It’s not just the United Kingdom, but as we await the latest figures from monthly U.S. data, the statistics from the U.K. are hitting the newswires. According to Reuters, food inflation in the U.K. is currently 17.1% The primary driver of the skyrocketing food costs is the energy cost associated with the fast turnover categories.
With prices increasing 17.1% yet net sales only increasing 8.1%, there is a substantial impact in unit food sales. British customers are buying much less to offset the fact they are paying much more. This trend is not just in the U.K. we have seen the same trend in U.S. data as families are being squeezed at the grocery store.
The prices on name branded products like Kraft and Heinz are leading the escalating food prices. Just last week I noticed 6oz Kraft Philadelphia cream cheese was $6.99, and a 24 oz. bottle of Heinz ketchup at over $8. Dairy products are leading the way with the most rapid increases in price. It appears that we are entering the fourth wave of food inflation currently.
LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) – British grocery inflation hit 17.1% in the four weeks to Feb. 19, another record high, dealing the latest blow to consumers struggling with a cost-of-living crisis, industry data showed on Tuesday.
Market researcher Kantar said prices are rising fastest in markets such as milk, eggs and margarine. It said UK households now face an additional 811 pounds ($978) on their annual shopping bills if they don’t change their behaviour to cut costs.
“This February marks a full year since monthly grocery inflation climbed above 4%. This is having a big impact on people’s lives,” Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said.
He said its research found that rising grocery prices are the second most important financial issue for the public behind energy costs. Also a quarter of people say they’re struggling financially, versus one in five this time last year.
[…] Kantar said that sales of own label products were up by 13.2% in February, well ahead of growth in branded products, which are generally more expensive, of 4.6%.
Kantar said UK grocery sales increased 8.1% over the 12 weeks to Feb. 19, masking a drop in volumes when accounting for inflation. (read more)
The last estimate for U.S. data (January ’23) is in the chart below. We should get the February data the first week in March.
I heard food is going to become optional under the current administration. That’s why we burned up a bunch of food processing facilities.
Fake (plant) “meat”, vat “meat” or maybe something even more like soylent green will be in order when their ideas are fully fleshed out… (heh).
Availability well… maybe for the compliant ones first. Got to save the planet from those dastardly cow farts, right?
Ohio reports that breathing is also being deemed optional.
Man, it’s about to get easy to live up in here.
I personally have had to slow down by 10%
“…is going to become optional” ??? Many food items I have bought for decades became optional about a year ago for me. And that’s ok. Turns out I didn’t need them anyway!!
About 50 years ago, I learned to “shop around the edge of the store” because our son had a severe reaction/allergy to artificial food coloring. When I was beginning that new pattern, it seemed very difficult; and then, with a little time, it made a lot of sense for a number of reasons. So that’s what I’m doing again–shopping around the edge and a whole lot less of that. It’s all good.
Shopping around the edge is the greatest strategy ever. You don’t get fat. And it’s going to be tough to slip in the crickets
Perimeter shopping is what I do, too. The inside shelves are just processed, filler foods.
Not all. Rice, canned tomatoes, lentils, beans, coffee, tea are the only things I buy from the center. I don’t buy dairy, so that leaves out part of the periphery. I’m a heavy produce consumer tho.
Might have to read the ingredients label on the tea. Wonder if any of my breakfast tea contains crickets yet 🤮
“it’s going to be tough to slip in the crickets”
Line of the day.
A+
I’d rather stay in the good graces of the HUNTERS I know. And I do know how to fish.
I’ve never tasted Crickets, but I also know exactly what to use crickets for. And I know what likes to eat them. Like I said, I do know how to fish!!
And from the hunters I know…I love venison. Tenderized makes good steaks, Ground makes delicious Chili, great spaghetti sauce, or anything else you use hamburger for. Not fattening either…
Thinking of getting some boards and making some planters for some vegetables….
Cold hard fact is that wild game doesn’t last long in a depressed economy.
Deer. wild turkey and game bird populations were decimated during the great depression in the USA.
There were NO deer in some areas of the South East U.S. they had to be re-introduced years later in the late 1950’s.
Plan accordingly.
There is a flock of wild turkeys that hang out in a Veteran’s Cemetery….just saying…
Actually where I am (SW Arkansas and Central OK) there are deer everywhere (out of season now), but fowl is in abundance; dove, turkey, etc.
I am vegetarian, so I’m looking at growing my own lettuce, spinach, etc. Now might be a good time to study up on edible wild grasses, etc. , although I don’t trust that because of the spraying they do…. 🙁
Seeds from wild grasses, perhaps, might be fine, but (unlike herbivores) humans cannot digest cellulose.
please come hunt the deer in my suburb. We are overrun because our city will not control the deer population.
well now a lot less people hunt than back then and most with guns hold them sideways with their pants half way down yelling mofo mofo while shooting randomly .
Just be sure that your venison is from an animal that has been tested for cronic wasting disease, a prion disease. It is in most deer populations now.
Wild turkeys are wonderful on the grill
It ain’t that tough. I already got into them. 🙁
Come on man! John the Baptist survived for years on locusts (crickets) in the desert.
Okay he also had some honey.
Anyway as it’s now Lent a bit of fast and abstinence is in order and you could help ‘save the planet’
In fact ‘my’ Pope tells us to do some Ecological Penance for Lent.
