John Deere Girl
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7-9 each mealWhen you guys start throwing numbers like that around, you gotta give a general indication of how many mouths you are feeding!
7-9 each mealWhen you guys start throwing numbers like that around, you gotta give a general indication of how many mouths you are feeding!
I buy regular groceries twice a month. I buy from Sam's twice a month. Hope that clears up any confusion from my earlier comments. $400-$450 each time twice a month regular groceries, and $200+ each time twice a month at Sam's.
edited to add.....This also includes extra food and items for storage. Dog food and treats, too.
Maybe next year, HackerYep. But I'm not geared for it - at least, not this year. Requires a hen house and a surrounding fence that's tall enough.
Breeze I just dropped about $850 at Sams in Tupelo to get my daughter more stocked up. Hope it helps your local economy.I buy regular groceries twice a month. I buy from Sam's twice a month. Hope that clears up any confusion from my earlier comments. $400-$450 each time twice a month regular groceries, and $200+ each time twice a month at Sam's.
edited to add.....This also includes extra food and items for storage. Dog food and treats, too.
I’ve been buying Kerrygold butter for years, it’s 3.66 for two sticks, I’ve learned to like the Walmart brand @ 3.58 for 4 sticks. It’s better than no butter.Well I did my weekly slog in Walmart today. There were some gaps and some big price increases.
The Folgers teabag coffee I keep on hand for that odd cup, is now up to $9.72. It used to be around $6.00. There was almost zero Folgers ground, only two small cans of half caff and 3 medium cans of black silk. There were plenty of k cups available, but I hated my keurig and tossed it out.
Their bakery bread which has been a dollar for ages went up to $1.47.
Sugar and flour was picked over badly, but some could be had. Milk was pounded, as was eggs. There was some, but the more expensive type.
I paid $3.48 for a HALF POUND of land o lakes butter. That's two sticks. There were no pounds available. I don't like the great value butter, but at this rate I may learn to like it.
The soda aisle was barren. I almost bought a 12 pack of blackberry gingerale, it sounded so good. But I didn't.
The choice of bagels was onion or everything. I got onion.
The house brand of turkey lunchmeat was $10.94 a pound I got a half a pound.
It was an ugly trip. Two bags of items for $73.00.
Filling out my monthly Walmart online order and was shocked to find out that Minute Maid frozen concentrate orange juice was no longer available.
Not just out of stock but doesn't even come up on searches nevermore. Also removed from my past purchases and favorites files.
They did have the ready to drink carton versions.
I prefer having frozen so I can make it up whenever and not having to worry about it spoiling.
When I was first taking over full responsibility for cooking for the two of us, I bought alot of meal “kits” because of not having much experience cooking from scratch.
One such type kit was a dehydrated potato dish - very popular in the Mormon community - called Funeral Potatoes.
It is a cheesy potato casserole type dish, which got its name because folks would often bring it to grieving families after the funeral of a loved one.
Anyway, Arguson Farms actually markets Funeral Potatoes - by that name.
Two years ago, I bought a bunch of packets of Arguson Farms Funeral Potatoes.
They were $4.99 a packet on Amazon.
Well, I have fixed all I bought two years ago, and decided to buy some more.
Amazon’s current price: $7.99.
i decided that I am a big boy now, and think I will make them from scratch from here on out...
I like Aldi OJ and they have had it every time I've shopped. I also like Aldi butter although I'll buy Fareway or HyVee brands if they are on sale. I generally don't buy food at Walmart although there are a few items of the Walmart brand I prefer such as the Multi-Grain crackers and French bread from the bakery. I do buy a lot of my otc supplies there including vitamins and supplements and a few meds.
I also use the mobile pantry food bank service from time to time, and I did one in early July where we were given only four items: a 2 pound bag of frozen perch, a box of Post’s Fruity Pebbles cereal, a bag containing 6 small apples, and and a small bag of red hot flavored puffs (sort of like cheese puffs, but favored with a very hot, red powder instead.I made a run to the food bank this morning. Very few cars were there. The items I received were unusual.
The items either had a best by date of a couple days ago or 3 years from now. Quantity was low, 3 small boxes.
For example: 2 boxes of generic cereal, hazel nuts, sunflower seed, slim jims, gummy bears, milk, broth, eggs, pasta, grapes.
I do appreciate what I received.
The latest ploy at WalMart seems to be to take the absolute lowest priced item of a product line, and lower it. That will get the penny pinchers in the doors. Meanwhile, they raise the prices on everything else in that line of products. The lowest priced one sells out quickly, so most people then buy the higher priced items.Did a combo feed run, trip for gas, the dump and Walmart pickup this morning. Feed was expensive. Worse every time. Gas was down to $3.78/gal (unleaded) and the dagnabbed (next)county dump isn't checking ID's/addresses anymore like they were over Covid. YaY! Though the pirates did charge me $9.00 to dispose of one small microwave. No wonder people throw stuff on the side of the road.
Anyway...Walmart. They had everything I ordered, including produce, frozen stuff, canned goods, and the 10 lb bags of chicken quarters had gone down in price to $6.92/bag. They actually had a lot of chicken in stock, though I wasn't buying anything but the cheap stuff. Been slowly adding canned goods and household stuff to the pantry for winter with each order. Canned tomatoes, pasta sauce, canned vegetables & fruit, canned milk, baked beans, peanut butter, vinegar, mustard and ketchup, basic spices, dried fruit, pickles, preserves and jam that I don't make myself but like to have around for variety. Laundry soap, dish soap, dishwasher soap. Doing it all early this year.
