I live on Long Island NY and honestly haven't seen empty shelves here. What I have noticed are some odd sales that don't follow the usual sales cycles - e.g. February is canned foood month. A large chain is running a sale on canned veggies for 77 cents a can. Odd when people generally buy fresh food in June.
Another odd one was Swift pre-seasonred ribs for $1.99/lb. With Swift closing two plants, the low price is unexpected.
Happily, I seem to have gotten through to my son (but not his wife). A blessing to have him living on the second floor of our home after my husband passed in January. He was actually talking about expanding our compost pile considering the upcoming food shortages. Sometimes they're listening when you least expect it.
Canned condensed soups at the local Giant store are selling for 84 cents a piece. GF came up with the great idea of using them as flavoring for substance foods like rice and beans.
Nah I’m ordering pizza,
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I saw a video a few months back on youtube from a guy who delivered to the big box stores. Never said who he worked for though and I'm not sure who the channel was, just popped up in the feed. Anyway he was saying that stores would be filling up with merchandise, overstocked even because all the backorders from covid, supply chain shortages, AND the shipping container snafu last year are all catching up at the same time. He also said that the shipping container items have been sitting in those containers on docks and in yards for the past year so a lot of the merchandise is close to be out of date. The stores will need to get the product moved before expirations so expect good sales. His advice was stock up while you can for cheap because after that there would be nothing to replace the old merchandise and the stores would be empty. I'll have to see if I can find that video to link.
Would love to see that
Thanks for sharing! Very helpful!
https://youtu.be/qQmdD_UoY8Q ...the comments are interesting too.
We buy bulk dry goods, grains: rice, wheat, einkorn, barley, oats, rye, cous cous, quinoa. And legumes: lentils (green, red, French), beans (chickpeas, black, adzuki, mung).
They come in 25-50lb bags, and we buy from two different places that offer free shipping..
Once you get a basic concept of sourdough, you can make any baked good with it, even pasta - and pasta without eggs, if they're unavailable..
The initial purchase is "expensive" especially if you don't already have a grain grinder and other assorted kitchen tools for handling whole foods, but in the long run it's much cheaper, and more delicious.
Any food that's worth eating is also worth making from scratch with the absolute BEST ingredients you can find.
Could be they are emptying out the warehouse flooding the stores with product so must have sales to move it . But there may not be much left in the warehouse to replenish once that's gone.
You can't eat compost so are you saying your going to use the compost as nutrient for a garden?
Found the city dweller.
Duh, yeah. I have a garden with raised beds, berry bushes and tubs with potatoes.
Good for you. Do you preserve, pickle, can, your food for long to medium term storage.
I'm thinking seriously about getting some chickens in the next coupe of months. And would like to even get a hog or two.
What's the expiration date on the can say? I've seen grocery stores do this when the cans are going to hit their best by date that year
Oof! I didn't even think of that! But we only got 40 cans so not too worried.
My Price Chopper store here in Connecticut had Porterhouse Steaks for $7.49 a pound last week. Have a few of those in my freezer now;)
I had a whole freezer full of food and the damn thing stopped freezing. I had to through out a ton of food. Got a new freezer and had to restock it. And no freezer today is made to last more than 5 years.
I remember the old Frigidaire we had when I was a kid. Thing most have lasted for 15 or more years.
Yikes! I stocked up on London broil for $2.49. I confess I dropped $60 on 3 lobsters at $9.99/lb
So sorry about your husband. I know it’s very tough…Regarding sales, when shopping, I’m constantly surprised. At Aldi, pork is highly discounted; milk, butter and ice cream are high, Canned soup is way down - even Campbell’s brand. (Houston.)