The Household Price Ledger

Pump & Pantry

What gas, crude, bread, eggs, and milk have cost — and how the food supply has been recalled and regulated — administration by administration.
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Since January 2017, the price of bread has climbed roughly — faster than inflation, while eggs have been the most volatile of the five — spiking as much as — above their 2017 price amid avian-flu-driven shortages.

Indexed to January 2017 = 100

All five lines start together, so the spread from 100 is the story.
Gasoline WTI Crude Bread Eggs Milk
Trump I · 2017–2021 Biden · 2021–2025 Trump II · 2025–present
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"Index everything to the same starting line, and the household budget tells its own story — no caption required."

Current prices, by the unit you actually buy

Native units, adjusted for the region selected above.
Sources: FRED CPIAUCSL (inflation basis), EIA weekly US regular gasoline retail price and Cushing OK WTI spot price, BLS average price data for bread, eggs, and milk. Region selector applies a fixed illustrative multiplier, not real regional price data — a future version would swap in EIA's PADD-district gasoline series and regional CPI where available.
Food Safety Record

In 2025, the FDA recorded — food recalls — down from — in 2017 — though Class I recalls, the FDA's most serious category, fell by less: —.

Food recalls, 2017–2026

Pulled live from openFDA's Food Enforcement database. Grouped by FDA severity classification or by the recall's stated reason.
Trump I · 2017–2021 Biden · 2021–2025 Trump II · 2025–present
2026 covers Jan 1 – Aug 20 only (partial year) — not directly comparable to full-year bars. Class I = reasonably likely to cause serious harm or death; Class II = temporary or reversible harm; Class III = unlikely to cause harm. Recall-reason buckets are our own keyword grouping of each recall's free-text "reason for recall" field — see note below.
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Source: openFDA Food Enforcement API (U.S. FDA), queried Aug 20, 2026. Recall-reason categories are a keyword-based grouping we built over the FDA's free-text "reason_for_recall" field — the FDA does not publish its own category taxonomy for this field, so treat "Recall reason" groupings as an approximation, not an official FDA classification. FDA severity classes (I/II/III) are the FDA's own official designation.
Policy Timeline

FDA food-related final rules & guidance, 2017–2026

Every entry below is a link to the primary document on the U.S. Federal Register — no summaries or commentary added. This list is filtered to — substantive rules and guidance documents out of 132 total FDA filings matching "food safety," with purely procedural filings (sponsor-of-record changes, hearing-objection responses, effective-date confirmations) removed. See the full, unfiltered list on federalregister.gov ↗

Source: Federal Register API (National Archives), queried Aug 20, 2026, filtered to agency = Food and Drug Administration, type = Rule, term = "food safety", published 2017-01-01 or later.