Ordinary Girl
Veteran Member
I’m so excited! My little town is getting an Aldi! Grand opening is tomorrow. Now I’ll know what y’all are talking about when you report on aldi shopping.
FOOD Report food & grocery shortages / price increases here: 2022 Edition
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skwentnaflyer
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Why do you think they put it in MRE's?
skwentnaflyer
Veteran Member
How is the strawberry Frosty? Haven't been out to eat lately, but curious.Let me tell you weird. It's flippin' hot out there - in the 90s. I went to the post office after closing, because I had to drop a package in the bin. No one around; parking lot empty. A car drives up with an older couple in it; they stepped out of their car, both wearing masks. They went into the post office to get a package from a locker, got into their car, and drove off...both still with masks on! I couldn't help but wonder if they wear them at home with each other. It's so hard to resist the impulse to bleat at these foolish people!I did see a few other sheeple wearing them, but not too many - maybe 4-5 others between Publix and Trader Joe's.
Trader Joe's actually dropped some prices - the blueberry muffins were 50 cents lower, and $3.99 cookies were now $2.99. The imported Italian pasta was well stocked and still 99 cents for a one pound bag and the Pound Plus imported Belgian chocolate bars are still $4.99 for 19 oz. I didn't notice any price increases, but they were out of pizza dough - one of my main reasons for going.
For those of you looking for canning supplies, Publix (TN Valley area) was very well stocked - that had lots of jars in all sizes. I don't know anything about canning but got into a conversation with two ladies who were buying jars and asked them if the price was good. They said the price was about 50% higher than last year, but still better than other places, assuming other places even had them. As so often happens, we got into a conversation about Jesus' soon return. People are waking up!
I had lunch at Wendy's; they've been open for eat-in, but now are back to drive-thru only. I got my chicken sandwich and a free one for dinner, because I did the survey on the back of my last receipt - it was a full-sized sandwich, so I saved around $6 and got two meals for about $10, including the new strawberry Frosty. I thanked the young lady at the window and told her she was much appreciated; she broke into a big smile said I made her day. That's something you all might want to consider doing - give some encouragement to those who do bother showing up for work; maybe it'll keep them from giving up and quitting!
No. I was just referring to all those Twitter things MzKitty follows.So you're saying that the news I've been posting here isn't real?
Hot sauce, chili pastes, I was looking for some and found it at the Thai and Korean grocery stores here in town. One of the things I learned when I had international student roomies is that hot sauce and chili sauce can cover up a multitude of gross or boring food dishes.
OC finally found some malt vinegar, I now feel like my vinegar collection is complete. And he agreed that brown rice vinegar and malt vinegar do NOT taste the same!
PinkRoses
Contributing Member
It was pretty good, and I'd get it again, but the vanilla is still my favorite.
Went to the local H-E-B for a semi-major shop today. All the items that I either had to decide on by personally looking, or things I didn’t trust the “remote shoppers” to pick according to my standards. I had what two years ago would’ve been $100 of food. Cost was $160.
Also noted that summer produce, in particular fresh fruit, is still VERY expensive. For example, black cherries are normally about $2.98/lb by now; they were $4.98. Other fruit like peaches and plums, were similar. I’ve never seen plums for $4.98/lb ever, at any time of year. But that’s what they were.
One woman had a cart (buggy to you Southron weirdos - lol) heaped high. I commented on all that food. She told me she was throwing a big birthday party for a bunch of kids. I joked that I bet her food bill would be $250 for that cartfull. She answered back that she bet it’d be more like $400. She wasn’t smiling when she said it.
It’s very scary out there.
Also noted that summer produce, in particular fresh fruit, is still VERY expensive. For example, black cherries are normally about $2.98/lb by now; they were $4.98. Other fruit like peaches and plums, were similar. I’ve never seen plums for $4.98/lb ever, at any time of year. But that’s what they were.
One woman had a cart (buggy to you Southron weirdos - lol) heaped high. I commented on all that food. She told me she was throwing a big birthday party for a bunch of kids. I joked that I bet her food bill would be $250 for that cartfull. She answered back that she bet it’d be more like $400. She wasn’t smiling when she said it.
It’s very scary out there.
Actually, they just waxed the concrete floor and polished it. They didn’t resurface it.
There was a nationwide recall of Jif. Some kind of contamination.
Loretta Van Riet
Trying to hang out with the cool kids.
Bring a quarter!
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Black aka bing cherries are averaging $6.99 a pound here in central Iowa. The cherry crop was hit an$ hat this year. We have a large sour cherry tree in our front yard, the hard freezes in May means we got a total of eight cherries from our tree.
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I love that place. Travel-size everything for bug-out bags, cars, travel for work, etc.
psychgirl
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Yay! Have fun!
