Yes. I "oven can" oyster crackers and they stay fresh for years.Anyone know definitively if vacuum sealing saltine crackers would extend the shelf life?
Summerthyme
Yes. I "oven can" oyster crackers and they stay fresh for years.Anyone know definitively if vacuum sealing saltine crackers would extend the shelf life?
Your chicken feed prices are what ours were, gosh, sometime last year, I think. Our local feed store sells a crumbles brand that I can't recall right now, our chickens love it, they're doing great, and it's about $14.75.I have no shortage of chickens in my back yard: the kind that squawk, scratch, sometimes fly a bit, and lay eggs.
I keep them well fed. In return, they serve us breakfast every morning, and fertilizer for the garden in the spring and fall.
But keeping those cantankerous bags of feathers fed is getting more and more expensive.
I go about an hour out of town, into farm country, to buy large quantities of feed twice a year. I have a trailer - which hauls about 1 and 1/2 times what my pickup truck hauls, and I fill it with 50 pound sacks, which I store in a shed until needed.
So the last time I bought feed was late summer.
I paid $9.99 per sack for Purina Nutrina 16% protein layer feed back then.
I went back to the same rural feed store this afternoon.
That same sack of feed is now $13.99 each, for 50 pound sacks.
And that is the CHEAPEST place I can find good quality feed.
Tractor Supply’s cheaper brands are a bit cheaper than what I buy my girls, but that stuff is awful! My girls won’t eat the stuff. Personally, I think Dumor brand stinks. I don’t blame my girls for turning their beeks up at Dumor feed.
The rural West Tennessee feed store manager where I bought my girls feed this afternoon told me that, back about a month or so ago, they had some trouble getting chicken feed, but not right now. She has plenty on hand, as does the local Farmer’s Co-op.
Right now, all she is having trouble getting is some varieties of horse feed.
Interesting! Can you explain how to do this? Newbie here...Yes. I "oven can" oyster crackers and they stay fresh for years.
Summerthyme
Dont buy more than you will eat in 6 wk -2 months! They are going rancid quickly after purchase. ALL BRANDS. RITZ CRACKERS AND GENERIC RITZ dont seem to have that problem but SALTINES all kinds generic and name brand are turning up rancid within a couple of months.
I can't speculate why the closure; whether it's due to solely local issues or a corporate decision.
As a very broad thought, grocery stores operate on very thin margins. So a low cost player like Aldi might be affected first by rising costs and supply bosses.
Canary in the coal mine?
Any chance a lidi is opening? They seem to be in a war with each other.
I used to buy several when they had that deal... I'd get most of them cut into 1" chops, and a couple into 2# roasts. Vacuum pack them and they'd be good for years in the freezer. The chops made the best fast dinners..Our real grocery store has Pork loin on sale for $1.69 a pound with free slicing. I got one that was over 8 pounds for $14 something. Ate some of it yesterday and it was awesome. Going back tomorrow for another one. $1.69 meat is cheap eats these days.
I use Mason jars and I vacuum seal crackers, cookies, and chips all the time and they last a long time. I usually eat them in a year's time without a problem, but they probably could last longer. I take them out of the package or bags and seal them up.Anyone know definitively if vacuum sealing saltine crackers would extend the shelf life? When I searched online, I found articles that said it did not help at all and also that it make them last forever.
I haven't seen any chicken poppers (in the cup) in the deli since we had covid. DH bought 5 cups of them when we were sick for me to eat. We put them in zip loc bags and froze them nd I'd take a few out and and warm them in a skillet, pretty tasty when I really wasn't very hungry. Since then I've not seen any.Talked to my sons who work at Walmart.
son in automotive department says motor oil and batteries are either complete gone or very limited. Been that way for awhile
son in the deli said today they were completely out of rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, Mac & cheese and cheese sticks. He says the shipments have been getting smaller and smaller to restock and today they got nothing. He’s not told if/when more is coming. Yesterday they had him stocking potatoes and bananas in produce since there wasn’t much to do in deli
Our Kroger has had great sales on pork loin for a long time, on and off.Our real grocery store has Pork loin on sale for $1.69 a pound with free slicing. I got one that was over 8 pounds for $14 something. Ate some of it yesterday and it was awesome. Going back tomorrow for another one. $1.69 meat is cheap eats these days.
Placed a delivery order at Popeye's chicken for a family size chicken tenders dinner.
Got a call from the driver a half hour later saying they were out of tenders. Meanwhile, online, my order is shown as delivered. Called the store to see if they had regular chicken and nobody answers the phone. Have to leave a message that I'm sure will never be returned. Found a corporate number and got a refund.
Placed another order for regular chicken. Let's see how that goes.
How does a national fast food chicken joint run out of chicken?
Everything is so dumbed down now.
I think it is as much an issue of incompetence as it is a shortage of actual product.
I have a very picky eater who only likes Kraft shaky shaky or the real blocks of Parmesan ground fine. We mostly eat the real stuff ourselves but it gets expensive. He is a teenage boy, 6’4”…so you get the idea of his appetite.
Same here, Indiana. All varieties too.Potato shortages probably are regional. We have plenty of fresh potatoes in suburban Memphis.
It looked totally normal with holes in “select pockets” of items like raisins, for example.
Not a box to be found, which I think I posted already.
I made a quick run to our local City Market(Kroger) and, for the first time noticed empty spots on various shelves. It's non-union so no strike but there were only 4 employees that I saw. Maybe just because it was fairly early on Sunday.
I got everything on my list with no major noticeable price increases, including a couple things in the meat dept that were reduce for quick clearance. I did notice that Folgers coffee has gone from $5.99 up to $8.99, but I'm very well stocked so will wait for a sale before getting any more.
I also stopped at the Starbucks kiosk in Safeway for my treat. Over the last few months the drink has gone from $6.03 to $6.35 and is now $6.57. That's not huge, but if it keeps creeping it could get to be a biggie. Thankfully my kid gave me a Starbucks card for Christmas so it's not coming out of the budget. ;-)
Someone sent me a whole pack of these stickers
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Then, if people could see their way to move in that direction with their cats...That lad needs to COWBOY up and eat what's put in front of him OR go hungry! This picky eater crap is just that......crap! There is no way that a parent should put up with that garbage. Don't mean to ding your donut, but......seriously.....that's B.S.! And yes I've raised teenagers and they ate what was put before them or they went hungry. Didn't take too many times of that before they learned. You eat what is on your plate and be thankful.
...with me being trained so well by 7 cats I cant take a chance on running out.
Boy ain't that right! Human to cat " you are my everything." cat to human " you are my can opener"There. Fixed it for ya.
(Experience speaking here....we've been trained by about that many!)
I hear all these stories and video's of all of the shortages. Virtually none of it is here in the deep blue of Washington. Being a conservative I ask myself if I am seeing things wrong? It's the land of plenty here-no shortages here at all.