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

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Taco Salad

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patriotgal said:
Not groceries but something I use a lot of...copy paper. $10 to $12 for ONE ream at wally world. $5 per ream online. Caramels (for caramel apples) are as rare as hen's teeth.
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I'm looking at a couple bulk containers of those on the table right now. The problem my wife is having isn't finding ingredients it's the higher costs this year. Butter is the biggest one. She tried making her toffy with margerine and swore to never do that again, she tried making her carmel corn with it and while the results weren't bad they weren't up to her standard so she won't be doing that again either.

This is her just dusting up on things and she has a few new recipes. Once we get close to Christmas she really starts the baking and candy making and that's when it gets real expensive, I don't even ask how much she spends on ingredients but she gives stuff out to friends, family, neighbors, and local businesses that we do business at. An extra buck a pound on butter will really add up not to mention the higher cost of eggs and everything else.
 
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Taco Salad said:
I'm looking at a couple bulk containers of those on the table right now. The problem my wife is having isn't finding ingredients it's the higher costs this year. Butter is the biggest one. She tried making her toffy with margerine and swore to never do that again, she tried making her carmel corn with it and while the results weren't bad they weren't up to her standard so she won't be doing that again either.

This is her just dusting up on things and she has a few new recipes. Once we get close to Christmas she really starts the baking and candy making and that's when it gets real expensive, I don't even ask how much she spends on ingredients but she gives stuff out to friends, family, neighbors, and local businesses that we do business at. An extra buck a pound on butter will really add up not to mention the higher cost of eggs and everything else.
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She may have to come to terms with having to cut back on all the giving. We live in a different world. Her goodies are luxeries.
 
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Taco Salad said:
I'm looking at a couple bulk containers of those on the table right now. The problem my wife is having isn't finding ingredients it's the higher costs this year. Butter is the biggest one. She tried making her toffy with margerine and swore to never do that again, she tried making her carmel corn with it and while the results weren't bad they weren't up to her standard so she won't be doing that again either.

This is her just dusting up on things and she has a few new recipes. Once we get close to Christmas she really starts the baking and candy making and that's when it gets real expensive, I don't even ask how much she spends on ingredients but she gives stuff out to friends, family, neighbors, and local businesses that we do business at. An extra buck a pound on butter will really add up not to mention the higher cost of eggs and everything else.
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That’s a lot to keep up with AND to pay for.

I’ll admit, it’s only once a year but wow!
That is a huge list to be gifting out with these prices!
I’ll pr ably just do the VERY basics for one or two family members.

For ten years now I’ve baked banana bread for our two delivery guys st work.
They’ve been the same, two guys, for ten years.

I can’t disappoint them though, they really light up when I give them their Christmas goodies! I usually include half sticks of butter, a plastic knife and napkins.
That way they can nibble throughout their day.
 
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I was at the local store yesterday where I only buy milk, bananas and occasionally meat. I browsed looking at prices and saw the large box of oatmeal is now over $9. I think at Aldi it is still less than $4. I want the store to stay open, but I cannot pay the prices on my budget. I think everyone in town is pretty much in the same position and I've only seen one or two people with full shopping carts in the two years the store has been open. I also know that they are not price gouging because it is a non-profit store organized after the prior store closed.

My mom used to make large trays of goodies for each family at Christmas. It was a huge expense and a huge amount of work, and to be honest, my family didn't care for about half the candies and it went to waste. I finally convinced her to stop by letting her know about the waste. She would then do special treats for individuals knowing they would be appreciated. My dd and nephew always got a quart of granola and were thrilled.

I think the banana bread or another quick bread baked in the mini pans would make nice gifts for less expense. My neighbor used to do this.
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

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About 15 to 20 years ago the did a consumer test. They put palmolive green dish soap in shampoo bottles and asked consumers to try a new shampoo.

Everybody loved it. At the time it was little over $1 a bottle for dish soap and the shampoos were about $3 a bottle. (the formulation is about the SAME.)
 
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WalknTrot said:
I've been putting butter away little by little all fall for holiday baking.
Haha...No substitute for real butter in English Toffee or Scottish Shortbread!

IIRC, Aldi had a good deal on butter this week...will go check.
Yup. $2.99/lb. Limit 6. Good thru the 19th.
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Land O'Lakes butter is on sale here for $4.65/#.

South central Arkansas.
 
psychgirl

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WalknTrot said:
I've been putting butter away little by little all fall for holiday baking.
Haha...No substitute for real butter in English Toffee or Scottish Shortbread!

IIRC, Aldi had a good deal on butter this week...will go check.
Yup. $2.99/lb. Limit 6. Good thru the 19th.
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I e GOT to get to Aldis’
 
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Marseydoats

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moldy said:
Does anyone go to Trader Joe's? DD was telling me its somewhat like Aldi, but I've never been in one. Nearest Aldi is 6 hours away, nearest TJ is 2.
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It's like the fancier, more expensive version of Aldi. Mom and I used to go there once or twice a year because she loved the place. We don't have one locally, and I wouldn't shop there if we did. They have some neat specialty items, but not worth the price. JMO -- some people love the place. One of my German friends drives an hour to buy all her groceries there.
 
