Food prices: July 2008 Archives

Dunkin' Donuts is the most recent fast food place to jump on the health food train. As consumers become more health conscious and demand healthier choices, big fast food chains risk losing business if they don't adapt.

Next month Dunkin' Donuts will offer flatbread sandwiches made with egg whites and turkey sausage, egg and cheese options for the health-conscious.

The current multigrain bagel and reduced fat blueberry muffin will also be part of the new DDSmart menu.

You can read more about the changes here.

(Thank to AP for the photo.)

$3.89! $3.89! $3.89!

I figured for sure it would get over the $4 hurdle this time around, but gas prices are falling pretty quickly this week. I watched a pretty steady price of $3.95, down a few from that $3.99 high, dwindle to $3.92 and now to $3.89 this morning.

Thank goodness gasoline is cheap again. Finally, I can get back to my All-American to-do list! I thought we were all in trouble there for a sec.

1. Buy a house 75 miles from my job with no money down, on a plot of land that was producing food this time last year ...

2. Get that extra credit card so we can finally afford to go out to a nice dinner on Friday and Saturday nights ...

3. Cancel that order for a Prius. That thing looks like a shipping box after a disgruntled employee vented his or her aggression anyhow. I hear Hummers are pretty cheap nowadays ...

And lastly, 4. Do something even bigger and better than 1, 2 and 3 within six months of accomplishing to-do list items 1,2 and 3.

Viva Pax Americana!

Interesting story about people rallying around their Starbucks locations in today's Wall Street Journal.

I'm not too surprised to hear about it. After all, if you mess with someone's morning cup of coffee, you've hit a huge nerve. And when you hit a nerve that early in the morning, there are a lot of waking hours left in the day to stew and get even more angry.

Has anyone heard about such an outcry for the company's North Hanover store, which was on the company's list of 600 stores to close?

That phrase, whether said or thought, has probably gone through a lot of people's heads over the last few months.

"I could stop driving to see family so often ... but I can't do that."

"I could give up going out on a Saturday night with friends ... but I can't do that."

"I could stop eating a meal every day ... but I can't do that."

What have you come up with to save money, but then decided you couldn't live without?

With oil prices falling, Iran decided to launch its missiles ... in a military test.

But that was all it took to start the price of oil rising again. It made people worry about the security of oil flowing from the Middle East.

Those missiles didn't kill anyone, but they managed to inflict a little bit of pain on the millions or even billions of oil-addicted people in developed or developing nations across the world, including 300 million Americans.

Talk about a smart weapon!

I've reported and written about the escalating food prices many times before but had never really noticed them hit home until I was in Washington D.C. over the weekend for the 4th.

My two roommates and I had decided to grab a late dinner at one of our favorite College Park establishments, Noodles & Company. (We don't have one in York and I really wish we did.)

My one roommate orders the same exact thing every time we are there (and in college we ate there a lot) so she knows her dish has cost $7.42 every time we've eaten there.