FOOD Report food & grocery shortages / price increases here: 2022 Edition

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packyderms_wife

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SouthernBreeze said:
I buy regular groceries twice a month. I buy from Sam's twice a month. Hope that clears up any confusion from my earlier comments. $400-$450 each time twice a month regular groceries, and $200+ each time twice a month at Sam's.

edited to add.....This also includes extra food and items for storage. Dog food and treats, too.
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I'd say that these numbers reflect our household as well, though we shop weekly for the most part and like I said up thread buy non-food or bulk food items, quarterly. We don't use coupons, but do shop the sales and loss leaders.
 
Redcat

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Well I did my weekly slog in Walmart today. There were some gaps and some big price increases.

The Folgers teabag coffee I keep on hand for that odd cup, is now up to $9.72. It used to be around $6.00. There was almost zero Folgers ground, only two small cans of half caff and 3 medium cans of black silk. There were plenty of k cups available, but I hated my keurig and tossed it out.

Their bakery bread which has been a dollar for ages went up to $1.47.

Sugar and flour was picked over badly, but some could be had. Milk was pounded, as was eggs. There was some, but the more expensive type.

I paid $3.48 for a HALF POUND of land o lakes butter. That's two sticks. There were no pounds available. I don't like the great value butter, but at this rate I may learn to like it.

The soda aisle was barren. I almost bought a 12 pack of blackberry gingerale, it sounded so good. But I didn't.

The choice of bagels was onion or everything. I got onion.

The house brand of turkey lunchmeat was $10.94 a pound :eek: I got a half a pound.

It was an ugly trip. Two bags of items for $73.00.
 
ainitfunny

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GASES are manufactured locally out of AIR.
I don't understand a "national shortage" .
 
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SouthernBreeze said:
I buy regular groceries twice a month. I buy from Sam's twice a month. Hope that clears up any confusion from my earlier comments. $400-$450 each time twice a month regular groceries, and $200+ each time twice a month at Sam's.

edited to add.....This also includes extra food and items for storage. Dog food and treats, too.
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Breeze I just dropped about $850 at Sams in Tupelo to get my daughter more stocked up. Hope it helps your local economy.
 
nomifyle

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Redcat said:
Well I did my weekly slog in Walmart today. There were some gaps and some big price increases.

The Folgers teabag coffee I keep on hand for that odd cup, is now up to $9.72. It used to be around $6.00. There was almost zero Folgers ground, only two small cans of half caff and 3 medium cans of black silk. There were plenty of k cups available, but I hated my keurig and tossed it out.

Their bakery bread which has been a dollar for ages went up to $1.47.

Sugar and flour was picked over badly, but some could be had. Milk was pounded, as was eggs. There was some, but the more expensive type.

I paid $3.48 for a HALF POUND of land o lakes butter. That's two sticks. There were no pounds available. I don't like the great value butter, but at this rate I may learn to like it.

The soda aisle was barren. I almost bought a 12 pack of blackberry gingerale, it sounded so good. But I didn't.

The choice of bagels was onion or everything. I got onion.

The house brand of turkey lunchmeat was $10.94 a pound :eek: I got a half a pound.

It was an ugly trip. Two bags of items for $73.00.
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I’ve been buying Kerrygold butter for years, it’s 3.66 for two sticks, I’ve learned to like the Walmart brand @ 3.58 for 4 sticks. It’s better than no butter.
 
von Koehler

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Filling out my monthly Walmart online order and was shocked to find out that Minute Maid frozen concentrate orange juice was no longer available.

Not just out of stock but doesn't even come up on searches nevermore. Also removed from my past purchases and favorites files.

They did have the ready to drink carton versions.

I prefer having frozen so I can make it up whenever and not having to worry about it spoiling.
 
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packyderms_wife

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Neither here nor there.
Love is: When you forget you wrote some ingredients on the shopping list and you get a phone call. :lol:

Turns out Aldi has an avocado oil for dressings, and an avocado oil for high heat dishes, aka stir fry.

So he come with one of each, and a small bottle of grape seed oil.

Thank you Aldi!
 
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Barry Natchitoches

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When I was first taking over full responsibility for cooking for the two of us, I bought alot of meal “kits” because of not having much experience cooking from scratch.

