The U.S. Farm Bureau posts their calculated cost of the July 4th holiday food basket each year. This year the Farm Bureau is estimating a cost of $69.68 for ten people, that is an increase of 17% from 2021. [DATA HERE]
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I’m not sure we could feed ten people for less than $70, but that’s the estimate from the Farm Bureau which aligns with the Consumer Price Index. Full data below.
(Farm Bureau) – […] Data for this year’s survey was collected by 176 volunteer shoppers across the country and in Puerto Rico, including Farm Bureau members and others.
Individual Prices, AFBF 2022 Summer Cookout
2 pounds of ground beef, $11.12 (+36%)
2 pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, $8.99 (+33%)
32 ounces of pork & beans, $2.53 (+33%)
3 pounds of center cut pork chops, $15.26 (+31%)
2.5 quarts of fresh-squeezed lemonade, $4.43 (+22%)
2.5 pounds of homemade potato salad, $3.27 (+19%)
8 hamburger buns, $1.93 (+16%)
Half-gallon of vanilla ice cream, $5.16 (+10%)
13-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies, $4.31 (+7%)
2 pints of strawberries, $4.44 (-16%)
1 pound of sliced cheese, $3.53 (-13%)
16-ounce bag of potato chips, $4.71 (-4%)
Are they counting that with fractional serving sizes?
No, just votes are counted with fractional serving sizes.
…and other votes, are super sized (inflated)?
hmmm…
Is that untold related to the other high inflations?
hmmm…
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Only if your 4th of July tradition is hot dogs or hamburgers. If your 4th tradition is chicken, steaks or baby back ribs then the inflation is closer to 50%. Even bratwurst are up over 30%. But hey, you saved 17 cents last year!
Their numbers last year were wrong. I ran them at the time with current prices (midwest). It was up a couple bucks, not 17 cents.
And of course your market order for this (excluding spices, condiments, etc) is going to be closer to $100 because you can’t buy (many of those) things in the quantities spec’d above.
Just go steal your steaks like the antifa group does…. then it’s cheap again.
That’s only legal on the West Coast – and maybe NYC now, too?
Sad to say that even in RED states there are quotas. Here in Texas some of the municipalities have a $750 “allowance”, which kind of reflects the difference in cost of living between TX and CA where there are $1,000 “allowances”. //s
The theft “allowance” is nation wide and centered on democrat run States and Municipalities.
Start shooting thieves and it will stop.
Um . . . . Forgot the briquets or the propane for the grill . . . .
Or maybe we’re supposed to step outside our apt. and cut down a tree for firewood. Then we can make a campfire on the balcony . . . . .
Lol
You’ve never really lived until you’ve had crickets & tofu barbecued over the ashen remains of a firebombed federal courthouse, church across the street from the White House, or a pro-life counseling center!
This is not even close to enough food to feed my family of ten.
We would need a lot more ice cream, two more bags of chips, some macaroni salad, a nice green salad, some sliced tomatoes for the burgers, a lot more than 2.5 quarts of lemonade for the drinks and a few more items than what I can think of off the top of my head.
At 35% or more to the cost of the 4th of July spread, this is kind of skimpy.
Yeah, reality is not their strong suit.
Beer, wine, soda, ice – and that’s just beverages. Onions and lettuce for the burgers and I guess they presume you already have the condiments because you need some Duke’s mayo, ketchup, relish, and mustard.
On the other hand, I have never had pork chops on Independence Day but would definitely need to add hot dogs, buns and sauerkraut.
They also need a lot more desserts and some appetizers.
Decent hamburger buns … for example: Ballpark Tailgate Buns with sesame seeds are regularly $5.49 for 8. On sale for the 4th … lucky me … only $3.99
https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.960018714.html
So true Mari, no pies, no cobblers, no cakes no corn on the cob dripping in butter.
I forgot about the appetizers and the fixi’ins for the burgers.
Do people really just eat burgers on dry buns with a slice of cheese?
