Price trackers for the family staples
What do the Mami's Budget price trackers follow?
Four staples that drive a family grocery budget: eggs, milk, bread, and diapers. Three are tracked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly average prices, the same federal series economists use, with verified store-brand spot checks alongside. Diapers have no federal series, so that tracker is built from dated store checks we verify ourselves. Every figure shows its source and the date it was checked.
One question, answered with receipts: is it your store, or is it the market? Each tracker follows the federal average price month by month, shows the store prices we could verify, and translates the number into family math.
Egg Prices
$2.27 a dozen (BLS, September 2026), down 35% in a year from the avian flu spike. Walmart and Kroger spot checks inside.
See the tracker →Milk Prices
$4.11 a gallon (BLS, September 2026). The staple that barely moves, and the store brands that undercut the average.
See the tracker →Bread Prices
$1.83 a pound (BLS, September 2026). The flattest price in the basket, plus the per-loaf math your shelf tag will not show.
See the tracker →Diaper Prices
From $0.17 a diaper. No federal series exists, so this one is built from verified store-brand checks, priced per diaper.
See the tracker →How the trackers work
I am Jennifer, and these pages exist because "groceries are so expensive" is too vague to act on. A family budget needs to know which prices are actually rising, which were a temporary spike, and which are just your store. The trackers refresh when the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes each month's average prices; the store spot checks are re-verified on a schedule and always carry their check date. The full method, including what we do when a price cannot be verified (we leave it out and say so), is on how we check our prices. For the rest of the cart, see grocery costs by state and the grocery budget calculator.