One such type kit was a dehydrated potato dish - very popular in the Mormon community - called Funeral Potatoes.

It is a cheesy potato casserole type dish, which got its name because folks would often bring it to grieving families after the funeral of a loved one.

Anyway, Arguson Farms actually markets Funeral Potatoes - by that name.

Two years ago, I bought a bunch of packets of Arguson Farms Funeral Potatoes.

They were $4.99 a packet on Amazon.

Well, I have fixed all I bought two years ago, and decided to buy some more.

Amazon’s current price: $7.99.


i decided that I am a big boy now, and think I will make them from scratch from here on out...
 
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Marseydoats

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von Koehler said:
Filling out my monthly Walmart online order and was shocked to find out that Minute Maid frozen concentrate orange juice was no longer available.

Not just out of stock but doesn't even come up on searches nevermore. Also removed from my past purchases and favorites files.

They did have the ready to drink carton versions.

I prefer having frozen so I can make it up whenever and not having to worry about it spoiling.
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The Wm store brand OJ is not bad. I don't think it's as good as Aldi's, but our Aldi's hasn't had any OJ in over 2 years --- and yes, I have complained.
 
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anna43

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I like Aldi OJ and they have had it every time I've shopped. I also like Aldi butter although I'll buy Fareway or HyVee brands if they are on sale. I generally don't buy food at Walmart although there are a few items of the Walmart brand I prefer such as the Multi-Grain crackers and French bread from the bakery. I do buy a lot of my otc supplies there including vitamins and supplements and a few meds.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Barry Natchitoches said:
When I was first taking over full responsibility for cooking for the two of us, I bought alot of meal “kits” because of not having much experience cooking from scratch.

One such type kit was a dehydrated potato dish - very popular in the Mormon community - called Funeral Potatoes.

It is a cheesy potato casserole type dish, which got its name because folks would often bring it to grieving families after the funeral of a loved one.

Anyway, Arguson Farms actually markets Funeral Potatoes - by that name.

Two years ago, I bought a bunch of packets of Arguson Farms Funeral Potatoes.

They were $4.99 a packet on Amazon.

Well, I have fixed all I bought two years ago, and decided to buy some more.

Amazon’s current price: $7.99.


i decided that I am a big boy now, and think I will make them from scratch from here on out...
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Add pimento cheese to your funeral potatoes and you will have Hallelujah potatoes! Yeah it's a thing up here in scandanavian country as is corn bread made with pimento cheese and that's called cornbread pudding.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
anna43 said:
I like Aldi OJ and they have had it every time I've shopped. I also like Aldi butter although I'll buy Fareway or HyVee brands if they are on sale. I generally don't buy food at Walmart although there are a few items of the Walmart brand I prefer such as the Multi-Grain crackers and French bread from the bakery. I do buy a lot of my otc supplies there including vitamins and supplements and a few meds.
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I buy all of my rutabagas, parsnips, and turnips from WM because it's the only place in town that doesn't sell them encased in wax.
 
nomifyle

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DH loves strawberry rhubarb pie. Lucky Leaf has a canned filling. I've bought it in the past for just under $3, last time I looked it was 3.18 and today its 6.98. Fortunately for Dh I have several cans. Rhubarb is just about impossible to grow in my neck of the woods.
 
SusieSunshine

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I made a run to the food bank this morning. Very few cars were there. The items I received were unusual.

The items either had a best by date of a couple days ago or 3 years from now. Quantity was low, 3 small boxes.

For example: 2 boxes of generic cereal, hazel nuts, sunflower seed, slim jims, gummy bears, milk, broth, eggs, pasta, grapes.

I do appreciate what I received.
 
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Barry Natchitoches

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SusieSunshine said:
I made a run to the food bank this morning. Very few cars were there. The items I received were unusual.

The items either had a best by date of a couple days ago or 3 years from now. Quantity was low, 3 small boxes.

For example: 2 boxes of generic cereal, hazel nuts, sunflower seed, slim jims, gummy bears, milk, broth, eggs, pasta, grapes.

I do appreciate what I received.
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I also use the mobile pantry food bank service from time to time, and I did one in early July where we were given only four items: a 2 pound bag of frozen perch, a box of Post’s Fruity Pebbles cereal, a bag containing 6 small apples, and and a small bag of red hot flavored puffs (sort of like cheese puffs, but favored with a very hot, red powder instead.

