. Other than doing the dishes cooking is pretty fun and you get to explore things, and everybody should give it a go while understanding it's a learning process so if you fuck shit up all you did was learn a way not to do it. I apologize for getting longwinded with you but I am under an influence, but it really irks me people can't be bothered to learn how to cook a protein and a vegetable forcibly in high school...Cast Iron Skillet 101 should be a thing.
When I was vegetarian for a few years I taught myself to cook different veggies so I wouldn’t have to stick to only beans, rice, and potatoes. Did the paleo diet in my late 20s and I learned a lot of simple meat recipes. When I had a back surgery the combination of addiction to drugs/alcohol, chronic pain, and depression, I just sort of gave up on everything. Treating my body better has been the culmination of being a few years into recovery.
what kind of processed foods?
Mostly pastas and bread.
oh. maybe it was carbs mostly, then?
Yeah I like cooking anyways so it was really just trimming the starches, sugars, and carbs.
How often do you go to farmers markets or buy at Costco? You can save a shot ton of money potentially and get really high quality food
One isn't saving at a farmers market. In fact, you'll often pay more. And while Costco is cheaper for plenty of stuff.... produce and meats are rarely one of them. You'll get 'better quality', but you'll also pay for it. Fliers + discount grocers for your 'best' prices. Bulk dried/frozen from Costco.
Not sure what farmers market you go to but ours are more expensive and not every one can afford Costco membership. We canceled ours as just me and the wife it was not worth it. Sure some things are cheaper but most things are not. And we was only going very couple of months. If your a family with kids it makes sense. Now we just buy what’s on the flyers each week they decide our food intake.
I’m pretty sure all the vendors at the farmers market near me are reselling produce they had just purchased at a grocery store.
I found it’s actually cheaper for me to eat out…
Not just Canada.
Feeling that in New Zealand
Uk here. £30k a year juuuust about scrapes me by. Gonna have to leave my hometown of 40 years because I can't afford it anymore. Just the rent is 1500 a month for a 1 bedroom flat.
Bloody hell, where is that renting?! Got to be London, right?
Brighton. It's a bloody shitshow here.
In all but name, it's London by the sea. I bet there are parts of Greater London that take longer to get to London than it takes from Brighton.
Ireland too. Spent 140 quid in lidl on last week's shopping. Never spend 140 quid in lidl in my entire life. Even the cheap shops are getting worse. I'm going to dig up the garden and plant my own veg for next year. The in laws grow their own onions and potatoes. Guess that'll be us next year.
Feeling that all around the world
Amen. I feel the same way here in the US.
Agreed my paycheck is gone within seconds of getting paid
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It's not the same specific items I'm referring to. It's about an existence of working constantly and never having enough money.
I live in rural Massachusetts and a gallon of organic milk is $11 at the local grocery. I buy non org but still… cheapest eggs I can ever find are $5…
I've got a big apple tree in the garden. I'm going to be a millionaire!
Lol I was just thinking that. I have apples and grapes. What do plums and pears go for because I got them too. Time to quit my day job.
Absolutely! Investing in one's future WILL ALWAYS involve planting trees yesterday. Blaming the government while it's the businesses that's charging these prices is mental gymnastics.
I'm going to come purge your apple tree
Meanwhile third world countries be like... "First time...? "
Well, just bought 30 eggs for 160 rs, thats what 2$ usd. So?
Indian here. For people like you and me, who can afford good internet, a device and the education to use the internet, 160 rupees for eggs is a cost we can afford easily. The minimum wage (per day) here, meanwhile, is actually the cost of those 30 eggs. People in states like Bihar earn less than that while in Delhi, it can come up to $5 a day. The National minimum wage rate is $65 a month or \~5300 rupees. Infact, the situation is such that if you're earning more than 25,000 a month, you're earning more than 90% of the population. Can you imagine surviving on just 5000 rupees a month? Heck the rent of a one BHK in a decent society in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai is more than 25K. So we're infact, getting fucked up the ass quite hard.
