ECON Report food and grocery price increases/shortages here - UPDATE, new runs on the stores

Status
Not open for further replies.
TxGal

TxGal

Day by day
John Deere Girl said:
Rural King and the local Amish stores carry peaches and pears in the glass jars.
Click to expand...

Thanks, unfortunately we don't have either of those around us....not sure if they're even in the state! I did go to Rural King to see if they have them for mail orders placed on line, but they're out of stock.

Since canned peaches are also in very short supply in all local stores, if they even have any, I'm guessing this was a bad year for peaches.
 
H

hummer

Veteran Member
TxGal said:
I did find one brand in glass jars at WalMart, and bought one. I haven't even tried it since I looked at the fine print. Brand is Polar, product of China...ugh. Thanks, though!
Click to expand...
At the time the jars I bought were not from China, but again, that was a year or so ago. I'm pretty fussy about country of origin myself....so I understand your hesitancy in opening them.
 
annieosage

annieosage

Inactive
Las Vegas, NV

I had to get a prescription pickup at Smith's. It's just for Vitamin D and the doctor wrote a prescription so I can get it filled in person for 3 months. The home delivery through my insurance won't fill it because it's considered OTC.

Anyway I decided since I had to go in I may as well check things out. It was a little crowded but not bad. Full shelves of canned goods, paper goods, toiletries, etc. Wouldn't you know the one aisle I forgot to check was the cleaning aisle. Oh well. No one had any overflowing baskets and every one had masks. Everyone seemed in good moods.
 
C

coloradohermit

Veteran Member
"Since canned peaches are also in very short supply in all local stores, if they even have any, I'm guessing this was a bad year for peaches. "

Our local peaches were done in this year and the ones in the stores now are hard as rocks and I won't buy them.

Massive Palisade Peach Loss Causing Ripple Effect Across Colorado
CBS4) – A Colorado favorite will be much tougher to find this year after the Colorado Department of Agriculture said a deep freeze earlier this month may have decimated up to 95% of Palisade’s peaches. That loss will affect people from Colorado’s Western Slope to the Front Range. While the biggest losses will be with the growers, farmers markets and grocery stores will also miss out on selling the seasonal delicacy.
 
W

WalknTrot

Veteran Member
I noticed that Fleet Farm has a big promotion on canning stuff coming up. I really don't need to go there until I have to make a feed run.

Did the "store" thing today....the curtain is falling on mask-hassle-free shopping excursions in Minnesota as of this coming Saturday.

Aldi looked great...their produce is awesome. Lots of paper goods, canned goods - I didn't see any limit signs on anything. The local grocery chain was fine. The soup aisle looked a bit thin. (For gawd's sake people need to learn to cook. Soup is the stupid-easiest thing humans ever made over a cave-fire 100,000 years ago). Canned veg - fine and many brands of everything. Paper goods fine. There was a little sign up in the soft drink display about a lack of variety...the bottlers are concentrating on their most popular brands. Plenty of it in stock...Coke products - 16oz. 6-packs of bottles were on special 4/$11.00.

The meat store was a nostalgic oasis of common sense, (no masks on employees or customers), fragrant delights and good prices. T-bones - $7.99/lb. Montreal chops - $2.49/lb., 10# lean burger bags - $3.49/lb., their custom site-smoked bacon - $4.99/lb., seasoned chicken quarters - $ .89/lb.
 
P

Profit of Doom

Dismember
hd5574 said:
Canning jars life.

Several years ago I was in Lancaster PA at the home of an Amish friend of ours, I was in the kitchen with his Mom and she was canning....... water bath..she was using all kinds of jars....any kind of the grocery store.ones ....little ones that would olives ie......etc. they were not jars that would accept reg or wide mouth lids. She was using the original lids that they came with....I was blown away...they were sealing. She said she had done it that way for years. At that time she did not have a pressure canned and she used the old boiling times for low acid.... Hard to find a chart for that these days.

I had 2 American canners......at that time and an old man had given me a ton of canning jars....so gave her jars and a canner. But she had done that way for years and had many heathy children.
Not making any recommendations..but just reporting what I saw.
If all else failed I guess I would try it her way.
Click to expand...
Sealed is sealed.
 
