Food prices June 2021

[Mini Horses]

With weather issues...CA & FL providing much of the stores fruit & veg... There may be some up pricing &/or lower quantity seen this year. At some point, filtering into canned/frozen supply in snowball effect. Just a thought for consideration of buyers.

Like meat & eggs, some immediate effects & then recovery time, slows supplies. Getting 12-15 eggs a day here 😳 & I'll grow veggies I want. Some don't have that option.

 

[Hinotori]

Some prices at Costco Business Center. All is primals. Ground beef is 10 pound chubs.

Boneless pork shoulder butt $1.69
Boneless pork cushion $1.59
Bone in pork shoulder butt neck on $1.49
Pork back ribs $2.59
Pork spare ribs $1.89
Pork St Louis ribs $2.49
Pork loin strap on $2.09
Pork belly $3.19

Beef round 1/4 trim select grade $3.39
Beef shoulder clod select grade $3.79
Beef special trim select grade $3.99
Beef eye of round select $3.99
Beef top loin (NY strip) select grade $7.29

Beef tri-tip choice grade $6.79
Beef brisket choice grade $3.99
Beef ribeye choice $11.29
Beef top loin (NY strip) $8.69

Ground beef 90-10 $3.79
Ground beef 80-20 $2.79

 

[flowerbug]

Me neither. Never been in one.

same here, but we do have a Sam's Club membership that gets used once or twice a month. with all the baking Mom does it is worth it for us.

it is about 30 miles from us but near the favorite Chinese food place we will visit if we go that ways so it works out ok to combine the trip and we also usually add in other other stops at the more general stores and a few other places that day so we get all our errands done in one shot.

 

[Mini Horses]

so we get all our errands done in one shot.

Plus it gets you out into society on occasion. A change of pace & scenery. All good 😊

 

[flowerbug]

people seem to think that every time the economic cycle goes up it hasn't ever happened before and eventually it tops out and goes down again and then they think it will never get better again, rinse-repeat...

if you budget, save, invest, plus smart shopping and being selective and avoiding the obvious gouging you can get by without having to panic or even break a sweat.

note that our education system has been set up to mostly not teach thing things that help people avoid spending too much. it's not encouraged to be thrifty or frugal, garden, barter, etc. so what does that all tell ya?

oh, and i can't get Mom to reduce her waste at all in many ways. we spend probably 10%-20% per year or more than we really need to. i try to encourage her to not waste so much then she's going to complain about not having enough to spend on things she really needs and i have to bite my tongue and try to get her to work with what she has. sadly this has been consistent for a long time and she won't change unless she's forced to and within a month or two she will be forced to so that will be an interesting time. of course i do contribute and make sure things are safe and comfortable here no matter what, but i want to see at least a little effort once in a while to not waste... in the meantime i can grumble here...

for the record, no matter what, she'll never be hungry or not have a place to live that is warm in the winter and cool enough in the summer. she will always have that from me without any grumbles at all.

 

[murphysranch]

The Calif min wage for FAST Food restaurants is now $20 an hour, for those brands that have 60 or more nationwide locations. It started last week. Wonder why nobody can afford fast food anymore?

Also the mandatory overall min wage for Calif went up to $16 an hour for any other workers.

I worked at the Sears Candy Counter in the early 70s for $1.35 an hour. Then in the mid 70's I got a part time job as a microbiologist at Marriotts Great America for a whopping stupendous $3.50 an hour!!!!! I was RICH!! hahahahaha

 

[FarmerJamie]

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. There was an article a few weeks ago about the government actually looking into some of their shenanigans but haven't heard if anything has come of that yet.

Yeah, I hear ya.

There is a lot of information and misinformation bouncing around. The worst example I saw was a blatant misrepresentation of gross profit vs net profit.

 

[CrealCritter]

Jesus is Lord and Christ ✝️

 

[Mini Horses]

Saw 3 gardens going in on my short end of the road. One was a fam that used to garden, had chickens, milk goat, etc. As kids grew & left, things stopped. For several yrs, no efforts of the sort. This yr, I see a garden!! ☺️. They're retirement age, so either more time or less to spend, or such. Another wasn't thinking to garden this yr -- they said a couple months back -- it's being planted 😁.

So those who can, will do more this year, I believe. Great!

 

[Hinotori]

I've had to keep a price of foods at different stores so I know where to buy what. We're now buying mostly just pasta, beans, grains, veggies, and unprocessed meat.

The business center is actually higher for frozen veggies per pound than Winco. Meat price and quality is better at business center.

Depending on the produce, Hmart is best. They don't carry some things.

Canned veggies are off the menu now that we need to limit sodium for hubby. Only ones I get are the no salt tomato sauce. $1 a can right now so I should go buy a bunch.