Grocery bills will continue to rise in 2023

OTTAWA — An average family of four can expect to fork out nearly 11-hundred dollars more for groceries next year.

Canada’s latest Food Price Report says food inflation is here to stay — at least for the first half of next year.

The report predicts a single woman in her 40s — the average age in Canada — will pay over 37-hundred dollars for groceries next year, a single man the same age will pay nearly 42-hundred, and the average family of four can expect to spend 16-thousand-288-dollars.

Multiple factors could influence food prices next year, including climate change, geopolitical conflicts, rising energy costs and the lingering effects of COVID-19.