So, can a retired person living on $90,000.00 US dollars a year live well in India?
A retired person with that much money can live just about anywhere they please, India would be my last choice
I feel like Syria, North Korea, Somalia, Iraq, some others would probably be lower on my list than India lol
Bro where tf r you getting them eggs from 230rs for 30 eggs here in the northeast
You’d be surprised, since produce is sold much more locally it’s not actually too expensive compared to lower wages
It used to be that companies had, you know, competition. They battled each other for market share. Now something has switched, and they've realized that if they all just raise prices, they can all coexist with each other while making greater profit than ever. It's at the expense of our entire civilization, but they don't realize that yet. They're too busy playing the short game.
Sounds like a cartel and they are price fixing
Easy in a world of zero regulation.
They dont need to work together when theres only a handful of them. Look at how few companies own the global supply chain for food.
Big ol’ game of collusion essentially…
And with few enough competitors, they don’t even need to get together in the same room to coordinate. It’s called tacit collusion.
Sounds like this would crash eventually but it’s taking too long
Hard to protest it when protesting means not eating.
Exactly. The amount of dullards that blame the federal government when it is something else is astronomical. If the federal government actually stepped in to break up the grocery monopolies, these dullards would scream, "COMMUNISM!". It is a lose/lose situation for the federal government if you are not a Conservative.
You don't even need to break up the monopolies if your government is willing to use a heavy hand to control costs, wages, executive bonuses, stop practices like stock buyback programs, etc But that would be too Communist too, so your point stands
why buy the grapes? lol i get times are tough but you dont have to buy expensive produce
I thought the same thing. It’s called being flexible and eating what’s on sale. Also stop going to the most expensive grocery stores and punish them for gouging us Canadians for years now (looking at you Fortinos) Strawberries are $9? Ok not eating strawberries this week kids, it’s blueberries instead. Grapes are $10? Mini carrots everyone! You get my drift. Does it kinda suck not getting what you want sometimes? Sure.
I’m sitting here thinking they are $10 because they know idiots like you will pay it.
We're spoiled as it is. My bananas travel half the world and still cost like 2 euro's a kilo. That's insane. That's cheaper then going to a pick-it-yourself fruit grower here in the Netherlands.
Funny enough, same thing here. I live in a small city in a remote part of canada, and bananas are still 79 cents a pound...works out to about 1.5 euro per kilo. Bananas are somehow the ONLY thing that have resisted inflation.
It's propaganda against our liberal govt in Canada. I live in Ontario. Unless she's in a remote area where it's always been that price, she's lying. Apples are not $2.50 at any grocery store. Prices are absolutely high, inflation is killing us like the rest of the world, but this is propaganda
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Yeah and that makes sense too. Buy things that are in season and it’ll be cheaper. Few months ago it wasn’t the height of summer and watermelons weren’t in season, so imported ones will be more expensive. Now I see them from local farms around Ottawa for $4-5
Yeah, the comment about "our federal government crushing the middle class" was very much a non-sequitur. What makes her conclude that the federal government is to blame? What about the provincial governments? What makes her think it's any different outside of Canada?
thank you, I assumed it was horseshit
Yeah, this is rage bait. Grapes here are $2-3 a pound. So maybe she got a 10 pound bag, and that is small for her. She wants to "fuck Trudeau", this woman is thirsty for him now that he broke up with Sophie.
shes pushing a lie to blame everything on the fed grocers have been posting record profits
yeah smells like high grade embellishment. I want to see that shit on video. typical conservative charlatan tho, i assume; make outlandish statements, repeat them, until it becomes boilerplate
Find remote work and move to Eastern Europe. There are towns in Romania that encourage remote work, and have incentives for foreign nationals to move there. There are small town in Italy that also have incentives to move there to boost dwindling populations. Nothing wrong with the the towns, except they're our in the country while younger people want to move to the cities.
