Families across America are cutting back on everything from summer holidays to restaurant treats and trips to the hair salon as they battle the highest rates seen in 40 years and punishing prices at gas pumps and grocery store checkouts.DailyMail.com spoke with householders across the country to find out how they were managing with inflation at 9.1 percent — and the rising cost of cereals, meat, transport and gasoline prices even higher still.A family-of-five in Maryland has canceled pizza parlor outings, a New Jersey couple miss their monthly filet mignon treat and an Idaho family-of-four are planning to rear chickens and are leaving their SUV idling in the driveway. Meanwhile, a California couple vacationed with relatives on the East Coast this year rather than splash out on another trip to Spain.
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