Linkat wrote:I don't buy much in the way of processed food - normally the basics.
I buy lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, eggs, cheese, bread, OJ, Apple Juice, cranberry juice, cereal, spaghetti sauce, spaghetti, rice, tofu (love it), beans, ice cream. Those are my regular type purchases - meats we get at a butcher shop usually unless they are on sale. I notice that my weekly bill has increased quite a bit. I usually have one week where I need to get lots of stuff and bill would be about $80 and then the alternate week would be less about $50 - $60. Now it is a high of $100 and low of $80.
I've the same experience as Linkat with almost the exact same list of foods. I looked at my bills and I was wrong... $50 dollars spent on typical groceries staple items 3 months ago..is now more like $75.
dyslexia wrote:. . . and a few cases of tinned smoked oysters along with lots of velveeta.
I used to eat lunch with a person who brought canned smoked oysters. Looked like a can of snot, and I kid you not.
..and I buy none...zero...luxury items. That means almost no snack foods, and limit my purchases of pre-processed foods. No red meat, small amount of on-sale meats (chcken, fish, pork). Tofu pretty frequently. I buy in bulk when I can at discount clubs like Costco...about every month and share bulk purchases with a friend.
Funny..
I too have pulled out some receipts... wow.. things HAVE changed a bit.
Not much though. On average it seems that over the last few months.. and only the receipts I could find... my bill averages about 70 for 5 days
and 30 for 2 days..
My budget is still set for 100.00 a week.
No wonder things have felt oddly tight for some reason re: banking issues..
I need to pull my head out of this whole ..
don't you mean pull your head out of your ass?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Snort....
whew....I slay me.
shewolf, we could meet every night at one of those sports bars, get a couple of guys to buy us a drink, dump them, then pig out on the whores ovaries.
We could hide little zip lock bags in our purses, and bring vienna sausages home to the family.
sometimes they even got shrimps.
My little car has a 14.5 gallon tank. It costs $54 to fill up. It used to cost $20.
The only packaged foods - aside from dried pasta and some mung bean lentil type things I've yet to try - I've bought in the last years have been from the International Market - some packaged indian food, Gitco, or some such name - both good and inexpensive. Things like spinach and indian cheese, different kinds of dals or curries, and many of those I diulte and make soup out of. But the international market it a lot of miles away, involving, uh, gasoline to get there.
I should check about ordering those online, since I like them, and the ingredients all seem safe and sane.
Don't buy many canned goods either, 'cept whole tomatoes and some canned black beans. Thus the noticing re veggie prices. $2.00 for a sweet red pepper?
The rationing of the rice is a result of small businesses stocking up to avoid higher costs. I believe from what I had read that they are only rationing those huge bags of rice, not the normal size. For an average family there won't be any impact as they won't be buying 10 bags of 25 pound bags of rice.
All of your jokes aside, this is not a joke for literally billions of people in the world. China, India and southeast Asia are experiencing an acute rice shortage and the price has spiraled so high, so fast that people are literally facing starvation because they cannot afford to buy staple foods. In many countries, the export of rice has been prohibited under emergency measures, even in rice-producing nations like Vietnam which normally produces far, far more than it can eat--they are prohibiting export to make sure of their future supply. The price of flour shot up, too, because people in countries which don't produce their own rice began a run on flour, hoping to get food they could afford.
The price spiral has also been driven by commodities speculators. Capitalists are such lovable types . . .
One of the best things you can do is plant a garden or enlarge the one you have. Little startup cost.
Right now we have broccoli, spinach, lettuce and onions in the ground.
I've thought about starting one of those "square foot" gardens.
Here's a Gits link - and, hey, the Prince likes them too...
GITS Palak Paneer and other items
(You can get them individually at our international market)
We do have a small 'potted' garden
tomatoes and all of my herbs I can snip from my patio
I used to have several large bell pepper plants that would give me about 2 a month.. but they have seen the end of their life.
Gas prices.. those have hit me below the belt and big time.
My car is parked for a while now and I use the bus for anything possible other then work every morning.
Thank goodness we are reaching the end of our payments or we would be up **** creek .
We can not eat any cheaper then we do unless we resort to 99 cent packages of hot dogs and remain sick from cheap, almost expired meat sales.
Im shocked I have not noticed this change before.
I thought I could pinch pennies out of my quarters like no one elses business.. yet I did not notice an almost 100.00 increase grocery bills a month
Time to rethink the victory garden. Victory over high prices.
We have a huge family of bunnies that come to munch on our grass and play in our yard - think I could catch some and cook them up?
Almost in place of a garden, I could have my own fresh supply of meat.
As long as it's bunny season.
Another option is to raise them, and chickens. But feed isn't cheap either.
cjhsa wrote:As long as it's bunny season.
Another option is to raise them, and chickens. But feed isn't cheap either.
I live in a condo - I think the association would frown about livestock.
I think you're stuck with a patio garden or one of those countertop thingies. They probably will look down on killing the bunnies too. :wink:
