Hilo Has the Highest Food Prices in the U.S.

[Mimosa]

We do not find grocery costs any higher here than many places on mainland - also figure in heating bills and or rent / taxes and it all balances out .
Mrs.Mimosa

[ElysianWort]

Waiamea and several other spots in Hawaii are more expensive than Hilo too. Must be a stipulation on number of people per town to enter that comparative list.

The answer to this: Grow your own whenever possible.
Maybe it's starting with some cherry tomatoes on you balcony, maybe banana, kalo and ulu in your front yard. Those require minimal upkeep. Chayote squash, cassava and kabocha pumpkin are a couple others that are very easy. Boom, there you go, a continual carbohydrate source year round. Get a few egg laying hens. Voila. Not too complicated to sustain yourself and others. Tastes great because you grew it yourself. (Tastes even better when organic too.)

[terracore]

I think the takeaway here is that the "Hawaii Free Press" article is simply incorrect. I don't know anything about them, is this "fake news", "propaganda", "yellow journalism", or some other form of journalistic malfeasance?

[Old Croc]

Hawaii Free Press seems to focus on corruption in the State, but it has other Hawaii-related information.

[PaulW]

It's in the article (which comes from another site, "24/7 Wall St.",HFP is just referencing it):

"And a 24/7 Wall St. survey of average prices for a half-gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, and a frozen meal in 50 major metropolitan areas revealed that the American city with the priciest groceries, by those standards, wasn’t even bustling Honolulu, but low-key Hilo on Hawaii’s Big Island, population 45,648."

I wonder why they included Hilo in their list of "50 major metropolitan areas". Then again, milk is very expensive here. But oh, the weather!

[bananahead]

but Hilo has the cheapest prices on island, in ways... try comparing Walmart/Target to Volcano Village, Malama Mkt...

only reason to ever spend more is to 'keep the $$ on the island'
youre stupid if you pay full price anywhere though...

and Safeway is stupid too...
I worked for them for 15 yrs, my dad for 35 yrs, my mom for 30 yrs, brothers too, etc. lame greedy company when you see it from the inside for decades, and your dad (mgr) opened and 1st ran many in the islands in 1950s-70s on Oahu/Maui... IMO

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[EightFingers]

Milk $1.99 / half gallon today at Target

Puna: Our roosters crow first

[terracore]

Last time I was in Barrow, milk was $10.00/gallon. More expensive than gas. But that was several years ago. Oddly enough the meal at Pepe's tasted better and was cheaper than I had ever imagined, being the highest-latitude Mexican restaurant in the world. Unfortunately, they never rebuilt, and I feel like I had dined at the Highest-Latitude-Mexican-Food-Version-Of-Woodstock before it was just a memory:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/...013/08/31/