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We don't have a Trader Joe's locally, but there is talk of bringing one here. I hope we do get one. I like shopping variety.

I didn't think we would ever get an Aldi's, but it finally happened.
 
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connie said:
I go to TJs when we visit family out of state. A fun excursion. They always have interesting items and old favorites. Not a place I would do weekly shopping.
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Is TJ's more expensive than Kroger? I can't afford to shop at Kroger on a weekly basis. Sam's, Walmart, and Aldi's are my limits.
 
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This morning, after Physical Therapy for my recent knee replacement, I decided to hit Sams Club and then Food Giant on my way home. Sam’s was pretty well stocked. Lots of milk, butter, and eggs in that section, but the prices have definitely increased. An 18 pack of eggs were $5.99; milk per gallon was between $3-$4; and the butter was running about $8 for 2 lb package. I also picked up some roasts that were discounted and grabbed some more hamburger and chicken for the freezer.

After spending almost $225 at Sam’s, I headed to the Food Giant near my house. They had 4 pound sugar on sale for $1.98 with no limit posted. I also grabbed some reduced pork loin chops and some canned goods that were on sale. The store looked better today than the last few visits, especially the produce, which actually was stocked. They’ve been very low on almost all the produce lately, but today potato and onion bins were full. The lettuce was $3.99 a head for the first one you buy, but anything over one was going to be $5.99. The heads of lettuce available were probably the size of a softball. They must be picking it asap just to get it in the store.
 
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South Shreveport is supposed to get an Aldi. That location is just about no where near the VA, but we could at least check it out. I just spent the rest of my grocery money for the rest of the month on replacing two wood stove grates. DH got two last year and I swear he can't find them. And they don't last all the long either. He is able to rig something up to keep the pieces together but its difficult to get the ashes out of the bottom.
 
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bw

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moldy said:
Does anyone go to Trader Joe's? DD was telling me its somewhat like Aldi, but I've never been in one. Nearest Aldi is 6 hours away, nearest TJ is 2.
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We have one about 40 minutes away, go to it when in the area. Great prices on a few things, good prices on most things, some stuff you see nowhere else. If we had one closer I still wouldn't do the bulk of my shopping there. Lots of tats on the help, but they're friendly and competent.
 
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bracketquant

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4RIVERS said:
This morning, after Physical Therapy for my recent knee replacement, I decided to hit Sams Club and then Food Giant on my way home. Sam’s was pretty well stocked. Lots of milk, butter, and eggs in that section, but the prices have definitely increased. An 18 pack of eggs were $5.99; milk per gallon was between $3-$4; and the butter was running about $8 for 2 lb package. I also picked up some roasts that were discounted and grabbed some more hamburger and chicken for the freezer.

After spending almost $225 at Sam’s, I headed to the Food Giant near my house. They had 4 pound sugar on sale for $1.98 with no limit posted. I also grabbed some reduced pork loin chops and some canned goods that were on sale. The store looked better today than the last few visits, especially the produce, which actually was stocked. They’ve been very low on almost all the produce lately, but today potato and onion bins were full. The lettuce was $3.99 a head for the first one you buy, but anything over one was going to be $5.99. The heads of lettuce available were probably the size of a softball. They must be picking it asap just to get it in the store.
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Not to just get it in the store.

Since the head of lettuce, of any size, is the same retail price, they save on fuel/shipping costs by being able to ship many more heads in the same truck. The laborers can haul out many more heads form the fields, as they weigh less. There are likely more cost savings that I can't think of.
 
tnphil

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anna43 said:
Perspective: In November 1942 -- 80 years ago -- Sugar can now be purchased with Stamp No. 9 good for 3 lb. of sugar per person and must last for a six-week period when Stamp No. 10 will be good.

I keep thinking that due to how things are currently going this might well be our future.
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Just to gloom up your day further, consider this:

The US population was 134 million in 1942.
The US population now is 332 million. Plus God knows how many illegals.

It's conceivable that we would now get a ration stamp for 1 lb of sugar per person, depending upon how much better the supply chain is now.
 
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John Deere Girl

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tnphil said:
Just to gloom up your day further, consider this:

The US population was 134 million in 1942.
The US population now is 332 million. Plus God knows how many illegals.

It's conceivable that we would now get a ration stamp for 1 lb of sugar per person, depending upon how much better the supply chain is now.
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Unfortunately, so many people would have no clue how to make meals from scratch if rations were just basic ingredients.
 
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anna43 said:
Perspective: In November 1942 -- 80 years ago -- Sugar can now be purchased with Stamp No. 9 good for 3 lb. of sugar per person and must last for a six-week period when Stamp No. 10 will be good.

I keep thinking that due to how things are currently going this might well be our future.
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anna...I remember the old family war stories about the ration coupons. The ladies started to drink their coffee black so that the sugar and milk could be used for baking/barter.
 
