20 Foods That Will Double In Price This Summer | with Clayton Morris

If you're fed up with soaring grocery prices, unfortunately, we bring some more bad news. Thousands of grocery staples will cost you 50% more than they did last summer, and some of them are likely to face even steeper increases due to a myriad of issues impacting food production – from drought to snow to storms and massive floods. Extreme weather has battered the US in recent years, and shoppers will likely feel the lingering effects at the grocery store over the next few months.
Good weather, especially in the spring when planting season starts, is crucial to growing a bountiful crop of fruits, nuts, and vegetables. But the extreme swings this year have left many growers behind schedule, which means we are no longer talking about temporary food inflation but a new normal where prices are more expensive and do not return to historical averages.
Today, we've listed several products that will cost you roughly double than they did just a year ago. But before moving on, we humbly ask you to support our work with a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to our channel so you don't miss our upcoming lists.
Without further ado, here are 20 foods that will double in price this summer:
Mac and cheese: Few things are as comforting to the belly as a delicious mac and cheese. Dried pasta is one of those reliable pantry staples that Americans rely on for a filling and cheap meal. But this trusty go-to is getting less affordable than it used to be. The average retail price for macaroni products is now nearly $1.49 per pound, that's up seven percent last month and over 29% since last year. Adding that to an 18% increase in cheese prices, consumers are set to pay up to 50% more for mac and cheese this year. This means that a simple bowl of pasta is not exactly the cheap comfort food it may have been just a few years ago, and the surge will limit the choices of cash-strapped families even more in the coming months.
2. Ham, an easy daily staple to throw on a sandwich during the rush of a day, is another item that's recently skyrocketed in price. While a pound of it may have set you back about 4.7 cents in 2022, by March 2023, the price of a pound had gone up to $5.29. That is a whopping 30 percent increase in a single quarter. Given that meat production relies on skilled employees, for instance, knife technicians to cut off the bone, the production of ham has deteriorated as a result of labor shortages. Right ahead of peak demand, we might see ham prices 50 percent higher in the summer of 2022.
Barbecue Meats: Barbecue season is right at the corner, and all meat lovers should expect to spend significantly more than they did last year. All of the top beef steak cuts like fillets, Scotch fillet, porterhouse, T-Bone, rump round, as well as ribeye, brisket, lamb chops, chicken legs, and pork, and even humbler alternatives like beef mince, sausages, and hamburgers, are gonna cost between 12.8 percent to 25 percent more this summer compared to a year ago, and about 45 to 55 percent more compared to 2021 levels. That's according to estimates released by the USDA. That's because this year, our domestic beef supply is far smaller than it was in 2022. The cattle sell-off that was spurred by drought and higher feed prices initially resulted in a surplus of meat in our food supply chain. But now that these products have already been sold and more supply isn't coming in, we're likely to see some empty shelves and much higher prices as seasonal demand peaks over the next couple of months.
Cookies: Every key ingredient needed to bake chocolate chip cookies and to make them perfectly crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside has shot up in price. And now we'll have to disperse 50 percent more than we did just a year ago to be able to bring our favorite cookies home. While the average a consumer could expect to pay for a pound of chocolate chip cookies was $3.49 in 2019, the price is expected to surge to $5.19 in 2023. The New York Post noted that this year, U.S cocoa supplies decreased by 20 percent, while the demand increased. At the same time, lower cocoa crop yields in countries like Ghana resulted in price surges for this key chocolate ingredient.

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