Will the Bad Economy Force Unhealthy Changes to Our Diets?

By Sean Kelley

When food prices began rising this summer, my family’s weekly grocery bills jumped from $150 to $200. (This amount does not include what we were spending eating out, but does include expenses for diapers, paper goods, and other sundries.)

The sudden increase was alarming, especially considering that my wife and I were also forced to spend more than $600 a month to commute from our small farm to our jobs. At first, the amount we were spending on groceries seemed absurd for a family of four. We buy our groceries at one of two discount supermarkets. Plus, we were subsidizing our diet with vegetables from our garden and meat from two pigs we slaughtered last winter. Read More