Price indexes for coffee, milk and white bread have all advanced 6% year-over-year since 2004.

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After our breakfast the next morning (strong coffee, bread, butter, meats and preserves) we fed the dogs theirs.

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They'd have some bread, milk with a little coffee, walk out the door and turn down the sidewalk toward Galileo High...then they'd wander off to the park.

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Panera Bread ( PNRA - news - people ) and Green Mountain Coffee, were growing impressively.

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It was always the same: a great wedge of papaya with limes, a crisp thin omelette with green chilis mixed in, two slices of inch-thick white-bread toast, a dollop of red jelly and of margarine, and a pot of coffee with milk.

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