In today’s Journal, a Wisconsin woman explains her first-hand experience of the rising costs of food. A Labor Department report out Tuesday shows she is on to something.

What Americans paid for everything from haircuts to new cars barely rose, but the price of food alone was 0.4% higher in February from the prior month. Costs for meats, poultry, fish, dairy and eggs drove the gains. Most notably, beef and veal prices surged — just as Terri Weninger, a married mother of three in Waukesha, Wis., has learned.