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

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Barry Natchitoches

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I went shopping at Aldi’s today. I didn’t see any big holes, but there was only about 10 whole gallons of milk and about 15 gallons of 2% milk - and that is less than an hour after they opened in the morning.

I spent almost $19 (including required taxes, of course) for the following items:

One gallon of whole milk
3 loaves of 12 grain bread
2 (24 ounce) containers of cottage cheese
1 head of fresh cauliflower
 
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zeker

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PinkRoses said:
The corn I've been getting from Publix (4/$2) has been exceptionally good this year! I usually buy a whole watermelon even though I'm alone, because it's cheaper for a whole one than that rip-off price on a container of pieces which often runs $7-8 vs. $5-6 for a whole melon. If it's a big one I share with a neighbor who has been very nice to me.

Unfortunately the melons have been either nasty or tasteless the last few years, so I won't bother anymore - my "watermelon" now is frozen pops made with watermelon. (Jonny Pops are excellent!) Before the scamdemic there used to be a Mexican guy with a pickup full of watermelons (and sometimes corn too) that he'd park in a strip shopping center a few days every week. His melons were amazing - tasted just like they used to when I was a kid, and a big one was only $5. I hope he's OK - I miss him and his melons. :(
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I think it was he, who had the corn

and the wife had the melons??? :shr: :whistle: :rdog:
 
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Terrwyn

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The Mexican markets around me in CA high desert have those giant watermelons with seeds that are so good.
I dont know if they are coming from Mexico or Ca's Imperial Valley where they grow the best cantaloupe.
We been getting the yellow and white combo sweet corn too that is very fresh. Otherwise prices just keep going up.
Gave my neighbor some bacon from my freezer because it is 10 bucks and up now and most packages are 12 oz.
 
TxGal

TxGal

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packyderms_wife said:
The sweet corn we’ve bought so far this year has been nasty. The people I see buying melon slices are seniors,I get that if you live alone and don’t eat much a whole melon isn’t worth the price.
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The sweet corn we saw at a Krogers this week was 4 for $2.00, and the husk was dry and tan, not lush and green as usual. I was so shocked I peeled back the top a bit, and the corn was shriveling.
 
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rafter

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The secret to good sweet corn is if the store keeps it cold. Once it is hot and/or dry the sweetness is gone.

It needs to be picked then iced. Olathe sweet corn has it down to a science and that is why it is so darn good. It is iced as it comes out of the field. Most stores that handle it know that it has to be kept cold.
 
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Nich1

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rafter said:
The secret to good sweet corn is if the store keeps it cold. Once it is hot and/or dry the sweetness is gone.
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The secret to finding good sweet corn. Pull back the husk a little. Push a fingernail into a kernel. If it is juicy, it will probably be good. If it squirts the juice, it will be VERY good. If the juice is absent or thick, do not buy. YMMV.
 
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Nich1 said:
The secret to finding good sweet corn. Pull back the husk a little. Push a fingernail into a kernel. If it is juicy, it will probably be good. If it squirts the juice, it will be VERY good. If the juice is absent or thick, do not buy. YMMV.
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Yes... but then lick the juice from your finger! If it's sweet, buy it. If not... it's been too long since it was picked.

Summerthyme
 
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anna43

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I live in Iowa and I am a sweet corn snob. I will not buy it in a store. It is always available locally in season and I buy and freeze it then. The last few years someone has brought a pickup load to church and we can take what we want for free. A blessing of corn and kindness. Unless I can figure out a way to keep raccoons out of my garden I cannot grow it myself. Last time I tried the coons cleared the entire patch the night before I was planning to pick.
 
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Deanne

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anna43 said:
I live in Iowa and I am a sweet corn snob. I will not buy it in a store. It is always available locally in season and I buy and freeze it then. The last few years someone has brought a pickup load to church and we can take what we want for free. A blessing of corn and kindness. Unless I can figure out a way to keep raccoons out of my garden I cannot grow it myself. Last time I tried the coons cleared the entire patch the night before I was planning to pick.
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We put 2 rounds of electric wire around mine.
 
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amazon

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The prices at our Aldi's are now comparable to WM and Kroger. I wanted to make strawberry pretzel salad. WM had ZERO frozen strawberries of any kind. I also couldn't find sunflower seeds. While out today several people commented to me about cost and shortages. People are definitely noticing.
 
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PinkRoses

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I don't recall if anyone else mentioned him, but there's a guy on YouTube - SouthernPrepper1 - who does a video twice a day on shortages and price increases all over the country - he reports what info people send him. It's not too bad here, but it's really scary in some parts of the country.
 
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parsonswife

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PinkRoses said:
I don't recall if anyone else mentioned him, but there's a guy on YouTube - SouthernPrepper1 - who does a video twice a day on shortages and price increases all over the country - he reports what info people send him. It's not too bad here, but it's really scary in some parts of the country.
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I started a thread a month ago with him and there is is an ongoing thread put up by Hfcomm where he has the videos listed as "Boots on the ground"
 
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PinkRoses

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parsonswife said:
I started a thread a month ago with him and there is is an ongoing thread put up by Hfcomm where he has the videos listed as "Boots on the ground"
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Yeah, that's it. He's now getting so many reports that he's doing two videos a day, morning and evening.

I've seen very few shortages here (TN Valley), although Publix was out of cherries which were advertised as being on sale, and there was some fronting, especially on the cereal aisle, and a few bare shelves on the cereal aisle. They had loads of Cheerios, which were BOGO. One thing they didn't have at all was fresh flowers - I always enjoy looking at them as the floral section is right by the ladies' room - but the other day there were NONE - only a few plants.

The most noticable thing here is stores and restaurants closed or with greatly reduced hours due to a lack of workers. I can't help but wonder where everyone is - the $600 weekly checks stopped long ago, so how are people supporting themselves? Or are a lot more dying from the clot shot than we're being told, even on alternate news sources? One place that's NEVER short of business is the funeral home down the block - there are now as many funerals in a week as there used to be in a month. Other people I've spoken to in the area who live near funeral homes have said the same thing.
 
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moldy

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DH made a grocery run for me. The produce paks that are $15 used to be a brown paper grocery bag full - now it's about 1/2 full. He bought me some baby food prunes - $2 for two 2 ounce containers. I did notice when I shopped Friday, many of the frozen foods were low on stock - and higher in price of course.
 
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