7 Foods Floridians Have Started Buying Less Often Because of the Price

Ground beef hit $6.83 a pound nationally in June 2026.

That’s nearly 12% higher than a year earlier.

Unfortunately, it’s not the only number that has risen past what Floridians used to pay for grocery items.

These are the foods many Floridians have started buying less often because of what they now cost.

1. Eggs

Florida ranks among the nation’s priciest states for a dozen eggs, according to a state ranking built on Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

A dozen Grade A eggs averaged $2.09 nationally in July 2023.

By January 2026, that same dozen ran $3.59, even after prices cooled from the worst of 2025’s shortage.

Still not cheap.

A spring 2025 survey from Numerator found the share of egg buyers shopping weekly fell nearly five points in a few months, while the share buying just once a month grew instead.

Floridians who once tossed a carton of Eggland’s Best in every trip now think about it first.

2. Ground Beef

Florida grocery shoppers are paying right along with the rest of the country’s record run-up in ground beef prices.

The average price hit $6.83 a pound in June 2026, up from $6.12 a year earlier, according to federal price tracking.

That’s nearly 12% higher.

A national survey from Blue Yonder found 55% of shoppers are buying less beef or have stopped buying it altogether, with higher prices among the top reasons cited.

Grocers report the same shift at checkout, where a package of 80/20 ground chuck draws a second look before it lands in a Florida cart.

3. Coffee

Florida kitchens that run on a canister of Café Bustelo or Folgers are feeling a run-up that goes well beyond loose change.

Coffee drinkers nationwide are paying close to 16% more for a pound of ground roast than they did a year ago, and Florida is far from exempt.

The average price reached $9.46 a pound in June 2026, up from $8.13 in June 2025, per the same federal tracking.

Prices jumped fast.

A 2026 survey found 68% of coffee drinkers changed how they buy or brew coffee because of the higher prices, from brewing more at home to switching to cheaper brands to buying from coffee shops less often.

Coffee shop visits fell hardest of all, with the share of drinkers who never buy a cup out growing from 7% to 20% in two years.

4. Deli Meat

A pack of Oscar Mayer or Hillshire Farm turkey used to be an easy add to a Florida cart, but delis are now ringing up totals shoppers haven’t seen in years.

Lunch meat prices jumped 4.2% in a single month in fall 2025, the largest one-month spike on record for the category, per Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Cold cuts got expensive fast.

The pounds of packaged lunchmeat sold nationally fell 9% year over year in June 2026, industry sales tracking shows.

Beef-driven costs are behind much of the jump, since several popular deli meats use beef as a base.

5. Orange Juice

Florida invented the frozen orange juice concentrate that now costs shoppers well over what it did a few years back.

A West Palm Beach news report tracked a 12-ounce can at $3.18 using federal data in 2023.

By June 2026, the same 12-ounce measure ran $4.87, per the latest federal price data.

Prices are up over 50%.

National demand for orange juice keeps shrinking as prices rise, with one industry outlook projecting another 3% drop in consumption for the 2026-27 season.

Florida’s own citrus belt produces a fraction of the fruit it once did, so a carton of Tropicana or Simply Orange on a Florida shelf increasingly starts its life somewhere else.

6. Chocolate

Florida shoppers are paying noticeably more for chocolate than they did a year ago, even though the raw ingredient behind it got cheaper.

Chocolate cost about 14% more in early 2026 than the year before, even as cocoa futures fell more than 70% from their late-2024 peak over the same stretch.

Retail prices lag behind.

Hershey’s own securities filing ties a 5% drop in first-half 2026 sales volume directly to those higher prices.

Florida shoppers are buying fewer bars of Hershey or Lindt and stretching what they do buy a little further.

7. Tomatoes

Florida tomato growers are watching shoppers hesitate at a price tag that used to be an easy grab.

Tomato prices rose more than any other grocery item tracked in 2026, up as much as 40% year over year.

A 17% tariff on many Mexican tomatoes and a run of Florida winter freezes both pushed the total higher at the same time.

Two hits, one price.

Helen Aquino, an executive with Lake Mary-based Village Fresh Greenhouse Grown, told Produce Business that buying, sales, and purchase frequency are all down for tomatoes, citing nationwide point-of-sale tracking.