P

Profit of Doom

Dismember
school marm said:
No. Low acid foods need to reach an internal temperature of 250 degrees (IIRC) to kill the spores that cause botulism. If low acid foods like beans and meats are canned in a boiling water bath, the jars will seal. But the contents might be deadly.
Click to expand...
Well aware. Just referring to the properly processed jar being properly sealed or not.
 
TxGal

TxGal

Day by day
coloradohermit said:
"Since canned peaches are also in very short supply in all local stores, if they even have any, I'm guessing this was a bad year for peaches. "

Our local peaches were done in this year and the ones in the stores now are hard as rocks and I won't buy them.

Massive Palisade Peach Loss Causing Ripple Effect Across Colorado
CBS4) – A Colorado favorite will be much tougher to find this year after the Colorado Department of Agriculture said a deep freeze earlier this month may have decimated up to 95% of Palisade’s peaches. That loss will affect people from Colorado’s Western Slope to the Front Range. While the biggest losses will be with the growers, farmers markets and grocery stores will also miss out on selling the seasonal delicacy.
Click to expand...

Thanks for posting that, I was pretty sure reports of peach crop losses (and other crops) had been posted on the Grand Solar Minimum Part Deux thread.
 
D

Digger

Veteran Member
We went to a friends house to get tomatoes. On the way home we stopped at our local Harps. We are in Arkansas. Almost nothing for canning. The cashier said she had not seen lids or mixes come through her line in about a month. Dollar General and the hardware store both told me that they were out of canning supplies and could not get any more.

Harps was almost out of paper towels. I did not look at toilet paper. But Dollar General had adequate stock of both.
 
M

Martinhouse

Deceased
Digger, thanks for this post about all three of our little stores being out of canning supplies. I shop there, too and haven't been to WM or any other place down in town since early March.

I've been wracking my brain trying to think of anything I might need so I can hurry and buy it while it's still available and my money is worth anything to buy it with. Seems like there are already plenty of items no longer available.

I have enough jars and lids for this year's canning, but I suspect there are a lot of people who are going to be looking for dehydrators about now. I wonder if those are in short supply now, too?
 
Grouchy Granny

Grouchy Granny

Deceased
Brother and I made a Costco run yesterday (we went to the smaller one which is further away, but not as busy and better stocked) - plenty of TP, PT. He was happy to find the Kleenex brand Anti-viral Kleenex which the big Costco did not have.

Pork was plentiful and reasonable, so I got 2 more packages of their boneless pork chops (we like to brine them then hickory smoke). Some of the chops in the one package were 3-4 inches thick! That particular package was $15 for 3 lbs of chops. Beef was low and pricey, they didn't have any sirloin at all.

Still no dehydrated hash browns, but they had 25 and 50 lb bags of flour, rice and beans. I was totally overjoyed to find Huckleberry jam! That is unheard of in Colorado and I used to have to get it in Montana.

Went to Kroger this morning in Arvada CO, finally found one package of Krusteaz blueberry pancake mix. Blueberry waffles with Huckleberry jam - yum! Also got a package of the sweet cream pancake mix which I had never seen before. Flour is still limited but I am starting to see yeast again.

They had wide mouth quart jars on for $11.50 a dozen so I bought another one. It's not like I don't have tons in the basement, but you can never have too many. No lids or rims at all, but I had stocked up on those my last trip there when they were on sale.
 
C

coloradohermit

Veteran Member
I went to our local Kroger this morning for a few things that are back in stock after being out for a month or more. Nothing I actually needed, just adding to the pantry. Everything seemed well or adequately stocked. They had a fair stock of canning jars, but no lids.

Then I went to Safeway, mainly because they have a Starbucks kiosk for my white mocha fix. While I was there I got a few meat and fish items that were low or out at Kroger or Kroger doesn't carry. I'm glad I had canned some freezer items earlier this week because I barely had room in the freezer for today's purchases. I even found Sambucol there,, which I've not seen at Safeway before.

Tomorrow I'll try to get a haircut then gas up the car and fill 2 more gas cans for the generator . I'm not just stocking up for whatever might happen in society, but mainly because next month I should be having cataract surgery in both eyes(one at a time) and probably won't be as footloose for getting out for a couple of weeks. Damn I hope that doesn't get covid delayed!!
 
ginnie6

ginnie6

Veteran Member
Went to scan mart and aldi's today. Aldi was out of a lot of canned goods I normally would buy. On some canned goods (black beans) there is now a limit of two instead of four. They had toilet paper and paper towels. Walmart here still has basically no cleaning supplies. I stocked up on soap, shampoo, and things like that. Aldi had meat and ground beef had come down from $19 to $15 for the pack I used to get. That same pack used to be $12! Overall, I saw more holes on shelves.

