FOOD Report food & grocery shortages / price increases here: 2022 Edition

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FollowTruth

Phantom Lurker
I have been to WM three times in the past two weeks tryong to get cream. This last time the dairy guy said they just got the truck and there wasn't any on it.

I happened to look at salt. It was nearly empty. There was no white sugar either.

Earlier this week at Dollar Tree they had two 1# packages of pink Himalayan salt for $1. Salt is something I buy as a barter item and .50/lb for Himalayan salt is a great deal.

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John Deere Girl

Veteran Member
You have to carefully shop!
I got 189 things in a recent Walmart online pick-up.
Two smaller 20 oz. bottles of the same catsup was a dollar cheaper than the one big 32 oz. bottle.

pork loin unsliced, was $2 a pound cheaper than sliced.

I found the 28 oz can of diced tomatoes to be the same price as the 14 oz!

Fresh corn was $.50 cents an ear, unshucked, or $4 for 4 ears shucked ($1 an ear)

After I picked up my order, i noticed the
(CELERY hearts- I have NEVER seen such SMALL "celery hearts" (2) in a bag- so small they almost get lost in the bag!
NORMALLY, YOU have a hard time getting
ONE out of the bag, they are so big!
All the big outer celery stems were removed. I suppose to sell separately.

I ordered the cheap generic ribeye steak (no substitutions) and get "grass fed'" ribeyes for TWICE the price.

The Great Value jars of Pizza Sauce was $1.20 a jar whether you ordered the 14 oz jar or the 23.5 oz jar!

Banner-SHELF STABLE PORK SAUSAGE was $1.80 a 10oz can CHEAPEST CANNED MEAT other than canned tuna.
Like you,, I am very careful when I shop. I do price comparison between Kroger, Walmart, Target, Sam's, Amazon, and Costco. I check ounces, coupons, the works. I have apps on my phone to save money. I really want to learn to do the hard core couponing. I did it somewhat for a while, but life got crazy busy. I may not use some of the food coupons, but I would definitely use the cleaners, soaps, shampoos. We raise a lot of what we eat, but I'm always looking to save money.
 

1954Parker

Contributing Member
i put some frozen peas (2 -12oz pkg) and one peas and carrots 12oz in the dehydrator when i got home to see how they do in a dehydrator. Its been 12hrs I better check them.

They're done and i put two trays of bananas, one of tricolor bell peppers,
and one of sliced mushrooms in to dry.

That little dehydrator has just been sittin for two years since I got it, its about time I put it to work The price of dried vegetables gave me the incentive. OUTRAGEOUS PRICES FOR DRIED VEGETABLES! i like TOP RAMEN OR CUP OF NOODLES, but I like to add dried veggies to my ramen and maybe dried mushrooms.
I have taken HEB’s 5lb bag of mixed veg, and dehydrated it, and stored it in quart jars. Works great!
 

psychgirl

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Earlier this week at Dollar Tree they had two 1# packages of pink Himalayan salt for $1. Salt is something I buy as a barter item and .50/lb for Himalayan salt is a great deal.

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Thats a great price! I’ve been ordering ours from Amazon in 5lb bags because it’s outrageous $$& when IF o can find a decent brand around here.
I think mine was 9$?
 

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
Like you,, I am very careful when I shop. I do price comparison between Kroger, Walmart, Target, Sam's, Amazon, and Costco. I check ounces, coupons, the works. I have apps on my phone to save money. I really want to learn to do the hard core couponing. I did it somewhat for a while, but life got crazy busy. I may not use some of the food coupons, but I would definitely use the cleaners, soaps, shampoos. We raise a lot of what we eat, but I'm always looking to save money.
I have always forget my coupons.
 

Barry Natchitoches

Has No Life - Lives on TB
As many of you already know, I use the local food bank to get alot of my family’s food, and then use the cost savings to help pay for my wife’s very expensive cancer care.

So I hit a mobile pantry this morning. The kind where you wait in your car, in lines that might extend several miles long even before start time, and then your line drives up to the food distribution point and volunteers put your food allotment into the trunk of your car.

The Memphis Food Bank has formulas they use to guide how much food is distributed to each family in line.

They try to be as generous as they can be, because they are very aware that alot of the people in that line are the WORKING poor who have a job that keeps them from qualifying for food stamps,, yet they don’t make enough money to pay bills AND feed their families.

Others are senior citizens, trying to live on meager social security checks amid rapidly rising food prices.

