I’ve decided today that I may never in good conscience buy walnuts again....just ridiculously high....
Shelled pecans at Sam's are $8.00 a pound.
They're farmed around here but also grow 'wild' and the last few years I've supplied my needs by picking them up from 'volunteer trees' on the road right-of-way.
A lady friend of mine has no money problems and she said she picked up a can of nuts and put them down, that she wasn't spending that much on nuts.
I buy them occasionally, but buy grocery store brand, but they are still too high. I don't think canned nuts are going to keep being on the shelf. I think companies will stop production of them. There goes all the nut growers and people who work in that industry.
I am very old and remember when I was young, nuts were plentiful everywhere and everyone had as many as they wanted. They were almost poor people's food as they were so plentiful. Now, I think nuts are going to go away. People have to use that money for more substantial food. When I buy them, it crosses my mind maybe I should buy something I need more. I have the money, but i feel like I am wasting it paying that much for nuts.
As our economy dies, I think all those grocery aisles with so much on them are going away. I can see grocery stores in the not distant future, selling only staples - flour, sugar, salt, dry beans, milk, maybe some preserves, a little hard candy - what does that sound like? Remember western movies set in old settler times - the “General Store”? What did they have - what I just listed is what they had.
Remember it was basics including some hardware supplies? I think we are on our way to that. When we can afford to buy only basics, everything else will stop being there and we enter the new dark age. I think this is realistic. Learn to bake bread from the basics if you want bread or eat tortillas the rest of your life.
All this resulting from nuts too high to buy....