Then, the very next week, I went to another mobile food pantry event where they gave me 40 pounds of frozen, Tyson chicken thighs and several heads of lettuce - among many other things.

I think nowadays, what you get is directly tied in with what the latest truck brought in.
 
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WalknTrot

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So it was an errand day this morning..I had to go over to the town hall to vote in the primary anyway (N MN) and must say...given what happened to the Trumps last night, I was more than happy and relieved to be able to vote for a strong Constitutionalist/businessman/gun shop/range owner for sheriff. He may lack in direct administrative experience, but his heart is in the right place..the People, and our God-given Rights.

Anyway...had to run to the bigger town Walmart pharmacy drive-thru to pick up a script, and holy cats...was like a 4th of July parade running in and out of the parking lot. Back to school shopping is in full force. I didn't darken the doors.

Then to the local/regional grocery chain to take advantage of the sales and get some fresh produce. I came home with 4.5lb of good hand-sliced slab bacon, 3 lb. of fresh ground pork sausage, a nice 2.5 lb. boneless pork roast and 2.5 lb. of beef sirloin tip steak - 12.5 lb. total for $42.48 - avg. less than $3.50/lb. - I ain't complaining. Will probably stop back there for more bacon, sirloin and pork roasts later in the week.
 
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bracketquant

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It's been several weeks since I last went to WalMart. They finally have a good supply of boneless skinless chicken breast. They must have had two separate shipments arrive at about the same time. With the exact same packaging, some were priced at $2.68/lb, and others priced at $3.24/lb. I'll stick with leg quarters at the new price of .77/lb.
 
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WalknTrot

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Did a combo feed run, trip for gas, the dump and Walmart pickup this morning. Feed was expensive. Worse every time. Gas was down to $3.78/gal (unleaded) and the dagnabbed (next)county dump isn't checking ID's/addresses anymore like they were over Covid. YaY! Though the pirates did charge me $9.00 to dispose of one small microwave. :rolleyes: No wonder people throw stuff on the side of the road.

Anyway...Walmart. They had everything I ordered, including produce, frozen stuff, canned goods, and the 10 lb bags of chicken quarters had gone down in price to $6.92/bag. They actually had a lot of chicken in stock, though I wasn't buying anything but the cheap stuff. Been slowly adding canned goods and household stuff to the pantry for winter with each order. Canned tomatoes, pasta sauce, canned vegetables & fruit, canned milk, baked beans, peanut butter, vinegar, mustard and ketchup, basic spices, dried fruit, pickles, preserves and jam that I don't make myself but like to have around for variety. Laundry soap, dish soap, dishwasher soap. Doing it all early this year.

For an experiment, I bought a can of the Great Value brand bacon luncheon meat (Bacon-SPAM knockoff). Just opened it now and it tastes pretty decent. The house is warm at about 80, but it seems a little more fatty, gelatin-y, less dense than regular SPAM. You can for sure taste the bacon, and I'll do the real test by frying it up for breakfast tomorrow. The ingredients are basically the same, though not identical or in the same order on the can. Nutritional info identical except WM brand has 1% more fat and 10 more calories/serving - same sodium. For $1.98/can, I think it will find a place for itself on the shelf. That's pretty darned cheap shelf-stable breakfast, soup/beans or sandwich meat.
 
SouthernBreeze

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Hopefully, Wednesday, I'll be able to make another big grocery run. I'm getting really concerned about all these food shortages...... potatoes, corn, tomatoes, etc. We didn't have a large garden this year, so we're mostly dependent on the grocery store. Right now, we're at the mercy of higher prices on top of all the shortages that are soon to plague us. I hope next year, we can grow and produce more of our own food.

From what I heard over the weekend, there are still no shortages here, but the prices continue to rise.
 
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bracketquant

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WalknTrot said:
Did a combo feed run, trip for gas, the dump and Walmart pickup this morning. Feed was expensive. Worse every time. Gas was down to $3.78/gal (unleaded) and the dagnabbed (next)county dump isn't checking ID's/addresses anymore like they were over Covid. YaY! Though the pirates did charge me $9.00 to dispose of one small microwave. :rolleyes: No wonder people throw stuff on the side of the road.

