Honolulu (CNN) — Imagine going to your local grocery store and paying over $8 for a jar of Jif peanut butter. How about $5.50 for a loaf of white bread, $6.50 for a gallon of milk or $7.19 for a half-gallon of orange juice?

These are just some of the prices we found in a recent survey of Hawaii’s supermarkets. Families there are certainly paying the price for living in paradise.

Last year overall inflation was up 4.8% in the Honolulu metro area, while food prices were up 5.5%. That compares to a 2.8% national inflation rate, and a 3.9% rise in national food prices.

Recently however, prices have started shooting up even higher. With the explosion in fuel prices, shipping companies have been tacking on fuel surcharges, and they’re going up almost every week.