God help us!
There are a few better value and healthier items that store well like flours, dried beans and grains, rice, and canned vegetables in those inner aisles.
Think the inverse of processed convenience grocer items, they used to be called dry goods.
I actually severely curtailed the middle-of-store junk almost 10 years ago when I stopped eating refined sugar. Saves a lot…
My food bill has still gone up a lot because instead of that stuff I’m still buying and freezing good meats and fish, particularly on sale, and protein has soared.
Sundance mentioned some time ago that the Hannaford chain has some better access to items other groceries don’t. They get their salmon from Maine and I’ve discovered that every couple of weeks they have about a 40%-off sale on it. At this point their fish counter guy may take out a restraining order on me for stalking….
Powdered:
protein
electrolytes
magnesium
vitamins
rice
flour and water
-store well.
flour, not so easy. Unless refrigerated or frozen, it gets bugs, and we all seem pretty clear about eating bugs.
Unless someone knows a practical wsy to store it, other than refrigeration, that will prevent the bugs who’s larvae are already in it from hatching.
Or so I understand,..
Vacuum sealed in mason jars. Two half gallon jars will hold about 5lbs.
To add, Rubbermaid brilliance containers have a size that’s a 5 lb flour sack dime soon and are vacuum sealed when closed. They’re not cheap but I like them a lot.
Try here:
http://www.beprepared.com
Are you sure that the bugs in your flour actually came from the flour? You’re more likely to get bugs from whole grains or dried fruit especially if they’re imported. If the milling process can grind a wheat grain why wouldn’t grind a bug egg or larvae? Furthermore you can store flour in a plastic bucket with a tight fitting lid for a longer period of time. A clean, dry Homer bucket and lid from the Home Depot would work just fine.
Buyer beware. The government we love to hate does allow a minuscule percentage of bugs in our food, because it cannot be prevented or so we have been told.
Read it and weep.
https://www.livescience.com/55459-fda-acceptable-food-defects.html
https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook#commodities
I am not from the government, and am here to help.
Wondering if Erin is looking for help? Asking for a friend….
No one was disputing that there is a degree of bug residue in food. What I was disputing was the ability of bug eggs or larvae to survive the flour milling process intact. If you have a citation that claims they do, I’d love to see it.
The little moths are in the mill and lay their eggs on the ground flour. It’s impossible to keep them out as they come in with the whole grain before it gets milled.
In what part of the milling process is the flour left out in order to have the moths lay their eggs? A mill that let moths have direct contact with milled flour would have a hard time passing a FDA inspection. Moth infestation would more than likely happen in warehousing or in your own home where the moths can burrow through plastic or paper.
Furthermore moth infestation is more prevalent in warmer climates where they can breed 4 times a year. Dutchman lives in Arizona so they’re probably a bigger problem there than in the northeast where I live because the moths breed less in cooler temperatures. I personally have never had a grain of flour moth infestation in flour at home or in my 35+ years as a executive chef. Whole grains or dried fruit is different story.
One more point. I believe that Dutchman in his post was talking about live bugs, not dead, I was too.
You can put in food saver bags and store in a cool, dry, and dark place like in a pantry or a nice closet. I store mine in sealed 5 gallon food safe buckets in the guest room closet. So far no issues. I do that with most shelf stable items, beans, rice, pasta etc. Stock up at sales and buy a food saver and food safe buckets.
Vacuum seal. It keeps the bugs at bay and prevents rancidity for a long while.
Whole grains store well.
Whole grain flours do not.
Once the grain is ground, the oils in the flour becomes rancid quickly.
I have the 5 gallon buckets with gamma lids.
I buy bulk and store everything in these.
Haven’t had any issues in the last 5 years since I purchased them.
Don’t get the flour with bleach in it.
All the denigration of fat and sugar, parroting the line of the Gov, and the “Heathcare” industry.
Two things, that if your brain doesn’t get, causes unconsciousness and death pretty quickly; SUGAR, and oxygen; either one.
And, our brains are about 90 percent,….FAT.
You (presumably) are here because you don’t believe the narrative on Covid or muh Russia, etc.
WHY do you believe the narrative on “healthy eating”?
And yes, I perimeter shop, too.
I am pre-diabetic and have escaped having to go on medication for this entire decade by stopping refined sugar. I eat plenty of natural sugar from fruits. My A1Hc is better than that of my medicated friend.
I also have a bad jones for refined sugar which caused me to gain almost 100 pounds years ago. Without it I can mantain a normal weight. Works for me fine.
And I love real fats, butter, sour cream, yum – I just watch the quantity. If you notice, I did not denigrate them.
So no, this isn’t parroting any gummint propaganda. In fact I worked out this solution after the huge weight gain which was caused by the 80’s lowfat propaganda in the first place. Yes, I did believe that fable 40 years ago, and it wrecked my system so that I did become prediabetic.
For me refined sugar is simply harder to conquer than cigarettes or alcohol are for other people, so I don’t do it.
Complex sugars are good, in moderation, like whole fruits (not fruit juice). Simple sugars are not. Period. Simple sugars are processed food, like juice without pulp and maple syrup, cane sugar, etc.
Even if you are a heavy exerciser simple sugars still spike insulin. Eating sugar multiple times a day keeps your insulin levels high and creates inflammation. Bad news.