A friend's son works at a food lion and he says there are lots of items they just cant get because the warehouse doesnt have it.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
TxGal said:
Since canned peaches are also in very short supply in all local stores, if they even have any, I'm guessing this was a bad year for peaches.
Click to expand...

What's in the stores now is from last year's harvest! Last year sucked balls as far as produce went, actually even for meat due to flooding, drought, late freezes, etc.
 
H

hd5574

Veteran Member
school marm said:
No. Low acid foods need to reach an internal temperature of 250 degrees (IIRC) to kill the spores that cause botulism. If low acid foods like beans and meats are canned in a boiling water bath, the jars will seal. But the contents might be deadly.
Click to expand...

You have use the old water canning charts as I stated.
People canned this way for decades and lived.
 
D

Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
The wholesaler's delivery truck ran today, and I got four out of the five cases I ordered. Still no garden peas again.... the store manager was happy with the percentage of orders he got too. More stuff in pull top cans now though. Don't know if it a different supplier or what.

They had more beef in the meat coolers than I have seen since before covid. Prices almost reasonable, too.
 
mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
coloradohermit said:
Tomorrow I'll try to get a haircut then gas up the car and fill 2 more gas cans for the generator . I'm not just stocking up for whatever might happen in society, but mainly because next month I should be having cataract surgery in both eyes(one at a time) and probably won't be as footloose for getting out for a couple of weeks. Damn I hope that doesn't get covid delayed!!
Click to expand...

I had mine done a couple of years ago now. Two weeks in between eyes. It's annoying more than anything. You can see out of one eye but probably not the other too good. That all goes away the minute both eyes are done. I didn't drive during the two week interval, that kind of goes without saying. Unless you have the really expensive cataract surgery, you're probably going to need reading glasses like immediately. Just go to your drugstore and try on theirs, one of those should do until you can get to the optician and buy real ones, if you go to your eye doc for a prescription after the cataracts are done, that is. Good luck.
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Dozdoats said:
The wholesaler's delivery truck ran today, and I got four out of the five cases I ordered. Still no garden peas again....
Click to expand...

I don't know if this helps you, but I usually plant a fall crop of snow peas in early August for harvesting in the fall. I'm usually able to get a second crop of all of the cool season veggies (lettuce, kale, etc). One year I was still picking kale in late October!

Peas are among the easiest veggies to grow. They will even do well on an apartment patio in a container, as long as there is at least six hours of direct sun and something for them to climb on.

Added: in my area, seeds for fall planting are coming in right now.
 
Last edited:
M

MissionBend

Contributing Member
Hubby went to Aldi's and Wallie World today and had a good run. No shortages (noticeable) he was bale to get flour and they finally got yeast in! There was a limit of one on packs of toilet paper and limit of 4 on canned vegetables. But other than that got everything on the list. Will check thru supplies again this weekend to start next weeks list.
 
D

Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
Thanks, Meemur. Our first crop of snow peas is about done (hot summer), and I am going to put maters in by their trellis. So far not a single pea has made it into the house, the grow box where they are planted is right by the kitchen door and they get snacked away :D. My mom loves to eat them raw too.

This has been a combination of adding some stuff to the pantry in quantity and experimenting with the supply chain. Things look better of late, how long it will last I don't know. We will see.
 
S

SAPPHIRE

Veteran Member
In England during olde times kale kept throughout the winter.........depends on altitude, weather patterns, and frost/snow amts....Kale is an old-timey food which kept some greens on winter tables.......cabbages too harvested with roots and all the leaves wrapped around the head and placed upside down in cool dark and dry attic, store room, etc. We live in suburban duplex with very little storage or flexibility
 
Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
made a run into the local wallywerld and fud lyin earlier . . . LOTS of empty spots on the shelves in wally werld; that would be in most departments. in the grocery isles - soups, canned meats and some canned vegetables were very spotty. went looking for 1/2 gal wide mouth jars - none to be had unless you were willing to pay $10 for a pack of TWO (2) tinted amber (no thanks). a few cases of pints and quarts primarily reg mouth

in the fud lyin - same as regards canned meat and fish; lots of holes in the canned soups. four 5LB bags of bread flour available

ETA:
other than 1 case of reg pints and 3 case of jelly jars the fud lyin had ZERO canning jars . . . I asked one of the ladies in wallywerld why there were so many "holes in their shelves" her reply? well we get most of our stuff from China . . .
 
