Ordinary Girl
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I’m so excited! My little town is getting an Aldi! Grand opening is tomorrow. Now I’ll know what y’all are talking about when you report on aldi shopping.
Hot sauce, chili pastes, I was looking for some and found it at the Thai and Korean grocery stores here in town. One of the things I learned when I had international student roomies is that hot sauce and chili sauce can cover up a multitude of gross or boring food dishes.
How is the strawberry Frosty? Haven't been out to eat lately, but curious.Let me tell you weird. It's flippin' hot out there - in the 90s. I went to the post office after closing, because I had to drop a package in the bin. No one around; parking lot empty. A car drives up with an older couple in it; they stepped out of their car, both wearing masks. They went into the post office to get a package from a locker, got into their car, and drove off...both still with masks on! I couldn't help but wonder if they wear them at home with each other. It's so hard to resist the impulse to bleat at these foolish people! I did see a few other sheeple wearing them, but not too many - maybe 4-5 others between Publix and Trader Joe's.
Trader Joe's actually dropped some prices - the blueberry muffins were 50 cents lower, and $3.99 cookies were now $2.99. The imported Italian pasta was well stocked and still 99 cents for a one pound bag and the Pound Plus imported Belgian chocolate bars are still $4.99 for 19 oz. I didn't notice any price increases, but they were out of pizza dough - one of my main reasons for going.
For those of you looking for canning supplies, Publix (TN Valley area) was very well stocked - that had lots of jars in all sizes. I don't know anything about canning but got into a conversation with two ladies who were buying jars and asked them if the price was good. They said the price was about 50% higher than last year, but still better than other places, assuming other places even had them. As so often happens, we got into a conversation about Jesus' soon return. People are waking up!
I had lunch at Wendy's; they've been open for eat-in, but now are back to drive-thru only. I got my chicken sandwich and a free one for dinner, because I did the survey on the back of my last receipt - it was a full-sized sandwich, so I saved around $6 and got two meals for about $10, including the new strawberry Frosty. I thanked the young lady at the window and told her she was much appreciated; she broke into a big smile said I made her day. That's something you all might want to consider doing - give some encouragement to those who do bother showing up for work; maybe it'll keep them from giving up and quitting!
No. I was just referring to all those Twitter things MzKitty follows.So you're saying that the news I've been posting here isn't real?
Hot sauce, chili pastes, I was looking for some and found it at the Thai and Korean grocery stores here in town. One of the things I learned when I had international student roomies is that hot sauce and chili sauce can cover up a multitude of gross or boring food dishes.
OC finally found some malt vinegar, I now feel like my vinegar collection is complete. And he agreed that brown rice vinegar and malt vinegar do NOT taste the same!
How is the strawberry Frosty? Haven't been out to eat lately, but curious.
Actually, they just waxed the concrete floor and polished it. They didn’t resurface it.Didn't help any that, during my absence of months, they'd resurfaced the floors in a terrible depressing dark grey color...which made the store feel dark and gloomy.
There was a nationwide recall of Jif. Some kind of contamination.I’m still searching for Jif peanut butter. I hope they start shipping it out again. It’s a major prep in my house.
Bring a quarter!I’m so excited! My little town is getting an Aldi! Grand opening is tomorrow. Now I’ll know what y’all are talking about when you report on aldi shopping.
. For example, black cherries are normally about $2.98/lb by now; they were $4.98.
Why do you think they put it in MRE's?
Yay! Have fun!I’m so excited! My little town is getting an Aldi! Grand opening is tomorrow. Now I’ll know what y’all are talking about when you report on aldi shopping.
We lost every one of ours to birds this year. We don't mind sharing but they went crazy and took them all. My favorite too. Got tons of plums falling off though. Going to have to tell somebody to come pick some.Black aka bing cherries are averaging $6.99 a pound here in central Iowa. The cherry crop was hit an$ hat this year. We have a large sour cherry tree in our front yard, the hard freezes in May means we got a total of eight cherries from our tree.
