It’s peach season in British Columbia and a pile of the delicious Okanagan Valley-grown fruit is stacked outside a market on Vancouver’s Davie Street. Grab three to snack on this week and, at $8.80 per kilogram, you’re looking at $4.39 for your fresh fruit fix.
The price of fresh fruit was up 11.8 per cent in July, from a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada. Other products were even higher, like eggs (15.8 per cent) and bakery products (13.6 per cent). Factoring in the high prices of almost every other living expense, more than half of Canadians responding to a recent Angus Reid Institute survey said they’re struggling to cover costs.
Tracy Frimpong, a registered dietitian in Toronto, says there are ways to make nutritious choices while trying to make ends meet.
The important thing, she told CBC News, is to make decisions “that work for you and that you enjoy as well.”
CBC News followers on Instagram shared some ways they are cutting down their grocery bills while still putting nutritious meals on the table.
