Marseydoats
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OK, thanks. Much appreciated!
ECON Report food and grocery price increases/shortages here - UPDATE, new runs on the stores
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OK, thanks. Much appreciated!
Profit of Doom
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Cat litter! Shit! Gotta get to the store!
Huh. I guess if you are a food "texture" person, that pre-packaged JD crap might go down smooth because it's about 99% fat....
By bulk pork sausage I mean fresh ground pork, sold just like fresh ground beef. Some places - like my local meat store- do their custom spicing, too, (breakfast, Italian, chili, etc,) but even the grocery stores here sell fresh ground pork that is great for making breakfast patties, loose frying to put in scrambled eggs, hash browns, or I like it in certain cabbage dishes or mixed with ground beef in chili. Very versatile. Maybe it's a regional thing.
By bulk pork sausage I mean fresh ground pork, sold just like fresh ground beef. Some places - like my local meat store- do their custom spicing, too, (breakfast, Italian, chili, etc,) but even the grocery stores here sell fresh ground pork that is great for making breakfast patties, loose frying to put in scrambled eggs, hash browns, or I like it in certain cabbage dishes or mixed with ground beef in chili. Very versatile. Maybe it's a regional thing.
I'll have you know that JD sausage has almost no fat cook out.
SouthernBreeze
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Huh. I guess if you are a food "texture" person, that pre-packaged JD crap might go down smooth because it's about 99% fat....
By bulk pork sausage I mean fresh ground pork, sold just like fresh ground beef. Some places - like my local meat store- do their custom spicing, too, (breakfast, Italian, chili, etc,) but even the grocery stores here sell fresh ground pork that is great for making breakfast patties, loose frying to put in scrambled eggs, hash browns, or I like it in certain cabbage dishes or mixed with ground beef in chili. Very versatile. Maybe it's a regional thing.
I haven't seen the type of bulk sausage you mentioned down here in any of the grocery stores I've shopped at in several years. Not saying that it isn't sold somewhere. It's just that I haven't seen any.
There's lots of ground pork, but it's just plain ground pork, not sausage.
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rafter
Since 1999
Haven't had any problem getting ground pork. Walmart has it as well as local grocery store that if it isn't in the case, they will grind me some. It is what I use to make green chili.Huh. I guess if you are a food "texture" person, that pre-packaged JD crap might go down smooth because it's about 99% fat....
By bulk pork sausage I mean fresh ground pork, sold just like fresh ground beef. Some places - like my local meat store- do their custom spicing, too, (breakfast, Italian, chili, etc,) but even the grocery stores here sell fresh ground pork that is great for making breakfast patties, loose frying to put in scrambled eggs, hash browns, or I like it in certain cabbage dishes or mixed with ground beef in chili. Very versatile. Maybe it's a regional thing.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
we get our sausage from our pigs or wild ones. The processor seasons it, but the last pig we did we just got it ground up plain. I do have several packages of sausage patties in the freezer, although I think I burned DH out on them, not me, I like them.
He recently shredded 10 pounds of potatoes, cooked them in the oven and separated into portions and put in the freezer. I'd never purchased has browns before, but did awhile back. I didn't buy them because I don't eat them and DH doesn't need to eat them.
I love bacon ends and pieces, I have several packages in the freezer. When I cook it I just separate it out in a big baking pan and cook it in the oven.
Judy
He recently shredded 10 pounds of potatoes, cooked them in the oven and separated into portions and put in the freezer. I'd never purchased has browns before, but did awhile back. I didn't buy them because I don't eat them and DH doesn't need to eat them.
I love bacon ends and pieces, I have several packages in the freezer. When I cook it I just separate it out in a big baking pan and cook it in the oven.
Judy
closet squirrel
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We have had toilet paper and paper towels back in the store for a few weeks (central MD). I have not looked at it, I didn’t need any and thought I would let the people who ran out stock back up. Today I looked for some. The isle was about 2/3 full. But very little charmin, cottonelle and angel soft. All sorts of brands I have never heard of, and not the store brand. Just other strange names. And they were mostly in 4 roll packs and the rolls were small and loosely rolled. And expensive! No sales and the prices have really gone up.
annieosage
Inactive
Well just got back. They sub'd the bacon for another brand. I had requested the fresh bacon from the butcher but this is OK too. I like the thick cut. Also when she came out to my car I said bummer no wipes. She said that the person who shopped was new and she thought there were some. She loaded my car and then went back in and found me to of the small tubs which I was grateful for. So all in it ended well. This was just a small trip for me to restock what I have been using. I don't plan on leaving my house again except when they call me my check is ready at the dealership.
