Depending on where you eat, prices were up or down in April.
Six CPI Food Items Percent Changes
- Meat, Fish, Poultry, Eggs: -1.6%
- Cereals and Bakery: -0.5%
- Fruits and Vegetables: -0.4%
- Dairy: -0.2%
- Food and Beverage: -0.1%
- Nonalcoholic Beverages: +0.4%
Despite mostly big declines, food and beverages were only down 0.1 percent. That category includes food at home and food away from home.
Three Major CPI Food Categories Month-Over-Month
Three Major CPI Food Items Percent Changes
- At Home: -0.44%
- Aggregate: -0.07%
- Away from Home: +0.44%
The BLS rounds numbers to a single decimal point, I plotted two decimal places.
The BLS weights food at home at 8.051 percent of the CPI and food away from home at 5.629 percent of the CPI.
The former is seasonally adjusted and the latter isn’t. And the percentage weights for everything, not just food, change every month.
Spotlight Eggs
Trump Egg Comments
April 18,2015: Trump on egg costs: ‘If anything, the prices are getting too low’
Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a “great” job and then asserted that egg prices are “down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that.”
“You can have all the eggs. You watch, we have too many eggs. In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low. So I just want to let you know that the prices are down.”
“They said you won’t have eggs for Easter,” the president added. “Well, you can have all the eggs you want.”
Retail Price per Dozen Large Grade A Eggs Detail
The price of eggs is up $0.17 from January to $5.12 in April.
The price of eggs in April is down $1.11 from $6.23 in March to $5.12 in April.
If you wish to give Trump credit for the decline, then credit him for a drop 17.8 percent, not 87 percent.
Did Trump mean 87 cents instead of 87 percent?
Regardless, it is quite funny to hear Trump’s claim, “In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low.”
CPI Food at Home vs Away from Home Year-Over-Year
Year-Over-Year Food Details
- Food Away from Home: 3.9%
- Food and Beverage: 2.7%
- Food at Home: 2.0%
Your results may vary.
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I read an enormous amount of comments here which are pure TDS. Its like a feeding frenzy of negative emotion because quite often there is no argumentation at all. You may lean against Trump but at least its reasoned even if I often disagree with the reasoning. Evens stevens for comments is a good thing. I thought the so called spam was funny. Don’t see anything there worth getting kicked off.
labeling the truth about don the old is hardly TDS that label was attached by trump minions to try to shut out the truth. it fails.
“Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; / Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, / And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks.”
King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6
What if one makes it as a haiku? Does it become acceptable because it is art?
Trump sparks foes’ panic,
Chaos reigns, yet calm hearts wait—
Watch the show unfold.
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most people can’t eat out. the restaurant industry is suffering. most can’t afford te grocery store either. the idiot govt is not helping. but hey don the old can fly to saudi arabia and waste taxpayer money while his pro israel administration continues to decimate the u.s.
Average food at a sit down restaurant for a family of 4 is $120+. That’s for average. And for more casual restaurants, it’s 75% of the way there along with the ipad turn so you can tip on top of that.
If I stand to order, I don’t tip.
I treated my husband to breakfast at a local nonchain grill this a.m. It was okay, but I eat gluten free and just about all processed food out contains it somewhere, so it just tastes awful any more. Also, my daughter is celiac, so eating at home is much preferred now.
Where’s the eating out comments? Eating out is HELL-so expensive and not worth it
SNAP is starting to experiment in a few areas with restaurant vouchers again. Hmmm….
Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/kennedy-ultraprocessed-food-dyes.html
We live in a world where the health industry pays little attention to food and a food industry that pays little attention to health!
Food is all about choice. It can be expensive and non-nutritious or inexpensive and nutritious.
Simple and raw or processed to the hilt!
Take your pick with every bite!
It would appear that food outside is a result of higher minimum wage. Fair or not. Anyway, its healthier in general to eat at home, as long as its not Cheetohs and Coke.
Eating out… food prepared mostly by people who don’t know how to store and cook food. Almost none of the average restaurant cooks in the US has gone to schools for that purpose, and very few maintain sanitary procedures (let alone procedures that will not destroy nutrients).
For the last 2 years I’ve been avoiding restaurants, even Deli food, I make everything at home in the simplest way possible: i) my health is better, ii) saved lots of money, iii) zero transportation/parking cost and stress. My food at home costs less than the TIP would cost at a restaurant. Back in Europe we went to restaurants only for business meetings, and for tourists and travelers.
shouldn’t you be raising all your food with subsistence farming and animal husbandry practices, too? with proper self supplied energy too? like the good old days back in the old country? my old college room mate is 100% self sufficient for all that.
