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Try Amazon Fresh and Aldi's if they service your area.
They don't, but thanks.
Try Amazon Fresh and Aldi's if they service your area.
Those are some crazy prices! Good grief.Has anyone else noticed that Sam's has stopped delivering a lot of items? Instore pickup, only on a lot of stuff, now. I tried to place an order this morning, and a lot of my items were instore pickup, only. I ain't driving 30 miles to pick it up, so I'm having to rethink ordering from Sam's altogether. Also, their 6/pk canned chicken breasts, $18.98, and Folgers coffee, $12.98!!!!! That's huge increases from 2 weeks ago at our Sam's club in Tupelo, MS. BTW, Coffee is now instore pickup, only.
Those are some crazy prices! Good grief.
It looks like Amazon carries the drink and a powdered mix.DH has gone to two differnet walmarts and can hardly find Tampicio Mango drink, he's going to a different one today. If he doesn't have this drink he drinks soda. And both walmarts had no sam's pop in vans and very little in bottles.
Thanks, he drinks a gallon a dayIt looks like Amazon carries the drink and a powdered mix.
I would be embarrassed to say i've become addicted to 'peel'.I like to save lemon and orange peels in vodka.
Don't overlook shorter term bacon. Packages of real bacon bits last quite a while and flavor many dishes. Bacon in the freezer is also a plus. As far as chocolate goes, vacuum packed walnuts and chocolate chips when eaten together satisfies my sweet tooth. CCs keep quite well in vacuum packed canning jars. Walnuts as well. 5 years and counting so far on the walnuts.Thanks. The way I figure it bacon and chocolate are the foundations of the food pyramid; mine anyways.
The current heat wave blazing through Kansas feedlots has killed an estimated 10,000 head of fat cattle.
Final death numbers continue to come in, but that early estimate was shared with DTN by livestock experts, who put the geographical center point for those deaths at Ulysses, Kansas.
Speaking of sweet tooth items, I've purchased M&M's, starlight mints and butterscotch hard candies vacuum sealed and stored with my preps. M&M's mixed with any kind of nuts makes a nice sweet/salty snack. The hard candies are individually wrapped so don't turn into a hard clump in storage and sucking on one or two can satisfy a sweet craving and help with a dry mouth. Little treats like this will be important in a SHTF situation such as we are not headed into (if have not already arrived). Things like instant pudding mixes are also a quick way to satisfy a craving for a sweet and can be prepared with powdered or canned milk. I personally prefer the powered milk but can eat it with canned milk.
Once upon a time a friend had a rental house and the family living there had five children under five. This was before WIC and they got government commodities which included cases of evaporated milk. When they renters moved they left behind cases and cases of the milk and my friend gave me several cases. I used it to make puddings, although I made them from scratch, mostly cornstarch pudding for the family and they liked them okay. I see no reason evaporated milk would not work with instant mixes.
I saw that TikTok video this morning. Now..I'm not a gamer, and I detest movies with a lot of CGI, but the video of all the dead cattle sure looked phony as heck to me.Some are saying that this is fake news.
I dont think so. Maybe the picture but not their deaths. When I saw a comment on the southern prepper I looked at the Kansas newspaper and they had an article about them dying in a feed lot. Can't remember which paper.I saw that TikTok video this morning. Now..I'm not a gamer, and I detest movies with a lot of CGI, but the video of all the dead cattle sure looked phony as heck to me.
Peak brand evaporated tastes better than fresh milk. Frigging delicious!Cases of evaporated milk are my go to for food storage. I use it in everything that calls for milk, except for drinking/cereal. 1 can of evaporated milk mixed with water to fill a quart jar works the same as a quart of regular milk.
You are having a rough time with that Tampico aren’t you. Bless his heart he must be going through withdraws by nowI just happened to look on wm.com and they actually had sam's cola for shipping. I jumped on it and got 2 regular and 2 diet 24 paks. That will hold me for awhile.
I also went down the list of things I usually order and many many things said not available for shipping. I'm wondering if they are cutting down on things to ship that have some weight to them. 24 cans of anything can be heavy.