No sauces for the chops either, just a cooked dry chop and slap it on the plate and choke it down?
Forgot the Corn on the Cob , CC ! 🌽🧈 Good Reminder !!!
I’m trying to figure out Who has Pork Chops on the 4th of July ?
That is a New One on me 😄 🇺🇲
My store has been out of onions (both red and yellow) for a week now… intending to make the baked beans and rotkohl from scratch.
Interesting, noticed the same here. Never seen a store with no onions. Yet here we are.
Thank You , Mari in SC !
I was wondering where the Hot Dogs were and the Condiments ! 🌭🍅🥬🍔
What about Watermelon and the 4th of July Cake ?!?
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Sheesh 🇺🇲
P.S. I don’t really care for watermelon But , Every Year on the 4th of July I have a Small Piece 😊
It is my Tradition and I make sure Everyone makes a note of it 😄
I was wondering where the cupcakes with the red white and blue frosting for the kiddies were RyderLee?
So many things are missing from this list from the Farm Bureau.
Kiddies , CC ??? You mean for RyderLee 😜😄🇺🇲
RyderLee Likes S’Mores Too !
Hey !
This is kinda like a CTH 4th of July !!!
I Like It 🥰
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My husband makes a watermelon shark. Half of the watermelon is carved into a shark’s head, he fashions teeth out of the find and he cuts out a few holes to insert magnets for eyes. Add a fin using part of the rind and we have a shark.
Post a picture, I would love to see it!
I thought pork and beans was weird too. And where is the apple pie?
Yup….
No ketchup or mayonnaise, pickles or salsa. No jalapeños!!
No lettuce, tomatoes or onions.
No paper cups, eating utensils or napkins!
Heck…not even salt and pepper.
Not even a dip for the chips!
And not even a watermelon or cantaloupe.
What a horrible picnic or get together….
Well now!!! What’s with all that uppity stuff youse talkin ’bout? Salt? Pepper? Napkins? Plates? What you going ask for next tables and chairs?
I also forgot about the watermelon and cantaloupe.
What a cheap bunch of people these Farm Bureau employee’s are.
Not a get together I would enjoy or one I would give for my friends or family.
CC , 🍉 🥝🍇🧁🧁🧁👍😊🇺🇲
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(Kiwi impersonating a Cantaloupe 😄)
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By next year this is what we will be allowed to buy.. from what I’m hearing not many people invited to cook outs..we have no invite, my sis in law opted out of Easter and now the 4th.. how depressing. I feel like crying..everyone is so down.
Don’t forget the corn on the cob. And the Beer 🍺. You have to have beer.
Ground report from central Oregon:
8 oz of strawberries in a major grocery chain today were $2.68.
They assume we no longer make our own chocolate chip cookies, lemonade, or potato salad, I guess.
Their starting points and assumptions are so far removed from reality, there’s no way the reports are accurate.
When conclusions are being presented, the start points and assumptions matter. These PICOS (people in charge of stuff) usually don’t live with the consequences of their assumptions so are perhaps unaware of how the assumptions do impact the conclusions…..
The self-important people become easier and easier to ignore.
Just pulled my second crop of radishes…going to have a monster tomato crop, so I’ll be learning some new stuff about dehydrating/canning those purties. Good times! Jars and lids are ready to go.
I looked at their prices and I’m wondering what store. They definitely are not buying at Aldi.
I’m still stuck on the pork chops on Independence Day. Shouldn’t that be hot dogs and maybe ribs?
Who wants to eat soy? Wouldn’t most people rather have wheat?
I’ll believe those numbers after AOC checks it.
She’s busy with train engineering duties tonight & every night!
For July 4th:
Eat as many vegetables as you can.
Then, eat beans, rice, and other legumes.
Eat fruit if you are still hungry.
If you have to eat meat, eat chicken.
By 2030, you will eat only weeds & bugs, and you will like it!
At some point it’ll be tree bark only, and the nation will be named New North Korea …
What?
I did not say to eat weeds, bugs, and tree bark.
I said to eat as many vegetables as you can.
