Prices for eggs, milk and flour have soared in the past year, rising faster than other staples. Experts share their secrets for stretching your food dollar.
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Every trip to the grocery store seems to bring another shock. Bread. Butter. Eggs. Milk. Cheese. Even beer hasn't escaped the sudden resurgence of food inflation.
As painful as rising gas prices have been, big jumps in food prices are worse because we spend so much more of our budgets feeding ourselves (12.8%, on average) than we do feeding our cars (3.4%).
To help you cope, I consulted the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks the Consumer Price Index, to find the five foods that had soared the most in price between March 2007 and March 2008.
Then I turned to a trio of seriously smart shoppers to find out how to save money on those particular items.
And the winners of the most inflated foodstuffs are (drumroll, please):
Flour, up 37%.
Eggs, up 34.8%.
Sweet peppers, up 29.2%.
Milk, up 23.1%.
Dried beans, up 21.6%.
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