The third wm that DH has gone to in three days had no Tampico Mango drink, but between the other two he did get 9 bottles. He drinks about a gallon a day and would probably die before he would drink water,
I also went down the list of things I usually order and many many things said not available for shipping. I'm wondering if they are cutting down on things to ship that have some weight to them. 24 cans of anything can be heavy.
Yeah, the photo looked a little odd, but I've seen the info from sources that look solid.I dont think so. Maybe the picture but not their deaths. When I saw a comment on the southern prepper I looked at the Kansas newspaper and they had an article about them dying in a feed lot. Can't remember which paper.
I'm a big fan of Hormel real bacon bits. They are shelf stable and season up a put of beans just as good if not better than regualr bacon. I like chocolate chips and pecans together but I can eat walnuts just fine whe I'm out of pecans.Don't overlook shorter term bacon. Packages of real bacon bits last quite a while and flavor many dishes. Bacon in the freezer is also a plus. As far as chocolate goes, vacuum packed walnuts and chocolate chips when eaten together satisfies my sweet tooth. CCs keep quite well in vacuum packed canning jars. Walnuts as well. 5 years and counting so far on the walnuts.
I'm a big fan of Hormel real bacon bits. They are shelf stable and season up a put of beans just as good if not better than regualr bacon. I like chocolate chips and pecans together but I can eat walnuts just fine whe I'm out of pecans.
On the coffeemaker woes... after our third 1 cup coffee maker 8n under 2 years died (this one highly rated at Amazon... itWell, I got back from my weekly shopping; today I went to Georgia. I was late getting out - I had to wait for the repairman for the refrigerator I got in January; it's a lemon I got to replace the lemon I originally bought in September which replaced the lemon I got a few years ago. Of course, he never showed and never contacted me; calling the repair company repeatedly I'd get hung up on each time after pressing the appropriate button for the service department. I put in another complain to the Lowe's Executive Offices.
It's a good thing I didn't go right out. As I padded around the house something didn't feel quite right on one foot. Turned out that the entire sole on the fairly new Sketchers I was wearing was about to come off entirely.
I finally was on my way. I had to make an unplanned stop at Walmart to return the coffee maker I got last week that worked properly...twice. After that it started shooting coffee horizontally out the front. (It replaced one that lasted five years.) They didn't have the same one (it was a single serve) so I had to get a little one that makes 5 cups, even though I rarely drink more than one cup a day. (I'll just use less water & coffee.) This one doesn't have a permanent filter, and of course they didn't have the smaller, flat bottomed filters in stock. I opened the box to see if the larger ones could be made to fit, and while doing so got into an interesting conversation with a nice gentleman about the current mess the world is in and the proximity of the rapture. I did get the larger filters for now, then had to order the small ones from Amazon...and they cost about the same as the little coffee maker for a package of 300. I also had to get light bulbs, because the "guaranteed 2 year life" bulb on my porch burned out yesterday...after about four months. (So who do you go to for the company to make good on the guarantee?) Still no plain ham, only Black Forest and Honey Ham, neither of which I care for.
OK, headed to Publix - they have both Haagen Daaz and Godiva ice cream pints on BOGO, as well as Cheerios. Lots of shelves were empty, but things had been moved to the front of them so they wouldn't look bare. I didn't see any corn or non-organic strawberries.
Aldi also had lots of bare spots on shelves and no attempt was made to hide them. No canned pears or peaches, only fruit cocktail (which doesn't have any flavor IMO) and pineapple, and they were up to $1.29. Again, no plain ham. I picked up a bag of popcorn with Himalayan sea salt, but told the cashier to put it back when it rang up $3.99 - I can make over 50X as much for the same price if I pop my own. I did get a nice pork loin that will give me 4-5 meals for under $5 and 3 petite sirloin steaks for under $8.
Conversations with and remarks from strangers have become common. People everywhere are fed up with this crap; something has to give soon!
