Personal Grocery Inflation Index

See how your household’s planned grocery cost changes

Save a dated planned basket, then compare the same items and quantities in later weeks. MealPantry labels changed baskets and missing weeks instead of estimating them.

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Private household tracker

Save this week’s planned basket

Use the planned total before shopping. Save the same items and quantities each week for a like-for-like trend.

Items and quantities

Your grocery cost trend

Comparable weeks only

Save your first planned basket to establish a private baseline. No sample household data is shown as if it were yours.
Separate from the Australian Weekly Grocery Index. This tracker uses only your household’s saved planned baskets. The public index uses MealPantry’s fixed five-item supermarket basket.

Like-for-like method

Your first saved basket is the baseline. A later week counts only if every normalized item and quantity matches.

Gaps stay visible

No saved plan means “Missing”. A changed item or quantity means “Not comparable”. Neither is filled with an estimate.

Private and deletable

A random household key stays in this browser. No name or email is required. Delete removes all matching server snapshots immediately.

Actual tracker screen — empty private history before a household saves its first basket

MealPantry Personal Grocery Inflation Index showing the basket form and an empty private household trend before the first basket is saved

What this measures—and what it does not

This is a personal planned-basket tracker, not an official inflation statistic and not a record of register receipts. It measures the percentage change in the total you enter for an unchanged basket. Promotions, substitutions, location, pack size and retailer availability can affect totals.

For a public market comparison, use the Australian Weekly Grocery Index. For MealPantry’s wider data practices, read the privacy policy.

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