That should be the base of every American’s diet…vegetables.
Try it.
For one week, eat vegetables and whole fruit.
No meat.
No dairy.
No bread.
No alcohol.
Try it.
Document how you feel with the change.
Meat and dairy are not unhealthy. This is just vegan propaganda. Also fruit should be eaten at a much lower amount than veggies. It’s still sugar even if it’s from a natural source.
I’m not Vegan and what I wrote is not propaganda.
I said eat as many Veggies as you can.
The fruit should be whole fruit…has fiber.
Marc, can you read ?
The reason that I say :
No meat.
No dairy.
No bread.
No alcohol.
Is that those things are inflammatory.
I’m suggesting cutting them out of your diet for a week or two to see how you feel.
Agree with the inflammatory nature of much of our diet. However, it’s hard to cut out things like wheat, corn and potatoes when the flora in your gut which thrive on them are sending you signals to eat more of them. But if you do it long enough, those bacteria die off and you get new ones that thrive on salad. So it is reinforcing if you can stick it out for a bit longer than 2 wks.
I have done a modified version. Ate limited amounts of animal proteins (no more than 6 oz per day) and those were from organic pasture-raised, grass fed animals. No antibiotics or hormones.
To be fair, the first few weeks was tough. I also stopped acid reflux meds to get my digestion back to normal, so had some killer heartburn until all the inflammation went down.
Highly recommend going to organic whenever you can. No need putting pesticides in your body too.
NO!
KC, I don’t know if your diet advice is worth it when it makes you so ornery.
Have you ever eaten a vegetable?
Does your point have something to do with the price of food?
Didn’t think of that.
Vegetables do cost less than meat.
But, I wasn’t actually taking that into consideration.
I actually believe that your main diet should be vegetables.
And…let me be clear…I eat meat.
Don’t tell us what to do!
I always call myself a “closet vegetarian “.
I love veggies and fruits .
And very-very little meat.
It’s 4th of July!
I will definitely be eating bratwurst and hamburgers!
Just like I eat Turkey on Thanksgiving day!
And a steak on my birthday!
Carpe Diem !!!
So true 4gypsybreeze!
It is the Fourth of JULY!
Big Time Celebration here in the USA.
Red white and blue stuff everywhere!
Grilled meat and potatoes and tables groaning with food and goodies and kids running around with sparklers at night!
Every one whooping and hollering and shouting our happiness for our Freedom!
This is time for Big Celebration and lots of food and family and friends over to whoop it up and have FUN with a capital FUN!
Not a time to think about eating crickets and bugs.
This describes me 🙂 Cheers!
Grilled portabellas do sound good, now that you mention it!
Ah!!! No way Jose!!
Stay away from the carbs
Not very much of a 4th of July. Sounds like a diet.
Ketchup anyone?
Congress did declare years ago that ketchup was a vegetable suitable for school lunches.
You’re not gonna argue with the experts are you ?
I’m all outta’ ketchup for the burgers. Relish would be nice, too.
I refuse to buy any Heinz Products!!LOL
Uh-oh….I didn’t get the memo! 😋 Bbq, 3 sides, dips, fruits, cakes, tea, etc. for 25 here. Tip jar’s on the counter.👍🏻🇺🇸👍🏻🇺🇸
Maybe when beer prices go through the roof the rabble will understand.
Maybe.
They kinda are already thru the roof.
When weed prices double or triple then they will wake up.
BYOB, I assume.
Hunter & F. Joe Biden say that this is only a fraction of the increased cost of doing business with & beating Russian Hookers!
Especially those formerly $10,000/night ones who’ve been used in the past to urinate on beds and in The Beast while Trump is strangling Secret Service Agents ….
Oh..I needed a good laugh!!!! THANK YOU!!
Going to do an old style whole hog roast like we did in the seventies for Independence day.
With watermelon, beans, fresh garden stuff, etc.
I know it will taste at least as good as it did in 1976.
But it won’t be the same.
That sounds really fun!