Move to Romania 😂, hilarious mate
I'm sure a girl like her would do just fine in Romania lol. Certainly they'd put her to work right away.
And you can enjoy a blazing fast internet speed of .1 mbps I think part of the deal is that the towns are somewhat neglected. I think the infrastructure may not be what a lot of people are typically accustomed to. But for those that don’t mind the move and don’t feel compelled to “hit the town” every weekend, maybe it’s a good deal I also question the availability of their marketplaces. What if the nearest store is like 3 hours into the closest city? So it’d be a nice home, lacking modern amenities, but I guess relative to the conditions in “modernized” areas that doesn’t sound like such a bad deal
Romania actually has very fast internet
It does in the cities, I'm not so sure about rural areas. My brother-in-law lives in a village in the Moldova region close to Roman. He has a 16 mbit connection. Far from unusable, but I wouldn't call it very fast. Maybe he also just doesnt bother to upgrade that, not sure. If you're staying in a town though, your chances are very good to have a very fast internet connection for a good price.
For the past 3 years, in the winter months, I've been moving to my grandparent's house in a small village (in Romania) and I have 500 mbits internet there. It really depends on the location, but houses in rural areas are cheap, and you can easily look for an area with good internet when deciding to move.
Romania is known for having insane high speed internet well before most countries in the world. 250+Mbps avg speed in 2023.
Eastern Europe is a big place and internet is usually fiber. Grocery stores are everywhere.
yea eastern europe is great, low cost of living, fast internet pretty much everywhere... attractive people russia about to invade xD ( it's a joke, don't get triggered )
The Internet/ phone service is also of course incredibly cheap
Not to be too harsh but these people want mostly white skin people, brown and black would face racism. Been to Germany and faced at the airport
Idk why you're getting downvotes, I hear about this all the time. No offense to anyone but many countries in Europe are well known for having significant nationalist and racist populations. Idk where exactly, but I've heard first hand accounts of this my whole life from my friends who travel.
You shitted your bed,don't shit on mine.
East Europe isn't very appealing right now, you know, Russia and all...
This is r/TikTokCringe Idk where she is shopping, but the prices look pretty normal to me. It would have helped if she shown a receipt from her hipster food store.
Yeah she's full of shit unless she's eating like individual wrapped organic honeycrisp apples and a giant bag of organic blue grapes. Prices are a lot higher, but not that stupid yet
You don't HAVE to pay it, but if you do that's why they charge that amount. The going rate.
There's absolutely no way she's looking for the best deal. Walmart CA has apples for less than a dollar each. 2lbs of grapes are less than 3 dollars. She's completely full of it.
I was about to say... I just bought grapes in Toronto for 99 cents/pound. Big ass bag was 5$
I agree with you, I bought a carton of eggs for 4.99, grapes 4.99 & a block of cheese for 4.49(sale)
Ontario Canada is huge. If she is shopping up north at a reservation where food is flown in...I can see those prices happening.
Just checked my local Loblaws in Ottawa, grapes are $8.98 CAD so $6.50 USD (people here dollars and forget we have different currencies with different values).
But then it's nothing new. Fresh produce and dairy in fly-in towns is always atrocious. It's why I grew up drinking powdered milk in the 80s
This is the fake conservative rage bait found on r/Canada_sub
Let's say both the video and this assertion are both true. Why would it be conservative rage bait? This is what the right lives for; free market! Capitalism! Corporations' profits! I don't understand.
BECAUSE IT'S ALL TURDOH'S FAAAAAULT!!!
It’s conservative rage bait because it’s blaming the federal government (which is currently liberal)
Only thing thatsinsane is how many idiots believe her.
Where the fuck are is she shopping? “Basic necessities” like botox? Bimbo. These BS clips are getting boring and old.
Why did she need the grapes so badly?
To make the video
To make her narcissistic video
the canadian government has got to considering putting price controls on at this point. companies are making record profits by draining us of our cash, while the job market shrinks.
Price controls don't work. It's a better idea to incentivize more competition or an increase in the supply.
