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I just Got Back From The Grocery Store($4 For A Gallon of Milk)

Posted on 05/15/2011 5:13:18 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

The meats were like a bad joke gone bad. $7-10 for a small package of chicken breasts. I got enough food for a week and it was $107. The cashier lady told me some woman (when she noticed) milk at $4 a gallon asked if there was s milk shortage. Are people this stupid?

I am truly afraid for this country in so many ways and as the cashier lady said she told the ditz lady it will get far worse before it gets better. And the cashier was in her 20's and she figured this out- so there is some hope this age group knows to vote out Impeach Obama NOW!


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KEYWORDS: afford; bernanke; depression; foodprices; fubo; gasprice; grocery; hwyrobbery; impeachobama; need4jobs; obamasucks; qe2; store; waiting4reagan2rise
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

My wife smokes, she has smoked Kools since before I met her. We were married 40 years on March 26th this year.

I bought her an e-cigarette recently but thus far she does not like it. Was hoping it would be the thing to get her off the real thing. Her flavor is about $55 per carton here. That sucks.


81 posted on 05/15/2011 5:51:11 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: WestwardHo
Anyone else having trouble finding SALTED peanuts at Walmart?

EXACTLY! I love salted dry roasted p-nuts, but Wally's been out of them the last three weeks. Gotta pay a bit more to get 'branded' Mr. Peanut label.

Our local quail are having their babies right now, so we like to keep plenty of wild bird seed in the area to keep them around - but Wally's out of that too.......Michelle must consider that unhealthy also.

82 posted on 05/15/2011 5:51:20 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Tomato juice has went up over 50% a can at Sav-a-lot. I used to buy it for 99 cents & now its over $1.50 here in Florida. When we moved here in 97 I could buy groceries for 2 for $100 & now its over $300 a month. No cost of living so its really starting to hurt.


83 posted on 05/15/2011 5:52:22 PM PDT by jrcats
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

My wife got a gallon of whole milk with vitamin D at Wal-Mart today it was $4.53/gal Just wow! Try buying a box of instant dry milk. It will cost you about $5.00 for a box that makes a gallon! My wife was amazed! And we get a 10% discount on some items because she works there. So you can take off 10% for our cost on the milk products! Coffee and milk are two food items we save($?) on, all the rest are all full price to her.


84 posted on 05/15/2011 5:55:32 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: stockpirate
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85 posted on 05/15/2011 5:56:43 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: autumnraine

You can get milk cheaper if you buy it at the small convenience stores, at least up here. Here in Massachusetts, Cumberland Farms advertises it occasionally for $2.79 or something like that, but you have to buy the exact one they advertise (like 1% or whatever)

My wife pointed this out to me. If I get it at the supermarket, it is $4.00 a gallon. She says the convenience stores do it to get people in the door.


86 posted on 05/15/2011 5:56:45 PM PDT by rlmorel (Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

I don’t purchase food that I don’t think is a good deal. I usually wing what I am making based on what is on sale. I did a birthday party for 15. Menu was poached salmon with beurre blanc, seafood salad, and broccoli. That cost me about $45 - $50.

I don’t believe every shortage story I hear. All the talk of “healthy” food has left many food industries in a shambles not knowing what way to turn. The dairy industry is suffering from a cream glut though you wouldn’t know it from the prices of cream or its products.

I also don’t purchase premade anything. If more people learned some cooking basics you could make the food stretch further. The broccoli mentioned earlier was used again tonight. I used the crowns on the birthday and the stalks were used in the soup tonight. I bought a ham for easter and used it for about 3 dinners and a few breakfasts.

Learn to stretch your dollars, make stocks from bones and use it for soup. I don’t even throw onion skin away or carrot peels it all gets used.


87 posted on 05/15/2011 5:58:59 PM PDT by pennyfarmer (Even a RINO will chew its foot off when caught in a trap.)
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To: Jackalope Hunter

Well then how can a Freeper claim that milk prices are just fine in a price controlled area? That’s like saying NYC rent prices are dandy when they are in a rent controlled area! It makes no sense!