Some sugar? Sure. Just be wary how much, how often, and what you eat it with.
Actually, that’s what most consumers do – many do it out of habit, with no thought since it’s considered the path of least resistance and not out of necessity. The grocery stores know this, too. They have studied customers’ paths through the stores for many years. So the grocery stores place the items with little to no profit on the inside aisles, which is all the canned goods, processed foods, etc.
The average grocery store makes one third of its profit in the produce area, which is why it’s so visible when you walk in, etc etc etc.
Lent makes it easy for me, like last year…
You won’t need those gas stoves to cook fake meats.
Life will become optional for those who wish to starve people.
Eat your crickets comrade and be quite.
Not a problem.. We’ll straighten all this out in the 2024 elections.
Will 100 million votes be enough?!
Just sayin’
As things now stand. I ask this question every day: If the Presidential election were held this week would President Trump win?
In a fair fight, yes he would. But have the Dems ever played fair…? Just ask Richard Nixon…Richard Daley, “I can handle this “..
We could ask Russia to interfere to make Trump win. I think Putin really liked Trump..
A whole lot more than he likes Biden, probably.
But I think Trump will win on his own.
He won in 2020
Have to change the way the Democratic states do their counting. Someone has to make sure they clean up their voting rolls and the way they do mail in voting. I think it can be done…
I admire your optimism. That’s a lot to ask to get done in the next 17 mos. You may need to get your pragmatism recalibrated in the next few weeks tho.
As things stand now, no republican can get 270 electoral votes.
But Trump can.
Start paying Dominion more than the Dems
It is not merely money that these evildoers want.
It is power.
Can’t win with many votes.. you’re gonna have to print ballots.. any democrat can tell you how do it
Remember when we used to go door to door to ask for people to vote? Now the Democrats go door to door and ask “Can I have your ballot?” And don’t bother, we’ll fill it out for you!”
Isn’t that nice of them?
Don’t forget the dems added ballot destruction to their bag of tools in 2022. I think it’s cheaper to shred a few truckloads of ballots from suspect zip codes than it is to manufacture them. They cut so many corners in 2020 that the fakes kind of stood out. Not that it mattered…
We don’t need 100 million votes, just 100 million ballots.
Votes are sooooo 2016.
Over/under for ballots counted in 2024 is 462M.
Anybody that cares about elections should go to http://www.omega4america.com
Clean your state voter rolls.
100 million votes will be enough if we are counting the ballots.
This should fix Russia.
I don’t think they will be able to take much more of this.
China will probably want to surrender too.
Yeah, sanctioning Russia to the point of submission, and browbeating other countries to ‘respect’ the sanctions (or else be ‘color revolutioned/couped),…hasn’t THAT strategy backfired!
Kind of like the Black knight, cutting his own limbs off. “Oh yeah? Take THAT! and he cuts his own arm off. “And THAT! and off goes his leg.
Then is NOW!
Yes
but
-Where is John Galt?
Exactly!
I was gonna comment on that notable omission as well.
The “fair share” laws in Atlas Shrugged are all about “equity”
I’m waiting for congress to pass the “Freedom of Movement” Act.
Great diagram! There are a few more to work in there somewhere though:
The Hunger Games
The Stand
Another that may be pertinent in the future:
The Man in the High Castle
There’s more but it’s late & I’m all out of titles
Forgot to add:
I am Legend
Minority Report, with their pre-crimes bureau.
Gives much more meaning to that video of the Canadian dairy farmer from a month ago showing him dumping raw milk down the drain in order to comply with his production quota. Of course energy costs are driving much of the food inflation, but so are the multinational corporations buying politicians to control production and who pays what
Huge increase, but the UK is also facing a major increase in energy costs coming in April. The average annual consumer price of energy will increase from £2100 to £3000, over 40% increase which makes it very likely that food inflation will continue.
I’m sure that the government doesn’t care a bit……Slava Ukraine!
Why April specifically?
Well, one thing I’ll give the UK statisticians… they aren’t hiding the truth with figure manipulation.
That’s one thing. I’ll give them nothing else.
They, along with most of the rest of Europe, are still full blown socialists at their core.
Can’t, won’t disagree.
Oh and this…
The Minister for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, Therese Coffey, has told Brits one way to fight inflation is to eat less.
And to make sure they do, vegetables and fruits are now rationed.
The irony that she herself is morbidly obese is a bit of sick irony which would be impossible to script.
Love being told how to eat by a 12 bologna sandwich eating gal.
Well I had to go and search her. Oh dear…
https://search.brave.com/images?q=therese+coffey&source=web&img=3
Thank you for that, Mims. It makes a bigger impact with a picture.
The picture of her with a drink in one hand and a cigar up to her lips in the other says a lot.
What it says I don’t know.
She is great friends with the ousted PM Liz Truss, who appointed her Minister of Health.
And there I’ll leave it.
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/04/28/gettyimages-1231377408-6a1ba36afe80eba0cb04f656c8151358b192692f-s1200-c85.webp
-Rachel Levine (cough)
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Is there a pattern?
Churchill wore it better.
Brava! Updated for the sheer cleverness of your comment.
Thanks!
My pleasure
One thing I should add, Mims….
