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Almost 30 percent, that is the amount grocery prices have gone up since before the pandemic.

Food costs have been rising for all of us for a number of years now.

But, you know, I wanted to sort of talk to people who are dealing with those issues.

That's NPR reporter Joe Hernandez telling me about his series, What's Eating America?

His stories explore how people are coping with rising food costs.

He's really been trying to understand how they're thinking about it and what kind of

strategies or, you know, different approaches they're

bringing to eating now that prices have gone up on so many different things.

Things like shopping at budget grocery stores, as Rich Henderson explained to him.

The more we shopped here, the more products we tried, we realized quality-wise, you're not really sacrificing anything.

Hernandez has also been spending time with the people producing our food, like Mary Hudson from the

Main Coast Fishermen's Association. When people started buying less fish during the pandemic,

her group hatched a plan to buy up locally caught fish and give it away to food banks.

We were trying to figure out how we could get the boats out fishing, make some money, and realized also that we were facing these big issues with food insecurity.

And it just was the perfect marriage of issues to try to find some funding for.

Consider this. Across the country, people have had to make adjustments to their lives

as food has gotten more expensive.

From NPR, I'm Adriam Florido.

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