Anyway...Walmart. They had everything I ordered, including produce, frozen stuff, canned goods, and the 10 lb bags of chicken quarters had gone down in price to $6.92/bag. They actually had a lot of chicken in stock, though I wasn't buying anything but the cheap stuff. Been slowly adding canned goods and household stuff to the pantry for winter with each order. Canned tomatoes, pasta sauce, canned vegetables & fruit, canned milk, baked beans, peanut butter, vinegar, mustard and ketchup, basic spices, dried fruit, pickles, preserves and jam that I don't make myself but like to have around for variety. Laundry soap, dish soap, dishwasher soap. Doing it all early this year.

For an experiment, I bought a can of the Great Value brand bacon luncheon meat (Bacon-SPAM knockoff). Just opened it now and it tastes pretty decent. The house is warm at about 80, but it seems a little more fatty, gelatin-y, less dense than regular SPAM. You can for sure taste the bacon, and I'll do the real test by frying it up for breakfast tomorrow. The ingredients are basically the same, though not identical or in the same order on the can. Nutritional info identical except WM brand has 1% more fat and 10 more calories/serving - same sodium. For $1.98/can, I think it will find a place for itself on the shelf. That's pretty darned cheap shelf-stable breakfast, soup/beans or sandwich meat.
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The latest ploy at WalMart seems to be to take the absolute lowest priced item of a product line, and lower it. That will get the penny pinchers in the doors. Meanwhile, they raise the prices on everything else in that line of products. The lowest priced one sells out quickly, so most people then buy the higher priced items.
 
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bracketquant said:
The latest ploy at WalMart seems to be to take the absolute lowest priced item of a product line, and lower it. That will get the penny pinchers in the doors. Meanwhile, they raise the prices on everything else in that line of products. The lowest priced one sells out quickly, so most people then buy the higher priced items.
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Good reason to do the curbside pickup. If they don't have something they claim they had, they give you a higher priced substitute for the same money. :)
 
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Barry Natchitoches

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SouthernBreeze said:
Hopefully, Wednesday, I'll be able to make another big grocery run. I'm getting really concerned about all these food shortages...... potatoes, corn, tomatoes, etc. We didn't have a large garden this year, so we're mostly dependent on the grocery store. Right now, we're at the mercy of higher prices on top of all the shortages that are soon to plague us. I hope next year, we can grow and produce more of our own food.

From what I heard over the weekend, there are still no shortages here, but the prices continue to rise.
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I am not seeing those shortages in my neck of the woods yet, either, Southern Breeze.

In fact, I was not even aware that there was a tomato shortage anywhere, till I read it on this website.

I cooked a tomato based, homemade vegetable soup last night, using toms from my garden. I had no idea that there was a shortage when I made that soup, not that it would have made much difference.

But I guess I will look a little more carefully at tomatoes I give my chickens. If it is a “human quality” tomato, I am figuring I might hold it back and share it with another human, if tomatoes are in short supply.
 
von Koehler

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Getting ready to make an online, pickup order with Walmart.

Trouble is I have been watching carefully but my favorite peanut butter (Smucker's chunky 26 ounce) has been out of stock for over three weeks now.

Even Amazon doesn't have it, except for third party scrapers at ridiculous prices.
 
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bracketquant

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WalknTrot said:
Good reason to do the curbside pickup. If they don't have something they claim they had, they give you a higher priced substitute for the same money. :)
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Yet I've done a bit of checking (I'm not going to go into detail). WalMart online CLAIMS to NOT have things in stock, yet they have it in stores. Also, they have online listed prices, yet in-store the prices are lower. I'll stick with traveling once or twice a month the 1 mile to the physical store, and stocking up on the bargains never listed online.
 
ainitfunny

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Rebel_Yell said:
Old folks like me are easily confused.

www.merriam-webster.com

On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'

Sorry, not sorry
www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com

On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'
Sorry, not sorry



Look up the adjective biweekly in this dictionary and you will see it defined as "occurring every two weeks" AND as "occurring twice a week." Similarly, the adjective bimonthly is defined as "occurring every two months" AND as "occurring twice a month."
For this, we are sorry. But we don't mean "sorry" in the sense that we feel penitence; we are not to blame. We mean "sorry" in the sense that we feel a kind of sorrow aroused by circumstances beyond our control or power to repair.

