What are inexpensive staples in your country?
The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.
Everything becomes more expensive once a market for it is created. Meanwhile local foods like murnong and kangaroo apples are free in Australia.
What is murnog? Sounds Klingon
A local type of yam that tastes like a cross between a carrot and a potato.
Milk. almost all the milk where I live is sourced locally. (ireland)
And eggs, eggs are cheap and always in stock (free-range is also the norm.(
Dollar tree sells staples at a dollar 25
Wouldn't you get a better deal if you bought a bigger box of staples at a different retailer?
You mean like... at Staples?
UK: I don't know if it's produced domestically, but pasta is dirt cheap. Own brand spaghetti can be under 60p a kilo. Tinned tomatoes are also cheap, so there you go - dinner.
Potatoes and brown onions are fairly cheap, ditto carrots.
Eggs, of course. £2.70 ($3.50) a dozen, medium free range.
Sprouted yellow peas. Available on most street corners of Myanmar cities in the morning, steaming hot. Cheap source of protein and nutrition when added to plain white rice, nutritious and delicious.
I live in the US and honestly, I don't think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.
Comparatively speaking, politicians here are pretty inexpensive. It only took one twat a couple hundred million to own the president.
Gas? It's so much cheaper than the EU, even when it's at its more expensive in the US
The US overproduces some crops that USAID used to buy and send overseas. The local supply will increase, some reckon by a lot, and prices may crash as local demand is just not there.
They will dump the food in a ditch before selling it at a reasonable price.
There is only relatively expensive.
Literally everything has gone up with every excuse possible.
Covid, some ship that blocked the Suez canal?!, war in ukraine, not enough rain, too much rain.
Prices never go down after.
Yup. And here we are, still blaming covid for shortages and "supply chain disruptions".
As an American, it used to be fossil fuels. I'd go elsewhere and it'd be 3x the price. But lately we seem to be catching up. One thing where we're still likely cheaper are high-end electronics. At least, it looks like the iPhone is still cheaper in the US than almost anywhere else. I remember living abroad a few years ago, colleagues would ask if I could buy an iPhone or Mac on Christmas break and bring it back to them lol
Clay, I can walk 100 meters and dig it out of the ground for free.
Water, it rains about 200 days a year.
Mud Pies incoming!
Swingline are pretty affordable ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
US, specifically southeast Michigan: Ramen, bread, and spaghetti, though as other commenters have said everything has gone up, so even these.
The US is too big for a single answer, but here in Florida bananas are cheap, but potatoes and apples are expensive. Sweet potatoes are often cheap though.
I grow some stuff here, that's not free but is cheap for sure. Okra, jalapeno peppers, watermelon, purple sweet potatoes, basil in the summer. Greens, lettuces, broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, fennel, cilantro in the winter. Mint all year. Have citrus trees and a fig, all dwarf trees so not a huge harvest but an easy one.
I think wine and most booze will get very expensive, grains, so flour, pasta, bagels. Good cheese. A lot of produce since it comes from Mexico and South America and our supreme leader here seems determined to piss them off. Milk will probably stay around the same, maybe domestic cheese. I would logically have said eggs, but apparently not.
The cross-section between high volume and easy to make
Canada. Lentils, potatoes , rice.
Take all this for a grain of salt I'm at work and didn't have time to verify these numbers. I got them from AI, but the order makes sense. They also don't include secondary and tertiary effects. E.g. what tariffs on China will do to goods imported from Japan.
In the United States, corn, soybeans, and wheat are projected to go up a maximum of 5%. We produce upwards of 40% of those goods, so they will be the ones which will impact other countries the most. Meat will go up more. We domestically produce 12-15% of the world supply of pork and beef. Produce is going to be hit badly. Up to 40%.
Gasoline and other fossil fuels is difficult to determine. We import a lot from other countries, directly from Canada, but companies based out of the United States have off shore drilling rights in locations around the world. Increased costs of fossil fuels, may have increased incentive for renewables and nuclear, but oil companies have historically passed those losses on to consumers.