Egyptians in some working-class areas are adjusting their household budgets as bread prices rise after food aid and subsidy support is reduced. In Cairo’s El-Marg district, residents describe long queues at bakeries and calculations of how much bread they can buy with limited cash after subsidy cards are suspended.
Reporting across outlets links the change to the loss of subsidized support that families had relied on for staple food. One account says flatbread is a key part of nearly every meal and that its cost increases sharply once subsidies end. Another focuses on households that no longer prioritize other foods and instead concentrate on securing bread as the one essential item they cannot go without. The figures cited in coverage describe very large price changes—up to about ten times the previous level—though specific price measures are not independently detailed across the reports.