And delicious, too.
I’m in Maryland, Chesapeake Bay country. We traditionally have steamed crabs for the 4th. We will be having the family party on Saturday. A bushel of steamed River males (4 to 6 doz) which includes large and extra large, is $550.0o at the local crab house. #1 males (5 to 7 doz) medium sized is $395.00.
$70 just about covers the side salads and BBQ for the non-crab eaters (out of towners).
Oh my goodness!
They went up that much??
I remember when 25.00 a dozen was a lot!
Crab feasts with family brings back fond memories!
Have fun and enjoy!
Ooh my. You’ve been away a long time. I haven’t seen $25 a dozen for 15 years at least. And then that was for “spiders” (small).
My parents and friends did a fishing/crabbing week every fall at St Michaels, MD..beautiful area!!!
I’ve been there. It is very nice. St Michaels long ago became a very upscale area to visit & do a staycation. It’s proximity to DC fueled the rise of prices over there to be notably higher than most similar eastern bayside towns.
Sounds wonderful GB.
We were in Louisiana one year for the Fourth and had the most amazing crab dishes.
I was thinking of how different area’s in the country serve different specialities and how tasty they are.
I do not know what those crab dishes were, I am from the southwest, but they were yummy and there was fantastic cornbread also.
A very different Fourth of July picnic for us but we really enjoyed it.
I used to spend a lot of time on the Eastern Shore of MD. Harrison’s on Tillman Island used to do Friday night family style all you could eat oysters and fried chicken, I do not remember how much it was but it was in the 80s and 90s so probably around $10. You could also order backfin lump crab cakes Baltimore style for a few dollars more. Amazing food and company. I miss that.
You’ll appreciate this:
https://www.proptalk.com/harrisons-chesapeake-house-tilghman-island
I never went there. Several times I did visit Harrisons restaurant in Ocean City down by the Inlet…
https://www.harborwatchrestaurant.com
I don’t think they’re the same “Harrison” family but I’m not sure and couldn’t find any info tying them together
Most Americans and Canadians should be aware by now that the stream of dismal economic figures indicates the real possibility of a severe, precipitous and long term decline in our standards of living including a shortage of food and the usual taken for granted comforts. The ramping up of U.S. and token NATO military power aimed at Russia also indicates that a war with Russia is becoming a credible possibility.
North Americans did endure the harsh reality of a severe Depression in the 1930’s of course but a modern war that killed millions of non combatants and destroyed entire cities was never fought in our countries. It’s looking like Biden’s handlers and their obedient lap dogs are leading us into economic disaster and a global war where North Americans will not be excluded this time from the brutal casualty lists. If it will even be sensible or possible to make lists after the nuclear war starts.
Too many Republicans are supporting and enabling Biden’s handlers or silent rather than loudly opposing his policies while there is still time. The citizenry is either uninformed or feels mostly powerless given the current gov’t in charge and the 10 or more RINO Republican traitors in both of the chambers. It’s almost like a perfect storm scenario.
Maybe if we are all starving we will have some men ready to stand up.
Who buys 2 pints of strawberries for ten people?
Apparently shoppers for the Farm Bureau.
A garnish for strawberry Margaritas, maybe?
And only half gallon of ice cream?
I am through paying Putin’s Prices. Reporting them all to the FBI.
Two pounds of ground beef would be $16 at $7.99 a pound. I just bought chicken breasts at $8.99 a pound. Beer is $12 a six pack unless you drink swill.
Few of these price’s made much sense to me either California Joe.
Plus the 100% fuel price increase to fetch the feast…or get to work…or pick up the kids from daycare…take maw in law to the doc…fido to the vet…
No hotdogs and relish?
At least for the kids?
…only the mis-educated would say ” our democracy”…
Ha! Now try that list with N.CA grocery store prices … closer to DOUBLE that
I wonder what kind of cheese that is that’s $3.53 a pound?
Cheese food is my guess.
You can make this a lot cheaper by going to someone’s house and just taking a dish to share. Just saying…
Smash palm..ya thank?…/s
Lol
Mari.
