Posted on 04/09/2014 3:42:47 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Fresh fruits and veggies can generally be had for about $1 a pound, maybe $3 a pound for organic.
For people eating a pound a day—not juicing through them like crazy!—that’s $7 to $21 a week.
Lots of reasons for increased beef prices including several years of drought in cattle country, a winter storm that decimated beef herds in the Dakotas and the ethanol boondoggle that diverts 40% of our corn crop to making motor fuel that could have gone to beef production. However, with high prices beef producers will increase their herds leading eventually to lower beef prices.
Depends on the big packers honestly.
I know quite a few beef farmers. They are not getting the premium that is being charged in the grocery stores.
There is a reason I buy my beef from farmers I know.
How many servings of fruits and veggies are you supposed to get per day? I only juice for two 8oz. glasses per day. That’s 2 fruits and 4 veggie servings, still not the required daily servings.
I don’t know how many pounds of veggies it takes to make an eight ounce glass of juice.
But if you just had six three-ounce servings of veggies a day (thus getting all the fiber as well), you’d be about at the pound-a-day rate of veggie use. That would mean you were paying almost $9 a pound for your veggies.
This morning’s glass of juice:
2 Carrots
Half a cucumber
1 beat root with leaves
1 Apple
Yielded a little over 8 oz.
I will give you consideration that you don’t know much about modern juicing
So that’s, what close to two pounds of vegetables for eight ounces of juice—or almost four pounds of vegetables a day for two glasses of juice?
What are you doing with the pulp?
I take it you’re not subsisting on juice, but did you see the speculation that a juicing diet is what killed Peaches Geldof at age 25?
I bought two cans of food, one high priced, one cheap.
The high dollar can was packed full to the top,no excess juice or water.
The cheap can was about 3/4 full, the rest water.
I’ve noticed that on all stuff bought at low ball stores.
Chicken is still the cheapest thing out there, but it may go higher in the future.
I still remember the beef shortage of 1974. I noticed more fat being left on the meat.
My parents remembered the beef glut of the 1930s when government agents bought all they could find, dug a hole and shot and buried them, to create a shortage and get the price up. They would NOT allow anyone to cut a steak from the shot cattle.
Chicken really isn’t the cheapest thing out there anymore, at least where I live and I live in “chicken country.”
Your average modern chicken house holds 35,000 broiler/fryers, across the road from me there are 5 such house and the farmer has 12 more just like it on other properties - and that is just one farmer I know. With 2 processing plants in this county, it’s pretty hard to swallow low end whole chickens costing $1.29/lb on sale.
I also live in Chicken Country, in fact, it was some guy by the name of SAM WALTON who broke the economic stranglehold the chicken men had on this county.
Chicken is still cheap.
Carter was a wuss and an idiot. Obama’s a wannabe-dictator...and he got re-elected.
My juice was composed of two fingers of Crown and a cup of coffee.
We'll just have to agree, to disagree as we apparently have different definitions of the word "cheap."
I’m with you,tell my husband that everyday.:)
Don’t forget beer, honey, and wheat.
Communism 101: using food as a weapon.
Sounds super!
I have found a convection oven the best way to cook wild turkey, pheasant, goose and especially duck! Keeps the moisture in....we don’t like dry meat much. :)
I remember that in 1974. About every few months there was a shortage and price hike in coffee, tuna, sugar, etc.
In the 8th grade I did a political cartoon (class assignment) of a butcher behind a counter of expensive meat with signs like “Layaway Available” and “Credit Cards Accepted” etc.
Got an “A”! lol
I grew up in Booneville, AR in the 70’s. We had a small chicken coup in the backyard and sold them to Tyson for a few extra bucks.
I hated it since my dad made me work it!
Yabut, there are a billion chinese and nearly a billion indians buying those chickens too.
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