My early lettuce and the spinach are producing, strawberries are just starting. One does what one can.
you realize i was being sarcastic. but truthful about my old pal. he owns enough land for great hunting and farming……i was raised on all natural foods with no preservatives……..we composted in the 60s and 70s……..i’m old as dirt now and have been healthy. i attribute it to my parents feeding me quality food as a child.
what does it say about our society, that growing your own, clean, delicious food is now sarcasm?
good for him. does he handle the food right after cleaning the latrine?
When I was dating my wife her father used to say as far as he was concerned they could burn down or close all the restaurants. I now repeat that and my wife tells me she wishes her dad was alive to hear me say that. Going out is really a waste of money and worse the excess calories consumed are detrimental. Try to not eat the fresh bread they put in front of you while waiting for the food to arrive. I argue about declining it but always lose. Discipline goes out the window. I do go out about once a week mainly for my wife’s sake but yes I could be happy without it.
You know, you’re supposed to wrap the bread & put it in your wife’s purse. 🙂
For me, eating out is more a social event.
Why wouldn’t you eat the fresh bread especially since it’s built into the cost of your meal? Even if it fills you up it’s not like they don’t bring you your food or give you less of a main course.
I assume you know you can take leftovers to go. Makes for great lunches the next day and when you get 2 meals out of it, it makes the cost better.
That’s the problem I usually do eat and it cuts my appetite so I get leftovers to take home. The point I was trying to make that it’s hard to resist that bread in front of you it’s like a Pavlov’s dog response.
Bread, especially restaurant bread/ store bought, has a lot of sugar and corn syrup in it. It makes the bread addictive, and fills you up and by eating it at the beginning of the meal, your insulin spikes leading to pre-diabetes, obesity,etc.
I gave up most bread. It was a lot easier after I started to read the labels. I’m thinking over baking my own. I do love fresh bread, like mama used to make.
“Back in Europe we went to restaurants only for business meetings, and for tourists and travelers.”
That is puzzling since Europeans like to eat out often.
They may be referring to Eastern Europe.
Not really. When I came in the US I was amazed at how addictive Americans were to restaurants. Americans had an entire culture around it. Europeans like cafes and bars (and they sit there with one coffee or one drink for hours, chit-chatting, while the owner prays for tourists to come by) or higher quality fast-food (Greeks, Italians). But not sit-down restaurants. Disposable income in most of Europe is a joke.
I live in Europe so I know what I am taking about.
PS. I must say though, that although eating out in sit-down restaurants in Europe is rare compared to the maniac over-consuming Americans, most European restaurants have better food – because they’re not trying anything weird or too heavy. The cooks are better, and they are following traditional simple recipes. Americans, on the other hand, live to tell weird stories of “the new exotic restaurant they tried” or that they are dating a foreigner etc.
In my first years in the US I was socializing a lot with comfortable middle-class Americans and my stomach was bloated often from restaurant food and no walking. In 2001, an old friend (in his PhD in economics from LSE at the time), visited me after he visited Texas, and he told me “I could not imagine such level of material wealth” (that, I can still remember verbatim). After 2.5 months in the US he went back to England and characterized the UK “utterly miserable”, which made him move back to the island of Crete (where we use our apartments only to sleep, it’s a strictly living outdoors environment) where with half the money and same cost of living, he feels rich (weather, landscape, friends, pleasant wife with a good sense of humor). Goes to tell you what Quality of Life means, right? What’s the point of money if you’re living in a crappy apartment in New York or Amsterdam?
I live in France and the food is better in restaurants as well as the “ambiance”. Yesterday I have a delicious lunch on a terrace in front of a castle overlooking Paris. Only local people and no tourists were there and no tipping.
Major input costs for food away from home are labor, rent, insurance.
Rent is a derivative of local property taxes. Very dangerous in public school “arms race” districts, with 6 figure annual pensions.
For the kids!
Public schools – usually exclusive to residents
Public libraries – open to all, book checkouts for residents
Public parks – open to all
‘Public’ is quite the polysemous word.
we’re in a good district, but a few too many tired swimmer teachers who need to be PIP’d and terminated. the principle has napoleon’s complex and the superintendent is out to lunch. they’re skating by on reputation.