ECON Report food and grocery price increases/shortages here: 2021 Edition

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CapeCMom

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Doomer Doug said:
I just bought a Red Baron Supreme pizza for $4.79 at Target. The last time I bought one was in July, about 6 months ago. I got 3 for $10, or $3.33 each.
This is a staggering 50% increase in 6 months.
Dijornos were on sale for 2 for $11, or $5.50 each. They "used" to be $4 each last summer.
K also noticed MASSIVE food shortages in the City Target stor's meat section, several of which date bavk two weeks or more. Finally, what is there is mostly the Target store brand Good Fellow and of mediocre to poor quality.
2022 is going to be a year of cost increases, scarcity and poor quality.
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I did a flash dash trip to Stop and Shop yesterday. A single Di Giorno pizza here was 10.49
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
T-bone steaks are on sale at Fareway for $7.99 a pound through tomorrow, think I'll send OC over to buy a couple for future dinners. I'm thinking one for valentines day and one for our anniversary in March. Of late they've been running $13.99 a pound and higher.
 
Doomer Doug

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To be fair digirno etc now have several different pizzas with both multiple prices and toppings. The full cheese one was $5.50 × 2 $11.50. Your pizza likely had everything but a kitchen sink.:ld: Now that it is year's end the full impact of price increases is visible. 25% pretty much on everything, followed by a 50% add on for January/certainly by Valentines Day.
Easily a 100% price increase over the last 2 years or so.
I lived through the 1973 to 1983 inflation and my psych is kicking in for 2021/2022 biden inflation.
 
CapeCMom

CapeCMom

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Doomer Doug said:
To be fair digirno etc now have several different pizzas with both multiple prices and toppings. The full cheese one was $5.50 × 2 $11.50. Your pizza likely had everything but a kitchen sink.:ld: Now that it is year's end the full impact of price increases is visible. 25% pretty much on everything, followed by a 50% add on for January/certainly by Valentines Day.
Easily a 100% price increase over the last 2 years or so.
I lived through the 1973 to 1983 inflation and my psych is kicking in for 2021/2022 biden inflation.
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Nope. It was the hand tossed four cheese variety.
 
Shooter

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Doomer Doug said:
I get Walla Walla, Washington onions in the summer. :lol: Quite tasty they .are
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I plant 400 onions every year, 200 are wala wala, they grow very well here and get pretty big,

was in a locally owned small town grocery store today. had yellow. white and red onions, singles or in 5 pound bags, this famialy owned store is a little higher than walmart and sams or other big stores. but there local and are extremely friendly. Ill pay a little extra for that,
 
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summerthyme said:
You can't beat Dixondale Onions for plants... I plant around 400 Walla Wallas and 1600 Copras... the Copra variety keeps for a year, in reasonable conditions!
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Shooter said:
Dixondale farms, best ive ever found,

Home - Dixondale Farms

Order with confidence.Mix and match true varieties.
dixondalefarms.com dixondalefarms.com
they say each bunch of onions contain 50 to 75 plants, but I have yet to find one with under 100 plants
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With two TB2K references, how could I go wrong?

So, I'm going to give this a shot. In the past, I have bought onion sets at Southern States. Get this; one pound was 89 cents! That was quite a few sets, too. If Dixondale has 75+ plants per bunch, buying 150 plants is a lot...especially when the short day onions don't last very long. Guess it would be time to have some onion rings. "-) When there is a really big sweet onion slice on a grilled hamburger with a homegrown, just picked tomato and a soft, fresh bun...MMmmm.

Their site says ordering now until until April. I can't imagine getting plants now! I did plant some sets in September. Those have sprouted and will tolerate the cold so maybe these will, too. I'll have to ask them at Dixondale. Thanks for the info and link.
 
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Nich1 said:
With two TB2K references, how could I go wrong?

So, I'm going to give this a shot. In the past, I have bought onion sets at Southern States. Get this; one pound was 89 cents! That was quite a few sets, too. If Dixondale has 75+ plants per bunch, buying 150 plants is a lot...especially when the short day onions don't last very long. Guess it would be time to have some onion rings. "-) When there is a really big sweet onion slice on a grilled hamburger with a homegrown, just picked tomato and a soft, fresh bun...MMmmm.

Their site says ordering now until until April. I can't imagine getting plants now! I did plant some sets in September. Those have sprouted and will tolerate the cold so maybe these will, too. I'll have to ask them at Dixondale. Thanks for the info and link.
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Good luck growing them.

I have tried numerous times to grow onion, but have not been successful.

I hope you do better than I have done.
 
Laurane

Laurane

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Nich1 said:
With two TB2K references, how could I go wrong?

So, I'm going to give this a shot. In the past, I have bought onion sets at Southern States. Get this; one pound was 89 cents! That was quite a few sets, too. If Dixondale has 75+ plants per bunch, buying 150 plants is a lot...especially when the short day onions don't last very long. Guess it would be time to have some onion rings. "-) When there is a really big sweet onion slice on a grilled hamburger with a homegrown, just picked tomato and a soft, fresh bun...MMmmm.

Their site says ordering now until until April. I can't imagine getting plants now! I did plant some sets in September. Those have sprouted and will tolerate the cold so maybe these will, too. I'll have to ask them at Dixondale. Thanks for the info and link.
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You can dehydrate those extra onions - I made green pea/lentil soup and the only thing in it that was not dehydrated was the leftover ham. Onions, carrots, green beans, celery...... oh, frozen hash brown cubes too.
 
Laurane

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nehimama said:
Peacocks - GRRR! Neighbor in MO had one that kept coming onto my property, raping setting guinea hens, and eating the eggs as they pipped. I asked her several times to keep the SOB on her own place. He came over one too many times, and was met with my .22. I drug the SOB to the back forty for the coyotes. Owner came by a day or two later, asking if I'd seen her peacock. I said, "No, I haven't seen him for a few days!" I think she really knew what happened, and I wasn't saying.

First time I ever heard a peacock scream, I thought someone was torturing a cat!
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We inherited a mama, daddy and egg peacock when we bought our acreage...... Daughter's boyfriends dog got in the pen and male got out, but mama came back to sit on her egg. Male came by every night screeching for his mate from the trees across the road. Never could convince him to come into the yard and baby died, so we gave her to a peacock man who had several, as she was lonely.

Every spring he would come and sit in the trees and screech for her, not knowing she had left years before - did that about 5 years and the handyman at the campground said the male nested over winter in the hay barn and hardly left there. I guess they do mate for life.....like swans.
 
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