How much !!! For a box of cereal …..are you sure !!!

I work off what I call "threshold prices." In other words, I determine what the best price is and who has it, and when things go on my list, I only buy said item at whatever store has the best price. When something goes on the list, it's never completely out, and so I am not forced to ever buy something just because. I can wait until I am going to whatever store has the best price depending on what's on my list. My last run was Ruler Foods, for example. There are a number of items best priced at Walmart, so Walmart will likely be my next run. There are four or five items on my list currently that are best priced at Aldi, so it looks like I will be heading there sometime soon on another run. All that to say, no. I wouldn't have paid the higher price. I'd have put it on "moratorium," found something else cheaper in the meantime, and then would keep an eye out for a better deal somewhere else. The last item that was put on a moratorium were eggs. I simply would not pay $5-$7 for a dozen. Period. I did have to eventually raise my threshold price, and sometimes you have no choice. But there's still a limit on how much more I am willing to pay for anything when prices do go up. The last dozen eggs I bought I paid $2.70.

It depends on what the item is and how much the price is. If we REALLY want it, we go ahead and buy it. If there is a cheaper priced item similar to what we want, we'll try it and see if we like it. We might switch to the cheaper product if the taste is good enough.

Yes, the price of the bread went through the roof in the recent years due to Ukraine war. we cannot find quick substitute for breakfast. Hence, we continue to buy bread with the exception that instead of getting individual unique bread, we buy a loaf of bread to get our own ham and cheese done on a much cheaper price.

Just about everything has gone up lately. It's a bit scary really.