FOOD Comment by grocery store cashier

Vulture45-70

Vulture45-70

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Next time before going to the grocery store, take a look at your can goods, cereal and other items noting weight of package and content from your older prepper stock then compare with like items presently on the shelf. You will notice a decrease in content weight and package size but more in price. Oh how the gov't and manufacturing are duping the consumer.

Vienna Sausage was 20-25 cents a can, now it is 60 cents or 2 for a dollar.

Yep gonna get interesting this fall.
 
mrrk1562

mrrk1562

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here where i live in ohio our crops were not hurt all that much ...but some people are already doing field corn ...they just are putting in dryers ...to make feed for their own live stock..one good thing is we get the dairy cows that break a leg for meat ...it aint the best steak but its free ...
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

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I'm paying between $3.50-$4 a pound for HAMBURGER! Almost $4 for a gallon of milk! Perhaps the cashier's comment about "gone" was relating to being able to afford decent food. And on that I would certainly agree with her. Fortunately for me, I rarely eat meat these days. Occasionally I'll buy a steak (I get ribeye, T-bone or tenderloin exclusively.) And I notice that the price of the first two is now in excess of $10/lb and for the last, about $14/lb!!!

Yee gawds.....
 
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dogmanan

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Heres one for you, i've always baught peanut butter in this twin pack jiff in big jars when I started stocking up on it many years ago it was four dollars and some change for that twin pack, couple years ago it was seven somithing, and last year in the begging it was eight yesterday it was 12.78 for those same jars, sucks, i'm glad I have a few jars put away.

It lasts long ways past sell date, I just opend a jar that was four years past out date,and it was as if it was just baught, very good.

Over all went to three different stores yesterday I checked all prices of stuff I usualy buy and over last year evry thing was at least 25% increase, and to think it is just starting, i'm glad I have a couple weeks of food put away like homeland security says we should.:groucho:
 
skwentnaflyer

skwentnaflyer

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Milk has been 3.59-3.69 here for months, I'll have to look today when I go out.

Meat: this weeks sale @ Safeway 93% burger 3.99, ribeye 6.99, NY and boneless ribeye, 8.99, top sirloin 4.99
 
TerriHaute

TerriHaute

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mrrk1562 said:
here where i live in ohio our crops were not hurt all that much ...but some people are already doing field corn ...they just are putting in dryers ...to make feed for their own live stock..one good thing is we get the dairy cows that break a leg for meat ...it aint the best steak but its free ...
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Where I live in Indiana, there is no corn. The drought severely affected it to the point where the plants are very stunted and produced NO ears. We finally got some rain, too late for the corn, but it helped the beans. The beans are now producing a little but the yield is way down. In my immediate area, we had a severe hailstorm, and the beans in this half of the county were ruined. I talked to a near neighbor that owns the bean field across the road. He said there was nothing left. So the earless corn plants near me looks like rows of ragged scarecrows and the beans are flattened with a few green leaves sticking up here and there. Very depressing.
 
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dogmanan

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I live just north of the In. border and get the locat news and kirt said on the news couple weeks ago that in In. grain is about eighty percent loss across the state and here in Mi. its not much better, are corn for the most part is thee feet tall in the good fields beans look good now[plants that is ] but almost no pods on them.
 
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Tennessee gal

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Dinghy said:
I passed by a truck selling corn on Main Street on my way out of town yesterday. It's a good thing nobody was in front of me or I probably would have run into them. The man's sign said "sweet corn $5 a dozen"!
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Dinghy, your post reminded me of my childhood when my parents would buy sweet corn from a farm family for 50 cents a dozen.
 
CGTech

CGTech

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Heh, Superstore up here has extra lean ground beef on at 1/2 price... which is still $3/lb..
 
Marthanoir

Marthanoir

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sssarawolf said:
The wheat and etc are being harvested here now.
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The grain should be harvested here by now but a unfortunately with the weather they've only managed to bring in 20% , and the weather isn't getting any better, i drove up a couple of counties a few weeks ago and a lot of the wheat was stunted.
Bad harvest here in Ireland, bad harvest in Eastern Europe, bad harvest in the UK , bad harvest in Russia and China, bad harvest in the US, you better get your buckets of wheat now, might be and idea to stock up on meat cheaply if farmers are slaughtering due to lack of animal feed,
Our animals are grass fed here, luckily there's plenty of silage in for the winter too
 
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Tennessee gal

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Dennis Olson said:
I'm paying between $3.50-$4 a pound for HAMBURGER! Almost $4 for a gallon of milk! Perhaps the cashier's comment about "gone" was relating to being able to afford decent food. And on that I would certainly agree with her. Fortunately for me, I rarely eat meat these days. Occasionally I'll buy a steak (I get ribeye, T-bone or tenderloin exclusively.) And I notice that the price of the first two is now in excess of $10/lb and for the last, about $14/lb!!!

