Food prices June 2021

[Hinotori]

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.

 

[murphysranch]

It is horrible greed, shrinkflation, and corruption.

I broke down and bought a package of Wally's lunch meat. Cooked ham, water added is the legal label. $8 for 24 ounces. I don't need no stinking plastic tub with lunch meat. I just want something other than PB or tuna fish for my son and hubs. It was a treat!!

Thankfully, I bring home alot of "expired" canned goods from the fd bank. Alot goes to the chickens and the compost, and some to us. Last nite, 2 cans of canned beets from 2020. Yummy! (Fd bank has a rule that any thing older than exactly 6 months back, needs to be tossed. Chaps my hide, so I bring the discards home on my two shifts).

No wonder our applications for food bank assistance is growing every week. I had three new families just on my Monday afternoon shift.

 

[Hinotori]

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

Prices are up from $.10 to .40 since February.

Boneless pork shoulder butt $2.09
Pork belly $3.69

Beef round tip select grade $4.29
Beef round 1/4 trim select grade $3.99
Beef special trim select grade $3.99
Beef eye of round select $3.99
Beef brisket choice grade $3.99
Beef top loin (NY strip) choice grade $10.49

Ground beef 90-10 $3.89
Ground beef 80-20 $2.99

5 dozen large eggs are $11.99 currently. I don't usually look at eggs.

3 dozen quail eggs are $8.99. Not a usual item for there.

 

[Mini Horses]

We don't have a "business/restaurant" situation like that which is open to the public. There are plenty of that type distribution centers -- licensed, wholesale sales only. There is a "middle of nowhere" grocery that does sell a lot of primal & case lot specials. Mostly, don't want a lot of what they have. Do get some good buys there sometimes! And, they will cut you primal to order while you're there...free. 👍

 

[baymule]

We raise and sell pork and chicken. We have 3 pigs ATM, one we will split with our DD and family, the other two are sold. One customer is getting a whole hog, one is being split between 2 buyers. We sell pork for $5 per pound. These go to slaughter in August. One of my chicken buyers, she orders 3, cut into quarters, wants a half hog next year.

We also raise Cornish Cross chickens, we sell it for $6 per pound. We have one customer (that buys a whole pig from us each year) that buys 25 chickens a year. Then we have 4 other customers, added 2 new ones this year. They buy from 10 to 1 chicken. We have sold 45 chickens this year. I had 5 unclaimed chickens in the freezer, sent the breast meat and boneless, skinless thigh meat home with our DD when she left yesterday. They only like the breast and thigh meat. There are 23 more out there to slaughter, over due, they are freaking HUGE. We will stock our freezer, DD's freezer and can the backs, necks, skin and hearts for the dogs.

In December, we are picking up a steer that we will finish out on grain for 3-4 months, then take to slaughter. We have 2 buyers, each gets a half, at $8 per pound.

The meat we sell is priced well above grocery store meat. Our meat business is slowly growing. Now it more than pays for what we eat and supply our DD and family with. We only do custom orders, we don't buy and raise animals then hope to sell the meat. We are slowly converting a few people to buying a freezer and buying their meat in quantity instead for a week's supply. They also get an education in how long it takes to produce the meat that they eat. Customers are welcome to come to the farm at any time to see "their" animal.

 

[murphysranch]

Update to: Grocery store prices 2024

We just got back from Safeway. I normally ONLY get their digital deals, for stuff we use. 39 cents Yoplait yogurt; $3.97 per lb thick sliced bacon in 3 lb packs, $2.97 Umpqua (now 1.5 qt) ice cream, etc.

I'm shocked. Just shocked. Since I have a very full deep pantry and I'm using up inventory from 2020 when prices started to skyrocket for my non food items, I'm horrified for all of us, especially us "prime" in our age and reliant on Social Security.

Last weekend, I went to two estate sales. At the first one, I bought some hand soap bars and some deodorant for the Food bank where I volunteer. Less than the dollar stores for what I got. I also bought a very large container of washing machine detergent, All Free & Clear. The one with the spigot on the top left and the vent cap on the right. Huge. Full. $5.

I went down the isle for cleaners today and saw the same container. It was regularly $19.99 and on sale for $16.99. WHAT??????????????

I always check the clearance corner for markdowns. Safeway softly TP, mega, 24 rolls. $29.99. There was a package there that was half off.....Really??????? No wonder many of the folks I help with their FBank order ask for one roll of TP.

What shocks you?

 

[Mini Horses]

I buy very little. I'm stocked. My self canned foods sustain most of my own wants...plus chickens & dairy in my yard, which I use & share with others.

BUT I still work and see these rising prices daily! I look at prices of milk, eggs, canned foods, etc. with great appreciation for my own bounty and where I can assist others who appreciate things they cannot always buy.

I'm beyond shocked -- just wondering when these increases can stop. Wondering what those who cannot do more to help themselves will do to stay warm & buy food. Yeah, there is a "it could be me" feeling. Certainly I'm "prime" aged but, very healthy.

There are many days I do "needless" work for vendors/manufacturers and know how much is being spent by them to have thousands of stores across the country serviced with ridiculous changes. My thoughts -- you're making tooooo much $$$ to spend like this, show huge profits still and you SHOULD BE reducing prices!!🤬🤬

 

[flowerbug]

eggs, milk and butter are about the same as they were before, but the price does bounce around so we watch for sales and pick up more when the price is lower. some things like walnuts we've been getting rather cheap for some reason. the prices of things that went up the most were meats, canned things we use mostly like mushrooms. the instant tapioca doubled. chicken soup doubled, flour and sugar went up some but not too bad. apples, onions, oranges, carrots all went up but again, not horribly.

recently Mom decided to go off sugar and chocolate so it's been interesting. she still eats some junk-foods but cut back so we'll see how it continues, it does help to not have to buy so many sweets. i'm sometimes feeling like i may be eating more than normal but i'm doing ok when i check my weight so that is working because i'm eating less junk overall and eating better food (fruits and veggies) plus getting more fiber (bran cereal which takes up room in the digestive system and is not high in calories, i cut the milk half and half with water and eat it as a hot cereal).

 

[Mini Horses]

Milk has been "stabled" due to govt price controls. The farmers are dying with cost of feed increasing way beyond what their piddly buy of raw milk does 😵‍💫😡

Yeah butters, cheeses, etc up. Meats 😱 gonna get worse.

Now, we're getting grains with chems not allowed in USA (imagine that 🙄) which cause fertility issues in animals! So, people? And we can't even tell. Contents do not list treatments before the packaging. We are being fed poisons.

 

[baymule]

Me too - but I haven't jumped yet, lol. I don't have a problem processing them myself if I do it while they're at a reasonable size. I prefer NOT to do a 300 pounder by myself, but I can do one at around 100 lbs fairly easily. Less pork, yes - but less feed into them too. If I bought feeders I'd grow them out - but when you've got the factory it's pretty easy to justify doing them at a smaller weight.

Didn’t you sell the factory?
Thinking about buying back in?