Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint.

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54. Food prices have gone up worldwide.

Last year I read that food and gas prices had gone up around the world. I was just talking to my neighbor this week and we were commenting how little you get for the same amount of money you used to spend not that long ago. I live in a very exensive town, so I check the sales papers from our two supermarkets (A&P and ShopRite) and go to both to get their sale items. Then I go to a neighboring town that's mainly Hispanic and has cheaper produce. I specifically love to shop in a supermarket in that town that sells international foods from Latin America and Spain. It's called "Mi Bandera" (my flag). They have an aisle per country and you can tell which aisle is which by the flag of each nation placed at the end of each row. It's a fun place, not expensive and I get to try different foods.

I have a job that I allows me to afford to buy more or less any food I want, but I often wonder how people are coping who may have a limited income and families to feed. Most food pantries are having troule keeping up with demand in these tough times.

I fear that many people are going hungry, or in bureaucratic terms, have "food insufficiency".