FOOD Report food & grocery shortages / price increases here: 2022 Edition
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Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
This is a year when patience shopping and flexibility with menus is a virtue.
You'll save the most money by eating "in season," but that also means choosing
foods that are abundant rather than in short supply. That might mean using strawberries or peaches instead of cherries for a pie, for example.
You'll save the most money by eating "in season," but that also means choosing
foods that are abundant rather than in short supply. That might mean using strawberries or peaches instead of cherries for a pie, for example.
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Ordinary Girl
Veteran Member
Yea it’s ridiculous
Barry Natchitoches
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The local food bank recently gave us 1.8 pound bags of DRIED cherries, in a mobile food pantry event that they held in suburban Memphis.
The food bank got the dried cherries directly from the USDA, which means that some US farmers somewhere in the country sold their cherries directly to the USDA.
We only got dried cherries that one time, at least at any mobile food events that I have participated in.
But in May, we were give a larger quantity of dried cranberries. All together (three mobile food events spaced over two months of time) my family was given around 20 pounds of these dried cranberries.
I figure on trying to reconstitute the dried cranberries come winter time, and feeding them to our chickens - who, in turn, will recycle those cranberries into eggs for our breakfast table and organic fertilizer for next year’s vegetable garden.
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Redcat
Veteran Member
I live near our cherry orchards in NY. Can confirm we did get a late freeze here, I lost four tomato plants to it. My apples set just fine tho, tree is loaded.
Also, I was on the hunt for Keystone products in a couple of walmarts yesterday. As I was checking out, some dude walked down the main aisle, right by the registers and out the door with a box of ramen. No one said a word.
Also, I was on the hunt for Keystone products in a couple of walmarts yesterday. As I was checking out, some dude walked down the main aisle, right by the registers and out the door with a box of ramen. No one said a word.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
It's why I eat oatmeal for breakfast on weekdays (and make my own granola). Weekends are bacon and eggs. I buy cereals on sale around Thanksgiving for homemade Chex mix blends to take to gatherings.
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
its a$1.25 at dollar tree for a 3.5oz bag.
thats $5 per 14 oz. $10 per 28 oz
HOW BIG in oz. were the boxes?
At what store?
Hey Barry, have you tried using dried cranberries in your green salads? DH loves them in his salads. We also substitute dried cranberries anywhere we use raisins, like broccoli salad. They make a wonderful addition to muffins, cookies and breads. And oatmeal! Or cream of wheat and cream of rice. They are good at preventing UTI's as well as all the other goodies they provide nutritionally. Great haul!
bbbuddy
DEPLORABLE ME
They are 24 oz bags
bbbuddy
DEPLORABLE ME
I always add dried cranberries and slivered almonds to our green salads!
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ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
well, dollar store won't save you anything.
Honey Berry
Senior Member
Just finished shopping in Sioux Falls. Sam’s had no 50 pound bags of beans. Costco had no Folger’s tall cans, no powdered or regular brown sugars. Aldi prices are up on everything.
Martinhouse
Deceased
A while back, someone told me if I fed dehydrated fruits or vegetables to my chickens, I needed to make sure they had plenty of water. I imagine that would be equally true for my rabbits. (And people, too?)
Marseydoats
Veteran Member
You can give some of them to the chickens, now, still frozen, for their afternoon snack.
And unless you really dislike cranberries , they're pretty good in muffins and homemade granola.
One of you is going to be lucky...either you or the chickens! :-) Cranberries can be used in lots of things, as mentioned above. I even have a dressing recipe that I use for Thanksgiving that has cranberries, sausage and apples in it! Wonderful.
I know you'll make the decision that works best for you.
I know you'll make the decision that works best for you.
Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
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I did open a bag, and added a few to a batch of oatmeal that I cooked recently.
But that is the only thing I have done with them, thus far. And since I prefer cherries to cranberries, i figure on using some of the cherries in my oatmeal next time I cook some.
Which will not be for awhile, since I am trying to stay on my keto diet.
Uh, actually, no - that never occured to me.
I did open a bag, and added a few to a batch of oatmeal that I cooked recently.
But that is the only thing I have done with them, thus far. And since I prefer cherries to cranberries, i figure on using some of the cherries in my oatmeal next time I cook some.
Which will not be for awhile, since I am trying to stay on my keto diet.
Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I plan on reconstituting them (using simmering water with a bit of sugar or syrup in it) to get them closer to their original state, before I feed the chickens any dried fruits.
I have alot of dried plums as well as dried cranberries, just waiting for winter.
They will offer the chickens a warm meal on a cold day. I may mix it with oatmeal for them, or just serve it as a side dish along their regular layer pellets.
Last winter, I reconstituted dried plums in simmering sugar water, cut the fruit into chicken-bite-size pieces, and just fed it as a side dish along side their regular layer pellets.
They ate every bit of the reconstituted plum before they touched their layer pellets.
Dried cranberries are too good (and expensive) to feed to the chickens! It may be more of a northern thing, because they grow native here along with being farmed commercially, but they show up everywhere. I use them in breads, scones, muffins, pancakes, hot cereal, sauces/chutneys, salads, stuffing for poultry, in trail mix and just eaten out of hand for snacks.
vessie
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I went to the Costco in Issaquah, Wa. (Their headquarters are across the street) and bought more if their Kirkland brand canned chicken breast that are a 6 pack, 12.5 oz cans)
Last week they were $14.99 a pack and today they’re $15.99. But it’s the best canned chicken I’ve ever bought.
Consistently all white meat without all the crap that Hormel and the other leading brand puts in the cans as “filler”.
I Love that brand! More meat than water in the cans
Last week they were $14.99 a pack and today they’re $15.99. But it’s the best canned chicken I’ve ever bought.
Consistently all white meat without all the crap that Hormel and the other leading brand puts in the cans as “filler”.
I Love that brand! More meat than water in the cans
Lucky chickens!
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
Do they make cranberry wine?
i decided to google it and discovered everybody makes it!
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
I just got 2 one pound bags of this excellent hibiscus tea leaves.
$13.99 per bag
I bought 500 empty tea bags to go with it.
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inskanoot
Veteran Member
Do you have a link to the empty tea bags?
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I've considered doing that, I also have tea balls for loose tea.
Sounds like a huge waste of money and food, but whatever. I don't want to sound snarky because I believe everyone is free to make their own choices, but when I think of all the hungry people in this country it upsets me to see "treats" like this used for poultry. BTW dried plums are very high sugar and certainly do not need to be simmered in sugar water plain water would be fine. At my grandparents' house stewed prunes were a daily breakfast dish and they were stewed in plain water.
Well I hate to waste beautiful fruit too. This year my plums are falling off the trees because I am no longer able to pick them and none of the people I mentioned it too have showed up. They liked them in previous years when we picked them. Lazy. Anyway if anybody lives near me in the Victor Valley PM me.
skwentnaflyer
Veteran Member
Great Value canned milk has gone from .94 a can to 1.32.
PinkRoses
Contributing Member
I don't know where you're located, but Publix has had Cheerio's on BOGO almost every week lately - a diffrent size each time. I stock up when they have the ones I particularly like.
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