I agree! Especially with family! It’s a hodgepodge of specialty dishes!
And that is what makes it special!
Maybe cheaper per person.
But the price increase still stands and the person who is assigned to buy steaks takes it on the chin compared to the person who brings chips.
So the chip person gets off easy while the steak and chicken breast person pays through the nose.
I still have a problem with their skimpy list of portions for ten people no matter who is providing the food, either one person or several.
And their cost per item is just not realistic for my area either.
But if I m grillin’ most are welcome to sample…
Not sure celebrating the 4th is what we should be doing. Ruck up, ammo up and get ready to rumble is maybe the better option. Going to cost a good bit over $70. Need a patriot organization estimate on cost per person to take back our country.
Chix breast is 5.99 a lb not 2lbs for 8.99
2.5lbs of poatao salad for 3.27 thats just the potaoes not including mayo possibly eggs or bacon onions green onions
8 hamburger buns are more than 1.93 if you want ones that are edible not plastic
1lb of sliced cheeze 3.93 nope 3 bucks a 8oz package so x2
I can feed 10 people for 70 bucks but it only cuz I buy in bulk and keep the rest for myself later.
I have not seen an 8 package of decent hamburger bus for 1.95 in two years, these people are dreaming.
At Wally World Pepperidge Farms 8 ct buns were $3.50, Great Value were 2.40. Not sure where you’d find cheaper than that.
Not sure where theses people are shopping but the prices I pay for their list of products is higher.!
They are throwing a party I do not want to go to!
They must be shopping at food banks!
Three weeks ago at Sam’s Club, their popular 10 pound box of oats was $10.98. Last week it was $11.98, and today it is $14.99
Dang!!! And I was counting on another sixteen cents this year….
17 cents, 17 percent? It’s just a spelling difference of 3 letters. Oooops, I’m corrected. That’s a nearly 50% spelling difference.
I wish my income went up 17%.
Me too!
I call bull@#$% on this, what store are they shopping at and where ? A combination of the Dollar Store and buying the discolored meat from the bargain section at Kroger/Walmart ? Even then, if you bought the food 2 years ago and froze it, then maybe.
These look more like 2019 – 2020 bargain shopping prices.
Uh-oh, my wrong think detector is going off like crazy… Personally, I have been dabbling in vegan veggie burgers – basically, oats, beans, rice, and then flavoring of some kind. I have tried ‘italian’ seasoning and salsa so far. Why am I doing that? All of those ingredients are storable for like maybe 20 years or growable. That had been our retirement plan, but now, like all the skills I have learned “just for fun”, it turns out that I will need them just to survive. If anyone thinks I will be eating cricket bug meals, they have rocks in their heads (which, they do regardless).
One of the greatest Americans ever was Henry Ford.
Ford grasped the prosaic truth that it is good for American business when the average American has money to spend to buy the goods they produce. In Ford’s case, it was very good for the Ford Motor Company when buying a Model T became easily within the reach of any American with a decent job.
It remains remarkably rare for America’s wealthy to grasp that what is good for the middle class is good for the wealthy. Sundance’s Wall Street versus Main Street. Rich snobs are most pleased to be limousine liberals, but they are not pleased to be decent employers. Check out Jeff Bezos in action.
The dopey Walton family (Wal-Mart) joined in the evil conspiracy against Donald Trump. Maintaining the supply chain of cheap goods from China struck these limousine liberals as an obvious benefit, to them. They, of course, lacked the imagination to foresee their Wal-Mart stores empty of the lower-middle class customers they depend on, while loathing.
Gas and food prices are existential threats. Rationing and wage and price controls are looming threats. The totalitarians that installed Biden through criminal election fraud are capable of far worse.
The capitalist profit motive, or the ideal of private property, will lose badly going head-to-head with mass starvation. FDR, during the Depression, was motivated by the imperative to save American Democracy, to save American Capitalism. To save America. Hoover had lacked the imagination, like a Walton, to see what was possible, what was about to come crashing down.
