Mainers feel the pinch of food prices as grocery corporations grow sales

Mainers feel the pinch of food prices as grocery corporations grow sales

Mandy Belanger, of Lewiston, could once afford three meals a day for herself, her two children and her mother, but she had to make difficult cuts in recent years while navigating the biggest surge in grocery prices in a half century.

Mainers feel the pinch of surging food grocery prices

One woman said she now eats just a single daily meal. Others are traveling farther each week to different stores to save money.

Mainers are stretched thin. In Oxford County, many can’t afford enough food.

Every day, thousands of residents face the hardest financial choices, as households struggle to afford basic expenses.