Also- those of you who use Kroger- go online and shop for items to ship. I got everything on my list- TP, kleenex (off brand), peanut butter, and the lotion. I love the Gold Bond Diabetic lotion for my feet. It's so dry here it's hard to keep your feet under control with no cracks or callouses. This stuff works great!
Also- those of you who use Kroger- go online and shop for items to ship. I got everything on my list- TP, kleenex (off brand), peanut butter, and the lotion. I love the Gold Bond Diabetic lotion for my feet. It's so dry here it's hard to keep your feet under control with no cracks or callouses. This stuff works great!
cyberiot
Rimtas žmogus
Well, at least your distilled water supply will be secure, and you won't have to go out for it. Eventually, a distiller will pay for itself. At least that was my thought process when I reflected on how unpleasant and expensive it would be if our solar batteries died of thirst. One less thing to worry about.
Quiet Man
Nothing unreal exists
I, too, use a home distiller to make DI water for my batteries. I've found that store-bought 'distilled' often has a shockingly high TDS (Total Disolved Solids) level that I think makes it a poor choice for batteries.
Added: An automatic distiller is super convenient. Whenever I need to make a few gallons, I hook-up a line to the Reverse Osmosis unit we have in the kitchen and start it up. That way we start with fairly clean water and greatly extend the life of the distiller.
Added: An automatic distiller is super convenient. Whenever I need to make a few gallons, I hook-up a line to the Reverse Osmosis unit we have in the kitchen and start it up. That way we start with fairly clean water and greatly extend the life of the distiller.
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Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Bacon ends and pieces are usually a regular item at Aldi (look in the meat area). It freezes just fine. I try to keep some in stock at all times: I use them to flavor beans, stews, and even cook them up (cool and crumble) for salads meant to be a light meal -- also the "crumbs" are good to sprinkle on meatloaf hot from the oven or cold meatloaf sandwiches.
Save the bacon grease! I cook kale and spinach in it.
annieosage
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They subbed mine for a 1.5 pound package of Farmland Hickory Smoked Thick cut for $4.99 so I was pretty happy with that
Tell him: "Fine. Let's see you compress it into a tank, purified to food-grade."
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Food Tip: When hamburger is expensive and sausage is cheaper, I make sure to mix hamburger and sausage for meatballs, meatloaves, and even patties and sliders, depending on my guests. This is generally SOP for meatballs because sausage has more flavor.
Central Iowa -- I went shopping yesterday: HyVee (loss leaders), Walmart, Aldi, and Fareway
- Distilled water was pretty much gone everywhere but spring water was in at HyVee (store brand).
- TP and cleaning products were generally in good supply, including wipes, but there were limits. Clorox bleach is limited to one bottle per customer (and that's been standard all over for the last month).
- Meat was also in good supply, but with limits (prices were all over the map -- pork chops are still the cheapest)
- Frozen pizza and veggies were mostly wiped out all over. Frozen potatoes (french fries, patties) were in good supply.
- Saw restaurant-sized canned veggies at Walmart. HyVee had major holes. Fareway and Aldi had the best stock. Aldi was limiting cans to 4 of each type per customer.
- Flour was in good supply all over (bread and all-purpose). Yeast was hit and miss but all stores had some in some form (HyVee had the big blocks which I had never seen before).
- [Other] Tea, chocolate, and coffee had holes or were in short supply (this tells me imports are a problem).
Many bulk cheeses were in short supply (HyVee and Aldi). Fareway had blocks of WI cheeses (sort of local).
-- ice cream is in short supply again, all over. I've been making my own, but my neighbor wanted mint chocolate chip, which I found at Fareway, one small carton left.
I got everything I needed, plus I shopped for a neighbor and got most of what she wanted, other than the frozen pizza. I substituted take and bake fresh pizza (with permission). I offered to teach her how to make pizza from scratch, but that was "too much work."
Walmart had the fullest shopping carts. Fareway had the least, but the one I go to is mostly elderly people and they seem to only buy about a bag full of groceries at a time.