Last edited:
rafter

rafter

Since 1999
Went to Walmart and Aldi's early this morning (9am). Walmart stocked pretty decent. Canned and soup still on the light side.

Aldi's fully stocked everywhere. No signs at either with limits.

Both stores everyone was masked, and not a lot of people.
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Dozdoats said:
So far not a single pea has made it into the house, the grow box where they are planted is right by the kitchen door and they get snacked away :D. My mom loves to eat them raw too.
Click to expand...

I can relate! I've been know to squirt a little Ranch dressing in a bowl and wander among the salad garden containers along my driveway and graze. I LOVE fresh produce!
 
mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
Meemur said:
I can relate! I've been know to squirt a little Ranch dressing in a bowl and wander among the salad garden containers along my driveway and graze. I LOVE fresh produce!
Click to expand...

I'm jealous you guys get to plant peas. I only ever did once, when I lived at my parents' house many years ago. They are so pretty. I loved watching them grow.
 
vessie

vessie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Meemur said:
I don't know if this helps you, but I usually plant a fall crop of snow peas in early August for harvesting in the fall. I'm usually able to get a second crop of all of the cool season veggies (lettuce, kale, etc). One year I was still picking kale in late October!

Peas are among the easiest veggies to grow. They will even do well on an apartment patio in a container, as long as there is at least six hours of direct sun and something for them to climb on.

Added: in my area, seeds for fall planting are coming in right now.
Click to expand...

Thank you for posting this!

For the past couple of days, I've had the very strong urge to plant some Yardlong beans so they'll be ready to harvest before the Fall here in western Wa.

www.burpee.com

Bean, Asparagus Yardlong

HEIRLOOM. Very vigorous, climbing vines that are easy to grow.
www.burpee.com www.burpee.com

They like to germinate in really warm weather, so I'm going to 'force germinate' them (I hold them in my fist for a couple of minutes, Ala Ure Geller) and they will be ready to plant within three days.

Once they're ready to pick, I'll parboil them and vac pack them for freezing. V
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
mzkitty said:
I'm jealous you guys get to plant peas. I only ever did once, when I lived at my parents' house many years ago. They are so pretty. I loved watching them grow.
Click to expand...

I don't know what your situation is like, but can you put several containers on your porch or patio? If not, is there a community garden nearby? Or can you start one? Some churches will let members install several grow boxes.

balconygardenweb.com

How to Grow Peas in Pots in Balcony, Patio & Even Indoors Easily

Learn Growing Peas in Containers & Pots to plant them in your apartment balcony or patio and enjoy a fresh harvest!
balconygardenweb.com balconygardenweb.com
 
energy_wave

energy_wave

Has No Life - Lives on TB
My local Shurfine had boneless skinless chicken breast on sale for $1.59 a lb ($7.95) per 5 lb bag. New supplier I've never seen before. Very clean meat. Had some last night. Pork is a bit higher but hamburg is lower now than before the pandemic started. Corn (local) is the best of the year so far at .50 cents an ear. No other shortages I could see.

My garden... Beets are growing nicely. Peas are flowering. I think by next week I can pick a few leaves for dinner. Broccoli all bolted due to a week of high heat, so I lost every plant when it went to seed. Everything else is doing fine except the dam squirrels are chewing my brussel sprouts into stumps. Looks like late summer into fall I'll finally get something to eat.

Might be a good time to buy meat and start canning it. I'll have to dust off my American Pressure Canner.
 
Last edited:
bev

bev

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Meemur said:
I don't know if this helps you, but I usually plant a fall crop of snow peas in early August for harvesting in the fall. I'm usually able to get a second crop of all of the cool season veggies (lettuce, kale, etc). One year I was still picking kale in late October!

Peas are among the easiest veggies to grow. They will even do well on an apartment patio in a container, as long as there is at least six hours of direct sun and something for them to climb on.

Added: in my area, seeds for fall planting are coming in right now.
Click to expand...

DH was looking for some seeds to plant now - nothing available locally, and he said Burpee-type sites were out as well. I’m not sure what other websites he checked.

Do you have an online source for late summer seeds?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top