everyone that, things are fine !
They wouldn't lie to us, would they ?
Posted on 12/16/2010 6:58:21 PM PST by Mad Dawgg
The market where I shop has bottom round beef roast for $2.29/lb. It's about their usual price. Though, I don't expect that to last.
Maybe we oughta stop the CRP program that is paying farmers not to plant or graze on some 30 million acres......
alot of it is marginal ground that should be left to increased cattle grazing, but a good chunk would grow wheat, corn and soys...
Next thing you know, we’ll be waiting in lines for toilet paper. That’s what happens in socialist paradises.
Freeze them
Your right,, they don't care about food prices since you and I are paying for their food.. They can buy Rib Eye Steaks, Pork Loin, the best coffee, candy, anything they want on your and my dime. Must be nice..is this a wonderful country or what!!!
PS,, I have gone Galt........screw the libs/Rinos......I pay few taxes and have little, at least on paper......
For the most part yes, for at least a year. And try growing a few vegetables to get the hang of it.
We have a local store who has the best fried Chicken and every Wends it goes on sale for $5.88 for a whole Chicken and they have roasted as well so you can go half/half if you choose.
The store is packed with folks getting that deal.
Limit 2 chickens per family.
Now that is cheaper than a whole raw chicken.
There fried Chicken is so good that there is a lady who comes to town from far away and she orders 80 pieces then freezes it.
As a single person (son is on a feeding tube for nutrition) I can buy a chicken and it will last 3 days.
My heart goes out to families who have many mouths to feed.
The dang gas is bill is crazy high. I buy mine at a card lock station which is almost 50 cents cheaper than the name brand stations.
We travel down south for events at least once a month and that Safeway gas is also cheapest.
Due to time/energy constraints I usually eat very lite during the week and then hit the Seafood Buffet as my big meal of the week.
Crab/Salmon/peel and eat shrimp and a small rare slice of Prime Rib. Tob that off with a peice of Indian Fry Bread and half a glass of ice cold milk. It is yum um me.
So many folks come to that buffet that the place gives out beepers. I try to get there before they start serving so we can get home at a decent time.
We currently have a huge oversupply of meat.
Successful Farmer, a trade magazine, just published a special marketing issue. It included an article titled "Boatloads of Meat" describing how critical meat exports are to the survival of American beef, pork and poultry production.
The Novemeber issue had an article describing how the enormous oversupply of hogs nearly bankrupted the entire American pork industry just this April, 2010. Everyone was within weeks of total destruction. Several of the largest didn't make it and are out of business for good.
Practically no one on FR understands just how huge and constant our food surpluses are.
See my tagline, it's a constant in the farming industry.
Well if they are eating a poor in nutrition diet then it won’t matter for you will it?
Snack foods and other poor food choices are expensive.
I picked up some parsnips and turnips for 48 cents a pound last week.
Parsnips are very tasty esp. for those of us with againg tasted buds.
Fun fact:
There was some grain that was found with Egyptian mummies {hundreds, if not thousands of years old} that was sprouted and [IIRC] grown.
Yes, that's what I do. Got the tip from a book written by a former owner of a seed co.. Add silica crystals (a dessicant) to the jars before closing them. You can get these crystals at craft stores as part of flower drying kits.
Yes they will keep. It is best to keep them in a cool dry place and germination rate might go down a little but they will still be good for years.
In a week's time, the marked down 'bone in' chicken breasts went up from .89 to .99. While that might not seem like a lot, it adds up quickly and it's what 6 months ago was the normal sale price of boneless priced breasts.
You're right, I don't have many packages of beef. I haven't been able to find decent prices for the cheap 70/30 ground beef since last spring. The store was supposed to have had a sale on beef last week but they didn't have it at the advertised price which is against the law. When questioned, they just looked at me and shrugged. A couple weeks ago, I posted here, how it was so strange that they didn't have the advertised fish sale in two different stores. I had checked twice in one store and once in a the second store and there was a big empty spot in the freezer where it should have been. No one could tell me if they would be getting any in on the truck. On the last day, I called and complained. I finally got to talk to the "guy in the back" and he said he'd get me some if I came on in. Well, when I got there, there still wasn't any on the shelf so I went to the office. The office had to call "the guy" and he only brought out the amount I wanted and never restocked the shelf. I felt like I doing a blackmarket deal. It was all very strange. But with the fish and then again with the beef, I'm beginning to get concerned. Also, I heard the Walmart employees today were running around like HQ was there. I dunno, maybe my tinfoil hat shrunk in the wash.
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We had a sale last month at our family grocery on New Yorks.
$4 bucks a pound normally runs twice that much.
Many seasoned shoppers know to stock up on things when they go on a good sale.
Other than water I drink allot of Diet 7up for my high acid stomach and I know to use the $10 coupon that come out once a month and stock up at the low price of buy two get one free @ $3 a twelve pack.
The only thing I buy at the grocery store that is spendy is the beef bones. For my canine companions. $2.67 a lb.
We take go out for the day and I like to give them something special for staying home alone. Yeah they are spoiled. But all the love they provide is priceless.
If you listen to farmers a lot of them are switching back to cotton. Compared to most vegetable crops cotton is much easier to grow, takes far fewer inputs and labor and at these prices you can make it work.
We weren’t going to grow wheat this year but they offered us a contract we couldn’t refuse and even then we are only contracting and growing 50% of what we have grown previously.
We are still going to grow the vegetables but there have been a few contracts turned back and those contracts are hard to get.
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