bracketquant
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We may be reaching the point where we'll have to buy the stocking, too.
And, the stores will only sell one at a time, at the same price of what they sold a pair.
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We may be reaching the point where we'll have to buy the stocking, too.
And, the stores will only sell one at a time, at the same price of what they sold a pair.
bracketquant
Veteran Member
If want becomes need, they'll learn.
TxGal
Day by day
I have a hunch you're going to be glad you bought that turkey!
Our HEBs still have a lot of turkeys, I grabbed another small turkey breast yesterday (less than 6 lbs) and cooked it as soon as we got home. Made turkey broth late into the evening, but once it cooled enough I measured out 2-cup portions and poured them into freezer zip locks (qt size) and put them into the freezer laying flat. I don't know why I didn't think of doing that, I read it on some food pantry organization blog. It saves a HUGE amount of freezer space. That's much better than last year when I was using empty yogurt containers for the broth. They take up way too much space.
Given that we eat a lot of turkey (and chicken), I'm still thinking about getting another....but first I've got to re-organize our freezers.
bracketquant
Veteran Member
Freezer bags do save a large amount of space. There's one drawback that I see. If you move things around in the freezer, all things are hard, and can cause small rips and punctures in the bags, rips that are basically unseen. So, when thawing, place the freezer bag in a container, or else you can have a mess...been there, done that.
bracketquant
Veteran Member
Frozen turkeys at .49/lb, Stop and Shop, western Massachusetts. I always get a chuckle out of their tag line, "Honest. Simple. Turkey." from the company...Shady Brook Farms.
This may be the pre-sale sale, where they reduce the price for a few days, then raise it up, then lower it again for about a week, leading up to Thanksgiving.
This may be the pre-sale sale, where they reduce the price for a few days, then raise it up, then lower it again for about a week, leading up to Thanksgiving.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Go back tomorrow and see if there's still huge holes, Aldi did a major reset on all of their stores nationwide yesterday.
I was in our local store yesterday, it looked like a cross between a huge ice storm was coming and a bomb had gone off. Asked the manager what in the world was going on and she said that they got a top down memo/order to reset the entire store, and it was every store that got the memo. There were three trucks waiting at the dock to off load inventory.
The good news is during their reset they moved the produce fridges five feet further into the store, before when you walked into the store there was the fridges, like two feet in, which caused a major gridlock trying to get into the store.
Went back today and the only hole was cranberries and those little canned hams.
I was in ALDI today, and the chocolate section was DECIMATED save for the American brands. I did snap up a few Choceur bars. The canned fruits and vegetables were looking a bit thin, but I wasn't shopping for those. They had gluhwein in stock, and I snapped up a few for the holiday gatherings. The meat cases were well-stocked, but I didn't check prices, as I wasn't shopping for meat. I saw no signs limiting amounts, so that was good. AND.....their Christmas treats were out!!! Dairy and eggs looked thin, too. They did have a bunker full of hams, spiral-sliced and regular, and about a half bunker of Butterball turkeys. Did not check prices of either; sorry. A family member told me that Meijer (SE MI) had store-brand turkeys for .33/lb. Limit of two.
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Was talking with a customer today (farmer). Sometimes field lunches are potted meat or Vienna sausages. He said when he popped the top, the middle sausage was missing.
Okay, I know about shrinking package sizes and all that rot, but really? What are they planning to do with my middle weenie? (Rhetorical question). Add 10 cents to the can and put back my damned middle weenie!
Rant over.
Okay, I know about shrinking package sizes and all that rot, but really? What are they planning to do with my middle weenie? (Rhetorical question). Add 10 cents to the can and put back my damned middle weenie!
Rant over.
von Koehler
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Placed an online order for Friday, so will see what happens.
energy_wave
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I've been using freezer bags for years to put up gallons of bean soup, chili or tomato sauce. They all lay flat, stacked into frozen block, but come apart easy when needed and really use the space in the freezer better than any other method I've used.
thompson
Certa Bonum Certamen
If you fill the bags, then lay them on a baking sheet, then put in the freezer, they won't stick together. Once they're frozen, then you can stack them. I do use a box to stack them in, just because it's easy for them to slip down in the crack between other items.
Today's Aldi ad has Butterball turkeys for 87¢ per pound with limit of two. Butter for $1.99, evaporated milk 69¢, California red grapes 99¢ a pound. Nothing else struck me as a special price. HyVee had the buy whole ham $4.99 lb. and get Honeysuckle turkey $1.58 lb. free. Only other noteworthy item was large eggs for 99¢ a dozen. I only get an abbreviated ad from HyVee in the newspaper with symbols to read on your smart phone to see the rest of specials -- I do not have a smart phone. Fareway also no longer does an ad in the newspaper other than very abbreviated (10 items) in local weekly paper. Fareway turkey up to 14# free with $50 purchase. Guess what, I now seldom go to HyVee or Fareway. I generally have to go to Walmart for other things and have started buying food items there (the ones not available at Aldi). I've gone from I do not like to shop to I hate to shop in the last few months.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Let the managers know that.
bracketquant
Veteran Member
Can't be Springfield, way too neat and clean.
