US EditionAverage Cookout Cost Hits $103 as Food Prices Surge
- Americans are preparing for summer cookouts despite rising food costs, with 96% planning to grill at home or gatherings in 2023.
- This continued grilling tradition follows from strong cultural preferences and expectations for familiar foods like burgers and hot dogs.
- Many are reinventing side dishes and classics such as potato salad, coleslaw, baked beans, macaroni salad, and deviled eggs using simple ingredient swaps.
- Lifestyle bloggers Bella Bucchiotti and Andrea Updyke encourage adding subtle surprises like albacore tuna or spices to dress up cookout favorites and maintain comfort.
- Although food prices have increased due to tariffs and higher ingredient costs, Americans plan to collectively purchase around $1 billion worth of meat for each major summer holiday grilling weekend.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - The average cost to feed a group of ten at a cookout this year is more than $100. The average cost to host a cookout for ten people reached approximately $103 this year, marking a 4.2% increase from 2024, according to Rabobank's annual Barbecue Index One of the most significant contributors to this uptick is the price of beef hot dogs, which soared by nearly 19% compared to last year. The average price for beef hot dogs …
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(CNN)– It is Memorial Day, the unofficial start to Summer, and some of those Summer staples you buy might be a little pricier. That goes for what you cook on the grill or maybe the cold beer you’ll be sipping. The reason being is tariffs. In April, President Donald Trump put a 25% tariff on imported aluminum and steel. That includes empty aluminum cans and imported canned beer. With U.S. based brewers feeling the cost pressure pinch that could t…
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