🍒 How to Stretch Your Budget Amid Rising Grocery Prices (AARP Article)

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FROM THE ARTICLE.

14 Ways to Outsmart Rising Grocery Prices.

Take these steps to stretch your food budget.

By Daniel Bortz, AARP. Published December 11, 2025.

Dreading the supermarket checkout these days? You’re far from alone. About 7 in 10 Americans say they’re spending more on groceries compared to last year, an October 2025 ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos survey found.

Food prices rose 2.7 percent from September 2024 to September 2025, according to the federal Consumer Price Index. Higher labor costs for U.S. farmers, supply-chain disruptions and tariffs on imported foods are driving up prices, says Dawn Thilmany, a professor of agricultural economics at Colorado State University.

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