We plan out meals and so we have dozens of recipes that we rotate through. Keeps things not quite boring while also keeping everything in the minds of everyone in the family so that when we ask what everyone wants for suppers this week they can think of something. Anyway, this is all to say that our grocery habits are fairly consistent. Our bill is up, in the past two years alone, between 30 and 40 percent. I haven't gone back to the old receipts to confirm exactly, but looking back at some old statements confirms that range.

That's just two years. Not 24.