ChildofLight
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I was surprised yesterday I just happened to glance at the bananas and they went from .39 cents to .50. I hadn’t bought them in several months because I don’t eat them but my brother did.
Prices Already Rising
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TimeWarpWife
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Some of the restaurant suppliers are having to ration how many bags of potatoes restaurants are allowed to buy. It seems because there wasn't a good crop of potatoes last year and again this year, shortages will continue, as well as rising prices. Back around 2019 the cheapest potatoes could be purchased at Wegmans for $1.99 a bag (regular white potatoes) and the Yukons and reds were $3.99 a bag. Now the white potatoes are $3.99 a bag, Yukons and reds are $5.99 a bag. This is not good because even during the Depression poor people were still able to afford potatoes and cabbage ~ cabbage used to be .49/lb., now it's .99/lb. A quick check at our local Safeway and Giant, it seems many of the their bags of potatoes are now 3 lbs. instead of 5 lbs. https://www.silive.com/dining/2022/08/potato-shortage-spurs-spud-rationing-and-price-spikes.html
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TimeWarpWife
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Add to the shortages and rising prices list: tomatoes, carrots, sugar beets, onions, apples, and even cotton. Sadly, as the article points out, most Americans are oblivious to what's coming. DH has a customer who works for the government, who is a conservative and Trump supporter, and he's been trying to tell his Demonrat-voting neighbors and co-workers to stock up on some extra food, but they just laugh it off. Sadly, a year from now I don't think they're going to be laughing with food prices predicted to possibly triple, in addition to shortages. https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5527 As a side note, my beloved Roy Rogers large roast beef sandwich is now $8 and change with tax ~ for one sandwich. 
No more RR's roast beef for me.
No more RR's roast beef for me.
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ChildofLight
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Well sure don’t go buy a bbq sandwich then. They are even worse. One bbq place didn’t put prices on menu. Perhaps customers didn’t ask about prices when ordering. Anyway they are now closed and their bbq was delicious.Add to the shortages and rising prices list: tomatoes, carrots, sugar beets, onions, apples, and even cotton. Sadly, as the article points out, most Americans are oblivious to what's coming. DH has a customer who works for the government, who is a conservative and Trump supporter, and he's been trying to tell his Demonrat-voting neighbors and co-workers to stock up on some extra food, but they just laugh it off. Sadly, a year from now I don't think they're going to be laughing with food prices predicted to possibly triple, in addition to shortages. https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5527 As a side note, my beloved Roy Rogers large roast beef sandwich is now $8 and change with tax ~ for one sandwich.
Cloud Watcher
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Today at Walmart I picked up a package of frozen foster farm chicken strips. The price was about $1.50 higher than 2 weeks ago.
penbrat
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We have our groceries delivered and we almost always get the exact same things. The bill creeps up a few more dollars every week (even if it is the exact same amount and brands of products as the week before).
ChildofLight
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Expect prices to go even higher on products. The unionized train industry is talking about strikes. I’ve noticed lately trains getting longer and longer. Couple days ago a lot of grain cars headed south. Overseas?
ChildofLight
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It’s been a while, maybe a couple of weeks since I visited the meat department. Lots of empty beef spots. The the the boneless roast was a tiny thing for $13.00. I was looking for soup meat. Found a small pack of crosscut rib that would do for $4.80. It was the last of it’s kind. A lady in front of me had gotten the last pack of looked like boneless rib. Saw some very small size for brisket for like $10.
Lots of empty beef spots. The the the boneless roast was a tiny thing for $13.00. I was looking for soup meat. Found a small pack of crosscut rib that would do for $4.80. It was the last of it’s kind. A lady in front of me had gotten the last pack of looked like boneless rib. Saw some very small size for brisket for like $10.
Carl
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Prices are up but they don't cost anymore. The dollar is just worth less.
Sadly, I get a lot of laughing in my direction when I suggest to my friends and family to stock up on food. People have been so used to having whatever they want at their fingertips that it's hard to believe that it's not going to be as available in the future. And that future is creeping up faster and faster.Add to the shortages and rising prices list: tomatoes, carrots, sugar beets, onions, apples, and even cotton. Sadly, as the article points out, most Americans are oblivious to what's coming. DH has a customer who works for the government, who is a conservative and Trump supporter, and he's been trying to tell his Demonrat-voting neighbors and co-workers to stock up on some extra food, but they just laugh it off. Sadly, a year from now I don't think they're going to be laughing with food prices predicted to possibly triple, in addition to shortages. https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5527 As a side note, my beloved Roy Rogers large roast beef sandwich is now $8 and change with tax ~ for one sandwich.
So wraps your forum friends, now is the time to stock up on necessary food. Can any meat that's in your freezer in case you lose power. Vacuum seal dry food. Use mylar bags too.
Sadly, I get a lot of laughing in my direction when I suggest to my friends and family to stock up on food. People have been so used to having whatever they want at their fingertips that it's hard to believe that it's not going to be as available in the future. And that future is creeping up faster and faster.Add to the shortages and rising prices list: tomatoes, carrots, sugar beets, onions, apples, and even cotton. Sadly, as the article points out, most Americans are oblivious to what's coming. DH has a customer who works for the government, who is a conservative and Trump supporter, and he's been trying to tell his Demonrat-voting neighbors and co-workers to stock up on some extra food, but they just laugh it off. Sadly, a year from now I don't think they're going to be laughing with food prices predicted to possibly triple, in addition to shortages. https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5527 As a side note, my beloved Roy Rogers large roast beef sandwich is now $8 and change with tax ~ for one sandwich.