One of the very wonderful delights about the British people is that they generally do not judge a book by its cover. I learned this during my lovely life there before that country fell apart.
Some of the sweetest and most generous people I knew, have ever known, had covers which belied their inner beauty, and I loved them.
In fact it got to a point where I never saw a person’s outer self. Which was a marvelous change coming from a country where appearances are all.
My issue is that in this case putting someone like Ms Coffey in charge of health first, then food, who lectures a desperate populace about what they should be eating while the policies of the government are making it difficult for people to eat at all should have been thought through a little better.
Couldn’t leave the comments without adding this.
She’s a sloppy slob! 😵
-The spill on her shirt is besides the point🥴
Good evening Bet! Instead of eating veggies and fruits they should just eat cake.
Tee hee (giggle, snort)
Waiting…I’m sure that’ll be next. They probably have to bite their tongues to keep it from slipping out, G. You just know they really wanna to say it.😁
😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂. 😅
Betsy, (I can’t stop laughing) . Just showed Ma the photo Mims linked and asked, “What kind of work do you think this woman does?” . First Ma said, “That’s a woman? Right?”“She smokes cigars????”
Without speaking… looking with the magnifier, she said, “Police”.
I then told her Thérèse’s job title, and Ma automatically said, “She’s heavy”.
Haaahahahah. She’s not wrong, Patience! Policing what everyone can eat.
You have a wise an astute mother🤗
Besides being a lot of her, what’s there isn’t what one would call very pretty
Of course. Why ration processed food? The food industry might get upset.
In the early part of the pandemic, the UK also had excellent data. I looked at lots of information from all around the internet and from different countries, and from what I saw, the UK really stood out. They had good quality information.
It surprised me, Rach. I mean really surprised. At first.
They don’t even hide how many thousands are waiting for treatment on the appalling unfit for purpose NHS.
(700,000 and rising by the way.)
How do you know?
Maybe it is even worse than they are letting on?
the Brits are a nation of orderly queque-ers.
They like order. It would go against their nature to mess with the numbers.
And note, I’m speaking only about their lower functionaries. The reigning installed political class are animals of a different type.
The Brits are still virulently anti-Russian, so there’s that. Who needs cheap, reliable sources of energy.
The propaganda dished up by the state mouthpiece, the BBC, is making certain of it.
I am amazed how the people in these western nations just put up with what their leaders are doing to them.
And now J6 makes a lot more sense.
You mean like us here in What used to be America, the land of the free and a bulletproof US Constitution?
I have a Dutch brother-in-law who has a PhD….i.e. you wouldn’t assume he is dumb. His father fought & was almost killed by the Nazis but brother-in-law is strangely passive and accepting of what government does.
Fear and apathy.
Just watch the folks at the meat counter checking prices then walk away. Everything is checked and checked again. The plan is working. Plandemic nightmare, doubling fuel prices,and war approaching. Government in bed with big business and we the people haven’t yet begun to fight back. Don’t count on help from republicans. Peaceful protest. We have to act or accept the hand we’re dealt.
I paid $2.66 for 18 large eggs at Walmart less than a week ago in Erie, PA. Hasn’t everyone here been carrying on about $6 – $8 dozen eggs?
Anecdotal evidence doesn’t change that food is massively more expensive now – at home or out. It just is. Total grocery bills at my house are the equivalent of last year, but my twins trekked off to college, so I’m feeding two fewer people. Bet my anecdote is more universally applicable than yours.
I’ve noticed that some items and prices are determinative on locality and what is available or stocked by the grocery store.
I genuinely can’t think of anything we buy that is only up 25%. Most items up 50%+ and many doubled / tripled.
I cant think of one thing either… I live in Canada and most individual items I buy have gone up between 100-300% (example – bag of cat food I buy went from 26.99 to 32.99 in less than two months, and also a kilo less food). They think we dont notice??
Have been stocked up for over a year now but bought 18 rolls of toilet paper for 9.99 back then.
Could not believe my eyes today when I saw an ad that it’s now 29.99.
These people ought to be shot for this nonsense.
I really do think greed of some companies is playing a part in some of these astronomical markups. I told my hubby that they can raise those prices to whatever they want- doesn’t mean that I will buy that product anymore.
It will backfire on companies, as Ford is finding out currently with their SUV and truck sales.
A lot of it is pure greed. They are just jumping on the opportunity to fleece everybody. I can see it in the stores on certain brands. I’ve stopped supporting them.
To reduce prices they usually repackage everything with less content but it looks the same as before. Rather that 12 oz. you get 8 oz. for the same price as before in the same packaging.
In other cases, it’s the same product that has been jacked up in price because of it’s high sale volume.
But, I’ve also seen prices remain fairly low on other items. So, there are those who have found ways to help us through this and there are those who are robbing us. You just need to be clear minded about it as you shop.
I noticed the same thing here in NE Ohio. I sometimes like to treat myself to Gevalia Columbian coffee. I bought it at Marc’s last fall for 5.49 and last week for 8.49. You’re right about the packaging, too. Don’t they always say something like-“Same great taste! New look!” then cut the ounces or something crummy like that. I’m sure that my Gevalia used to come in 16 oz. and now it is 12 oz. They are doing the same thing with bacon. And this has been going on for awhile. I noticed it first with the cans of coffee.
