Food prices June 2021

[frustratedearthmother]

Sharp knives & saw needed.

Sawzall is your friend!!

I'd go back & get gutted, scraped hog; hanging in cold room.

That's really a great deal. I didn't realize you were getting them scraped. We just skin 'em. I would love to have a scraped one - but no way I'm going to deal with that myself, lol!

I can have one skinned, gutted and sectioned out in about an hour. It's the cutting and wrapping that takes so long! I store my hogs in an ice chest for several days after cutting so I can take a little time cutting it up.

It's doable - even for a woman with a few years under my belt, lol!

 

[Hinotori]

You must have gone to WINCO. I saw broc there yesterday for the same price. at safeway and Freddy's (Kroger) it was $1.78/lb.

WA state mandated that chicken eggs come from cage free chickens, starting Jan 1. So the price skyrocketed. I raised my price for eggs from $3.50 to $4. I only have one customer and he didn't even blink.

Yup was at Winco. Might be going by the Costco Business Center today to look at prices. Probably get a primal to cut up and maybe a 10 pound ground beef chub to divide for the freezer.

Frozen veggies are cheaper at Winco per pound. Have to get the frozen peas and lima beans at Walmart because the Great Value brand are the only ones without added salt.

Found that I need to buy the chicken breast that hubby likes at Costco because they have air chilled. It's more expensive but doesn't have the salt solution soaked in. Less sodium in the meat means I can season everything easier for dinner.

H-mart and Pal-do World have best prices for the veggies and fruit they carry and of course rice. They actually are the only stores who usually tell you the country of origin

 

[Mini Horses]

Great for both of you on slicers!! I'm still using a sharp knife well, I have used my mandolin but not thin like those will do. It's great on veggies! I use little for sandwiches tho. Glad for you both!!

 

[murphysranch]

Absolutely, labor factors into the end price. I buy hubs pistachios (I don't eat them) due to their nutritional value for his brain. Yes, they are a treat too.

I open up a package from Costco, then divide them into three bags. Two of the bags get vac sealed for future fresh use.

 

[Mini Horses]

While working a reset yesterday, I was once again 😡 looking at pricing. We remove those little stickers from pegs of hanging products. Some had 4-5 stickers from continual up pricing. So in 6-8 months these products had risen over $1 per bag. Bags of jerky. Yep $7.25 to $8.75...5 oz. 20% in 8 mo.

Can you say "dehydrator" ?? If you eat that jerky.

And beef prices --- oh, my!!

Make up 😱 even worse! I stopped that long ago.

Grocery stores???? Well, I'm getting garden tilled!
Goats milked and a couple young boys fattened for freezer camp. My broody hen -- bless her! -- will raise up winter soup boys & young layers to winter flock ! She's half done ☺️

 

[Mini Horses]

Agree with all you said but, even with all of that ... Their reports show huge profit increases. Key word "increases". Take a little less, like consumers do. It's not going to stop either.

Don't sell your good breeding age cows! 🤣

 

[Mini Horses]

My son just bought a brand new XLT Ford dually, just above base model, for $93,000.

😳😳 Obscene!!! My mtg is way less. Couldn't buy one.

Many of the food corporations are having record profits right now. Because they raised prices because they could and tried to pass it off as inflation.

This -- accurate beyond reasonable doubt!! 😡😡😡 Between prices up and quantity down, yeah we're all getting screwed and not even a 💋 kiss! But the top line corp people are all getting huge bonuses. I hope they choke on some of the crap they're selling.

But I don't buy much of it -- so there's that. 👍 I'll continue to grow most of my food. They can keep their chemicals & high sugars, etc. 🤷. Just me being me.

 

[Mini Horses]

I got some outdate/close date meats from a store last week. 18# of armour bacon, 29 PKG Oscar meyer bun length hot dogs, close date -- in my freezer. Plus almost 30# of out of date meats/ hot dogs -- cats LOVE me!! Oh, cheese -- 14.5# sliced, various type, close dated & 4 pkgs philly crm ch. Cheese -- really? That stuff keeps waaay past date BUT stores cannot keep it.

Free is great. 🤣 Sometimes I get fresh produce being tossed for dates & crackers, etc. Chickens & goats adore it.

 

[Britesea]

I don't have any meat chickens, but our extra roosters and the old hens get butchered and canned. I LOVE the stock from old chickens- so much more flavorful than from the young tender ones. If our broody hen manages to hatch out her chicks, I'll probably butcher the cockerels and (maybe) some of the young hens as we'll have too many for the coop and I don't want any fighting. I would love to raise at least one weiner a year, but we don't have room- I don't want to be waking up to the smell of pigs wafting through the open window, lol.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Didn’t you sell the factory?

I did! I'd have to start over. I swear it's not in the plan at the moment, but I catch myself watching Craigslist all the time, lol. It won't happen until I do some reconfiguring of pens around here. Or, I could let 'em have run of the pasture and pond, hmmmmm.