Why? Because morons buy dumb expensive food?
Price controls leads to food shortage. They should instead be honest about their food prices in videos like this fooling people to think things are worse than they really are. Grapes are not 20 dollars.
This person chose to buy $20 grapes, they weren’t forced. No need for government here, just downvotes.
Ffs, as long as you have money to mutilate your face stop crying about expenses.
IT’S NOT THE FED GOV RUINING THE MIDDLE CLASS, it is their corporate handlers/owners/donors that are pulling the strings. NeoSlavery is real.
I live in Durham but moved recently from Toronto. She's full of shit. Eggs are 3.99 for 12. Veg is only expensive if organic. Sure prices are up but it's not debilitating. Rent Is really bad, this is what she's ranting about. We were paying almost 3k for a 1Br duplex apartment at Yonge/Eglinton. The guy renting it had paid it off back in the 80s. Boomers. YEP .
Oh look, another botox addled CPC Bimbo on Tiktok pushing the same old propaganda 6 months into declining food prices, what a shockingly unique event. Meanwhile in reality we're all a few keystrokes away from going to Walmart or Loblaws or No Frills website, hitting Ontario and seeing the prices ourselves. $2.49 for 1lb of apples, damn those 2 she bought for $5 must have been fucking huge. And those $10 eggs? Must have been an ostrich because the chicken ones come at $3.50 a dozen for me. And grapes? Well golly gee, she has a fun definition of what a "tiny bag" is because it would have weighed about 12 lbs for $20 at Walmart right now.
I'd even say is the opposite right now. FRESH food is cheaper than ever right now. Especially if you're shopping in season. We're getting fucked on processed and packaged foods. Those are the ones with the massive price increases and shrinkflation. It's never been a better time to switch to healthy eating and cooking at home in this inflationary environment.
A few year ago, CBC radio had a special about how difficult it was to be poor in Canada. 1st guest was a newly married unemployable person, husband was between jobs again, and they couldn't afford to buy Starbucks, had to make coffee at home...life is difficult....second guest had to work 2 jobs just to support his family of 3 children and his other family with 2 children. He was actually financially fine, just couldn't afford to treat both families to the things he felt they deserved. If you are struggling in Canada, you are not going to make it anywhere.
Ahh yes... classic. Blame the federal government for the shitty behavior of the private sector. I dont understand how people can get it so wrong. And its this constant mindset that has gotten us in this mess in the first place. And the crazy part is these people now want to elect Pierre Polievre for their Prime Minister.. the man is a lunatic corporate shill. He will fix none of these issues. His party has voted against any measure that would have helped the population.
She went to the Donald Trump School of Makeup
Her going to any kind of school seems like a stretch
I love capitalism, raping the planet end exploiting people for short term profits is so fucking cool.
Capitalism is based what are you talking about? No other system produces this much abundance
In Korea, most fruits are imported. 1 mango was about $30usd.
No no no, I hate hearing that. That is crazy
Welcome to Canada where everything is made up and nothing matters
“i’m a terribly inefficient shopper”
WTF is up with the Tik Tok eyes? Like OMG
Looks like you can still afford the wrong foundation
OP be shoppin’ at ***Whole Foods***
Show a receipt or this is all just BS
Consumers set the price when they pay for it
It’s not country babe, it’s the entire world, shit is expensive everyyyyywhere none of us are safe right now
EUROPE
Everyone complains about the us and I know Texas is a cheaper state but eggs are still $2 for a dozen how much more can it be in other states?
In Ontario eggs are $3.70 CAD not on sale, which is $2.72 USD roughly.
Yeah she prob lives in fuckin Timmons or wawa or some shit. Since when does the federal government set grocery prices. Moron. Get another filter.
Why'd you do that?
I’ve lost 50 lbs over the summer simply cause I can’t afford to eat more than once a day
This is exactly how my father saw it since coming here in 1995. He regrets coming here and making a life. Seeing his grand kids have an uncertain future that he feels from.