SHIPPING and even PACKAGING can have a major impact.
Shipping is mostly about SPACE, not weight, and packaging is about PLASTIC, which is 99.9 percent refined PETROLEUM.
Perhaps this is why canned vegetables haven’t gone up that much?
Sundance has pointed out, the more “processed” it is, the more ingredients it has, the more fuel costs their are “baked in” to the product, before it goes “on the road” to your grocery store.
LOTS of things go into the price.
Gettin’ closer to usin’ that junk mail as toilet paper, LOL.
Canned veggies not up all that much, I have noticed.
Canned veggies up over 60% over the course of 2 years, I’ve noticed. They used to be less than $1. Now well over.
What was the expiration date? And if I were you, I would be very concerned about the nutritional value. What were those chickens fed?
Amjean: Who said they were chicken eggs? 😀
Lol
Fishheads and rice. Chinese eggs.
Those same eggs at Walmart were 99 cents a year ago. Those 3.50- 4.00 a dozen eggs are coming your way now. In NC 3.50 eggs are a rare find now. Have you looked at the prices of fertilizers in your area for your victory garden? Be prepared for a shock if you can find what you want. I imagine yellow grass will be the new thing to save the climate this year. Grass will only be able to remove half of the CO2 it would have if it was fed a bit of nitrogen.
Seattle suburb.
18 large eggs were 1.99 but have increased to 3.69 now.
There was a period of time when it was hard to find any but stores began limiting purchases to 3 cartons max purchase at a time.
Check out the increase in the price of POWDERED eggs.
WAY up, ..
We all produce, on a regular basis, an excellent source of nitrogen fertiliser, already in a liquid form for easier distribution, and roughly 1/2 of us, with a distribution,…system that makes it extremely easy to ,…distribute on crops.
And it doesn’t cost a penny, and doesn’t enrich anyone, just the soil.
I am thinking about using it on my corn and sunflowers this year, though being of the female persuasion, distribution is slightly more complicated…
Stocked up on organic alfalfa pellets a couple years ago to use on my other crops.
Lol, might get a citation for public urination if the neighbors complain… unless it’s in San Francisco lol
So remove the grass and put in a garden. Make friends with a dairy farmer and go pick up some cow plops for fertilizer. Compost for 3 months before using tho 🙂
So they just dropped after what 6 months to a year of 400% increases? What about all the other foods that are still inflated and going higher? I just another 25% increase in prices on water at the store.
I’m kinda with you…I commute 6 hours a week for work., I work a 40 hour work week in two days. 3 there and 3 back to my happy place. I hit grocery stores, farmers markets, Amish stores. Food on my route is plentiful and reasonable. Eggs are as low as 2.10$ a dozen. Big azz bag of carrots 2.50$ 12 pack hot dogs 3.99$ day old bread, pasta 99 cents. I go to our Legacy stores, Giant, Weis, Food Lion, Publix, Wegmans. Etc…. Food items are at least 50 percent higher. The legacy stores are fat dumb and happy after the lockdown. I’m going to get pushback but you don’t need to pay for the convenience of legacy or shop legacy stores. Perimeter shopping is a tried and true way of reigning in spending, if it’s interior it’s processed and expensive. Think Triscuits, progresso, Campbells, Heinz, Chips, pretzels, ragu, Ritz, del monte, etc.
Thanks for giving us a platform to enrich our lives
blueMA here and yes, a dozen eggs are $6.99 at the more expensive grocery stores.
Market Basket (discount chain) has them for $3.99. Also, buying the larger 18-egg package is a savings.
Oh, and I wouldn’t call it “carrying on…”
White eggs have dropped in price at Aldi. I PRESUME the egg laying flocks that were killed last year due to bird flu panic have been replaced and egg production is up.
Or they switched from tainted feed.
Yes, but I haven’t seen eggs that high either…a little higher, but anywhere near that high here in Charleston, SC area.
Publix is high but I don’t shop there. I’m 20 miles west of Charleston.
We were just in Foley Alabama.. 18 eggs were $7.00. We ate oatmeal.
If possible, get a few laying hens.
I get Scratch and Peck organic feed from Azure Standard, as it is about $5/sack cheaper than buying the same feed locally.
Even though not all my hens are laying yet,and it is winter with less sunlight and I have a couple of roosters, a dozen eggs cost me under $3/dozen.
Once the days are longer and all the girls are laying it will be less.
Hope to increase my corn and sunflower production and bring my costs down much further.
It is possible to create your own supply chain without a whole lot of effort and not much land.
A little while ago our local WalMart had eggs at over $7/dozen.
Could be a regional thing.
Just paid $4.29 for a carton of 12 eggs here in WA state just south of Seattle.
Hope everyone who spent the last three years getting the maximum SNAP allotment spent it wisely.
…who am I kidding. Hardly anyone in this country spends wisely, least of all government and recipients of government funding.
We are being depopulated in a wide variety of ways.
They’ve left no stone unturned.
Food prices are nuts. Every week the bill rises for the same groceries. Restaurants are up a lot too and local casual restaurants around me are adding credit card fees and take-out fees and all manner of new fees.
I’ve been lucky….bought what I needed…until lately. Don’t go out to eat anymore and tonight I had something I actually like anyway….sardines ($1/tin) on soda crackers. YUM! LOL
I actually really like sardines too – my dad used to eat them and got me hooked. But then again I love almost every type of seafood except calamari.
