Northern Ontarians are learning to grow their own food to help stave off the impact of climbing grocery bills.
For many northern Ontarians, the chilled aisles of grocery stores have become increasingly unfriendly places as food prices only continue to climb. And experts are warning of even more sticker shock to come in 2023.
The situation has led some people in the northern reaches of Ontario to take matters into their own hands. "It's depressing when you work five out of seven days and you get your paycheque and you go, 'OK, who am I not paying this week just so we can make sure we have enough food for everybody until the next paycheque?""Only five of them ended up being female so I had five egg-layers and I culled the other five and we ate them," she said.
With the cost of formula and diapers already hiking her grocery bill Poirier said she couldn't stomach the inflated cost of things like lettuce.
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