So RF friends, now is the time to stock up on necessary food, non food, otc drugs, etc. Pressure can any meat that's in your freezer in case you lose power. Vacuum seal dry food. Use mylar bags too.
Ghoti Ichthus
Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
The lamb chops were $5 a pound more at the coop than they would have been at WF 
Coop meat is usually a little more expensive, but not that much
Fortunately only 2 of us.
Organic lemon juice is up another $0.40 a bottle $9.69!!! 
Fortunately, had a bottle purchased awhile back at a less exorbitant price . . .
JESUS!!!
Coop meat is usually a little more expensive, but not that much
Fortunately only 2 of us.
Organic lemon juice is up another $0.40 a bottle
$9.69!!! Fortunately, had a bottle purchased awhile back at a less exorbitant price . . .
JESUS!!!
TimeWarpWife
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For the last couple of weeks I've been trying to find ground allspice and cloves without any success. All of the local grocery stores are out of them. So, I then started looking for pumpkin pie spice and apple pie spice to be possible substitutions, but they're also out of these. I can find them online, but they're so outrageously priced that I can't afford them. I'm not sure if people are just stocking up for Thanksgiving or what, but I've never had a problem finding these spices in the stores before.
ChildofLight
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It’s the demand for all those pumpkin spice lattes.
By chance did they have a rack on an end idle with the spices. I’m saying that because one Thanksgiving I was looking for sage and such. Couldn’t find any at all in the spice area. One week later I was walking along and just glanced at a rack set up at the end of the isle. There was all the dressing turkey seasonings. I looked in the spice section and nope none there. Whoever thought that was a good idea didn’t have a clue.
TimeWarpWife
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Because of my bad knees, dh does almost all of the shopping now. He was actually the one who's been looking for the spices for me. I'll pass on your suggestion to him. Btw, thanks. 
Ghoti Ichthus
Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
Try Penzey's, WF, your local coop(s), Asian stores, health-food stores, herbalists, Winco, Gordon's (or other restaurant supply places), and any usually-outrageously-high-priced grocers in your area. IDK about you, but a jar of ground cloves lasts me multiple years. I still have about 2/3 or 3/4 of a jar I got 4 or 4 years ago
Glass jar and metal cap, so still fresh (enough) for what I use it for. I'm very careful to keep all spices and herbs away from any moisture, so no sprinkling over hot foods, etc.Some years ago, cloves (whole or ground) were hard to find. It might have been the year after the giant tsunami in Asia.
Ghoti Ichthus
Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
Clothes detergent has doubled in cost in less than a year, actually less than 6 months! 
The price is the same, but the jug is exactly half the size!
When I can no longer afford to do laundry and my dirty clothes start to stink up RF, don't blame me, blame Woolite
The price is the same, but the jug is exactly half the size!
When I can no longer afford to do laundry and my dirty clothes start to stink up RF, don't blame me, blame Woolite
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Ghoti Ichthus
Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
Ghoti Ichthus
Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
Lots of apple juice and apple cider. But it gets bought out by people using paid shoppers before the stores open. Prices are absolutely OUTRAGEOUS! $16.99 for a gallon of generic organic apple juice or cider in a glass jug. $12.99 for half gallon of name-brand organic apple juice in a plastic bottle. $6.99 for a quart of a different name-brand organic in a glass bottle. Shelves bare of all of it except one of these items, and the spiced cider (only a few bottles of each left). No shelf tags at all for some apple juice/cider products that store normally carries. Just giant, empty shelf space.
BWV (before wuhan virus), conventional generic distilled white vinegar was $0.99 a gallon, $0.79 on sale at the expensive local chain, and $0.10 - $0.50 coupons were "everywhere." Now, that same gallon is $3.99 and haven't seen a coupon, not even a $0.10 one, in ages!
BWV (before wuhan virus), conventional generic distilled white vinegar was $0.99 a gallon, $0.79 on sale at the expensive local chain, and $0.10 - $0.50 coupons were "everywhere." Now, that same gallon is $3.99 and haven't seen a coupon, not even a $0.10 one, in ages!
JoyJoyJoy
I Shall Not Be Moved
The price of bleach exploded during the virus time and hasn't come back down. We continue to buy a lot of generic items and *on sale* or marked down food...same as always.
@Ghoti Ichthus I read that you could cut way down on the amount of detergent you use to wash clothes. I have cut mine by about half and my clothes come out clean. Don't know how this will work in the spring and summer when I work outside and get really dirty and stinky. ( and I don't like my washing machine much...I think it's energy efficient but my old machine was sooooo much better).
@Ghoti Ichthus I read that you could cut way down on the amount of detergent you use to wash clothes. I have cut mine by about half and my clothes come out clean. Don't know how this will work in the spring and summer when I work outside and get really dirty and stinky. ( and I don't like my washing machine much...I think it's energy efficient but my old machine was sooooo much better).
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