Food prices

[UltraBudgie]

Talk about trickle down this is from a local food stand.  Who in their right mind is going to pay $1.00 for a tomato 

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That is not too too crazy. Those look to be about 4oz each, so that's is about twice the price of generic store bought tomatoes, but if they're local grown organically on soil that isn't mostly dead and have a nice full tomato taste then I'd get a few. Bland tomatoes suck.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

That is not too too crazy. Those look to be about 4oz each, so that's is about twice the price of generic store bought tomatoes, but if they're local grown organically on soil that isn't mostly dead and have a nice full tomato taste then I'd get a few. Bland tomatoes suck.

$0.83/each if you buy 6 and they do look rather good

Id like some of that zucchini next to it also

[Ravenwatcher]

$0.83/each if you buy 6 and they do look rather good

Id like some of that zucchini next to it also

Tomatoes - 6/$5.00,  Cucumbers - 3/$2.00.  Candy Onions - 3/$2.00,  Apples - 3/$1.00,  Peaches - 3/$1.00,  Mums - $10.00 each

I'm growing next season .

[ReturnofBroccoli]

Tomatoes - 6/$5.00,  Cucumbers - 3/$2.00.  Candy Onions - 3/$2.00,  Apples - 3/$1.00,  Peaches - 3/$1.00,  Mums - $10.00 each

I'm growing next season .

How do you keep away birds and pests?
I really want to start myself but I have like a million birds

[GENERAL EYES]

Around where I live a bell pepper runs about $3 after tax.

[Kaiju666]

I live in Newscum , Basshole county to be specific. Foods been killing my family of 4 for some time. Especially the last 5 or 6 years.

[worldstarcountry]

We are a family of seven. The budget average per month is about $115 per person. We got COSTCO membership so Milk is like $2.50/gallon , ground beef varies lately it just broke like $5.50 for the 90%+ lean still not yet north of 6$ . Eggs are pretty much what David64 already said. Rice is very reasonable, so are potatoes. We are permanently stocked up with Fresh fruit and vegetables for scratch kitchen meals. Pasta etc is still floating around $1/lb for whatever variety, Wal-Mart usually.

I think the crazy prices are in packaged and prepared food products. Whoever is noticing prices on packaged and prepared items should spend 30 minutes less on whatever subscription screen service vampiring the wallet and just spend it in the kitchen whipping up wholesome food.

As far as homemade salsas and sauces, we almost will never be able to compete with scaled mass batch production regarding pricepoint once you weigh out all your ingredients and determine unit pricing. That was true before though even when salsas and vegetables were slightly cheaper.

Florida grows lots of its own produce and livestock so maybe we get a better deal on that stuff here. Also the West Coast is about to go through some horrific energy inflation due to a possible cartel or CCP sabotage of that big refinery. That is going to drive up food prices in that region for a good year probably.

Considering we have seven people, my wife and I, our working adult son and 4 dependent minors, it sounds like a budgeting issue with many folks. I don't even buy chips anymore, stuff is no good for our hearts anyways and the fresh fruit seems to have really been a hit with the children that they don't even care for chips.

Im actually just going to slash the chicken budget in half and re-direct it towards more beef. Much better for growing kids. The more beef we buy over time the quicker capital flow can be directed towards replenishing livestock headcount.

[Wild Bill]

When  the covid lock downs started I had a load of spare cash and went nuts filling  8 suitcases full of tins and packets of dried food - total pepper mode , glad I did because here in the UK prices in the same store have rocketed since then .

I have used up all the food now as the expiry date was getting close but to replace the same items I stacked for a SHTF scenario have gone from 10 to 50 % on all items , some examples are tins of soup were 39 pence now 69 pence ,, pack of 30 gram tobacco was 9.50 now 23.10   , packets have gotten smaller and the price has gone up a lot on meat etc , Dog food has gone through the roof .

we need victory gardening again !

[rickymouse]

Talk about trickle down this is from a local food stand.  Who in their right mind is going to pay $1.00 for a tomato 

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We went to a local privately owned fruit and vegetable stand last week.  They have Ahmish tomatoes there for four bucks a pound.  Oh are they good, as good as vine ripened out of our garden when we used to have one.  Not even in the same class as the store tomatoes.  Some of the farmers markets here have fresh veggies all summer, it is worth buying the green beans picked that day and the vine ripened tomatoes picked that morning at those.  The tomatoes are also around four bucks a pound for those fresh ones around here, and they are definitely good too on a BLT.

I gave up growing tomatoes this year, the chippies eat half of them.  Also those super hot Chili peppers I buy disappear, the chippies love those things.  Some we find half eaten....I think they are challenging other chipies to a hot pepper eating contest...must be equivalent to guys in their twenties having a hot pepper eating contest.

Maybe next year I will figure out a way to keep the chippies away from that stuff, fences don't even slow them down at all.  Those chippies look real dangerous when their faces are full of tomato they look like they just killed another animal with the red fir.  Can't get any raspeberries anymore, the chippies got red faces from those too.  I suppose it is our fault, I feed the deer potatoes and homemade organic bread all the time and toss them out apples and organic carrots when they come aroud begging at the patio door.  The chippies and squirrels see that.

[rickymouse]

When  the covid lock downs started I had a load of spare cash and went nuts filling  8 suitcases full of tins and packets of dried food - total pepper mode , glad I did because here in the UK prices in the same store have rocketed since then .

I have used up all the food now as the expiry date was getting close but to replace the same items I stacked for a SHTF scenario have gone from 10 to 50 % on all items , some examples are tins of soup were 39 pence now 69 pence ,, pack of 30 gram tobacco was 9.50 now 23.10   , packets have gotten smaller and the price has gone up a lot on meat etc , Dog food has gone through the roof .

we need victory gardening again !

I just picked up two pounds of tobacco yesterday, it was about eighteen bucks a pound bag.  Enough to make two cartons of cigarettes.  There is cheaper tobaccos in the store, but I special order this one, it is a more natural additive free tobacco...Largo sungrown.  No propyline glycol in that one, tastes about the same as winston full flavor cigarettes which I used to smoke.  I have only bought winstons or the cigarettes the natives grow and sell around here for about forty years and when I found this type I started making my own.  Way cheaper than buying packs of them.  About a buck twenty five a pack (20) now with the filters price gone up too.