Oh! Also bring large shopping bags too. They sell them there, too. I keep mine forever. They’re sturdy enough to carry canned goods and huge.
Can be used for multiple shopping besides Aldi
We lost every one of ours to birds this year. We don't mind sharing but they went crazy and took them all. My favorite too. Got tons of plums falling off though. Going to have to tell somebody to come pick some.
Let me tell you weird. It's flippin' hot out there - in the 90s. I went to the post office after closing, because I had to drop a package in the bin. No one around; parking lot empty. A car drives up with an older couple in it; they stepped out of their car, both wearing masks. They went into the post office to get a package from a locker, got into their car, and drove off...both still with masks on! I couldn't help but wonder if they wear them at home with each other. It's so hard to resist the impulse to bleat at these foolish people!
Trader Joe's actually dropped some prices - the blueberry muffins were 50 cents lower, and $3.99 cookies were now $2.99. The imported Italian pasta was well stocked and still 99 cents for a one pound bag and the Pound Plus imported Belgian chocolate bars are still $4.99 for 19 oz. I didn't notice any price increases, but they were out of pizza dough - one of my main reasons for going.
For those of you looking for canning supplies, Publix (TN Valley area) was very well stocked - that had lots of jars in all sizes. I don't know anything about canning but got into a conversation with two ladies who were buying jars and asked them if the price was good. They said the price was about 50% higher than last year, but still better than other places, assuming other places even had them. As so often happens, we got into a conversation about Jesus' soon return. People are waking up!
I had lunch at Wendy's; they've been open for eat-in, but now are back to drive-thru only. I got my chicken sandwich and a free one for dinner, because I did the survey on the back of my last receipt - it was a full-sized sandwich, so I saved around $6 and got two meals for about $10, including the new strawberry Frosty. I thanked the young lady at the window and told her she was much appreciated; she broke into a big smile said I made her day. That's something you all might want to consider doing - give some encouragement to those who do bother showing up for work; maybe it'll keep them from giving up and quitting!
PinkRoses, I love that made that young ladies day! Please don’t bleat at the mask wearers. You don’t know why they may be masked. Last month at work, my co-workers told me that I didn’t have to wear a mask. (It had been highly advised but not required). What they didn’t know is that my daughter was being treated for cancer. I wore the mask to protect her. Thankfully, her treatment went well and is doing well.
Years ago I bought a 5# bag of hot chili flakes at an Asian grocery. Paid very little, less than $10 IIRC.So you're saying that the news I've been posting here isn't real?
Hot sauce, chili pastes, I was looking for some and found it at the Thai and Korean grocery stores here in town. One of the things I learned when I had international student roomies is that hot sauce and chili sauce can cover up a multitude of gross or boring food dishes.
OC finally found some malt vinegar, I now feel like my vinegar collection is complete. And he agreed that brown rice vinegar and malt vinegar do NOT taste the same!
Boiled with sugar and vinegar it has made an endless supply of sweet chili sauce, which makes even old, "off" rice edible.
Exactly!
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
I had a dollar store package of Chicken Teriaki dinner and decided to jazz it up, so i finely sliced ahalf a small head of cabbage, took the green heads of some winter onions that had sprouted, and sliced them, added some home dehydrated green pepper and 5 slices of bacon, cut in 1" lengths, and some cauliflower i got in the marked down bags of produce at Fred Meyer, and shoestring sliced some snack carrots to top it off. I piled it all on a dinner plate poured about 3/4 cup of water over it and nuked it for 12 minutes. I nuked a tiny little package of frozen dark meat chicken (from a 10 lb bag of leg quarters).
Then I made the Teriaki noodles package according to directions, nuking it 5 min.
When it was done I mixed the chicken meat, and added the cooked vegetables and bacon, chicken meat, and the TERIYAKI dinner and some soy sauce and had enough to divide into two meals, I had one last night (DELICIOUS!) and having the other for breakfast!
Tip: For those of you who don't know: ALL Fred Meyers GROCERY STORES HAVE A MARKED DOWN PRODUCE RACK - EVERYTHING INSIDE A PRESEALED RED NET BAG GOES FOR $1. Different stuff in every bag. A great deal!
Then I made the Teriaki noodles package according to directions, nuking it 5 min.
When it was done I mixed the chicken meat, and added the cooked vegetables and bacon, chicken meat, and the TERIYAKI dinner and some soy sauce and had enough to divide into two meals, I had one last night (DELICIOUS!) and having the other for breakfast!
Tip: For those of you who don't know: ALL Fred Meyers GROCERY STORES HAVE A MARKED DOWN PRODUCE RACK - EVERYTHING INSIDE A PRESEALED RED NET BAG GOES FOR $1. Different stuff in every bag. A great deal!
