Mar 15, 2012 ... Food prices have skyrocketed over the past couple years. While overall U.S. food  prices rose about 5% last year, earlier in the year food inflation was the highest  recorded in 36 years. The USDA sees food prices rising 2.5%-3.5% in 2012 but  many believe that inflation could be much higher. [...]
May 22, 2017 ... Over the past two decades, food prices have risen 2.6 percent a year on average.  But recent factors have slowed food price inflation. The change is only temporary,  though. Once those downward pressures abate, food prices will resume their  normal upward trend.
Nov 22, 2017 ... Prices at food-at-home outlets have posted lower year-over-year price increases.  Restaurant prices primarily ... ERS revises its food price forecasts if the conditions  (such as the feed grain crop outlook or weather-related crop conditions) on which  they are based change significantly. In 2017, supermarket ...
By Ceyda Öner - Inflation measures how much more expensive a set of goods  and services has become over a certain period, usually a year. ... Core consumer  inflation—which excludes prices set by the government and the more volatile  prices of products, such as food and energy, that are most affected by seasonal ...
Oct 16, 2017 ... Prices for other dairy products also rose significantly within the past year. Cream,  milk and quark are all products which have individually seen recent price  increases of about 30 percent. Prices for semi-hard and hard cheese have  moreover risen by over 11 percent. Consumers also have to pay five percent ...
Grocery prices "have risen significantly over the past year or so."