I have sticker shock from the prices. A small piece of soup chuck to make a pot of soup was $10.59 a pound. This is supposed to be the cheap meat. And I even skipped a food group ... chocolate. Even I won't spend $5 for a small bag. Stock up now, because this is only going to get worse.
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Find a local rancher and purchase a 1/2 beef, 1/4 beef or a whole beef. We just refilled freezer at $2.88 per pound.
This is still a good deal.
Time to start feeding deer in the yard.
My exact thought when someone above said something about buying $100/lb beef. Lol. All these deer hanging around my area are gonna be in big trouble if that happens.
There’s no stocking up enough. Even if you have a years worth on hand, if Trump doesn’t get back in office then when you run out you’ll just have to start buying $100/lb ground beef with the rest of us
Maybe you can delete your post. Self censorship is OK.
You are actually promoting cannibalism? WTF Dude you are in the wrong place. GTFO
It was a joke.
Obviously.
Some folks take themselves far too seriously.
Maybe there's spot on a university campus near you where you can go cuddle with a teddybear and finger paint your sadness.
Long Pork. LOTS of BBQ sauce!
Houston, Texas here.
Simple chuck for soup, or beef stew meat still about $4.50 per pound. Decent pork roast or pork steaks, ribs, etc about $3.50 to $4.00 per pound.
Chicken prices increased dramatically for Wings ( Superbowl Sunday coming up) but overall chicken is roughly the same.
No increase in fresh veggie prices.
There are increased in some items, but nothing really alarming.
Same here in North Jersey. Must be a distribution thing, and how far you live from where it's processed or from a major port/hub.
Our inflation-hedge plan is more frequent trips to the grocery store to purchase meat close to the sell-by date. Deep, deep discounts. More than 50%. We throw it in the freezer or cook that day. The freezer is getting full, so we’re transitioning to canning what we can. You have to cook the meat first, and can it with a pressure cooker, but it’s good for 18 months, and won’t spoil in a power outage.
I went to Costco for food and gas, and was so pissed off about the food prices, I couldn’t deal with the gas price and went home. FJB and the Cabal.
Prices are up, sizes are down, and fresh food isn't fresh any more. I find i have to cook food when I buy it or freeze it within a day or two. Got some mushrooms at Sam's club. Took a few off the top and the whole bottom of the carton was moldy. FJB
My wife and I shop for two, it's just us at home. We try to eat healthily and have also noticed the increase in prices, or alternately the same price for items that are now smaller. Popcorn bags, for example, are about the same, but they try to hide the fact that the contents is about 70% of the former size. It ain't working.
What REALLY got my attention recently, I used to recall that a 6-pack of Caffein-Free Diet Coke was around $3 and change... now they're $6 and change, a 100% increase in price!! For what is basically sugar water with caramel coloring. It's not like there are exotic ingredients like truffles or English Blue Stilton cheese in these things, but they have doubled in price. DOUBLED!
So, I'd like to ask the Biden maladministration WTAF is going on?
It's the gas prices.
Yes, but, junk food aside, what about prices of real food?
Well, let me hasten to add that formerly I used to have one Diet Coke every couple of weeks with chili, pizza, or some such item, and a 6 pack would last me a month or more. I have now sworn off Coke (and Pepsi too) because of their ridiculous pricing for what is essentially carbonated water with coloring. My go to drink now is tonic water with lime juice.... contains quinine, good for defense against colds etc.
For real food, yes, we are indeed seeing an increase. Actually we're seeing an increase in EVERYTHING.... our pest control company announced a price increase, as did our utilities and water company. Every single thing one eats, drinks, puts in a car, uses to warm (or cool) a house, it's ALL increased.
Insert a Joe Biden "I DID THAT" sticker here.
Don't insult carbonated water like that! I drink flavored seltzer and it's great. I pay like 60 cents a quart-sized bottle.
Soda is either syrup and acid, or Splenda and acid xD
No matter how you look at soft drinks, it's still junk food with no nutritional value.
Yup, that's whyI just do seltzer water.
"We try to eat healthily"
You keep using those words. I don't think they mean what you think they mean.
Just sayin. . . . .
I got two big briskets from Walmart last week for $3.48/lb. Cut the flat off the smaller one and cooked it via sous vide @ 135 degrees for 48hrs…came out juicy and tender. Dropped the point into a crock pot for 8 hours, came out great. Used the leftovers for beef vegetable soup. You can usually get tougher cuts for cheaper. Any tough cut roast with a little fat throughout, such as an english roast, bottom round, etc., you can sous vide them until nice and tender, cut them into steaks, then sear them.
North Jersey. Prices haven't changed much on food. Some things went up a bit, but by and large I'm spending the same on groceries as I was a couple of years ago for the same or similar amounts.
Availability of chicken breasts is fucking nonexistent though for a couple of weeks. But we have a a major US port that isn't as insane as Cali's portt. And we have a lot of truck traffic, major transport rails (in jersey city area if you drive through south Kearny, you can be stuck for 20+ minutes waiting for all the carts of the train to pass.
That's the only way I can connect what people here say about prices and availability with what I see IRL. Stuff is still ridiculously cheap compared to what I see.
10.59 a pound is what I paid for a nice strip steak the other week lol.