For an experiment, I bought a can of the Great Value brand bacon luncheon meat (Bacon-SPAM knockoff). Just opened it now and it tastes pretty decent. The house is warm at about 80, but it seems a little more fatty, gelatin-y, less dense than regular SPAM. You can for sure taste the bacon, and I'll do the real test by frying it up for breakfast tomorrow. The ingredients are basically the same, though not identical or in the same order on the can. Nutritional info identical except WM brand has 1% more fat and 10 more calories/serving - same sodium. For $1.98/can, I think it will find a place for itself on the shelf. That's pretty darned cheap shelf-stable breakfast, soup/beans or sandwich meat.
Good reason to do the curbside pickup. If they don't have something they claim they had, they give you a higher priced substitute for the same money.The latest ploy at WalMart seems to be to take the absolute lowest priced item of a product line, and lower it. That will get the penny pinchers in the doors. Meanwhile, they raise the prices on everything else in that line of products. The lowest priced one sells out quickly, so most people then buy the higher priced items.
I am not seeing those shortages in my neck of the woods yet, either, Southern Breeze.Hopefully, Wednesday, I'll be able to make another big grocery run. I'm getting really concerned about all these food shortages...... potatoes, corn, tomatoes, etc. We didn't have a large garden this year, so we're mostly dependent on the grocery store. Right now, we're at the mercy of higher prices on top of all the shortages that are soon to plague us. I hope next year, we can grow and produce more of our own food.
From what I heard over the weekend, there are still no shortages here, but the prices continue to rise.
Yet I've done a bit of checking (I'm not going to go into detail). WalMart online CLAIMS to NOT have things in stock, yet they have it in stores. Also, they have online listed prices, yet in-store the prices are lower. I'll stick with traveling once or twice a month the 1 mile to the physical store, and stocking up on the bargains never listed online.Good reason to do the curbside pickup. If they don't have something they claim they had, they give you a higher priced substitute for the same money.
That's the only civilized way to handle it.Another solution is to avoid the bi- compounds altogether and come right out with it: "twice a week," "every other month."
Rebel_Yell said "Old folks like me are easily confused"Old folks like me are easily confused.
On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'
Sorry, not sorry
Look up the adjective biweekly in this dictionary and you will see it defined as "occurring every two weeks" AND as "occurring twice a week." Similarly, the adjective bimonthly is defined as "occurring every two months" AND as "occurring twice a month."
For this, we are sorry. But we don't mean "sorry" in the sense that we feel penitence; we are not to blame. We mean "sorry" in the sense that we feel a kind of sorrow aroused by circumstances beyond our control or power to repair.
For, as anyone who pays attention to our work surely recognizes, we are at the mercy of the language. We diligently record the English lexicon in both its measured expansions and its wild proliferations, and any insistence by us that it favor the former over the latter is as whispers into a gale. Biweekly and bimonthly each have a pair of meanings that are unhelpfully at odds with one another. Those meanings exist, and we cannot ignore them.
The problem lies in the prefix bi-: it means (among other things) both "coming or occurring every two," AND "coming or occurring two times." This too is a long-established fact that we cannot ignore. English is sometimes simply obstreperous.
However intractable the English language may at times be, it can be helpful to remember just the many cases in which the language is not ambiguous, in which its offerings include words that refer to precise gradations or fine distinctions.
One such case, sort of, is very similar to the cases at hand: the language offers us biannual for "twice a year" and biennial for "every two years." This is useful and elegant, but, alas, also frequently botched, with biannual so frequently used to mean "every two years" that we've had to enter that meaning in our dictionaries. But here another solution is readily available: skip biannual altogether and use in its place the common semiannual.
Ah, semi-! Just as a semicircle cuts a circle in half, so too does the prefix semi- semantically cut what it is affixed to in half: semiweekly means unambiguously two times per week; semimonthly means two times per month; semiannual means two times per year. It's an excellent option, and one that many writers seem to embrace; we most often see bimonthly and biweekly reserved for their "every two" meanings.
Another solution is to avoid the bi- compounds altogether and come right out with it: "twice a week," "every other month."
As writer or speaker, you can choose to avoid ambiguity by using a semi- compound when you mean "two times per," or by using a phrase instead of a single word. In fact, so fraught is this territory that you'd do well to make sure that your context explains just what you mean when you use any of these bi- compounds: "Employees are paid bimonthly, on the first and third Fridays of the month."
But what about when you're at the mercy of English as it's wielded by others? Well, when you are a reader or listener, we're afraid the best you can do is to approach biweekly and bimonthly with a bit of side-eye—and perhaps the kind of sorrow aroused by circumstances beyond your control or power to repair.
Congratulations, MOST People don't catch what ISN'T there, as long as there's lots of stuff to see. like Communist TV, ITS packed with LOTS of (mediocre) ENTERTAINMENT but very little news that matters, unless you watch the agricultural news, or are into in depth weather, sports news is their biggie.WM was putting out Christmas toys this morning, they were everywhere. They usually put them in the garden center, but they were staging them in the center of the store. There were 5 aisles of school supplies, so that, combined with all the space those toys were taking up, is a heck of a lot of other things that they don't have. They re-arrange, and widen the store aisles every week, so it is really hard to find things.