Everyone knows putting food on the table
has gotten a lot more expensive.
Ain't that the truth? In the
past year, veggies have gone up
6.4% right and the meat on
this burger. It shot up 12.3%.
But the biggest culprits poaching
money from other parts of your budget
are eggs a whopping 32%? Hey
there, I'm Ben Briscoe
and I'm Tanya Rivera. Today we're
chewing on a few of these questions.
How did prices get so high and
what can you do to save some money?
Let's dig into it.
You got dust covers
part of the problem is that supplies
cost more for farmers like Kevin Freking
like Girl, next Hay Timothy
small squares and round bales.
Inflation is growing faster
than his 40 acres of hay
Syria, it's it's everything.
It's fuel, fertilizer, herbicide it's.
All the way down to the twine
that we use, it's costs have
gone up on everything. Two years
ago. He says it costs 75 bucks
to fertilize an acre of hay.
This year I was quoted about 2:25 and 2:50.
I don't want to pass all the cost on
consumers and put stress on them,
so I've been just basically going
with a lower profit margin this year
as more farmers make cost cutting changes.
Nathan Helinski with the Center
for Agriculture, Food and Natural
Resources says the impact.
Is likely to trickle down even
more to the grocery store.
Depends how dramatic these
decrease in yields are.
Could could lead to further
increases in food prices because
there's less food going around.
My company is still dealing
with supply chain issues and
they've raised prices too.
From chicks to feed and fertilizer.
The price of corn for example,
has nearly doubled in the past two years.
This £50 bag used to be $8.00.
Now it's almost 15.
We're all living in the same world,
so it's kind of it affects all of us.
Some hit are a little harder
than others. The stress,
compounded by Mother Nature
at the mercy of the weather and
this year we're not getting the
rain that we would hope for.
So I mean, that's also putting
a herd on yields as well.
A growing problem. In need of solutions.
Well, part of the food supply and price
issue comes from the war in Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine export about a
third of the world's grain when their
ports got shut down, prices everywhere
went up because supply dropped.
It's not as simple as just
increasing production here either.
You see, we import no wheat
or corn from other countries.
And experts says we produce all
of our own products. However,
grain gets measured on a global level.
It's just like what we're seeing with gas.
These are global markets.
So a disruption in one country
is going to disrupt the global
market for this commodity.
Any impacts on prices and availability,
availability that you're going to
see are going to spill over to U.S.
markets, and that's
clearly already happening.
Experts say until the war resolves,
expect those elevated prices.
Now there are other factors
driving up prices as well.
The bird flu outbreak, for example,
the CDC says more than 40
million birds have been affected.
37 states have dealt with outbreaks.
Now that meant farmers had
to put down those chickens,
and since there weren't as many chickens
producing eggs that limited supply.
Whenever that happens,
we know prices just go up.
You know, it's hard to buy food right now.
The shortages and the high prices,
they make it a real struggle.
That is why this chef
started foraging for food.
Yet outside Alex Nelson is a
James Beard award-winning chef,
so she knows what she's doing here.
She knows her food and she finds plenty
of it and forced in her community.
It's held genre following online too.
I say happy snacking don't die at the end
of most of my videos, mostly in jest,
but also like seriously don't die.
Seriously,
foraging expert Samuel Thayer also agrees.
He says the practice is really picked up.
In fact,
he's actually going around the country
giving plant tours like this one that
was right here in North Carolina.
It doesn't take long for me to really
surprise somebody because they might
be afraid it's not going to taste good,
and then I give them something and
they're like, whoa, that is good.
Their eyes open wide and their ears
perk up and they're following me.
They're eager for the next plant,
he says. People can find flavors from
foraging that they'd never be able to buy.
Yeah, like that trip to the emergency
room. Yeah, no? I mean,
I would take one of those tours to
see what that's like and what it is,
but I would never do that on a daily basis.
It's just too time consuming, really.
I mean, we have these giant mushrooms
in our backyard that we had to pick
up so the dog didn't eat them.
Don't eat those. No, don't eat them.
No. But now I'm in a picture of
them going out there picking it.
OK, but you know where I will forge?
Is at the farmers market.
I was gonna say grocery store they have
forged for me so I'm good with that.
Alright well that's all well
and good for those who do wanna
forge others of us are trying to,
you know make sure that
it's a little bit quicker.
So what about fast food for a cheaper option?
Yeah those places they aren't
always the healthiest though.
Yeah, so we went to the Food
Network to see which places had the
healthiest fast food options and
they had an article of the top ten.
We focused on three of them for you.
So if you want a cheap,
nutritious breakfast there.
**** is a McDonald's fruit and oatmeal cup.
It's just $1.99 a Chick-fil-A
grilled chicken sandwich is about
6 bucks and Panera has a chicken
salad sandwich for about 10 bucks.
None of these meals are more
than 650 calories.
Right now, you really can't afford
to waste what you're buying.
It's something a lot of us do, though.
Chefs say plan your weekly meals with
leftover friendly recipes in mind.
Think about chicken on Monday
night that you can make into
a salad for lunch on Tuesday.
Also, freeze big batches before they go bad.
You want to label win you put it in there,
but be careful.
Don't overstock your freezer.
You know people that go in and
they buy like way too much.
We see this a lot of times with with people
who don't manage either their freezer,
their freezer space or they don't
manage their their shelf space.
You know where they have all their
canned foods and then stuff starts to go
bad. My freezer is like Tetris in there.
You got to fit it all in.
The expert says buy what you need.
Maybe a little bit more if you want it.
Don't want to meal prep
and you know, that's one of those
things where I think if we would
just look at what we already have,
yeah, you'd be surprised.
Would probably be really surprised.
Go shopping in your own house.
I need to do that.
I need to take that right there.
Alright, food shortages have
really hit a lot of people hard.
No one really has gotten spared.
It has gotten so bad that a food
pantry in Greensboro says it
really needs a surge of donations.
Or it could run out of
food in just two weeks.
Greensboro Urban Ministry and WY
News Two are partnering for a food
drive tomorrow from 9:00 to 6:00.
It's going to be at the
Walmart on Battleground Ave.
Bring food, bring your friends.
This is a. Chance to make a real impact.
You can also donate online.