It’s partly due to avian flu, which has reduced the egg supply. 2 / 7 Chocolate Earlier this year, CNN reported that chocolate prices are up 20%. 3 / 7 Coffee Pods Recently, a colleague at Taste of Home noticed that her go-to coffee pods cost $15. On average, coffee pods have increased in price across the board, running 5 to 10 extra cents per pod. Bags of ground or whole bean coffee are much cheaper than coffee pods, mostly because they use less packaging.