Went shopping today after work. I wanted to pick up some pie filling for mom as she said she can't find any in SC KS. 2.99 for cherry, 1.99 for apple and 3.99 for peach on sale. Normal prices were $5-6/can!!! Of course, I could take her home canned, but that's not what she wants...
Food Lion weekly sales started today. They have frozen turkeys 10lbs or larger for 33 cents a pound with a $35 purchase. I got a 14.49 pound turkey for $5.01. Limit of two. Wanted to make sure I could get a second one in one of my freezers, which I can, so I plan to get another one tomorrow. A number of empty spots in the pasta section, canned vegetables and fruits, snacks, and paper products. Also, my granddaughter is taking a culinary arts class as a freshman in high school and loves it. But, her mom, my daughter, has let her cook ever since she was old enough to stand on a chair beside her and help cook and bake. Her first pumpkin pies she helped make when she was two had a “stray” piece of gum in lost in the pumpkin. My daughter tried to find it before she baked the pies but couldn’t find It. But, that was okay. Her granddaddy found it in his slice.
rafter
Since 1999
I ran into Walmart for a few things today. My store has never looked as empty as it did today. Not even during lockdown!!
Meat was probably the best stocked...however there were only 5 honeysuckle turkeys and no butterball. There was a whole bunker of turkey breasts. Very little fresh chicken.
The rest of the store was empty...really empty. No pasta, no mac and cheese, baking section aisle half gone. Next to no soup. ( there was a guy standing there that had put together 4 cases in his cart.) No canned beans.....I was looking for more canned great northern since I found a killer 'white chicken chili' recipe that I am now addicted to. (glad I picked a bunch up at Aldi) No ketchup. Hardly any canned veggies. Only frozen veggies were broccoli and a few peas...nothing else. No frozen fruit. The convenient freezer aisle had only 1/4-1/3 of normal. Most was empty. Same with the aisle with the fries, and pies...same as empty. There was no head lettuce and the rest of the produce wasn't all that full. Very few of their deli take and bake pizza and the case where they keep sandwiches was also empty. The only aisle that looked normal was the Christmas candy aisle.
I also noticed that no one was stocking except one aisle that just had a cart of stuff. No pallets sitting anywhere so that means they just didn't have any back stock at all. There were a lot of employees shopping for the grocery pick up.
The more I walked thru the store the more depressed I got. Not only the higher prices, but the fact that it just wasn't there.
Another thing is there is no sign of Christmas in that end of the store. No tree when you walked in, no Christmas signage, and no Christmas music playing. (From working years ago at Walmart....all that stuff should be up as soon as Halloween is over.).
Meat was probably the best stocked...however there were only 5 honeysuckle turkeys and no butterball. There was a whole bunker of turkey breasts. Very little fresh chicken.
The rest of the store was empty...really empty. No pasta, no mac and cheese, baking section aisle half gone. Next to no soup. ( there was a guy standing there that had put together 4 cases in his cart.) No canned beans.....I was looking for more canned great northern since I found a killer 'white chicken chili' recipe that I am now addicted to. (glad I picked a bunch up at Aldi) No ketchup. Hardly any canned veggies. Only frozen veggies were broccoli and a few peas...nothing else. No frozen fruit. The convenient freezer aisle had only 1/4-1/3 of normal. Most was empty. Same with the aisle with the fries, and pies...same as empty. There was no head lettuce and the rest of the produce wasn't all that full. Very few of their deli take and bake pizza and the case where they keep sandwiches was also empty. The only aisle that looked normal was the Christmas candy aisle.
I also noticed that no one was stocking except one aisle that just had a cart of stuff. No pallets sitting anywhere so that means they just didn't have any back stock at all. There were a lot of employees shopping for the grocery pick up.
The more I walked thru the store the more depressed I got. Not only the higher prices, but the fact that it just wasn't there.
Another thing is there is no sign of Christmas in that end of the store. No tree when you walked in, no Christmas signage, and no Christmas music playing. (From working years ago at Walmart....all that stuff should be up as soon as Halloween is over.).
Roadgeek
Contributing Member
Where are you located? And were there dry Great Northern beans? My wife suggests cooking them in a crock pot.
Tristan
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Kraft Heinz, Mondelez Plan to Hike Prices for Popular Snacks and Sweets amid Rising Inflation: Report
Kraft Heinz and Mondelez plan to raise prices on a number of their classic consumer favorites for retail customers beginning next year due to strong demand, supply constraints and rising production costs.finance.yahoo.com
Kraft Heinz and Mondelez plan to raise prices on a number of their classic consumer favorites for retail customers beginning next year due to strong demand, supply constraints and rising production costs.