I did have a very nice lunch for $6 at Sonic - in the app drinks are half price, and the latest promotion is one of their wonderful grilled cheese double burgers on Texas toast for half price if you order through the app. Add some fries, and I've had enough food for the day. (Except for maybe some of that ice cream I bought...)
We can no longer get the glass jars here...I really prefer them to the plastic but rotated through my last glass ones a few years ago...their expiration date was years off, I know longer than in the plastic. Once the plastic showed up, I saved all the little glass bottles I had left because they are just so neat. Being tall and slim, they display little collections so well like buttons and marbles, anything sweet and tiny.I'm stocked on the sealed glass jars of Hormel Real Bacon pieces. They are shelf stable for a long time. Need to be put in the fridge, once opened, or at least I do. I also use them to season beans with, instead of using my valuable real bacon. Good to use in omelets and other dishes, too.
Great for making tea, also. We buy loose in bulk, and grow mints & other herbs.On the coffeemaker woes... after our third 1 cup coffee maker 8n under 2 years died (this one highly rated at Amazon... it
lasted 73 days!) I bought him a French press... no electricity needed, has its own filter, washes up easily...
For households with just one or two coffee drinkers, I'd never use anything else.
Summerthyme
You are making a mistake. The prices sre going to go UP, NOT DOWN. They will never again be as cheap as they were, nor even as cheap as they are TODAY.I have continued buying to replace what I've used and ignored prices because this is a prepping issue. I still refuse to buy canned vegetable or fruits locally because the prices are ridiculously high. More than $1 more than Aldi or Dollar General. However, for extras or wants I have skipped buying at these prices. The meat counter is for "window shopping" not buying!! I just checked my bacon bits and the jars are plastic.
I recently had the sole come loose on the New Balance shoes I wear to the garden and super glued it back in place. Then I tripped over some wire and damaged a newer pair and super glued it too.
With all of the credit card and debit card machines being down lately at various locations, cash is king. I was at CVS one day and their credit card machine was down. Fortunately I had the $130 cash so was able to buy what I'd needed.
I mentioned to my sister that she should carry some cash and she said that she always kept a $20 in her purse. I asked her how far that would go if the machines were down for more than a day. She just moved from her house to a senior apartment complex and is still feeling her way in her new situation and isn't thinking about prepping. Also, in an apartment she doesn't have much storage space. I suggested under the bed boxes for canned goods.
On the coffeemaker woes... after our third 1 cup coffee maker 8n under 2 years died (this one highly rated at Amazon... it
lasted 73 days!) I bought him a French press... no electricity needed, has its own filter, washes up easily...
For households with just one or two coffee drinkers, I'd never use anything else.
Summerthyme
I try to get glass jars too. That's why I buy my peanut butter at Vitacost. Several brands are glass.I have continued buying to replace what I've used and ignored prices because this is a prepping issue. I still refuse to buy canned vegetable or fruits locally because the prices are ridiculously high. More than $1 more than Aldi or Dollar General. However, for extras or wants I have skipped buying at these prices. The meat counter is for "window shopping" not buying!! I just checked my bacon bits and the jars are plastic.
I recently had the sole come loose on the New Balance shoes I wear to the garden and super glued it back in place. Then I tripped over some wire and damaged a newer pair and super glued it too.
With all of the credit card and debit card machines being down lately at various locations, cash is king. I was at CVS one day and their credit card machine was down. Fortunately I had the $130 cash so was able to buy what I'd needed.
I mentioned to my sister that she should carry some cash and she said that she always kept a $20 in her purse. I asked her how far that would go if the machines were down for more than a day. She just moved from her house to a senior apartment complex and is still feeling her way in her new situation and isn't thinking about prepping. Also, in an apartment she doesn't have much storage space. I suggested under the bed boxes for canned goods.
Summerthyme,
Can you recommend any particular brand of French press? I rarely drink coffee anymore, but DH still does. I think it would make sense to give that a try.
Stanley (the thermos company) makes a pretty beefy and big one -48oz. It's insulated so it's supposed to keep your coffee hot for a while too. I don't have one yet, but I plan on ordering one this weekend. Lots of good reviews on it. Not cheap, but seems like it's worth it.
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