New high prices for coffee and ground chuck

 

I can no longer has cheezburger under Donald J. Trump

 100% ground beef hit a new all time high average price of $6.752/lb in Jan 2026.

 

 

100% ground beef averaged a record $6.089 in year one of Trump 2.0, and hit a record high $6.687 in Dec 2025 to celebrate the New Golden Age for them, not for you

 Like many other such graphs, the graph for 100% Ground Beef won't show the 2025 average because the government shutdown meant no figure for October in the data.

The average $6.089 in 2025 is for eleven months without October, with October obviously a high figure, too, which means the annual average is no doubt higher than $6.089.

 

 

Prices of 20 food items posted new all time highs on a quarterly average basis under Donald Trump in 3Q2025

 The 20 foods shown making new all time highs represent 43% of the 46 foods I have been tracking in the FRED database at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Prices are per pound unless otherwise noted.

Beef Products:

Round Roast $8.182

All Uncooked Roasts 8.72 

Choice Chuck Roast 8.839

Round Steak 9.04

All Uncooked Steaks 12.12

Choice Sirloin Steak 14.003

Ground Chuck 6.43

100% Ground Beef 6.298

All Uncooked Ground 6.593

 

Other Meats:

 

Whole Chicken 2.072

Pork 3.716

 

Dairy Products:

 

Ice Cream 6.425/half gallon

Cheddar Cheese 6.071

 

Other Foods:

 

Orange Juice 4.682/12oz. frozen

Coffee 8.808 

Sugar 1.043 (two quarters in a row)

Bananas 0.664

Potato Chips 6.84

Chocolate Chip Cookies 5.179

Beer 1.832/pint 

All eight beef prices I track made new record average highs in July 2025

Adjusted for inflation since July 1984, 100% ground beef should cost $3.88/lb in July 2025, but it's actually 61% higher than that.

 

  

100% Ground Beef $6.254/lb

Ground Chuck 6.338

Round Roast 7.909

All uncooked beef roasts 8.397

Choice chuck roast 8.439

Round steak 8.69

All uncooked beef steaks 11.875

Choice sirloin steak 13.554 

 

 

Food items making new all time high average prices in the United States in June 2025

 

 All prices are FRED data from the St. Louis Fed in U.S. dollars.

 

The headlines are correct. Average beef prices are out of this world in June 2025:

Round Roast $7.762/lb

All Uncooked Beef Roasts $8.203 

Ground Chuck $6.103

Choice Chuck Roast $8.197 

100% Ground Beef $6.12

All Uncooked Ground Beef $6.342

All Uncooked Beef Steaks $11.491

Choice Sirloin Steak $12.923.

 

But that's not all:

Whole Chicken $2.086

Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate $4.493

Coffee $8.132

Potato Chips $6.815

Ice Cream $6.493.

 

Most of the other items in my list of over 40 basic food products remain near their average all time highs. Food price inflation was 3% year-over-year in June 2025. There has been no actual food price deflation since 2016.

 

 

Food items making new all time high average prices in the United States in May 2025

 All prices are FRED data from the St. Louis Fed in U.S. dollars.

 

Ground Chuck 6.018/lb

Coffee 7.931

White Sugar 1.054

Bananas 0.655

Potato Chips 6.731

Ice Cream 6.466/half gallon

100% Ground Beef 5.981/lb

All Uncooked Ground Beef 6.245

American Cheese 5.063

Beer 1.834/pint 

Eleven foods which made new all-time high average prices in April 2025

 Round roast $7.616/lb

All roasts 7.995

Round steak 8.627

All steaks 11.12

Sirloin steak 12.326

Ground chuck 5.996

100% ground beef 5.801

All ground beef 6.142 

Coffee 7.536

Sugar 1.021

 

Beer 1.827/pint

18 things which set new price records on an average basis in 1Q2025: beef, beef, and more beef, ice cream, sugar, coffee, OJ, chicken, American cheese, beer, wine, eggs, electricity

 

sirloin

chuck roast

beef roasts

beef steaks

ground beef

ice cream

sugar

coffee

orange juice

chicken

ground chuck

round steak

round roast

American cheese

beer

wine

electricity

eggs

Ten foods making new all time high average prices in March 2025 per FRED Economic Data

Round roast $7.557 per pound

Round steak $8.554

Ground chuck $5.854

Ground beef 100% $5.79

Ground beef all $6.137

Beef steaks all $10.98

Eggs $6.227 per dozen

Coffee $7.385 per pound

White sugar $1.014

Beer $1.821 per pint

 

Beef, breakfast, and bliss just went up again: A dozen basic foods posting new all time high average prices in February 2025 according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank

Choice chuck roast $8.104/lb

Ground chuck $5.744

All uncooked ground beef $5.96

All uncooked beef roasts $7.995

Round roast $7.49

Round steak $8.485

 

Eggs $5.897/dozen

Frozen orange juice $4.492/12oz

Coffee $7.246

White Sugar $1.011

 

Table wine $14.087/liter

Beer $1.819/pint

 

 

Average protein prices per pound August 2023 vs. 2019 annual average

Ground Beef: $5.076 / $3.807, up 33.3%

Pork Chops: $4.359 / $3.339, up 30.5%

Bacon: $6.502 / $5.613, up 15.8%

Chicken: $1.958 / $1.495, up 30.97%

Dozen eggs: $2.043 / $1.396, up 46.3%

Dried beans: $1.702 / $1.344, up 26.6%

Gallon milk: $3.927 / $3.036, up 29.3%

Cheddar cheese: $5.897 / $5.308, up 11.1%

Cup of yogurt: $1.576 / $1.115, up 41.3%

The inflation adjusted average price of ground beef in the United States

 In January 1984, ground beef was $1.29/pound.

Adjusted for inflation to August 2023, it should be $3.89/pound, according to the inflation calculator at bls.gov.

Ground beef is actually $5.08/pound, 30.5% higher.

 

On the Sunday grill: My May 1984 33-cent hamburger should cost 96-cents in May 2023, instead it costs $1.24

 It's nearly 30% overpriced.

The inflation-adjusted pound of ground beef over the period should cost $3.82.

I buy the good stuff, however. My burger costs $1.50, washed down with a cheap pint of Hamm's Beer for 83-cents.

I'll be back to beans and rice on Monday.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.