The price of fresh vegetables has skyrocketed, causing housewives to hesitate to cut even a small bunch of vegetables, even tomatoes.

On the morning of November 17, to make it in time for work, Ms. Kiều Thị Hạnh from Hai Bà Trưng Ward (Hanoi) bought 15,000 VND of tofu to make a dish. However, when she arrived at the vegetable stall, hearing the vendor announce that the price of tomatoes had risen to 70,000 VND/kg, she reluctantly switched to fried tofu. Her family's favorite stir-fried water spinach with garlic dish was also flexibly changed to soup. The price of water spinach was 20,000 VND/bunch, and making the stir-fried dish with 3 bunches would cost around 60,000 VND in vegetables alone. She had to buy one bunch to make soup. Previously, the cost of buying vegetables was not significant, and one trip to the market would usually provide vegetables for two days. But for the past half a month, every day she had to calculate what vegetables to buy so that the market expenses would not be negative. "Now even with green vegetables, I have to be careful," she sighed. Meanwhile, to keep the price of stuffed tofu ...