PHOTO: There are things you can try to help beat the price squeeze.
Specials, freezers and double checking the use-by-dates on foods can help get you through rising cost of living according to some experts interviewed by the Western Plains App.
Many in our region are struggling to meet basic food costs with inflation and interest rising over the last 18 months.
Inflation rose nearly eight per cent over the last year as a result of a COVID overhang and a food supply shortage fuelled locally by flooding and globally by the Ukraine War.
Australians have experienced 10 consecutive interest rate rises.
“Planning is important when it comes to buying food” Josephine Charbel, State Van Manager for the St Vincent De Paul Society NSW told the Western Plains App…