Let me tell you weird. It's flippin' hot out there - in the 90s. I went to the post office after closing, because I had to drop a package in the bin. No one around; parking lot empty. A car drives up with an older couple in it; they stepped out of their car, both wearing masks. They went into the post office to get a package from a locker, got into their car, and drove off...both still with masks on! I couldn't help but wonder if they wear them at home with each other. It's so hard to resist the impulse to bleat at these foolish people! I did see a few other sheeple wearing them, but not too many - maybe 4-5 others between Publix and Trader Joe's.
Trader Joe's actually dropped some prices - the blueberry muffins were 50 cents lower, and $3.99 cookies were now $2.99. The imported Italian pasta was well stocked and still 99 cents for a one pound bag and the Pound Plus imported Belgian chocolate bars are still $4.99 for 19 oz. I didn't notice any price increases, but they were out of pizza dough - one of my main reasons for going.
For those of you looking for canning supplies, Publix (TN Valley area) was very well stocked - that had lots of jars in all sizes. I don't know anything about canning but got into a conversation with two ladies who were buying jars and asked them if the price was good. They said the price was about 50% higher than last year, but still better than other places, assuming other places even had them. As so often happens, we got into a conversation about Jesus' soon return. People are waking up!
I had lunch at Wendy's; they've been open for eat-in, but now are back to drive-thru only. I got my chicken sandwich and a free one for dinner, because I did the survey on the back of my last receipt - it was a full-sized sandwich, so I saved around $6 and got two meals for about $10, including the new strawberry Frosty. I thanked the young lady at the window and told her she was much appreciated; she broke into a big smile said I made her day. That's something you all might want to consider doing - give some encouragement to those who do bother showing up for work; maybe it'll keep them from giving up and quitting!
Years ago I bought a 5# bag of hot chili flakes at an Asian grocery. Paid very little, less than $10 IIRC.So you're saying that the news I've been posting here isn't real?
Hot sauce, chili pastes, I was looking for some and found it at the Thai and Korean grocery stores here in town. One of the things I learned when I had international student roomies is that hot sauce and chili sauce can cover up a multitude of gross or boring food dishes.
OC finally found some malt vinegar, I now feel like my vinegar collection is complete. And he agreed that brown rice vinegar and malt vinegar do NOT taste the same!
Exactly!Why do you think they put it in MRE's?
We had a late frost in the PNW and then rain all April and May. There are no cherries here in the store. In Oregon! Our plum trees also suffered from the late frost.
Interesting. I went to two stores in the last week or so and neither of them had cherries at any price. (Winco and Safeway) About a month ago there were a few cherries at around $6.00/pound. Our orchard trees didn't have but one or two cherries. The wild cherry trees are hit or miss. The rainier type wild cherries rotted on the tree. The late black cherries are just coming ripe, but they lack sweetness. Probably because we've had two warm days in about three weeks.Red cherries are $5 a pound here in the PNW. I do have plenty on our trees, just not ready yet.
Years ago I bought a 5# bag of hot chili flakes at an Asian grocery. Paid very little, less than $10 IIRC.
Boiled with sugar and vinegar it has made an endless supply of sweet chili sauce, which makes even old, "off" rice edible.
"Just because of you ALL..."Just because of you all I bought, and tried Duke brand of “condiment” because it was on sale.
It is wonderful!
We had a late frost in the PNW and then rain all April and May. There are no cherries here in the store. In Oregon! Our plum trees also suffered from the late frost.
The California Truckers Association is warning that 70,000 independent truck owner-operators will be taken off the roads of California later this week as a draconian new law, “AB-5” kicks in: (emphasis ours)
In addition to the direct impact on California’s 70,000 owner-operators who have seven days to cease long-standing independent businesses, the impact of taking tens of thousands of truck drivers off the road will have devastating repercussions on an already fragile supply chain, increasing costs and worsening runaway inflation.
The new law, passed and signed by Democrats, essentially outlaws independent contractors from operating transport trucks in the state of California. When it goes into effect later this week — after the US Supreme Court refused to intervene last week — California will be hit with a “truckpocalypse” shutdown of transportation capacity.While some transportation companies maintain full-time employees to operate long haul rigs, many drivers are “owner-operators” who own their own trucks and who pick up contract jobs from the hundreds of shipping and transport companies that operate in California. These owner-operators pay their own taxes, buy their own health insurance and cover their own fuel costs. California Democrats, however, think that independent freedom for truckers should be criminalized, since they want all drivers to be union workers in corrupt union organizations that Democrats routinely use for money laundering operations (dems vote to award public money to the unions, and the unions agree to kick back campaign donations to Democrats).
