Shoppers want relief on grocery items in Budget

Four months in­to mar­ried life, banker Sha­keem Williams, 26, al­ready runs his house­hold like a bal­ance sheet. Ra­tions for two cost him at least $3,000 a month, a bill he finds steep. And he knows what comes next: each child, he spec­u­lates, will add at least $2,000 on top.

Cook­ing at home was sup­posed to be the pen­ny­wise route, but Williams says the math doesn’t sup­port that.

“Even though peo­ple would say it’s cheap­er to cook than eat­ing out, the way that gro­ceries rise is about the same,” Williams told Guardian Me­dia as he pre­pares to see what to­day’s Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion will of­fer.