Alot of times at this particular place, I get there in the middle of the night, sleep in the car a few hours, then get out when the food truck arrives and lend the volunteers a helping hand in manhandling the heavy cases of food, and in bagging the groceries into family sized units. Most of the mobile food pantries frown upon that - they want recipients to sit in their cars and wait. But this group welcomes the extra muscle I can provide as they get ready. I am still able to jump in my car and get my food at the appropriate time. So it works out.

By getting out and lending some muscle to the job, I get to talk with the volunteers. I learn things from time to time that I would never know just sitting in that car.

The theory - from the food bank’s perspective - is to offer two weeks of supplemental food supplies for each family - where they define a family as consisting of somewhere between 1 and 4 people who eat their meals as a group. Food recipients must fill out an application each time they go to a mobile pantry. If they have more than four members in a family, they are given a double allotment.

Now, I am finally getting to the information that you folks might be interested in.

I have always told you folks how we here in Memphis are among the best supplied, because we live at the intersection of nation wide interstate I-40 going east-west and nation wide I-55 going north-south.

I have always warned you: if Memphis cannot get supplies, pull out your umbrella, because the sky is about to fall in.

Right?

Well, I cannot speak for the large number of folks in this town who buy all their food at the local grocery stores, but for those who must rely on the food bank for a signifivant part of their family’s food - open up the umbrella, and brace yourself.

The food bank is almost out of protein, at the same times the lines are growing expotentially!

The Memphis Food Bank supplies 38 counties in three different states, and the needs are growing so fast that they just cannot keep up. They have to keep opening new mobile pantries - often in remote rural areas where the poverty is even more severe than in the city.

Because we do live in the midst of rural areas that can grow alot of food, the local food pantry is still meeting their goal of trying to give every family at least five fresh produce offerings. Because food banks have to pay for picking up donations where ever they might be, and then shipping them into their own AO, the Memphis food bank is in great shape right now as far as fresh fruits and vegetables are concerned. The healthy, fresh stuff is the cheapest food they can fill those trunks with.

And unlike reports I am hearing from folks here and in Boots on the Ground, our fresh produce is truly fresh when we get it. The food bank fetches it as quick as it is made available, cutting out middlemen, and the quality shows up on our dinner tables.

BUTT, they are having an increasingly more difficult time meeting their goals for the rest of the food they put into our trunks.

Especially protein, dairy and canned vegetables.

The folks at the food bank warned the group that was sponsoring today’s mobile pantry that they would not be able to send any protein at all today.

In the end, they dug deep and found one half of a single pallet of those pre-packaged kids meals that they call Lunchables, and they did send them over.

Each of these individual, pre packaged meals consist of five small rounds of turkey cold cut (the five together probably make up one regular, thin slice of sandwich turkey), five small squares of American cheese, 5 crackers and two cookies.

Whole families in this morning’s line were given only six of these tiny, pre-made children’s meals. That - in essence - amounted to only six slices of cold cut turkey and six thin slices of American cheese per family. And this is suppose to last them for two weeks.

That was all the protein that the food bank had to give.

There was no milk - either fluid nor dried. No other dairy. No canned fruits, vegetables or meats.

That line extended for about two miles, at its longest point - possibly as many as 500 families lined up to be served.

The food bank people gave the best they could give this morning. And I must say - as somebody concerned about my family’s health and willing to cook from scratch, I was glad to see alot of fresh food in the trunk. They did not have fresh potatoes, as they tend to be in short supply everywhere, but they gave us two pounds of pre-made potato salad, which we like.

But folks, The lines are getting longer inside the city. Meanwhile, the need in the outlying rural areas is growing even faster than inside the city.

I was told this morning that the food bank procurers are feeling under seige. So much demand, and so little they are able to get right now.


Memphis is in a much better position to get food than most other parts of the nation.

If our food bank is feeling the pressure, other food banks in other parts of the country must REALLY be in dire straits.
 
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SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
As many of you already know, I use the local food bank to get alot of my family’s food, and then use the cost savings to help pay for my wife’s very expensive cancer care.

So I hit a mobile pantry this morning. The kind where you wait in your car, in lines that might extend several miles long even before start time, and then your line drives up to the food distribution point and volunteers put your food allotment into the trunk of your car.

The Memphis Food Bank has formulas they use to guide how much food is distributed to each family in line.

They try to be as generous as they can be, because they are very aware that alot of the people in that line are the WORKING poor who have a job that keeps them from qualifying for food stamps,, yet they don’t make enough money to pay bills AND feed their families.