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Hfcomms
EN66iq
Today was eye opening. I get the same stuff virtually every week with minor changes. Just for myself around the start of Covid it was $100 a week and gradually went to $125 then $135 and about a month ago I hit $150 and today $165. But the government only admits to 8.4% inflation or so.
When I go to the store I don’t pay much attention to prices, I have my routine and just grab from the shelves. When I got home I was curious and looked at the receipt. For example my Malinois goes through about a box and a half of small milkbones a week mainly at work. They were about $2.75 or so for the longest time. I looked today and it was $6.50 a box. Now that is some serious price inflation! Not unexpected but eye opening nevertheless. I feel sorry for young families with multiple children for sure.
When I go to the store I don’t pay much attention to prices, I have my routine and just grab from the shelves. When I got home I was curious and looked at the receipt. For example my Malinois goes through about a box and a half of small milkbones a week mainly at work. They were about $2.75 or so for the longest time. I looked today and it was $6.50 a box. Now that is some serious price inflation! Not unexpected but eye opening nevertheless. I feel sorry for young families with multiple children for sure.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
another price increase on case lots for wm.com. A twelve can flat of green beans had been 6.78, now its 10.35, so it looks like the individual cans must have gone up to .86. Still in the long skeem of things, that not bad for a can price, just shocking though to see the mark up.
Still pick up only for most canned foods, good thing I don't need any.
Still pick up only for most canned foods, good thing I don't need any.
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Dux
Veteran Member
Red cherries are $5 a pound here in the PNW. I do have plenty on our trees, just not ready yet.
Interesting. I went to two stores in the last week or so and neither of them had cherries at any price. (Winco and Safeway) About a month ago there were a few cherries at around $6.00/pound. Our orchard trees didn't have but one or two cherries. The wild cherry trees are hit or miss. The rainier type wild cherries rotted on the tree. The late black cherries are just coming ripe, but they lack sweetness. Probably because we've had two warm days in about three weeks.
My great plum tree has a few plums, but probably not enough to can. The crop of wild plums is only a handful per tree. Only one orchard apple with any decent amount of apples. The wild apples (and we have a lot of them, too) didn't bear more than a handful of apples each. It'll be a lean year for the deer and other critters who depend on them. Now the wild blackberries are great - fat and tart. The Himalayan blackberries are late, but it looks like it'll be a banner crop.
I hope your cherry trees do well! Enjoy them!
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
I have those hot chili flakes, and they're not as hot as cayenne pepper, thanks for the idea I'll have to try this now. Initially I bought them for making kimchi along with the shrimp paste, etc., never got around to making any.
bracketquant
Veteran Member
"Just because of you ALL..."
Timebomb's own, Slur Kensington, would likely disagree with that statement.
The northeast is Hellman's and Cain's country. I've seen, and bought, Duke's once in the past decade.
mzkitty
I give up.
energy_wave
Has No Life - Lives on TB
This may have an effect on food deliveries and prices.
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
More info and video at this link...
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“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
More info and video at this link...
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
The California Truckers Association is warning that 70,000 independent truck owner-operators will be taken off the roads of California later this week
americafirstreport.com
Went to Aldi's today (Piedmont of NC)...still has bargains. Butter $1.63/pound; bacon (short date) $2.99/pound; hot dog rolls and hamburger buns $0.58/pack. Not much available in chicken although they had leg quarters for $5.90/10 #. There was very little cooking oil except for a few bottles of corn oil. Least expensive hamburger was $3.99/#.
There were some "holes," but it wasn't bad. Comparing to other reports from different areas, things are great here! And, of course, I'm glad. :-)
There were some "holes," but it wasn't bad. Comparing to other reports from different areas, things are great here! And, of course, I'm glad. :-)
WOW! Here in OR I haven't seen bacon less than $5.00/lb in a while, unless maybe I get a four pound package at Costco, which I haven't done in a while. Butter is over $2.00 on sale. Hamburger is about the same as yours. Enjoy!
That should be a thread of it's own. This is really gonna hurt those of us on the Left Coast!This may have an effect on food deliveries and prices.
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
More info and video at this link...
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
The California Truckers Association is warning that 70,000 independent truck owner-operators will be taken off the roads of California later this week
mzkitty
I give up.
This may have an effect on food deliveries and prices.
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
More info and video at this link...
“Truckpocalypse” Begins in California This Week as 70,000 Truckers Forced off the Roads Due to Democrat Idiocracy
The California Truckers Association is warning that 70,000 independent truck owner-operators will be taken off the roads of California later this week
Horrifying, to say the least.
It appears that the makers of @Coffeemate liquid creamers have gone to using a simple twist-off cap instead of the usual flip-top-and-pour caps. (on my latest purchase, anyway.) I don't know whether or not this move to a simpler, cheaper cap has affected the price. Has anyone else seen this kind of cap switch on @Coffeeemate creamers?
