Food Is Taking a Bite Out of Your Income. These Consumers Are Getting Creative. [View all]

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Food Is Taking a Bite Out of Your Income. These Consumers Are Getting Creative.
Shoppers share strategies for coping with food inflation, including potluck dinners, gardening and even hunting
By Heather Haddon and Jesse Newman
Updated Feb. 27, 2024 1:38 pm ET

Eating rice and beans instead of meat. Planning out meals a month in advance. Trying to raise more food in backyard gardens. Americans are changing the way they eat, shop and live to cope with a stretch of record food inflation.

Hundreds of readers responded to a Wall Street Journal article last week that illustrated how food has come to consume the biggest portion of Americans’ income since 1991, sharing strategies they have adopted in their kitchens.

Some are imposing new limits on eating out, and coupons are table stakes for many at both grocery stores and restaurants. Readers are buying more in bulk, while purchasing less packaged food, meat and organic vegetables.

Not all coping strategies are widely embraced. Some social media users have blasted WK Kellogg Chief Executive Gary Pilnick, who told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that the company has been marketing cereal to pressured consumers — including an ad campaign that suggests eating cereal for dinner.

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