Others are senior citizens, trying to live on meager social security checks amid rapidly rising food prices.

Alot of times at this particular place, I get there in the middle of the night, sleep in the car a few hours, then get out when the food truck arrives and lend the volunteers a helping hand in manhandling the heavy cases of food, and in bagging the groceries into family sized units. Most of the mobile food pantries frown upon that - they want recipients to sit in their cars and wait. But this group welcomes the extra muscle I can provide as they get ready. I am still able to jump in my car and get my food at the appropriate time. So it works out.

By getting out and lending some muscle to the job, I get to talk with the volunteers. I learn things from time to time that I would never know just sitting in that car.

The theory - from the food bank’s perspective - is to offer two weeks of supplemental food supplies for each family - where they define a family as consisting of somewhere between 1 and 4 people who eat their meals as a group. Food recipients must fill out an application each time they go to a mobile pantry. If they have more than four members in a family, they are given a double allotment.

Now, I am finally getting to the information that you folks might be interested in.

I have always told you folks how we here in Memphis are among the best supplied, because we live at the intersection of nation wide interstate I-40 going east-west and nation wide I-55 going north-south.

I have always warned you: if Memphis cannot get supplies, pull out your umbrella, because the sky is about to fall in.

Right?

Well, I cannot speak for the large number of folks in this town who buy all their food at the local grocery stores, but for those who must rely on the food bank for a signifivant part of their family’s food - open up the umbrella, and brace yourself.

The food bank is almost out of protein, at the same times the lines are growing expotentially!

The Memphis Food Bank supplies 38 counties in three different states, and the needs are growing so fast that they just cannot keep up. They have to keep opening new mobile pantries - often in remote rural areas where the poverty is even more severe than in the city.

Because we do live in the midst of rural areas that can grow alot of food, the local food pantry is still meeting their goal of trying to give every family at least five fresh produce offerings. Because food banks have to pay for picking up donations where ever they might be, and then shipping them into their own AO, the Memphis food bank is in great shape right now as far as fresh fruits and vegetables are concerned. The healthy, fresh stuff is the cheapest food they can fill those trunks with.

And unlike reports I am hearing from folks here and in Boots on the Ground, our fresh produce is truly fresh when we get it. The food bank fetches it as quick as it is made available, cutting out middlemen, and the quality shows up on our dinner tables.

BUTT, they are having an increasingly more difficult time meeting their goals for the rest of the food they put into our trunks.

Especially protein, dairy and canned vegetables.

The folks at the food bank warned the group that was sponsoring today’s mobile pantry that they would not be able to send any protein at all today.

In the end, they dug deep and found one half of a single pallet of those pre-packaged kids meals that they call Lunchables, and they did send them over.

Each of these individual, pre packaged meals consist of five small rounds of turkey cold cut (the five together probably make up one regular, thin slice of sandwich turkey), five small squares of American cheese, 5 crackers and two cookies.

Whole families in this morning’s line were given only six of these tiny, pre-made children’s meals. That - in essence - amounted to only six slices of cold cut turkey and six thin slices of American cheese per family. And this is suppose to last them for two weeks.

That was all the protein that the food bank had to give.

There was no milk - either fluid nor dried. No other dairy. No canned fruits, vegetables or meats.

That line extended for about two miles, at its longest point - possibly as many as 500 families lined up to be served.

The food bank people gave the best they could give this morning. And I must say - as somebody concerned about my family’s health and willing to cook from scratch, I was glad to see alot of fresh food in the trunk. They did not have fresh potatoes, as they tend to be in short supply everywhere, but they gave us two pounds of pre-made potato salad, which we like.

But folks, The lines are getting longer inside the city. Meanwhile, the need in the outlying rural areas is growing even faster than inside the city.

I was told this morning that the food bank procurers are feeling under seige. So much demand, and so little they are able to get right now.


Memphis is in a much better position to get food than most other parts of the nation.

If our food bank is feeling the pressure, other food banks in other parts of the country must REALLY be in dire straits.

Thank you for the heads up, Barry. I'll be watching for shortages to show up here, too, now.
 

Reasonable Rascal

Veteran Member
What Barry has said is a larger version of what I was told by our local small town food bank within the past month. They are 'fed' by the regional bank in Sioux City, which the local people say is well down as far as stock, and proteins in particular. There is no fresh meat available through them these days, save occasionally a little chicken. There are several packing plants in the area so supply should not be a problem should a company feel the least charitable.

