Indiana Farm Bureau Finds $66.73 Cookout Cost for 10, Down 7% From 2025
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Updated · Country 103.9 WRBI · Jun 24
Indiana Farm Bureau Finds $66.73 Cookout Cost for 10, Down 7% From 2025
3 articles · Updated · Country 103.9 WRBI · Jun 24
Summary
$66.73 is the average cost to feed 10 people at an Indiana summer cookout this year, or $6.67 per person, according to the Indiana Farm Bureau's annual survey.
Lower egg prices, after last year's avian-influenza spike, helped drive the decline, with potato salad prices falling 56% and cheaper pork chops and ground beef also cutting the total.
Indiana's per-person cost was about 10% below the U.S. average of $7.38, while the broader Midwest also came in slightly under the national figure.
Cookies, pork and beans, strawberries and chicken breast were the only surveyed items to rise from 2025, and proteins still made up about 54% of the basket cost.
The survey, conducted in early June by volunteer shoppers seeking the best regular grocery prices, contrasted with a 2.9% national increase in the food-at-home CPI.