For, as anyone who pays attention to our work surely recognizes, we are at the mercy of the language. We diligently record the English lexicon in both its measured expansions and its wild proliferations, and any insistence by us that it favor the former over the latter is as whispers into a gale. Biweekly and bimonthly each have a pair of meanings that are unhelpfully at odds with one another. Those meanings exist, and we cannot ignore them.

The problem lies in the prefix bi-: it means (among other things) both "coming or occurring every two," AND "coming or occurring two times." This too is a long-established fact that we cannot ignore. English is sometimes simply obstreperous.

However intractable the English language may at times be, it can be helpful to remember just the many cases in which the language is not ambiguous, in which its offerings include words that refer to precise gradations or fine distinctions.

One such case, sort of, is very similar to the cases at hand: the language offers us biannual for "twice a year" and biennial for "every two years." This is useful and elegant, but, alas, also frequently botched, with biannual so frequently used to mean "every two years" that we've had to enter that meaning in our dictionaries. But here another solution is readily available: skip biannual altogether and use in its place the common semiannual.

Ah, semi-! Just as a semicircle cuts a circle in half, so too does the prefix semi- semantically cut what it is affixed to in half: semiweekly means unambiguously two times per week; semimonthly means two times per month; semiannual means two times per year. It's an excellent option, and one that many writers seem to embrace; we most often see bimonthly and biweekly reserved for their "every two" meanings.

Another solution is to avoid the bi- compounds altogether and come right out with it: "twice a week," "every other month."

As writer or speaker, you can choose to avoid ambiguity by using a semi- compound when you mean "two times per," or by using a phrase instead of a single word. In fact, so fraught is this territory that you'd do well to make sure that your context explains just what you mean when you use any of these bi- compounds: "Employees are paid bimonthly, on the first and third Fridays of the month."
But what about when you're at the mercy of English as it's wielded by others? Well, when you are a reader or listener, we're afraid the best you can do is to approach biweekly and bimonthly with a bit of side-eye—and perhaps the kind of sorrow aroused by circumstances beyond your control or power to repair.
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Rebel_Yell said "Old folks like me are easily confused"
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Yea, but at least the old folks once knew, and if you jog their memory they'll remember, the young folks, never were taught it (like how you read an analog clock or sign your own name in cursive) so they are just ignorant, not confused.
 
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WM was putting out Christmas toys this morning, they were everywhere. They usually put them in the garden center, but they were staging them in the center of the store. There were 5 aisles of school supplies, so that, combined with all the space those toys were taking up, is a heck of a lot of other things that they don't have. They re-arrange, and widen the store aisles every week, so it is really hard to find things.
 
ainitfunny

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Marseydoats said:
WM was putting out Christmas toys this morning, they were everywhere. They usually put them in the garden center, but they were staging them in the center of the store. There were 5 aisles of school supplies, so that, combined with all the space those toys were taking up, is a heck of a lot of other things that they don't have. They re-arrange, and widen the store aisles every week, so it is really hard to find things.
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Congratulations, MOST People don't catch what ISN'T there, as long as there's lots of stuff to see. like Communist TV, ITS packed with LOTS of (mediocre) ENTERTAINMENT but very little news that matters, unless you watch the agricultural news, or are into in depth weather, sports news is their biggie.
 
SouthernBreeze

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We went to Walmart this morning. The only shortage I saw were 10 lb bags of jumbo russet potatoes. There were none, but there were other size bags and types that were plentiful. Small Town, MS.

Because of the talk of worsening food shortages, we bought lots of extra for food storage, today, on top of our regular grocery shopping. We have no idea what this winter is going to bring, and we both wanted to get it while it was still available to get. Granted, we can't afford to do this every time we grocery shop, but we did jump in, and make a big push of it, today. I already have a stocked pantry, so where to put everything is going to be a problem. BUT, it's a problem I don't mind having. I'll figure it out.
 
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The baby food shelves at a local chain drug store were empty. Went to stores the drug store and a chain grocery store. No bottles of hydrogen peroxide.
 
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