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So, yesterday, oranges are .39 per pound. Today, $1.29 per!



A few days ago, artichokes are maybe .49 or .59 each. Today, try

$2.59 for ONE ARTICHOKE!!



All due to the Califrornia freeze!



:(

You tell them MrsK.. :-5 Love your cute Avitar..

The place to watch, in the US, is http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

The Food Price Index rise for the twelve months to November 2006 is 2.3%. Any long-term effects of the storms will show up there in a couple of months as a blip.

The freeze was terrible - my grapefruit tree looks pitiful, leaves are dropping.

I've been eating my grapefruit since November - delicious ruby red. I'll have to wait & see the damage as the tree is shedding. It's a large old wonderful fruit producing tree - I have @ 300 grapefruit on it still.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

This freeze will increase all prices for crops - its terrible

Patsy

My lime tree and my grapefruit tree are obviously damaged due to the freeze. It's painful to see. I can't imagine the feelings of the citrus growers!

Enjoy your salads now ladies.

They just announced a head of lettuce will triple in price.

I'll miss my salads - I won't pay that price for a head of lettuce or spinach - $3.00 and higher..

Patsy

Holy crap if it's that high for ya'll, I'll probaly faint the next time I go to the grocery store.

mrsK;519728 wrote: In Australia atm working mothers are copping it because their kids are fat,could it be they are overwieght because the mothers can't afford to buy the food they need.


We've the same issue... however I do not think it's down to "working mothers

being unable to afford...".