Central Iowa -- I went shopping yesterday: HyVee (loss leaders), Walmart, Aldi, and Fareway
- Distilled water was pretty much gone everywhere but spring water was in at HyVee (store brand).
- TP and cleaning products were generally in good supply, including wipes, but there were limits. Clorox bleach is limited to one bottle per customer (and that's been standard all over for the last month).
- Meat was also in good supply, but with limits (prices were all over the map -- pork chops are still the cheapest)
- Frozen pizza and veggies were mostly wiped out all over. Frozen potatoes (french fries, patties) were in good supply.
- Saw restaurant-sized canned veggies at Walmart. HyVee had major holes. Fareway and Aldi had the best stock. Aldi was limiting cans to 4 of each type per customer.
- Flour was in good supply all over (bread and all-purpose). Yeast was hit and miss but all stores had some in some form (HyVee had the big blocks which I had never seen before).
- [Other] Tea, chocolate, and coffee had holes or were in short supply (this tells me imports are a problem).
Many bulk cheeses were in short supply (HyVee and Aldi). Fareway had blocks of WI cheeses (sort of local).
-- ice cream is in short supply again, all over. I've been making my own, but my neighbor wanted mint chocolate chip, which I found at Fareway, one small carton left.
I got everything I needed, plus I shopped for a neighbor and got most of what she wanted, other than the frozen pizza. I substituted take and bake fresh pizza (with permission). I offered to teach her how to make pizza from scratch, but that was "too much work."
Walmart had the fullest shopping carts. Fareway had the least, but the one I go to is mostly elderly people and they seem to only buy about a bag full of groceries at a time.
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Vechicles produce carbon monoxide...not carbon dioxide. Just sayin'.
MinnesotaSmith
Membership Revoked
Both, actually, and the more toward Di the better they're tuned.
So, a person who desires to commit suicide by sitting in the garage with the car running could run out of gas before succumbing if the engine was tuned properly?
MinnesotaSmith
Membership Revoked
No. CO2 taking the place of Oxygen would work too.So, a person who desires to commit suicide by sitting in the garage with the car running could run out of gas before succumbing if the engine was tuned properly?
Grounded Idealist
Hope Always
I enjoy bulk pork sausage much better than links. I am that “food texture” person and I find bulk to be much like ground beef. I make patties (for breakfast) out of it as well as mix it in with ground beef for hamburgers and meatballs.Huh. I guess if you are a food "texture" person, that pre-packaged JD crap might go down smooth because it's about 99% fat....
By bulk pork sausage I mean fresh ground pork, sold just like fresh ground beef. Some places - like my local meat store- do their custom spicing, too, (breakfast, Italian, chili, etc,) but even the grocery stores here sell fresh ground pork that is great for making breakfast patties, loose frying to put in scrambled eggs, hash browns, or I like it in certain cabbage dishes or mixed with ground beef in chili. Very versatile. Maybe it's a regional thing.
Here in the Southwest we also have a great selection of pork chorizo. It’s more like a lot of fat with some spicy pork added but soooo goood!!
mzkitty
I give up.
Went shopping today. Had everything I wanted except for Scott TP and refrigerated onion bagels. The TP that was left, there was a lot, but it's those super-plushy ones that are very expensive. And I got everything bagels instead. Chicken was too expensive, so I got my fav grass-fed local ground beef and several different types of pork sausages. Bacon - all they had left was Smithfield and a few outrageously expensive brands. Nah. I'll wait.
vessie
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Always save the grease!
Not saving bacon grease is a sacrilege!!!
I save it and put any extra in the freezer, so many uses! V
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
This is how I ended up with a large countertop ice maker, over time it has paid for itself, I'm now into my first year of using a cpap machine with a humidifier and yes I can see already that having my own distiller will definitely pay for itself over time.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Which unit did you buy and how much distilled water does it produce at any given time?
Bearing in mind that a CPAP only uses about a pint a night.
Jonas Parker
Hooligan
I just got another case of TP and a case of paper towels yesterday. I heard that there was a canned soda shortage due to an aluminum shortage but I can't confirm that.