Sardines are good on toast…
Me too, and bananas, which are very reasonable still.
Interestingly, pork is almost half of what beef is, but I don’t eat pork. Chicken is still reasonable, and I know a million+ ways to cook it. My kids still tell stories about my chicken recipes lol.
Not certain if your religion forbades you from eating pork, but it is marvelous, IMHO! Pork tenderloin, marinated and pan-seared is wonderful if not over cooked. Should be PINK! About 8 to 9 to 10 minutes per side +- pending heat level, just flexing to the touch, let it REST!
And a large Pork Shoulder left in a dutch oven for 5 hours over aromatic vegetables is sublime! Many recipes!!!
Can’t blame them, my price for foam take out boxes are up 50% (.10 to .15ea) and as of January 1 of 24, some brain sturgeon decided to ban them for use here. (foam boxes were .10 ea for the last decade till FJB changed things)
Currently (was just shopping prices/availability) the cheapest non-foam replacement box (fiber AKA paper) is about .75 cents each (+.60 net), with for the cheapest thing I sell in that box is 7 dollars, so they would have to go up to 8.00, just so we can go green……. didn’t “they” have a war on paper bags & boxes like 15-20+ years ago? (or is FIBER a more acceptable term than paper? kinda like global warming vs climate change)
My cardboard ones just went up an additional .25 cents ea … again
Changing or adding fees is easier and cheaper than scrapping and reprinting menus (with higher prices) every time someone ups base costs for whatever reason du jour.
Dining in instead …. washing ceramic dishes really does not increase costs, last I figured it was .10 cents a per rack of dishes + (labor varies) I do them myself so less than 1 hour total.
Dining in does cost in tip tho to customers, probably more than the fees for carryout packaging, credit card fees….. use CASH.
TPTB will hate everyone using cash….. they don’t get to scam fees off merchants that pass them off to their customers.
BOHICA
In 2022 the UK’s National Farmers’ Union awarded its “Farming Champion of the Year” to “Ukrainian Farmers.”
In December the NFU warned of impending cucumber, egg, pear, and tomato shortages.
Now suppliers are warning there will be an apple shortage. Orchards have cancelled a third of their annual apple and pear tree orders.
The predicted rationing has come into being, with more shortages on the way:
“Shopkeepers have been limited in their Salad Vegetable Purchase (PA).
Producers also warned that a leek shortage would exhaust British-grown supplies by April with high temperatures and a lack of rain, followed by a period of cold weather, making it the “hardest season ever…”
Jack Ward, chief executive of the British Growers’ Association (BGA), has reportedly said that even supermarkets could experience shortages of carrots, cabbage and cauliflower within weeks.”
But the elites have a solution:
“Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said on Thursday that British consumers should be eating more turnips instead of imported food.”
Coffey told Parliament:
“It’s important to make sure that we cherish the specialisms that we have in this country. A lot of people would be eating turnips right now rather than thinking necessarily about aspects of lettuce and tomatoes and similar.”
Just eat your turnips and be grateful. Good citizens don’t fantasize about luxuries such as lettuce, tomatoes, apples, pears, leeks, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, cucumbers, and eggs. Good citizens will not even think about meat. Meat is for the administrative class only.
If you’re angry about your new diet, remember that Brexit and Climate Change are responsible for your new culinary serfdom. Not the administrative class running the country.
And remember to support the Farming Champions of Ukraine.
Vote counting may take months…
We have been shopping online with curbside pickup since the Plannedemic started. Two stores, Hannaford, and one that is a locally owned 5-property grocer…garden shops in all of their stores, local and both farm-based.
On-line, I can sit in front of the CIA Blackbox all night and compare unit prices on the computer between the store brands and the major brands. Online shopping makes certain I do not have impulse purchases, and I can edit the cost down, take more advantage of coupons, and they both accept paper coupons from vendors when we physically go to pick up.
Store brands, if acceptable in taste, are a big reduction in grocery costs.
We often save about $50 or more per visit if fully engaged in comparison shopping on line.
Every bit helps!
I commend you, but just am not willing right now to do all that. I would much prefer energy pricing, which is at the root of all this, and Big G (macro term), decline as they should and food get back to a reasonable % of household income.
In total agreement, yet I need to get food on the table and now have a very large pantry. Until the day comes when we break free, I am a VERY fussy penny-pinching grocery shopper!
And…it WORKS!!!
I do exactly the same. Easier to find the bargains by searching by product and you won’t miss out on the deals that require you to buy two of something to get the discount. Grab the door buster priced goods and leave without any impulse buying because you never enter the store.
“Market researcher Kantar said prices are rising fastest in markets such as milk, eggs and margarine. It said UK households now face an additional 811 pounds ($978) on their annual shopping bills if they don’t change their behaviour to cut costs.“
Translation: it’s YOUR fault, peasant.
Out: Stagflation.
In: Starveflation.
