By Gretchen McKay
From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
With grocery prices at record highs, we’ve put together a guide for a week’s worth of healthy meals
There’s no getting around this simple and unpalatable fact: It’s pretty stressful to go grocery shopping these days.
Thanks to the skyrocketing cost of inflation — which climbed to a 40-year record high of 9.1% in June compared to last year — food has never been more expensive.
The price of pantry staples such as bread and cereal has jumped nearly 14%, according to the Consumer Price Index, and dairy products are not far behind, costing an average of 13.5% more than a year ago. The price of meat, poultry, fish and eggs will also leave a shopper reeling from sticker shock, and don’t even get me started on what a bag of Lay’s potato chips will set you back these days. (A 13-ounce bag costs $5.49 at Target. Target!)…