Patrician liberals like FDR were rare in the 1930s, and they are rare now. Please name the Democrat who would be capable, now, of saving the Waltons from themselves?
Didn’t FDR set price controls? Those kind of policies prolonged the Depression.
Yeah, lets go to war in Ukraine. Destroying Russian-Ukrainian wheat and other food crops and energy infrastructure will lower the cost of fuel and groceries in the U.S.
Interestingly, if you are a CEO of a food or energy corporation and tasked to increase ‘growth’ – cooperating with growth in prices through inflation is much easier than trying to produce and sell more ‘stuff’. Before you know it, record profits are ahead, just by making your shit more rare.
I’d love to find the prices listed above.
How about everyone do their July 4th shopping then send these clowns a copy of the receipt? Obviously they’re using the way back machine to shop. Specify how many you’re feeding. They’re food for 10 is the polite “take a sample” from each dish, not “put on a generous spread” of most hosts.
How about the Cole slaw and corn on the cob? No wonder it’s so cheap /s
Divide everything by 10 and you quickly see we will all be ‘single serving friends’ – gotta love that Fight Club. Still waiting on Project Mahem to start, I mean our side not theirs. Theirs is well underway.
I don’t know where they got their prices, but a bargain. Yesterday at my market chicken breasts $9,49 for 1#, buns $2.89(on sale), potato salad $5.99. Every other item was about the same or higher
Eagerly awaiting the White House’s July 4th tweet.
I do the shopping in my house and all of these prices seem low and I don’t live in a city or high cost of living area.
And NY grocery stores will charge you 5 to 8 cents a bag to carry it all home.
I’m right in the middle of the country, and I’m seeing some oddities there.
Things that look about right: gound beef, pork chops, chicken (lb price looks right), ice cream, cookies, cheese (american singles, anyway).
I’m seeing $5.29 for a quart of strawberries, $2.99 a pint, if you buy them that way.
I want to see how they are making the potato salad and lemonade. Jar of mayo is about $3, then you’re buying 5 lbs. of potatoes + onion + whatever else you like in there, maybe eggs. Sugar is cheap enough, but how many lemons?
The only bread is 8 hamburger buns? No white bread for the other stuff for the pork and beans ($2.49 for 28 oz can) and chops? Oh, and NO BBQ sauce, mustard or ketchup? WTF?
Party size potato chips are 13 oz ($5.79 full price).
IDK who’s doing the math at farm bureau but I’m seeing at least 50% increases. Jumps from $5 to $8 are the typical thing now in southern middle Tennessee
Todays challenge today should you accept it:
Locate and price a 16 oz. bag of potato chips and a 64 oz. (1/2 gallon) carton of ice cream.
A search of Meijer stores has zero 16 oz bags of chips and zero 64 oz. cartons of ice cream.
Walmart has one 16 oz bag of chips, shipping only for $11.64. Zero 64 oz. cartons of ice cream.
FB may not have taken shrinkflation into account for their survey.
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That’s not going to feed 10 people…..in the desolate, mostly red state of Illinois, that
$ amount will get you half that much food….secession and balkanization seems the only answer to having a life of freedom now….not possible to move due to very elderly, but hardy relatives…
17% more? Well, most Americans will shrug it off and cut back if necessary. If this “basket” were to double to say 34%, then it might get people’s attention.
Meanwhile, it’s the price of gasoline that’s causing the wailing and gnashing of teeth. Traveling anywhere, by any conveyance, on July 4th will be a tad more expensive…..
Just saw some stats that the number car loans in default has gone up drastically to 1.8%. That number keeps climbing. Car loans alone total 1.4+ trillion dollars!! It’s reflective of a credit based economy stretched to it’s limits…. and well beyond. The next six months and going into 2023 should be quite interesting.
July 4th foods cost 17% more……
NO……!!!!!
Every damn day……
your food costs 17% more…..!!!!!
They should add in the cost of gas for family members to join in on the festivities…