RR
 

bracketquant

Veteran Member
I feel for you, Barry. Hopefully those fairly local farms can keep producing.

It's my understanding that of US metro areas of 1,000,000+ in population, the Memphis area is the single poorest in the entire country. There are areas in the country poorer, they are just less populated.

While you have great distribution points because of the major interstates, the food bank system could be overwhelmed because of your area's demographics, combined with current inflation and supply chain issues.
 

Green Co.

Administrator
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Sat down this am to make our monthly grocery and prep run. Here's what I found:

White rice: WalMart has gone up to nearly $1 a lb, but at a near Food Town it was still $1.88 for 4# bag, lots
stacked in the center of rows.

Potatoes: gone up to $3.99 for a 5# bag of (looked like) small culls. Single bakers were $1 #

Onions: none of my preferred 10-15s or Vidalias available. No sweet onions at all, Mexican yellow & whites, didn't even look at price.

Corn: canned, meal or flour very low stock.

Chicken/Turkey: Breasts or thighs $2.79#, up about 50¢, the 10# bag of legs & thighs was .88¢ #, they were .39¢ earlier in the year..

Beef: cheeper that it's been for a while. eye of round and chuck roasts $3.99 # down $1 from last time.

Tomatoes: Roma all that was available, 99¢ # and they were still pink. some tomatoes on vine, but were $1.99 #
Our plants didn't do well with the heat this year, so we stocked up on tomato sauce 33¢ per 6oz can, diced tomatoes 89¢ 12 oz can, Rotel was $1.19

Milk (powdered): store brand at two stores sold out. Nido was available but we have plenty. Only use Nido when we have cold cereal, powdered milk for baking.

Friends that grow some white potatoes say there's didn't do well this year, still gotta check east Tx friends for sweet potatoes.

Church friends tell us food pantries are bare, the county food pantry not much better. Seems no ones gardens produced much this year. As a side note, we bought some cabbage at WM, only 39¢ a #, but the heads were the size of a grapefruit. And those itty-bitty watermelons were $6 each. Nope.
 

anna43

Veteran Member
A year ago, we were receiving two boxes of food plus fresh stuff from our mobile pantry. This year sadly it's one box and very little fresh anything. This is an every other month panty. In past years, we've received local produce, but this drought year we haven't.

An occasional dozen eggs. bag of chicken hind quarters or a bag of potatoes. It's a struggle for me when we are given primarily dried beans and lentils as I cannot eat them. I do like them, but dietary restrictions due to health has them off my plate. The mobile food bank that serves our part of the state comes out of Des Moines (crossroads of I-80 and I-35) so again should have plenty. Our protein is usually tuna and peanut butter. We've received hazel nuts last time, but walnuts a couple times and almonds once and dates twice all of which makes for nice snacks.

What I can't use I pass on to the senior apartment complex across the street. Also, lately I've been taking tomatoes and summer squash over a couple times a week to share. The tomatoes are snatched up quickly but the squash not so much! Quite a few of the residents there also use the local food bank which has a once-a-month only rule.

It's interesting how much sharing goes on at that complex. People come in with nothing and suddenly have what they need. Anything, from the mobile pantry that they can't use is also shared. The place is under new ownership and the manager doesn't seem to approve of some of the activities, but since she's only there parttime no one seems concerned about her opinions. I've taken household items and clothing over and someone always takes it.
 

Barry Natchitoches

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I feel for you, Barry. Hopefully those fairly local farms can keep producing.

It's my understanding that of US metro areas of 1,000,000+ in population, the Memphis area is the single poorest in the entire country. There are areas in the country poorer, they are just less populated.

While you have great distribution points because of the major interstates, the food bank system could be overwhelmed because of your area's demographics, combined with current inflation and supply chain issues.
The Memphis food bank is actually hit with a double whammy.

Yes, a nation wide survey in 2019 identified Memphis as the metropolitan area with the largest percentage of “food insecure” people in the nation. (The term “food insecure” is the new, socially acceptable term for hungry people).

But, as I said earlier, The Memphis food bank is charged with feeding 38 different counties in 3 different states.

Included in the counties that the Memphis food bank is charged with feeding is the counties that make up the Mississippi Delta. The two largest concentrations of poverty anywhere in this entire nation are both rural areas - several Appalation mountain counties, mostly in eastern Kentucky, and the rural, Mississippi Delta region.