May be the only packaging they could source?
Problem with whoever makes their regular, high-speed, low-drag, tactical containers?
Raggedyman
Res ipsa loquitur
we like to drink PUBLIX seltzer water . . . typically I'll order 10 cases of 6 2L bottles about every 6 weeks. I was in PUBLIX this morning and noticed that the damn stuff had gone from 1.05/2L bottle since I ordered it in early june to 1.98/2L. that has GOT TO BE related to fuel costs.
briches
Veteran Member
That is what I drink as well. I’ve noticed it so far with some flavors, but not all yet. I imagine they are using up what they can first.
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
Both times I have bought fresh cherries, the first last week at th Farmer's Market and the second at the Target store they cost $9 A POUND. 50 years ago they cost 25 cents a pound. Anyway, one small peach at target cost $1.67 EACH
The quality was excellent but NOBODY will be buying much at $9 a pound.
The quality was excellent but NOBODY will be buying much at $9 a pound.
Central MD, small chain grocery store (Weis) has peaches for $1.69/pound, but I haven't been there to see the quality of them. Last week they had none/zero tomatoes above the size of a golf ball. Not even a sign/place where they would be. So I can't chalk it up to the July 4th holiday. Have noticed their weekly sales circulars getting smaller and smaller. All in all though, other than the occasional "milk truck hasn't gotten here yet" type event, this store has been surprisingly well stocked the last couple years.
Also, was told that Subway will no longer have the spinach wraps(tortillas). No reason given. The nice, older lady that works at the one I frequent doesn't speak English well. She simply told me "spinach wraps, no more." I asked "forever?" She nodded and said "no more." That was my go-to. She said they are replacing it with a "plain" one. Maybe they didn't sell well? No idea and I can't get in to a long discussion about it with her because of the language barrier. If I see someone else, I'll ask them. But there is usually just 1 person working in the restaurant at a time. Oh and that reminds me... they have a BUNCH of boxes sitting in the main sit down part of the restaurant that have been there forever - like since mid-2019. Not sure if it is stuff to do a remodel or what. It looks like equipment, but for some reason it has never been installed. There are a couple of tables, that you are allowed to sit down and eat, so it's not like they are just using it to block the area off.
Also, was told that Subway will no longer have the spinach wraps(tortillas). No reason given. The nice, older lady that works at the one I frequent doesn't speak English well. She simply told me "spinach wraps, no more." I asked "forever?" She nodded and said "no more." That was my go-to. She said they are replacing it with a "plain" one. Maybe they didn't sell well? No idea and I can't get in to a long discussion about it with her because of the language barrier. If I see someone else, I'll ask them. But there is usually just 1 person working in the restaurant at a time. Oh and that reminds me... they have a BUNCH of boxes sitting in the main sit down part of the restaurant that have been there forever - like since mid-2019. Not sure if it is stuff to do a remodel or what. It looks like equipment, but for some reason it has never been installed. There are a couple of tables, that you are allowed to sit down and eat, so it's not like they are just using it to block the area off.
I read around 90% of the Washington state cherry crop was lost to late freezes. Supply and demand...
Summerthyme
xtreme_right
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South Texas HEB
I saw my first jars of Jif peanut butter since the recall! There were three small jars on the bottom shelf so I knelt down and found four big jars at the very back. I just got one since I still have several in the pantry.
I saw my first jars of Jif peanut butter since the recall! There were three small jars on the bottom shelf so I knelt down and found four big jars at the very back. I just got one since I still have several in the pantry.
mzkitty
I give up.
When I was living at the YWCA there was a food truck from Food Link that would come once a week. All fresh fruits and veggies.
Now in my new apt the food truck has started here too. Friday mornings, you can use food stamps. This morning I got a 5-lb bag of white potatoes, 2 dozen eggs on sale for $1/doz, two heads of broccoli, half gallon of OJ, 2 big sweet potatoes, romaine lettuce, some bananas. Cost $14 and they also put a discount on so you can use it next time if you want.
Sweet deal. And I don't have to lug it from Wegmans.
Now in my new apt the food truck has started here too. Friday mornings, you can use food stamps. This morning I got a 5-lb bag of white potatoes, 2 dozen eggs on sale for $1/doz, two heads of broccoli, half gallon of OJ, 2 big sweet potatoes, romaine lettuce, some bananas. Cost $14 and they also put a discount on so you can use it next time if you want.
Sweet deal. And I don't have to lug it from Wegmans.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
the bulk of the cherries that end up on the shelves here in Iowa come from Michigan, and I've heard the same thing that the crop was hit with a late freeze.
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