Yea it’s ridiculousIn April I bought 12 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch which DH likes for breakfast.
It was $3.98 per box.
NOW $8.19 per box!!!! Since APRIL!
The local food bank recently gave us 1.8 pound bags of DRIED cherries, in a mobile food pantry event that they held in suburban Memphis.I read around 90% of the Washington state cherry crop was lost to late freezes. Supply and demand...
Summerthyme
Yea it’s ridiculous
its a$1.25 at dollar tree for a 3.5oz bag.In April I bought 12 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch which DH likes for breakfast.
It was $3.98 per box.
NOW $8.19 per box!!!! Since APRIL!
Hey Barry, have you tried using dried cranberries in your green salads? DH loves them in his salads. We also substitute dried cranberries anywhere we use raisins, like broccoli salad. They make a wonderful addition to muffins, cookies and breads. And oatmeal! Or cream of wheat and cream of rice. They are good at preventing UTI's as well as all the other goodies they provide nutritionally. Great haul!The local food bank recently gave us 1.8 pound bags of DRIED cherries, in a mobile food pantry event that they held in suburban Memphis.
The food bank got the dried cherries directly from the USDA, which means that some US farmers somewhere in the country sold their cherries directly to the USDA.
We only got dried cherries that one time, at least at any mobile food events that I have participated in.
But in May, we were give a larger quantity of dried cranberries. All together (three mobile food events spaced over two months of time) my family was given around 20 pounds of these dried cranberries.
I figure on trying to reconstitute the dried cranberries come winter time, and feeding them to our chickens - who, in turn, will recycle those cranberries into eggs for our breakfast table and organic fertilizer for next year’s vegetable garden.
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They are 24 oz bagsits a$1.25 at dollar tree for a 3.5oz bag.
thats $5 per 14 oz. $10 per 28 oz
HOW BIG in oz. were the boxes?
At what store?
I always add dried cranberries and slivered almonds to our green salads!Hey Barry, have you tried using dried cranberries in your green salads? DH loves them in his salads. We also substitute dried cranberries anywhere we use raisins, like broccoli salad. They make a wonderful addition to muffins, cookies and breads. And oatmeal! Or cream of wheat and cream of rice. They are good at preventing UTI's as well as all the other goodies they provide nutritionally. Great haul!
well, dollar store won't save you anything.They are 24 oz bags
Yep! Cranberry muffins are wonderful!Hey Barry, have you tried using dried cranberries in your green salads? DH loves them in his salads. We also substitute dried cranberries anywhere we use raisins, like broccoli salad. They make a wonderful addition to muffins, cookies and breads. And oatmeal! Or cream of wheat and cream of rice. They are good at preventing UTI's as well as all the other goodies they provide nutritionally. Great haul!
Yep...A while back, someone told me if I fed dehydrated fruits or vegetables to my chickens, I needed to make sure they had plenty of water. I imagine that would be equally true for my rabbits. (And people, too?)
The local food bank recently gave us 1.8 pound bags of DRIED cherries, in a mobile food pantry event that they held in suburban Memphis.
The food bank got the dried cherries directly from the USDA, which means that some US farmers somewhere in the country sold their cherries directly to the USDA.
We only got dried cherries that one time, at least at any mobile food events that I have participated in.
But in May, we were give a larger quantity of dried cranberries. All together (three mobile food events spaced over two months of time) my family was given around 20 pounds of these dried cranberries.
I figure on trying to reconstitute the dried cranberries come winter time, and feeding them to our chickens - who, in turn, will recycle those cranberries into eggs for our breakfast table and organic fertilizer for next year’s vegetable garden.
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Uh, actually, no - that never occured to me.Hey Barry, have you tried using dried cranberries in your green salads? DH loves them in his salads. We also substitute dried cranberries anywhere we use raisins, like broccoli salad. They make a wonderful addition to muffins, cookies and breads. And oatmeal! Or cream of wheat and cream of rice. They are good at preventing UTI's as well as all the other goodies they provide nutritionally. Great haul!
I plan on reconstituting them (using simmering water with a bit of sugar or syrup in it) to get them closer to their original state, before I feed the chickens any dried fruits.A while back, someone told me if I fed dehydrated fruits or vegetables to my chickens, I needed to make sure they had plenty of water. I imagine that would be equally true for my rabbits. (And people, too?)
Lucky chickens!I plan on reconstituting them (using simmering water with a bit of sugar or syrup in it) to get them closer to their original state, before I feed the chickens any dried fruits.
I have alot of dried plums as well as dried cranberries, just waiting for winter.
They will offer the chickens a warm meal on a cold day. I may mix it with oatmeal for them, or just serve it as a side dish along their regular layer pellets.
Last winter, I reconstituted dried plums in simmering sugar water, cut the fruit into chicken-bite-size pieces, and just fed it as a side dish along side their regular layer pellets.
They ate every bit of the reconstituted plum before they touched their layer pellets.
Do they make cranberry wine?Dried cranberries are too good (and expensive) to feed to the chickens! It may be more of a northern thing, because they grow native here along with being farmed commercially, but they show up everywhere. I use them in breads, scones, muffins, pancakes, hot cereal, sauces/chutneys, salads, stuffing for poultry, in trail mix and just eaten out of hand for snacks.
The first part of June I ordered a case of six boxes of Louisiane Hibiscus tea bags at 29.95, I want to order another case, the have gone up to 31.95.
Do you have a link to the empty tea bags?
I just got 2 one pound bags of this excellent hibiscus tea leaves.
$13.99 per bag
I bought 500 empty tea bags to go with it.
I've considered doing that, I also have tea balls for loose tea.
I just got 2 one pound bags of this excellent hibiscus tea leaves.
$13.99 per bag
I bought 500 empty tea bags to go with it.
I plan on reconstituting them (using simmering water with a bit of sugar or syrup in it) to get them closer to their original state, before I feed the chickens any dried fruits.
I have alot of dried plums as well as dried cranberries, just waiting for winter.
They will offer the chickens a warm meal on a cold day. I may mix it with oatmeal for them, or just serve it as a side dish along their regular layer pellets.
Last winter, I reconstituted dried plums in simmering sugar water, cut the fruit into chicken-bite-size pieces, and just fed it as a side dish along side their regular layer pellets.
They ate every bit of the reconstituted plum before they touched their layer pellets.
Well I hate to waste beautiful fruit too. This year my plums are falling off the trees because I am no longer able to pick them and none of the people I mentioned it too have showed up. They liked them in previous years when we picked them. Lazy. Anyway if anybody lives near me in the Victor Valley PM me.Sounds like a huge waste of money and food, but whatever. I don't want to sound snarky because I believe everyone is free to make their own choices, but when I think of all the hungry people in this country it upsets me to see "treats" like this used for poultry. BTW dried plums are very high sugar and certainly do not need to be simmered in sugar water plain water would be fine. At my grandparents' house stewed prunes were a daily breakfast dish and they were stewed in plain water.
In April I bought 12 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch which DH likes for breakfast.
It was $3.98 per box.
NOW $8.19 per box!!!! Since APRIL!
Edited to add, this is Walmart I'm referring to.