The poverty deep in the Mississippi Delta region is similar to what you would find in a third workd nation like Bangladesh, it is so bad. And so well hidden. (It is my understanding that there are parts of Appalachia that are just as bad.)

There are “food deserts” all over those 38 counties, including parts of Memphis itself, but the hunger and the poverty of the deepest parts of the Mississippi Delta region know no parallel in this country.

The worst of the “Mississippi Delta“ region is mostly - but not completely - confined to the counties in the state of Mississippi that run along the Mississippi River.

But it also extends into Tennessee as well - mst notably three counties along the Mississippi River - Dyer County, Lauderdale County, and Lake County, along with one county that does not run along the banks of the Mississippi River — Hardeman County.


The Memphis Food Bank is charged with keeping all of these counties fed.

Meantime, when fat cats like Jeff Bezos wife, or some of these rich country singers, or even the LDS church - go to making huge donations to food banks in Tennessee — they donated to the NASHVILLE and East Tennessee food banks. While they totally ignore the much greater need that is found in the Memphis region. Not a single dollar from Jeff Bezos wife, and not a single can of food from the LDS church has made its way to the Memphis food bank, though they have made numerous, and very generous donations of food and money to the Nashville and East Tennessee food banks.

So Nashville’s food bank is swimming in money and food donations - at least compared to what Memphis has - while Memphis has the largest and most needy population of hungry people.

The only food bank that MIGHT have a greater burden - with fewer resources available to them - than Memphis, might be the food bank in Eastern Kentucky that covers the poverty stricken areas of Appalachia.
 
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ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
I wondered where this thread went to

That looks like Obams smiling at the sign -is this photo totally photoshopped or real?
 
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bracketquant

Veteran Member
The recent largest price increase, here, has been potatoes. In several of the stores, the cost has close to doubled in the past few months. One store is attempting the trick of going from a 10 lb bag to an 8 lb bag, but only increasing the price by about 1/3. I have one more store to check, the one with usually the lowest prices.
 

bracketquant

Veteran Member
I saw a half gallon of apple cider for a little over $9.00.

Mind you where I live I am literally surrounded by apple trees (over 20,000 acres of trees). And it's coming to season, with many types already being harvested.

Madness.
WOW! Pre-covid a gallon was 5.49, last year it was 7.49, here. Year-round there are usually about 5 gallons total of it (in various sized containers), in each store. Soon comes the fall display in the center aisle, usually 50+ gallon jugs. stacked on shelves, in sort of a short flattened pyramid shape.

I only use 1-2 gallons a year, mostly in casseroles and stews, drinking a small glass or two straight, and freezing the leftover for later cooking.
 

Chicken Mama

Veteran Member
Did a Kroger run yesterday (SW Ohio) and was shocked to see no boxes in the aisles, shelves stocked with multiple rows of product and freezer cases overflowing with chicken.

1/2 gal milk $1.29
Canned mandarin oranges 10 for $10
The large Raisin Bran $2.99
VO5 shampoo BOGO $1
All bell peppers .99 each (huge)

Pork shoulder $1.34#
Breakfast sausage links $1.99
28 oz Gatorade .50 each

AND a free case of bottled water and $10 off any purchase of $40+.

As for chicken paws, I freeze and dole out to the dog as a treat.
 

summerthyme

Administrator
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Did a Kroger run yesterday (SW Ohio) and was shocked to see no boxes in the aisles, shelves stocked with multiple rows of product and freezer cases overflowing with chicken.

1/2 gal milk $1.29
Canned mandarin oranges 10 for $10
The large Raisin Bran $2.99
VO5 shampoo BOGO $1
All bell peppers .99 each (huge)

Pork shoulder $1.34#
Breakfast sausage links $1.99
28 oz Gatorade .50 each

AND a free case of bottled water and $10 off any purchase of $40+.

As for chicken paws, I freeze and dole out to the dog as a treat.
Wow! Good deals!

Chicken feet... We've got 400 of them in the freezer. Dixie and Prince get 2 each, 3x a week. Super joint supplement and chew exercise!

Summerthyme
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Included in the counties that the Memphis food bank is charged with feeding is the counties that make up the Mississippi Delta. The two largest concentrations of poverty anywhere in this entire nation are both rural areas - several Appalation mountain counties, mostly in eastern Kentucky, and the rural, Mississippi Delta region.

The poverty deep in the Mississippi Delta region is similar to what you would find in a third workd nation like Bangladesh, it is so bad. And so well hidden. (It is my understanding that there are parts of Appalachia that are just as bad.)