In a letter to a regional distributor to grocery stores obtained by CNN Business, Kraft Heinz said it plans to raise prices on hundreds of items beginning on January 9, including varieties of Jell-O gelatin and pudding, which will jump from anywhere between 7 percent and 16 percent, and Bagel Bites frozen snacks, which will see an increase of roughly 10 percent. Meanwhile, Cool Whip topping varieties will see an increase of 7 to 10 percent. The cost of EZ Mac will rise 3.5 percent, while a 7.25-ounce dish of Kraft Big Bowl Mac & Cheese will see a 20 percent price hike.
*COUGH**COUGH*DollarDillution*COUGH**COUGH*
rafter
Since 1999
Central Missouri. There were very few dried beans and no larger bags of rice...only the small bags and the boxed instant variety.
I wanted canned northern to put in the white chicken chili that I cook in a crockpot. I used the dried variety for ham and beans.
Tristan
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school marm
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I had to make the weekly grocery run earlier than usual today. This Smith's in NE NV is in the midst of a remodel, a never-ending remodel. They started replacing the flooring over two months ago and have barely finished 10% of the store. But they are moving absolutely everything around, which doesn't make much sense to me. So it's harder for me to find holes. It has been very nice to stock up on items they have decided to discontinue and have priced accordingly.
Deli meat was just a little thin. Cooking oil had only about half of what it should. TP and PT were super well stocked. There were just over a dozen turkeys, but lots of huge containers of peanut oil to deep fry them in. Frozen potato products looked a bit better this week, but still thin. At least they had bags for the fresh produce, and people have finally stopped eating their change so that we no longer have to have exact change when checking out.
Deli meat was just a little thin. Cooking oil had only about half of what it should. TP and PT were super well stocked. There were just over a dozen turkeys, but lots of huge containers of peanut oil to deep fry them in. Frozen potato products looked a bit better this week, but still thin. At least they had bags for the fresh produce, and people have finally stopped eating their change so that we no longer have to have exact change when checking out.
SouthernBreeze
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Is anyone having problems with finding pre-made pumpkin and pecan pies? Our local Sam's has been out for several weeks, and I don't expect them to have any soon, especially before Thanksgiving. I have a load of cooking to do for Thanksgiving meal, and I'm wanting to just buy the pies already made. I can't find any at Walmarts, either. All they have are sweet potato and apple.
Jubilee on Earth
Veteran Member
Have you looked in the freezer section? Marie Callender’s pies are pretty good.
SouthernBreeze
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All out at my local Walmart. I've looked several places. I like the big ones at Sam's best, though, since I have a large group to please.
Roadgeek
Contributing Member
I have a question. How long can bleach, such as Clorox, be stored? I've read that bleach decomposes, and that at some point it's simply salt water. What kind of timeframe are we looking at? And is there such a thing as powdered bleach? Something you could add water to and you have liquid bleach?
Marseydoats
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Do you have Food Lion? Mine had them on an endcap, not with the regular frozen pies, and they didn't have many of them.
Good luck!
SouthernBreeze
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No we don't. Small town here has only Walmart and Food Giant. I'll be going to big town next week, and will check again at Sam's. I may have to scour the town if Sam's is still out. There is another Walmart right beside Sam's that I can check, too. I should have bought them when I had the chance, but life got in the way at the time.
I was in Von's (Safeway) yesterday to pick up a loaf of my favorite bread. It's the store brand, which is Signature, and it's usually $1.99 a loaf. (A month ago it was 1.79.) Anyway, today it was $2.49. if I'm not mistaken that is a 25% increase in a couple of days! That is just one example of price increases.
Being preppers, all of us here on TB2K are making a very good ROI on our food purchases.
If we had put our food prep money in the bank a few months ago we would have gotten diddly in interest and inflation would have gobbled it up. If your friends and family are dragging their feet on prepping tell them they would be money ahead. That might convince them
Being preppers, all of us here on TB2K are making a very good ROI on our food purchases.
If we had put our food prep money in the bank a few months ago we would have gotten diddly in interest and inflation would have gobbled it up. If your friends and family are dragging their feet on prepping tell them they would be money ahead. That might convince them 6 months is all they guaranteed it for. We had to replace it every 6 months when we were using it in the dairy. You can buy tablets at Walmart... there are 30 tabs in a small plastic bottle, and it's the equivalent, of 2 1/2 gallons. They store very well.
Summerthyme
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psychgirl
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My sister does this too. It works great!
rafter
Since 1999
Head to an Amish store. The ones near me had tons of cabbage.I couldn't find cabbage of all things here in NEKS/NWMO... and the wholesale grocer I'm going to try doesn't even bother to list prices, as they change so rapidly
rafter
Since 1999
Real
bracketquant
Veteran Member
Hopefully in a few weeks it will be back to the new normal for you, with only a few things out.
Here, it seems that people are looking at items on shelves, and if fully stocked they keep on walking. If any item is low in quantity, they impulsively grab it. I think their shopping list is simply "buy the rest".
John Deere Girl
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I wanted to get more Downy fabric softener from Walmart today. I buy the biggest container. They were out, so I checked Amazon. What I paid $9.99 for last month is now $20. No thanks.
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