Inflation rates - Making my own "basket" to check food inflation

 

Inflation is a beast. It eats up the savings and there is not much you can do about it. 

But is the inflation rate really that what they tell us officially? I have a feeling it may be higher. A very strong feeling...

So I started my own "basket". 

In the table below I have the products I mostly use. I will try to update at the beginning of each month. 

The prices are from Walmart, I will be checking the in the beginning of each month. It is easy and fast to do online.

Red is increase in price and green is decrease in price.   

2023

monthly

On the left: all items in red went up if I compare April (when I started to track) till December. 

The total of the basket in April is $74.18 versus $72.32 in December. 

2024

quarterly