margaret_nelson•2mo agoProlific Poster

Serious question, did anyone else think a bag of dried beans was just a few bucks?

I was looking at my grocery receipt from 2019 and saw I paid $1.29 for a pound of black beans. The same bag is $2.79 now at my store in Omaha. I found the old receipt stuck in a cookbook. What's the best protein swap you've found that hasn't doubled in price?

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the_vera2mo ago

My local news did a segment on lentils being under a dollar a pound still.

wren_smith442mo ago

That's actually about 50 cents a pound at my grocery store.

olivia_chen3519d ago

The bean thing is wild but it fits with everything creeping up. Frozen veggies used to be my cheap staple and now even store brand bags are a dollar more, you know? Lentils are a solid call though, they're still pretty cheap and cook up fast without soaking. It's like the whole grocery store shifted somehow, not just beans. Eggs jumped too, but they're still a good deal for protein compared to meat these days. Really makes you notice how nothing stayed the same price from 2019, and that's a little scary honestly.