I live in Berlin Germany. I've been manually tracking all my grocery costs over 2 years now in an Google Spreadsheet. I'm a single person and I buy organic food. I work from home and I don't eat a lot outside. I cook probably on average 1.5 times a day. My general monthly bill on food is 600€. My methodology has been this:
- I pay all my groceries with my debit card
- Then, to get the cost for a month; I take all debit card entries in my online banking and sum them up
- I then compare the finding to older findings.
Last time I checked, the costs of my groceries hasn't gone up. So far, it has never gone up in any significant form over the last two years. Maybe by 5% but by no means +50% like the parent post suggests.
I sometimes also get anxious about "inflation" when the cashier quotes an unexpected price. And it's why I've started double checking my intuition with the above-outlined process.
Indeed, some times the shopping ends up more expensive as e.g. I bought an extra pack of coffee or meat.
- I pay all my groceries with my debit card
- Then, to get the cost for a month; I take all debit card entries in my online banking and sum them up
- I then compare the finding to older findings.
Last time I checked, the costs of my groceries hasn't gone up. So far, it has never gone up in any significant form over the last two years. Maybe by 5% but by no means +50% like the parent post suggests.
I sometimes also get anxious about "inflation" when the cashier quotes an unexpected price. And it's why I've started double checking my intuition with the above-outlined process.
Indeed, some times the shopping ends up more expensive as e.g. I bought an extra pack of coffee or meat.