I have to agree with Barry. From Memphis all the way down the Delta part of Mississippi along the MS River is GTR and abject poverty. It's been this way since the Civil War. Problem is, they love to have it so, because they keep voting in Democrats. That area is a blot on the rest of our state.
 

rafter

Since 1999
First time I have gone to Walmart to actually shop in weeks. Also buying things I don't normally buy was a shock today. Printer paper is over 2x more than the last time I bought it. Paper plates the same at least 2x more. Charcoal lighter is now almost $8 for what I used to pay less than $5 for and it is the store brand. I really need to pick up a couple more of them before winter because I use it to start the fireplace.

I should have bought more water, but it is 100 degrees here today and I just didn't feel like messing with it in the heat.

On the plus side....Wrights bacon was on roll back of $8.98 for a pound and a half instead of the almost $11 or more like it has been.

The store actually wasn't badly stocked on the grocery side. The rest of the store is over stocked with clothing racked crammed with more clothes than they are supposed to have and pallets of everything sitting in the race track (the aisle that goes completely around the store)...can't you tell I use to work retail??? :)
They honestly don't have anyplace to put it.
 

tnphil

Don't screw with an engineer
Toilet paper is already astronomical. We bought extra last weekend.
I pulled out a roll to show the wife, compared to a roll from a month ago. Same "package" of Charmin, the "12=48" "mega" rolls, IIRC. The outside diameter of the new roll was a good 1/4" less than the month-old roll.
Kroger-brand paper towels have gone from $5.99 (I think) to $10.99 for a pack of 6 mega rolls.

I don't think we will wait for pork loin on sale at $1.49/lb for canning. I'm gonna catch it at $1.99 or $2.49 and buy enough for 14 quarts. I'm thinking too about pork butts, they had them recently for $0.99/lb. Pork hasn't really gone up yet, but sure it will. Beef has gone up a little, but due to big sellouts by farmers, the price is artificial at this point. I can't eat much red meat, but I can certainly stock it. Planning to can a ton of venison too. Good to have for family and fur kids, I may just need a lot of ibuprofen if forced to eat a lot of it.
 
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briches

Veteran Member
Toilet paper is already astronomical. We bought extra last weekend.
I pulled out a roll to show the wife, compared to a roll from a month ago. Same "package" of Charmin, the "12=48" "mega" rolls, IIRC. The outside diameter of the new roll was a good 1/4" less than the month-old roll.
Kroger-brand paper towels have gone from $5.99 (I think) to $10.99 for a pack of 6 mega rolls.

I don't think we will wait for pork loin on sale at $1.49/lb for canning. I'm gonna catch it at $1.99 or $2.49 and buy enough for 14 quarts. I'm thinking too about pork butts, they had them recently for $0.99/lb. Pork hasn't really gone up yet, but sure it will. Beef has gone up a little, but due to big sellouts by farmers, the price is artificial at this point. I can't eat much red meat, but I can certainly stock it. Planning to can a ton of venison too. Good to have for family and fur kids, I may just need a lot of ibuprofen if forced to eat a lot of it.
I switched over to using cloth napkins and bar towels / washcloths in place of paper towels and paper napkins. It definitely adds up in savings over time. Just thought I’d mention it -
 

tnphil

Don't screw with an engineer
I switched over to using cloth napkins and bar towels / washcloths in place of paper towels and paper napkins. It definitely adds up in savings over time. Just thought I’d mention it -
Appreciate it. Yes, I've thought of the same. We're no spring chickens, both work from home, very busy and stressed. I'm not too far from retirement (but not close enough! Lol). We don't have time and energy to constantly wash cloths, but rethinking that.
 

briches

Veteran Member
Appreciate it. Yes, I've thought of the same. We're no spring chickens, both work from home, very busy and stressed. I'm not too far from retirement (but not close enough! Lol). We don't have time and energy to constantly wash cloths, but rethinking that.
Hubby is retired - I’m about 7 years out myself.
I could have said the same thing about busy and stressed. Lol It’s been an easy switch over, and I prefer it now.

We have paper towels, but rarely use them.
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I switched over to using cloth napkins and bar towels / washcloths in place of paper towels and paper napkins. It definitely adds up in savings over time. Just thought I’d mention it -

I've done that, too. Yeah, it sure saves money. I use cloth napkins, bar towels, and kitchen towels. I don't have to do any extra laundry because of it. I just throw them all in with the bath towels when I wash a load of them and bath cloths.
 
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