As you prepare for an Easter dinner this weekend, food prices might increase, but the traditional hams remain well in stock locally. Reportedly, several supermarkets throughout the country were sold out of hams earlier this week, according to KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 
Stodola’s IGA meat manager Mike Mauer says that preordering last June for Easter hams has kept his inventory strong this week.

Mauer adds that prices have increased slightly but not to the extent he expected.

 
According to the Consumer Price Index for Food, all food prices are projected to increase between 4.5 and 5.5 percent this year. 

Manager Jon Calhoun of Tadych’s Marketplace Foods in Sturgeon Bay also notes that his store is sitting with an ample supply of hams for the Easter weekend.