Dennis, I'm like you I don't eat much steak, but about twice a year I like to enjoy prime rib or ribeye. I was at kroger yesterday and I looked at the manager's specials ( mark downs) and a package of two small pieces of steak was almost $11.00. I refused to pay that much.
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cvk

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(Osceola, AR) The Mississippi River is expected to continue to drop, breaking the record low set more than 20-years ago.

The shallow river is leaving more than sandbars in its wake.

Businesses that rely on the waterway to transport goods are also being left “high and dry.”

Thursday, the Port of Osceola, Arkansas announced it’s closing down.

Grain trailers unloaded at Consolidated Grain and Barge Company.

But low water in the Osceola Harbor is forcing the business to shut down,

“We’ve got approximately thirty barges in the port. They’re loaded.”

But Port Manager Jeff Worsham said the barges are too heavy to get into the Mississippi River and they’re stuck in the Osceola Channel.

Nearby in the shallow Mississippi River, a barge loaded with 1500 tons of corn is trapped by a sandbar.

Jeff Worsham says he’s never seen anything like it, “We’ve had a 56 foot fluctuation since last May when we had the flooding. And it’s gotten so low that we can’t get barges in and out of the harbor due to…the tugboat hits bottom.”

The company is filling its last barge with less than fifty percent of what it would normally hold.

It can’t get anymore empty barges into the channel so it may end up piling grain on the ground.

Last May’s record floods left more sand and silt than normal in the channel here and it’s going to take a dredge to clear it out.

No one knows when that will happen.

That means drivers like Tommy Brishears, who usually makes his grain deliveries in Osceola, will be forced farther down the road, “It’s gonna slow us down, having to go over the West Memphis, cause it’s farther over there. and it’s going to cut down on the loads that we can haul a day.”

Driver Jasper Jackson says that will have a big impact on his take home pay,

“Well, we’re going to burn a whole lot more diesel. We’re going to lose money.”

There are two grain companies in the Osceola Port that normally fill 500 barges a year.

Jeff Worsham says he’s hoping a dredge will get to Osceola within a week.

In the meantime he’s crossing his fingers for a heavy rainfall up north.
Loaded Corn Barges Grounded In Osceola, Arkansas Harbor | WREG.com — Memphis News & Weather from WREG Television, News Channel 3
 
skwentnaflyer

skwentnaflyer

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Dinghy said:
I passed by a truck selling corn on Main Street on my way out of town yesterday. It's a good thing nobody was in front of me or I probably would have run into them. The man's sign said "sweet corn $5 a dozen"!
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I've seen it that high this year, though it's mostly $4 doz.
Was able to get it for $3 for canning, and there's a pick-your-own with corn coming on for $2 doz.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Dennis Olson said:
I'm paying between $3.50-$4 a pound for HAMBURGER! Almost $4 for a gallon of milk! Perhaps the cashier's comment about "gone" was relating to being able to afford decent food. And on that I would certainly agree with her. Fortunately for me, I rarely eat meat these days. Occasionally I'll buy a steak (I get ribeye, T-bone or tenderloin exclusively.) And I notice that the price of the first two is now in excess of $10/lb and for the last, about $14/lb!!!

Yee gawds.....
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Remember my meat price thread from a week or so ago, it's NOT going to get any better!

K-
 
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cvk

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They aren't harvesting shell corn here yet as far as I know--they are cutting silage like crazy.
 
Fred's Horseradish

Fred's Horseradish

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Today, I was going up the Central Valley 100 miles north of Sacramento. As I passed the huge ADM silos, they had trucks with 20' ocean containers. They were loading them with pallets of rice, I assume bound for Asia.
 
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OKC08GT500

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packyderms_wife said:
AGAIN but just a little bit slower... this is not breaking news... this news about the grain shortages has been on the nightly news for the past six weeks or more and every night for the past two weeks.

Got preps??? Cause if you don't your screwed. Iowa State, NOAA, and the USDA are saying that this drought is going to continue through the winter into next year, it's going to be a warm dry winter and an even hotter, drier summer next year.
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The latest climatologist report agrees with the Farmers Almanac that for Oklahoma which is in the center of the drought, this winter will be wetter and colder than normal.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
OKC08GT500 said:
The latest climatologist report agrees with the Farmers Almanac that for Oklahoma which is in the center of the drought, this winter will be wetter and colder than normal.
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That's what not what they are saying for Iowa here locally. I hope your right though cause I'd really like to see the bug population reduced.

K-
 
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cvk

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We don't hear anything on the news around here. Drives me nuts. Occassionally they might say a couple sentences but that is all. If I want to know anything I have to comb the internet.
 