I had cataract surgery earlier this month and had to stop wearing my rigid gas permeable contact lenses for 30 days before that because they don’t let enough oxygen in and distort the shape of your eyes. Having been previously blind as a bat (20/600 uncorrected, now 20/20), I wasn’t able to drive even with glasses so had done only one short shopping trip with my daughter. I did a big shop on January 7 and then one last week on February 23. I was STUNNED at the price increases at Aldi. Some things were down, such as plain white eggs from $4.99 to $3.49 (or thereabouts, I don’t remember the exact price) but so many other things were up. Pie crusts were $1.99 for a package of two and Aldi brand crescent rolls were $1.85! They used to be under a dollar. These are convenience foods that I won’t buy at that price. I’ll make my own pie crust and can make biscuits or rolls.
I save receipts and plan to sit down some rainy afternoon and compare the same products over the last 12-24 months.
Also, was the cream cheese really only 6 ounces or was that a whipped version? Cream cheese has been in an 8 ounce brick for as long as I can remember. If the brick is down to 6 ounces, that’s going to mess up so many of Kraft’s recipes. I make my own cream cheese spread by whipping a softened brick in my stand mixer and then adding whatever flavoring I want, such as diced strawberries, diced red pepper or orange marmalade.
I can commiserate, Mari! Just awful…we are paring down, especially with meat.
We allow ourselves Filet Mignon steaks…two 2″ thick ones every shopping trip once a month, but the two of us now split one for a meal. I make certain I tie each one I pan sear, so the steak will be thicker, resulting in perfect cooking and doneness.
I have taken more to slow roast pork shoulder and chuck roasts, crisp up chicken thighs and found WONDERful mild bacon and bratwurst in our one store brand offerings.
Our low -sodium store brand bacon, for example, is constantly on sale…two packages for $7. Best we have ever tried, and you cannot beat the price.
I am now a Grocery Vixen!!!
I started keeping sales slips to for about a year now. Like you will compare one day..
It’s good to hear your eyesight is much better. I wear a gas permeable too on my right eye after a full cornea transplant. They do let in oxygen as per the name of “permeable.” That’s their job. But, it’s not always enough especially for your cataract.
One day, I don’t think I’ll be able to put in my contact anymore. It’s very difficult to do even now. Oh, well. When my written text looks like “adkd eos godo dkwk sezdee”, then please let me know.
You just keep carrying forward and we’ll be right here too as your good friends.
Aldis Cream Cheese/ 8oz. was 1.59 a week or so ago.
Shop Rite Brand Peanut Butter $1.59 to $2.29 in the last 4 wks. 44% increase.
National brands are leading with their pricing power but grocery chain house brands are not far behind. House brands are more profitable (higher margin) for the grocery store.
Point is you get slightly less screwed going generic.
Many of the house brands in my area are absolutely as good. When Philadelphia cream cheese became scarce (and its parent company was revealed as horrendous) I tried the Market Basket brand and will never go back.
I started reading the list of ingredients on packages. Now I can no longer eat jelly beans. What makes jelly beans shinny is shellac from bugs.
“Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish.”
OH MY!
watch out for items with
” carmine” in them too, a red coloring that get from a beetle. carmine – is made from crushed up bugs.
The insects used to make carmine are called cochineal, and are native to Latin America where they live on cacti.
Now farmed mainly in Peru, millions of the tiny insects are harvested every year to produce the colouring.
Colorant, food glaze and wood finish – okay then!
Is that worse than something made totally in a lab, like saccharin? Or the long list of unpronounceable ingredients listed in most foods?
What???!!!!
English Muffins pack of 6 wheat .. $ 5.29 @ Winn Dixie on Sunday
Brand name bread is crazy here in southern OK. We tried a store brand, awful, but half the price. So we compromised, 1 loaf brand name for sandwiches, 1 store name for toast, grilled cheese, French toast.
Try Bays English Muffins. Winn Dixie might have them. Much better, and I have seen Bays Sour Dough, which taste the way Thomas’ used to.
I make my own english muffins from scratch we like them better than any of the store bought ones.
Yup, bought a bread maker awhile back, and even with increases in the price of wheat flour, we figure the machine has already paid for itself.
Try English muffin Bread. It is easy and delicious.
King Arthur Flour website has a good recipe for it.
Bake your own no-knead bread. Very easy, very delicious and no impossible to pronounce ingredients. And less than a third of the cost of store-bought bread!
Excellent how-to Youtube video on the Jennycancook channel.
Make your own. It’s easy.
Mark, a misplaced reply to you down-thread!
I struck gold today. I was at Costco looking to get a pack of filet mignon. I don’t eat much red meat but wanted a treat. Recent packs of 3 steaks have been around $40+ ! So I’ve been refusing to buy them.. What do I see today ? A pack of 3 for $22 . I look closer, one of the meat wrappers guys mislabeled several packs, labels read
” beef ribs” at $13.99 a lb. They were weighted at that price and put in the case…The filet mignon is supposed to be $19.99 a lb.
Needless to say I grabbed 2 packs ! I got 7 nice prime filets for $51 ! nice for the freezer 😀
NICE!!!
Make sure they are not really “Sirloin Filets’. I made that mistake once. Thought my grief-ridden family would have a wonderfully nice meal at home one night. Seared to perfection, yet no one could cut through them.Noticed the small print on the sticker. The store was nice enough to give a credit but we had a very stressful dinner that night!!!! Salad and Ice Cream!
they are filet mignon, had one tonight. They are the only kind of steak I eat, so I know them well 😋…I like the lean tender meat, figure its better health wise
The same rack of democrat dumb as sees by different names have caused the exact same issue s as the Carter years…
Spiking energy costs are causing a major recession…back in the early 80’s Ford was saved by the..
