I got some hotdogs, buns, cold-cuts with condiments, and two steaks for $6 a piece, some juice... and it cost about $75. My cart was barely a 1/4 of the way filled. Inflation is well above 10%. I wish I took a photo. I think we should start posting shopping cart photos, with totals here. Groceries plus gas is a nightmare right now.
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One thought- got a Costco near you? BJs wholesale? Sams? Heck, Aldi?
Another thought- Ditch the juice, hot dogs and cold cuts.
The better you can cook, the better you can shop. Buy a crockpot or a pressure cooker or a Hot Logic and trade those steaks for Chuck roast (beef’s pretty bad here too; I cannot imagine what a $6 streak looks like) or pork or chicken thighs. Compare unit price on fresh vs frozen. Consider the family pack, frozen, or divide it and freeze at home. Try lentils. Chickpeas. Use a starch (mashed taters, rice, grits, oatmeal) to soak up juices and fat you’d otherwise throw away.
I mean this in the most encouraging way - become harder to subjugate.
That's the thing, I love to cook. Fortunately I've been growing my own veggies and about to start raising my own quail. Got wild boar in the freezer and waiting on season to get me some venison (if we make it to fall). But yea my and some friends hit up Costco every now and then for essentials. But like wtf. I used to be able to get a week's worth of food for that price, shopping smartly.
Outskirts of c'ville, VA. Harris teeter
We just shopped at Harris teeter for the first time and wow was it expensive! Prices were drastically higher than even Giant or Safeway.
Everything I've described you can do in an 10'x10' backyard tho 😉
When I see these posts I do wonder if it’s someone capable who’s just lamenting the price of hot dogs or someone in actual trouble who might not make it. I’m glad to hear you’ve got a handle on all that though!
I mean, I completely agree that it’s shit, and I love chick fil a and tendies quite as much as the next guy, so I totally hear you.
??? $75 should not be 8 items.
Read the replies.
While I appreciate this is coming from a helpful place, we shouldn’t have to resort to second rate foods and fancier cooking techniques to make it work. The point of the post is that the corrupt government is creating inflation that is pushing people into poverty. These people are evil and this madness is just getting started.
Agreed on corrupt gov pushing inflation, but the point I hoped to make was that what’s good isn’t necessarily what’s “good”. If you dig. Steaks are based Aryan warrior food, hot dogs are most assuredly trash 😆 I mean delicious but not actually good for you.
Very loosely, consider that the price of beef goes up. That means hot dogs and steaks both go up. Then the price of labor goes up. Beef and hotdogs both rise. The price of spices, preservatives, solvents, salt, and sawdust goes up. Then we see hot dogs go up and steaks don’t. So things get lousy and we all suffer, but he suffers more who lives on hot dogs.
Also lentils are the tits and monks ate them so I declare they are the most based legume upon basis of my historical expertise. Lol.
We’ve been cooking 100% and have fresh herbs/tomatoes and peppers ( too hot and dry in south Texas now to grow much else) — cut out processed food (almost everything in the middle of the grocery store) and blanch and freeze your own veggies etc— doesn’t take long — I cracked up at older than me little lady in grocery last week looking at meat — she looked at me and said “ guess we’ll have to mortgage our houses” — I said “ I have a yard full of deer and squirrels and know how to process” she laughed and nodded
Costco is commie to the hilt. BJs still carries My Pillow.