Families already require 300 pesos a day for errands

Need money!, is the claim of a growing number of familieswho at the time of ‘doing the warrant” and decide what they are going to prepare comer They come across a strong reality: it requires 300 pesos – at least – to cook a soup of vegetables y pollo fried with papas.

But, if instead of chicken, the menu includes a kilo of steak of beef tenth or two kilos of fishone of avocado and a lettuce for the salad, the bill for the errand easily skyrockets to more than 400 pesos, revealed the Profeco.

I report, that without taking into account the cost of the carnes –pollo, fish o res-, vegetables; fruits As the avocado, green chile or tree, potato, tomato, tomato y onion They represent an expense of 150 to 200 pesos.

This, because the precio For a kilogram each of the mentioned products ranges between 30 and 40 pesos, with a peak of 60 pesos in the case of avocado; without counting the expense for the consumption of gas and the time required to cook.

This relationship of products and prices is calculated for a family of four to five people: two parents and two or three children, who consume soup, stew, water lemon and a fruit like dessert: banana o apple.

“The price of fruits and vegetables reported an annual increase of 11.74% at the end of the first half of March 2024.”

— Inegi

Vegetables cost more than 30 pesos

Through the microsite Who’s who in prices, the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco) revealed that just two fresh foods –carrot y spinach–, from a list of 12, they reported a price of less than 30 pesos.

This implies that, at least, 80% of the fresh foods that families consume as their daily meal cost more than 30 pesos per kilo and that, by only purchasing three products such as potatoes, tomatoes, tomato –which cannot be missing in soups, stews and sauces–, involves a minimum disbursement of 100 pesos.

Profeco indicated that the kilo of papa averages 35 pesos, tomatoes between 35 and 46 pesos depending on the size or variety and green tomatoes cost 33 pesos; the kilo of banana and apple ranges between 23 and 60 pesos.

While a kilogram of “Vegetable soup” –which includes small proportions of pumpkin, squashcarrot, cabbage, broccolichard and chopped potato – costs between 25 and 30 pesos per kilo at the collections and markets public.

I no longer have sent 100 pesos

Griselda Juárez Hernández, owner of a collection shop and several stands market in the metropolitan area of ​​CDMX, showed that “there is no longer warrant of 100 pesos”, nor vegetables that cost 10, 12 or 15 pesos, like four or six years ago.

“If customers bring a kilo of potatoes (36 pesos), one of tomato (35 pesos), three onions –half a kilo– (28 pesos), 10 pesos of green chili and two avocados 25 pesos), which may be something very common, you have a bill of 134 pesos.

“And if you add any fruittomatoes, maybe nopales –for meat in green sauce– and half a vegetable for the soup, it already adds up to 200 pesos. Maybe it’s not every day, but buying the errand for the food “It’s 150 pesos,” he said.

Faced with such a panorama of prices, María Hernández, housewife casaexplained that in his family –two parents, two children of 18 and 22 years old and a grandfather of 73, the daily expense to eat is 200 to 350 pesos, including a kilo of pollo or three quarters of bistec.

“I tell my children and they don’t believe me, the times are over when comer with 50 or 100 pesos; everything is very expensive and we can’t do much because it is food. Before you prepared egg con chile verdenails tortillas y beans and that was it; Now, even roast chicken costs 130 pesos and you need two to eat well,” she said.

Price of daily consumption foods

The place Who’s who in prices reported that the kilo of fruitsvegetables and condiments, consumption daily, they report the following average price:

• Avocado: 60 pesos
• Garlic: 133 pesos
• Pumpkin: 37 pesos
• Tree chili: 127 pesos
• Tomato: 35 to 45 pesos
• Potato: 35 to 38 pesos
• Banana: 29 pesos
• Pea: 64 pesos
• Chayote without bones: 35 pesos
• Broccoli: 39 pesos
• Cauliflower: 45 pesos per piece
• Spinach: 8 pesos per bunch
• Carrot: 13.46 pesos
• Apple: 35 to 58 pesos
• Chicken leg and thigh: 81 pesos
• Pork backbone: 107 pesos
• Dogfish fillet: 149 pesos
• Tench steak: 189 to 206 weight