Catastrophic collapse of trucking and transportation in CaliforniaSo they’ve outlawed independent contractors in the trucking industry. The new law goes into effect this week and is expected to cause widespread logjams, cost increases and delays to transportation across America. Say hello to accelerated food inflation…
As FreightWaves.com reports, the implications of this law will be nothing short of catastrophic for transportation infrastructure in and out of California:
Matt Schrap, the CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association, which represents drayage companies, issued a brief but harsh statement in response to the high court’s decision.
“It is extremely unfortunate that this Court couldn’t see through their own political agenda to identify the obvious preemption that exists under the F4A,” he wrote in an email to FreightWaves. “This ruling will have far reaching impacts that will upend the industry as we know it. Tens of thousands of truck drivers will be driven out of established business relationships within a week. No doubt this will further stress the supply chain.”
Not only do transport trucks carry food and consumer goods in and out of California, they routinely distribute ocean freight containers from California ports to inland destinations. The containers move from ships to trucks, and those trucks take them to retail distribution hubs or domestic manufacturers for offloading.
Under California’s new AB5 law, the logistics challenge of receiving good carried by road are going to be a nightmare. Added to this is the fact that Union Pacific railroad is already slashing the number of rail cars it carries for existing customers (such as CF Industries, a fertilizer manufacturer), which means railroads have no excess capacity to pick up the slack from trucking.
America’s logistics infrastructure is crumbling. And with diesel engine oil additives in short supply and expected to run out in about 7 weeks, a huge question looms over America: How will food, coal, spare parts and consumer goods get delivered anywhere? If the truckers are blocked from California’s highways, and diesel engine oil is running out, and railroads are slashing rail cars, and diesel fuel itself is running out in some areas, the scenario for the second half of 2022 doesn’t look very rosy at this point.
Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
And preppers are the new geniuses.
WOW! Here in OR I haven't seen bacon less than $5.00/lb in a while, unless maybe I get a four pound package at Costco, which I haven't done in a while. Butter is over $2.00 on sale. Hamburger is about the same as yours. Enjoy!Went to Aldi's today (Piedmont of NC)...still has bargains. Butter $1.63/pound; bacon (short date) $2.99/pound; hot dog rolls and hamburger buns $0.58/pack. Not much available in chicken although they had leg quarters for $5.90/10 #. There was very little cooking oil except for a few bottles of corn oil. Least expensive hamburger was $3.99/#.
There were some "holes," but it wasn't bad. Comparing to other reports from different areas, things are great here! And, of course, I'm glad. :-)
That should be a thread of it's own. This is really gonna hurt those of us on the Left Coast!This may have an effect on food deliveries and prices.
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
More info and video at this link...
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
The California Truckers Association is warning that 70,000 independent truck owner-operators will be taken off the roads of California later this weekamericafirstreport.com
This may have an effect on food deliveries and prices.
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
More info and video at this link...
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
The California Truckers Association is warning that 70,000 independent truck owner-operators will be taken off the roads of California later this weekamericafirstreport.com
It appears that the makers of @Coffeemate liquid creamers have gone to using a simple twist-off cap instead of the usual flip-top-and-pour caps. (on my latest purchase, anyway.) I don't know whether or not this move to a simpler, cheaper cap has affected the price. Has anyone else seen this kind of cap switch on @Coffeeemate creamers?
It appears that the makers of @Coffeemate liquid creamers have gone to using a simple twist-off cap instead of the usual flip-top-and-pour caps. (on my latest purchase, anyway.) I don't know whether or not this move to a simpler, cheaper cap has affected the price. Has anyone else seen this kind of cap switch on @Coffeeemate creamers?
I read around 90% of the Washington state cherry crop was lost to late freezes. Supply and demand...Both times I have bought fresh cherries, the first last week at th Farmer's Market and the second at the Target store they cost $9 A POUND. 50 years ago they cost 25 cents a pound. Anyway, one small peach at target cost $1.67 EACH
The quality was excellent but NOBODY will be buying much at $9 a pound.
I read around 90% of the Washington state cherry crop was lost to late freezes. Supply and demand...
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