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bracketquant

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Bagged stuffing is really weird this year. In the past, I generally noted "cubed bread" and "cubed cornbread" stuffing. This year there is basically "cubed bread" and "bread" stuffing. The "bread" stuffing looks like they could be the tiny crumbs swept from the factory floor.

I went to three stores and bought the only bag of cubed cornbread stuffing that I found.

And, be careful out there buying your turkey. There are a few frozen turkeys at my local WalMart that are thawing in the case. Touch the turkey that you're going to buy in a few spots to make sure it is rock hard.
 
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bracketquant, when we were kids, my mom eventually stopped making cornbread for her stuffing and just tossed a cup of yellow cornmeal into the mix with all the other ingredients. Couldn't even tell the difference after it was cooked in the turkey. I bet that would work just as well with a packaged stuffing mix, too, if there were none of the cornbread type. Just add a little extra liquid. And of course you wouldn't need a whole cupful unless your turkey was really big and needed lots of stuffing.
 
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Martinhouse said:
bracketquant, when we were kids, my mom eventually stopped making cornbread for her stuffing and just tossed a cup of yellow cornmeal into the mix with all the other ingredients. Couldn't even tell the difference after it was cooked in the turkey. I bet that would work just as well with a packaged stuffing mix, too, if there were none of the cornbread type. Just add a little extra liquid. And of course you wouldn't need a whole cupful unless your turkey was really big and needed lots of stuffing.
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Martinhouse I always learn stuff from you, thanks.
 
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anna43 said:
Perspective: In November 1942 -- 80 years ago -- Sugar can now be purchased with Stamp No. 9 good for 3 lb. of sugar per person and must last for a six-week period when Stamp No. 10 will be good.

I keep thinking that due to how things are currently going this might well be our future.
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Wow.

There's 7 people in my household.

10 when all my kids are home.

I clearly need to to "up" my sugar storage if 21 lbs for 6 weeks was the RATIONED amount I would get.

The thing is - if we really were making from scratch EVERYTHING we ate, every single meal - most of us would be quite surprised at the volume of basic ingredients needed.
 
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Martinhouse

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nomifyle, she found using the cornmeal was a great time-saver. I think her stuffing was just dried bread she'd diced up, along with onion, celery, eggs, salt and pepper and water. Pretty easy to just use whatever cornmeal would have gone into a cornbread recipe. I am the oldest of 8 kids and she did a huge amount of cooking the day before Thanksgiving for such a huge family. Often, grandparents were there, too. There was always at least a 24 pound turkey, with all that went with it, including homemade cranberry sauce and four or five different kinds of pie.

This talk of those big dinners just reminded me of something I'd not thought of in years!!!!! I grew up with meatless Fridays, and I remember every year my dad staying up until midnight the day after Thanksgiving so that he could have a big huge turkey sandwich for a bedtime snack. He said it was hard to wait, but it was definitely worth waiting for!

EDIT: Thurs. AM While falling asleep last night I got to thinking of all this talk about turkey stuffing/dressing, and I realized I'd forgotten to mention the sage and the butter when I listed the ingredients I learned from my mom. And that if Mom had mixed up too much to fill the big turkey, she'd bake the remainder in a casserole dish with the turkey neck buried down in it for the meat flavoring.

It all sounds so good! Wish I could still eat all this kind of food!
 
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MissionBend

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nods yep my momma always used both in her stuffing. At least a wee bit. We always had ALL the regular goodies one associated with a huge Thanksgiving. But mom would always go overboard with the desserts. There was a HUGE pot of cherry dumplings, 4 cream cakes: Banana, coconut, chocolate and lemon. Then the pumpkin, pecan, some fudge, the different colored Jello with flaked coconut and marshmallows and whipped topping folded into it? And pistachio pudding with same stuff as the Jello salad but also chopped nuts in it as well along with maraschino cherries as well.

And then her crystal platter of olives, celery with 4 different types of cheese filling, and those little mini pearl onions and gherkins on it, then the big deviled egg platter filled not only the special cup openings just for the deviled egg half itself but the big opening in the center was filled up as well (At least a couple dozen eggs if not 3. I still have her 2 egg platters) We literally would have open buffet for entire neighborhood and family all day long. And one uncle would always bring tabbouleh? I don't remember tasting it or how to make it. Everything else? I was trained exactly what holidays dinners were suppose to serve (According to mom) ;) No wonder I was a fat teen. :lkick:
 
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bracketquant

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Martinhouse said:
bracketquant, when we were kids, my mom eventually stopped making cornbread for her stuffing and just tossed a cup of yellow cornmeal into the mix with all the other ingredients. Couldn't even tell the difference after it was cooked in the turkey. I bet that would work just as well with a packaged stuffing mix, too, if there were none of the cornbread type. Just add a little extra liquid. And of course you wouldn't need a whole cupful unless your turkey was really big and needed lots of stuffing.
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It would likely work well with a stuffed turkey. But, I don't stuff the turkey. To me, both the turkey and the stuffing come out better when cooked separately.

Or, I just watched too much of the Stooges when I was little.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKf7AUlmAok
 
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