{"id":123217,"date":"2021-11-20T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=123217"},"modified":"2021-11-20T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:47:14","slug":"thanksgiving-dinner-cost-jumps-with-inflation-on-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/economy\/thanksgiving-dinner-cost-jumps-with-inflation-on-the-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving dinner cost jumps with inflation on the menu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanksgiving dinner will cost U.S. consumers an average of 14% more this year in the biggest annual increase in 31 years, the American Farm Bureau Federation said, though shoppers can still find deals in grocery stores.<\/br><\/p>\n
Rising food and gas prices are squeezing U.S. consumers as the pandemic snarls global supply chains and the economic drag from the summer wave of COVID-19 infections fades.<\/p>\n
The Farm Bureau, which represents U.S. farmers and the broader agriculture industry, pointed to inflation and supply-chain disruptions for lifting the average cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people to $53.31 from a 10-year-low $46.90 in 2020. The cost is based on Farm Bureau shoppers who checked prices for turkey, cranberries, dinner rolls and other staples in stores from Oct. 26 to Nov. 8.<\/p>\n
"The cranberry sauce, the stuffing, all those things that are traditional, have gone up," said Sherry Hooker, a 69-year-old retiree shopping at Jewel-Osco store in Chicago on Thursday.<\/p>\n