FOOD Report food & grocery shortages / price increases here: 2024 Edition

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phloydius

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Don't worry, as we get closer to 2025, I'll create a new thread with backlinks like I did last year.

As a separate reminder, we’re nearly to the point of starting our 2025 thread. Whoever starts it needs to be ready on January 1st.

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I'm on it. I'm planning on to wait until just after Christmas to do it. (Even put a reminder on my calendar).
 

von Koehler

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Just placed a meat order with Wild Fork and their prices are unchanged. But they do have a $200 minimum for free shipping to Iowa.

My younger brother continues to buy from Fairway because they are cheaper while acknowledging that Wild Fork meat is better quality.
 

bluelady

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Oh, most of them are "true" as far as the base cause. But with the exception of recalls of products which have already sickened or killed people (or pets), these days, they are stupid.

The recall of tons of butter because the packaging didn't say "contains milk" is the most recent idiotic example.

Summerthyme
If they "really* have to make an allowance for extreme ignorance, they should have just printed up a bunch of "contains milk" stickers and overnighted them to all the stores.
 
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tiredude

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As a separate reminder, we’re nearly to the point of starting our 2025 thread. Whoever starts it needs to be ready on January 1st.
Whenever it comes into being I will post a base price point from wal mart for dozen eggs. Sugar,flour,2 liter coke, 2 liter generic,pound 80/20 hamburger, 1 pound lunch meat turkey,…..whatever else you all want….. this thread was to show real inflation and let folks know what to get…..maybe 2025 will be better
 

Terrwyn

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I ordered a small order on Instacart and prices keep going up. My main complaint though is the bread. It's either that phony soggy fresh stuff or in the case of Milton's been sitting around for a week. The good real bread made without oil from LA Brea bakery in Los Angeles you can hardly ever find. So I paid 6.59 for the stale Milton's.
A big question I have is what ever happened to Oscar Meyer lunchmeat? They used to have so many different kinds and now you can't find even beef bologna most of the time.
 

bbbuddy

DEPLORABLE ME
I ordered a small order on Instacart and prices keep going up. My main complaint though is the bread. It's either that phony soggy fresh stuff or in the case of Milton's been sitting around for a week. The good real bread made without oil from LA Brea bakery in Los Angeles you can hardly ever find. So I paid 6.59 for the stale Milton's.
A big question I have is what ever happened to Oscar Meyer lunchmeat? They used to have so many different kinds and now you can't find even beef bologna most of the time.
A bread machine is so cheap, and easy to make bread. Takes 5 minutes.
 

school marm

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Saturday marked my last grocery trip of 2024. And wow, were the prices up on quite a few things. Flour is no longer on perpetual "sale." It had been on "sale" for the past year or two at $9.59. "Sale" sticker is now gone and a 25 lb bag is now $11.99. And I still don't understand that, because everywhere where wheat is for sale, it's over $23 for a 25 lb bag. I think it doesn't bode well for the future.

All that being said, I am glad to be able still to find incredible deals. Someone screwed up the pomegranate order, and so the store was selling them for 50 cents each. We got over a dozen. I cleaned out the arils (pomegranate "seeds") yesterday and we'll have them in salads and smoothies. The real treasure, the skins and pith, are being dehydrated. An infusion of the powdered skin and pith works synergistically with several antibiotics. Ayurvedic healers use it to treat cholera.

I also got two 3-gallon jugs of peanut oil for $12.81. Can't beat that. I always watch for those jugs to get discounted right after Christmas.
 

tnphil

Don't screw with an engineer
The paper products scam continues... they have already muddied the waters exclaiming "super", "mega", "mega xl", "super mega" etc.
"Mega" rolls of toilet paper are 224 two-ply sheets per roll, supposedly 4x a "regular" roll. Seriously? A regular roll is 56 sheets?
The 12-pack (equals 48, lol) sells for about $16.99, about $1.42/roll.
These recently changed in the last few months... Still 224 sheets, still about $16.99. But... the rolls have noticeably shrunk. The general public wouldn't notice the subtle change, but those of us who don't deplete our stock of household items do. The sheets must be thinner, as there is roughly 10% shrinkage.
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tnphil

Don't screw with an engineer
Definitely ... older supplies don't lie!
I wouldn't even call them much "older". The larger is just a roll that was still in the cabinet. I've restocked with just two of the current 12-packs, so the larger roll couldn't be more than two months (ish) old.
 

phloydius

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Here is the thread for 2025:



Mods, Please close this (2024) thread. Thank you.
 
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