88 posted on 05/15/2011 5:59:46 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

We notice the price of milk has been slowly creeping up here in Northern Indiana. We have 3 teenage kids and a four year old in our household ( and another one coming in 8 months or so God willing ). My wife said something today about milk went up again when she got back from the store. We go through at least 8 gallons a week........

I keep telling her to stop buying all the breakfast cereal so we can reduce the milk consumption in our house. Buy the flippen frozen waffles and the 1.50 syrup !! Maybe she will listen soon enough.....


89 posted on 05/15/2011 6:00:11 PM PDT by Bud Krieger (Another President , another idiot......)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Actually he isn’t but what’s to stop you from lying. Regional branches of the Federal Reserve have no say in policy. Let me guess...you support either Paul or Palin.


90 posted on 05/15/2011 6:00:38 PM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98 Class of '98)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Milk is $1.96 a gallon here. Generic 2%.

And I only had to work 2 days to pay for it!


91 posted on 05/15/2011 6:00:41 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: mware

Wow that’s a lot for a pepper. I got a nice one at a veggie market yesterday for 99cents and it’s huge. I am planting a dozen green bell peppers in my new garden this year. I am making a raised bed veggie garden. I have some plants gathered in my greenhouse now. Tonight it will be around 30 degrees (globull warming here in southern WI), I am waiting a week or so before building the raised bed. It might still snow!(hope I am kidding).

: )

I have heard that peppers are easy to freeze, just cut ‘em up and put them in a ziplock, right?


92 posted on 05/15/2011 6:01:01 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (PALIN 45 The cure for "meet the new boss, same as the old boss.")
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To: pnh102

Maybe McDonalds had to agree to cut the salt in exchange for an Obamacare waiver. The only thing I could stomach there was their breakfasts & now they’ve lost me on that.


93 posted on 05/15/2011 6:01:01 PM PDT by alicewonders
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To: mylife

“I saw a $15 2lb fryer last week.”

I still pay 99 cents a pound for chicken at Costco.


94 posted on 05/15/2011 6:01:22 PM PDT by Persevero (We don't need Superman -- we have the Special Forces)
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To: humblegunner

You are quite the idiot for posting that, because you know exactly what he/she meant!


95 posted on 05/15/2011 6:02:47 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: beaversmom

No problem: Milk qualifies for food stamps.


96 posted on 05/15/2011 6:02:49 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Texas Fossil

When I was first driving(1968) a loaf of bread, a gallon of gas, and a quart of milk were each 23 cents.

I’ve lived in mid-coast Maine. The last couple years we have seen more veg gardens. Our garden gets bigger and bigger each year. We pay for all our garden seed and supplies by selling raspberries and strawberries at the end of the drive.

I think more and more people will be shopping at farmer’s markets this year. The big stumbling block in the past has been the price differance. Inflation has made the ‘local organic’ products price competative.

Our local privately owned grocery stores (we’re lucky) have regular ‘bulk sales’. They put an order form with the flyer. Fill it out,drop it off at the store. Pick up your order the following week. We don’t need no stinkin’ Sam’s club.


97 posted on 05/15/2011 6:03:03 PM PDT by maine yankee
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To: Let_It_Be_So

Same here.


98 posted on 05/15/2011 6:03:43 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Oh, yeah, appoint another bipartisan globalist as our president. That’ll fix everything up.

Everyone, get ready. Avoid personal spending, and become more self-sufficient. Ridicule politics.


99 posted on 05/15/2011 6:03:50 PM PDT by familyop ("But I underestimated you; you're a total freakin' retard!" --the Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: autumnraine

I’m looking at the receipt from this morning’s purchase of milk. At Albertson’s, in southern Cal...buy one, get the second cheaper.. .

It averaged out to $2.89 a gallon.

And, one roasting chicken (I do NOT know how many pounds...) $4.33.

Again, I’m looking at the receipt.

The gas prices are bad, really bad...(for us that is). It’s running around $4.25 a gallon...or less.


100 posted on 05/15/2011 6:05:30 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Where do YOU stand in your relationship with God???)
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