OTTAWA — As someone who has lived in Canada for just a little over three years, Victoria Lavrynenko has an easy baseline for gauging grocery prices. Article content

When she and her family moved to Canada from Ukraine, a package of four chicken breasts was about $10. Now, she says, while scanning the poultry section with her husband and son at a Loblaw affiliate in her Ottawa neighbourhood, the price of that same package of chicken is consistently about 40-50 per cent higher. Article content

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Lavrynenko says she tries to kill two birds with one stone by shopping around to get both the best prices and the healthiest food, but that she finds it more difficult now to meet her twin goals because of the inflation in recent years, particularly the basic po

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