Here is your wake-up call! Breakfast items are breaking the bank even as incoming President Trump vows to lower grocery costs. Consider the increase in market price for these popular staples on your kitchen table. Info from Trading Economics.
Coffee prices …. ………….. up 76% from a year ago
Orange Juice prices………. up 537% year over year
Egg prices………………….. up 193% year over year
Milk prices……………………..up 35% from a year ago
Butter prices…………………..up 31% from a year ago
Before complaining about being gouged, know that coffee, OJ and egg production are all being impacted by weather extremes and infectious viruses. A tropical virus coupled with intense heat-juiced hurricanes has reduced the Florida orange crop in the past 20 years from 240 million boxes to 12m/boxes in 2025, pretty much a wipe-out.
Meanwhile the bird flu has killed 70% of the egg-laying hens in California in the past few months. As for your cup of Joe, heavy rain in Vietnam and not enough rain in Brazil has reduced the world coffee crop, spiking prices.
If the cost of these breakfast items is not enough, try the most popular ready-to-eat cold cereals on for-size, courtesy the Post Company. Each comes with the only cheap breakfast food ingredient – sugar. You pay later – at the dentist.