Laurane
Canadian Loonie
I don't like the plastic skin that sausage meat is stuffed into - it just feels nasty. Pork and beef ground into a meatloaf has more taste than beef alone to me......lots of curry/ketchup in it and canned tomatoes on top. YUM
Jubilee on Earth
Veteran Member
Funny, I love refrigerated onion bagels, and I couldn't find them for months! Finally spotted three packages the last time I was in Walmart, so I snatched them, "hoarding" be damned. I've noticed the breads and baked goods have been sparse this entire time. No hot dog or hamburger buns to be found these last few weeks.
twobarkingdogs
Veteran Member
Not food related but both HomeDepot and Lowes are backordered on electric stoves and other large kitchen appliances.
I've been shopping for a new stove for the kitchen. Hit lowes yesterday and they were estimating late august/early september delivery dates due to lack of product. Today at home depot actually made a purchase, late july delivery date. There were 3 other people in the process of purchasing appliances, stoves, frig, dishwashers all being giving late july into august delivery dates due to the products being backordered. And there were 4 more people waiting to make purchases so there is somewhat of a run on appliances.
Also they had 2 of the 7cubic feet chest freezers and said they get in a couple every other week or so. I asked about the larger freezers and guy said they have no idea on if or when they will be getting more in stock. I thought the 'if' was strange and questioned and he just said the virus.
tbd
I've been shopping for a new stove for the kitchen. Hit lowes yesterday and they were estimating late august/early september delivery dates due to lack of product. Today at home depot actually made a purchase, late july delivery date. There were 3 other people in the process of purchasing appliances, stoves, frig, dishwashers all being giving late july into august delivery dates due to the products being backordered. And there were 4 more people waiting to make purchases so there is somewhat of a run on appliances.
Also they had 2 of the 7cubic feet chest freezers and said they get in a couple every other week or so. I asked about the larger freezers and guy said they have no idea on if or when they will be getting more in stock. I thought the 'if' was strange and questioned and he just said the virus.
tbd
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
both aluminum and plastic shortage, hence the distilled water shortage... there are no plastic bottles to put them in.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
This past winter I was having to fill my dehumidifier up about halfway through the night and sometimes it was empty again when I woke up, that's how dry it was here this past winter.
Quiet Man
Nothing unreal exists
PureWater (Shop for Water Distillers - Pure Water Inc) has an excellent reputation for quality distillers designed to last a lifetime, but they are terribly expensive. I kept my eyes open and, years ago, found a used one in excellent condition at a more than fair price at a thrift store. The model is 'MSD', and shuts-off when its 4 gallon tank is full. I just visited the mfr website and it doesn't appear to be made any more (though the current 'Midi Classic' model is roughly similar, but with a larger 5 gallon tank).
I have to confess that a motivation, for me, was to be able to produce DI water for solar batteries even if we had prolonged, systemic power outages (for whatever reason; social unrest, 'carrington'-like event, EMP, etc.) and I could only power it from the solar system itself (I have a lot of solar and my own well).
I also found a used PureWater 'Mini Classic' model which makes 1 gallon at a time as a backup. I, just now, wandered over to Amazon and got sticker shock. I could never justify paying $600 for new. OMG. I suggest watching CraigsList, ShopGoodWill, eBay, etc. for a used model if interested.
At one pint a night, or about 45 gallons/yr,. you actually use more DI water than I do. A used one at a fair price might pay you back in 3-4 years (and, no more hauling bottles around; and a sense of self-reliance).
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20Gauge
TB Fanatic
Good point. Okay to make dioxide, we will need TWO CARS running at the same time into one container guys.
Who is taking notes?
Do we have a 2nd car available? Anyone?
TxGal
Day by day
We've found the same/similar thing here. We bought a new GE fridge in spring, not our first choice, but that was all that was available, and the darn thing isn't working well. It still has plenty of time on the manufacturer's warranty, and we bought an extended warranty. The problem is that the GE customer service/repair folks aren't responding...and they don't appear to be available via phone. Call during their business hours and the system rolls back to 'the office is closed, please call back during business hours.' Good grief. Still fighting this battle, but in a moment of desperation I called the local Lowe's to see if they had any fridges in stock. Nope. Asked about little dorm fridges (we have one, thank heavens), and they're almost out.
Just be prepared and not surprised if you run into service issues, too.
Profit of Doom
Dismember
A nearby store makes their own sausage, looks like just ground pork with some mild spices. Works for me.
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