Alli Powell Shares $150-a-Week Grocery Plan as U.S. Vegetable Prices Jump 11.5%

2 articles · Updated · abcnews.com · May 29

Alli Powell, known online as the Grocery Getting Girl, said she feeds a family of four on $150 a week by shopping alone and sticking closely to a plan.
Powell said swapping meat for lentils and beans, running a weekly meatless Monday and stretching meat in soups or rice bowls can cut a family meal to about $10.
She also urged shoppers to use clear containers to reduce food waste, compare prices across stores, check specialty markets and lower shelves, and freeze sale items like meat and produce.
U.S. shoppers are facing fresh vegetable prices up 11.5% from a year ago and seafood up 6.2%, with analysts tying the broader food inflation to the Iran war's oil shock, tariffs and weather-related shortages.

With the Iran war disrupting global trade, are we entering a permanent era of high food prices?

Are personal saving tips just a band-aid on a broken global food system?

As climate shocks intensify, what radical changes are needed to secure our future food supply?