Taurus…
This illegitimate Bidumb administration has got to go…all of them…every last one…they are a danger to our nation…they are destroying us….the illegitimately installed Biden admin must be removed enmasse…
This criminal regime cannot stand…our military leadership is corrupted also and must be removed…the fate of our nation is imperiled by this administration…
They must be removed from office…
Are these weekly grocery store ads to buy 5 of the shown items to get the sale price being run all over the country?
I find them disgusting.
Most of the items are off brand or items you’d never buy.
Sometimes they put baked potato chips in these ads but who needs five bags of potato chips…or one:):). And, the sale price is too high anyway.
It seems they’re running these to take up room in their weeklies whereas they used to run good sales on produce say and necessities.
Never have seen those in NE FL.
Fred Meyer right?
I never see anything that I want or need in those “buy 5 and save” ads.
I shop on Tuesdays because that is when the yellow tags appear at the meat counter.
On one trip in Mid February, I picked up a pack of New York Strip Steaks marked down from $14.50/lb. Back at my apartment I stored the steaks in my small chest freezer. Here were another pair of steaks bought right after Thanksgiving marked down from $9.98/lb.
So between the end of November to middle February prices for the same two steaks went up 50%.
Fortunately I’m an old well paid engineer working away from home on a remote project. With my family all grown, my wife still working too, we can still eat what we want for now. But I remember when we were starting out with two kids and a house payment with a Jimmy Carter interest payment.
I wonder how the young people working on my project feed their families.
When I was a student under Carter hamburger went in two years from $0.75/lb to $2.75/lb.
Gas went from $0.65/gal to $1.65/gal.
I never thought the people would pick this again.
I realize they did not but there were still a major group that put the vote close enough to steal.
It took about two generations to get back here. Hopefully this can be corrected and it will take four or more generations to fall this far again.
Al…the problem is our government….you speak of gasoline and food costs rising…
The true cost is diesel…..there us one common denominator…
Democrats and RINOS going after cheap energy…meaning oil and natural gas…
Washington DC is corrupted by lobbyists…our military is corrupted by Washington DC…our intelligence agencies have been turned into political operations…Merrick Garland is corrupt therefore DOJ is corrupt….FBI is corrupt because DOJ is corrupt…
We got ourselves one helluva mess here and it is all behind political and financial corruption…
Greed…narcissism…lust for power…
Corruption….
DHS is corrupted by Alejandro Mayorkas…and the rest of the obidumb admin is corrupted by leftist mentality…and greed…and narcissism…
Don’t forget to mention the financialization of everything and every one. Need to cut the multinationals down to size too.
One local store marks meat down daily when it reaches the label date. I buy it whenever I find something left that looks good, but I’ve noticed some of the more middle class/wealthy people in our town are now there to pick up the discounts.
It’s way higher than 17% . This guy bought exactly the same grocery items over 3 years:
Watch the 1st 5 min. Inflation = 52%, not 17%.
And he didn’t even take shrinkflation into account.
I spoke with a friend in England on Monday and he believes that it’s the energy costs that are the main reason of the rise in costs, specifically tomatoes, is that the cost for the greenhouses is higher and so they are not able to raise as many during the winter.
This could effectively raise the cost of all greenhouse produce.
6 oz. of Cream Cheese for 6.99? Yikes.
Just got 8 oz. CC for 1.59 at Aldis a week ago.
Don’t know if the price has gone up since then. Or maybe it was a cash register mistake?
Cuz Aldis is usually (always?) cheaper, but not by *that* much.
Tomatoes are being rationed in London. And there isn’t an egg to be found.
Sundance, with all due respect, where are you shopping at? The current price at Walmart in Western PA for Heinz ketchup 20 oz is $3.48 and Kraft cream cheese 8 oz is $2.98. Also with larger sizes the price per oz goes down. I shop at Aldi, Walmart and my local grocery store and save a lot of money that way.
I don’t believe their numbers anymore.
These inflation numbers, are they year-over-year? If so, what would it look like if you compared, oh, say, 2020 prices to today’s inflation numbers?
I recall Sundance mentioning Heinz and Kraft few years ago, with relation to food prices. It wasn’t pretty then, as I recall.
May God have mercy on the evil JoBama Administration – because I won’t
If produce is being rationed due to limited supply, then one would assume the government(s) is/are encouraging farmers to grow more and provide fertilizer to maximize the crops, no?
Folks ought to grow their own.
Possible to grow your own lettuce, bush green beans, cherry tomatoes and peppers inside, on a sunny window sill or under cheap grow lights.
I will be trying that soon. Found some excellent how-to Youtube videos on the Provident Prepper channel.
The so-called need for food is just a social construct.
Get woke – go broke – then hungry.
have caremark which we pay for monthly and all the generic RX doubled from 12 to 25 dollars for 90 day supply so switched to good rx and all 8 generics went down to 8-12 dollars for 90 days and there is a gold plan that is pricey use regular good rx and winn dixie is cheaper than walmart so compare to save
we all know food has doubled under this destructive occupation . never ever believe any gov stat it is all lies ,just use your own eyes and see they are way off .