A basket of healthy food cost a family of four eight per cent more in 2026.
The Windsor Essex County Health Unit's Ontario Nutritious Food Basket report discovered a family of four in Windsor-Essex will spend $293.98 a week on healthy food.
The same basket of food cost $271.83 in 2025.
The report also found that 1 in 4 families in the region experienced food insecurity at some time in the last year.
Research shows people experiencing food insecurity are more likely to have poorer physical health, feel stressed, anxious or depressed, and develop chronic health conditions later in life.
