Food Price Thread

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

That's the plan.

No eating, no driving, no staying warm. We are not even riding the back of the train. Some of us might get a push cart.

 

[LadyLocust]

I woke up at 2am so am feeling it. Just read the title of this thread as “Price of Thread”.

 

[Patchouli]

@LadyLocust I bought some thread this week, even the price of thread seems ridiculously high! Now I can’t remember what it was…regular thread from wm, between $2 and $3.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Good news. I found Spam for $2.99 a can. They even had maple flavor. During the fake pandemic I couldn't find Spam anywhere. Except the crap nobody would buy, like the low sodium and plain flavor.

 

[Magpie]

It's one of the things that doubled in price here, as well as the tinned corned beef. Price hasn't dropped either- I keep a few tins for camping.

 

[Mountain trapper]

When we get snowed in here for a couple of weeks at a time, and run out of bacon, we'll substitute Spam. Fried up its pretty good.

 

[Magpie]

When we get snowed in here for a couple of weeks at a time, and run out of bacon, we'll substitute Spam. Fried up its pretty good.

Same here! Theres also a egg-shaped tin of ham with a jelly around it that fries well.

 

[Cascadian]

I woke up at 2am so am feeling it. Just read the title of this thread as “Price of Thread”.

I read some really weird stuff here and then I put my glasses on. Thankfully some of it is still pretty weird. Shout out to @Magus.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Same here! Theres also a egg-shaped tin of ham with a jelly around it that fries well.

We keep several of the canned hams in our pantry too.

 

[Amish Heart]

I keep alot of canned hams, too. The expiration dates are usually pretty decent, but have noticed that Aldi is out of them most of the time, and everybody's price on them have gone up about a buck fifty a can.

 

[Magpie]

I priced the tinned ham here- its not a big can either- €5.50! jeez, its even expensive to camp now. My shopping bill this week- not a big shop either - was horrendous.

 

[Amish Heart]

Last time I checked, they were $3.95 here, up a buck from last year. Meat is crazy priced.

 

[Magpie]

I keep shop bought pastry for meat pies in the freezer for 'emergencies'. I had a good stock of shortcrust, so haven't bought it in a while. It went from 99c to 1.05 in Lidl after Covid; which I thought was ok- it remained the same size, and on the scale of things it wasn't the worse jump of price. Other supermarkets its more like 3- 4, or they don't sell it at all. I do and can make my own, but normally for sweet stuff.
However I picked up two yesterday - its jumped to 1.35 at some point!

 

[old tex]

I can't quote any prices because I'm a guy & I just follow the lists that I'm given. But I did spend a little over $200 at Sam's yesterday & 2 days before that I spent $50 at Walmart. And yesterday afternoon my wife came in with 4 bags of groceries (no idea how much she spent). Maybe it's my mind failing but I can remember when spending $250 would buy enough food to last 2 week & long before that it would have lasted a month.

 

[LadyLocust]

I can't quote any prices because I'm a guy & I just follow the lists that I'm given. But I did spend a little over $200 at Sam's yesterday & 2 days before that I spent $50 at Walmart. And yesterday afternoon my wife came in with 4 bags of groceries (no idea how much she spent). Maybe it's my mind failing but I can remember when spending $250 would buy enough food to last 2 week & long before that it would have lasted a month.

I just added up my groceries for April - just shy of $219 which included 10# of cheese which will last more than a month. It hasn't happened over night. I've worked for years developing our pantry and systems. Of course in late fall, we will have 1 month when our grocery bill will be a couple thousand dollars - that's when we get our beef.