Marthanoir

Marthanoir

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cvk said:
We don't hear anything on the news around here. Drives me nuts. Occassionally they might say a couple sentences but that is all. If I want to know anything I have to comb the internet.
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Totally the opposite here, our nation revolves around agriculture, the state TV channel features many farming programs and even has the weather forecast on a sunday dedicatd to farming, soil temperatures, rain levels, ground saturation levels etc,
We even have a national ploughing championship and sheep shearing championship that gets more TV time than the Olympic s did :lol:
 
psychgirl

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We've been having some good meat sales here (Indy/north of Indy area), and I know they won't last for long. One major grocery store here (Marsh) even put special meat coupons in the paper last week for a 4 day only sale. It ends tomorrow, I think. They have three coupons; each for $3 dollars off of a ten dollar purchase of beef, ground beef, or chicken. I used the beef yesterday but don't have any more freezer space or I would use the other two :mad:.......so what I normally do with the extra coupons like these is to go into the store and give them to someone, a "mom" type, who looks like they're loading up their cart for kids or a family. Usually I get a "thank you" and only once did I get a wierd look and was turned down. It was from a dad, with two boys in tow, who said, "no thanks, we don't need coupons"! He just walked away! The special coupon was for a FREE carton of eggs, too!

But the point is that there are some sales right now and I'm afraid its because right around the corner there won't be any sales.......or any good ones, that is. :shk:
 
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FREEBIRD

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"one way or another, the Lesser Classes will eat less meat" may well become, "one way or another, the Lesser Classes will eat less".
 
rafter

rafter

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Most of what comes out of the drought areas are field corn ( used for animal feeds and tons of other stuff), soy beans and wheat. Most of your table veggies comes from California, Texas, Florida or out of the country...I don't know of any table veggies grown in this country that are grown without irrigation, so non should be affected. Also a lot of the big row crop farms in the mid west are also irrigated. Hay is through the roof for the cows because of the drought unless it is irrigated.

Thankfully most everything grown in Colorado is irrigated because the farmers aren't going to depend on rain. We have enjoyed the sweetest of sweet, sweet corn ( no one can compete with our sweet corn and if you have never tried it you are really missing out). Great Rocky Ford cantaloupe, and Palisade peaches plus other goodies grown in state.... We aren't just mountains! :)
 
LightEcho

LightEcho

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Recipe for Obama's Pride bread.

Write an Executive Order that requires farmers to give you wheat, eggs and milk. Sell those items to China on a special trade package through companies contributing to the Obama re-election campaign. Buy powedered eggs, powdered milk, and artificial baking flour in Walmart (from China). Mix up a small batch working alongside your neighbors who are using local farm ingredients. Take their dough when they aren't looking, leaving your pile in its place and hope that they did not see the change. While it is baking tell everyone that the secret of your quality bread is hope and change. When the breads come out of the oven, grab yours and quickly move forward before they get the taste of change.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
rafter said:
Most of what comes out of the drought areas are field corn ( used for animal feeds and tons of other stuff), soy beans and wheat. Most of your table veggies comes from California, Texas, Florida or out of the country...I don't know of any table veggies grown in this country that are grown without irrigation, so non should be affected. Also a lot of the big row crop farms in the mid west are also irrigated. Hay is through the roof for the cows because of the drought unless it is irrigated.

Thankfully most everything grown in Colorado is irrigated because the farmers aren't going to depend on rain. We have enjoyed the sweetest of sweet, sweet corn ( no one can compete with our sweet corn and if you have never tried it you are really missing out). Great Rocky Ford cantaloupe, and Palisade peaches plus other goodies grown in state.... We aren't just mountains! :)
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Iowa grows a LOT of sweet corn and corn for canned corn, and to my knowledge none of it is irrigated because rain is, or at least used to be, a common occurance here. We also grow a lot of sugar beets here, in addition to a lot of seed corn.

Apparently you haven't heard about the millions of acres of cropland in Cali that have been decommissioned, there's a thread on that topic somewhere here at TB. And soon you won't be enjoying those crops in Colorado, the greenies are putting a stop to irrigation and everywhere. If they can do it in Cali they can do it in Colorado.

K-
 
skwentnaflyer

skwentnaflyer

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rafter said:
Most of what comes out of the drought areas are field corn ( used for animal feeds and tons of other stuff), soy beans and wheat. Most of your table veggies comes from California, Texas, Florida or out of the country...I don't know of any table veggies grown in this country that are grown without irrigation, so non should be affected. Also a lot of the big row crop farms in the mid west are also irrigated. Hay is through the roof for the cows because of the drought unless it is irrigated.

Thankfully most everything grown in Colorado is irrigated because the farmers aren't going to depend on rain. We have enjoyed the sweetest of sweet, sweet corn ( no one can compete with our sweet corn and if you have never tried it you are really missing out). Great Rocky Ford cantaloupe, and Palisade peaches plus other goodies grown in state.... We aren't just mountains! :)
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I have a box of Palisade peaches on the counter that are headed for ginger peach jam----Christmas presents this year!
 
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