Food prices

[rickymouse]

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.

The wife has a problem with low pottasium, she had a diuretic with no potassium sparing properties and went on a diet.  She gave up chips and wound up in the ER one day and thousands of dollars of tests.  I told her to stop the diet, eat potato chips.  Ten chips has about eight percent of RDA of potassium, the potassium pills she was taking had only two percent...and both were just as bioactive.  She likes chips for a reason.  She is doing good on her potassium levels since she started eating chips again, even with that combo pill with the diuretic she takes yet.  I think it is something like Hydorchlorothiazide or something that she takes.

I can't take water pills, the doctors tried them and had to discontinue them for some reason.  Genetically I lack an antidiuretic hormone acoording to a gene app I have and that is probably why I pee so much.  They say that is bad to have medically, but it isn't such a problem when you live out in the woods and you have a well and septic tank...no high water and sewer bills.

[baddmove]

Food banks to fill in.

Oh, but wait -- Trump closed the food banks.

All the food banks are still open in the America I live in.

[Wild Bill]

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.

Hyvàà  Pàivàà Ricky   we can get American spirit tobacco in the UK https://www.uktobacco.com/categories/ame...ng-tobacco  

 It is 30 plus bucks for a 30 gram pack but a few of my friends like it but if you smoke ciggies a 20 pack here is 15 bucks minimum,  this year I have been lucky with friends taking me back tobacco and cigars tax free while on holiday for little jobs I have done for them , I did have plans to grow my own tobacco this year but the ground was sold to a property developer after my friend passed away , but I will be next year lol .

I used to enjoy growing my own vegetables but where I live now it is hard especially with the changing climate and a small garden , when I used to have acres to play with ,city life sucks for this country boy and we have 80 nph winds today with inches of rain 
For the 3rd time this year , The only thing that seems to grow are weeds now and for the last 3 years I am struggling to get sunflowers to more than 3 foot high if they grow at all under that weird white sun .

I have grown them since I was a young boy every year and never had a problem before or seen them so stunted , we used to have a competition in school as kids who could grow the biggest sunflower 6 to 8 foot was normal with little to no work invloved but those days seem gone .

[andy06shake]

How does someone feed a family of 3 or 4 nowadays - My wife usally does the food shopping I decided to looks at some things I wanted and wow it's almost cheaper to go out to eat then buy the ingerdients I never really noticed it but I just made a batch of salsa and added up the cost it's just about the same as store bought "But way better". Me and my tiny Wife just us two cost $150 a week just for basics nothing exstavagant per week now, Just can't believe how much stuff cost now.

I've got two kids, and we spend about £800 pcm in shops and supermarkets.

Don't even get me started on the likes of lekkie and gas.

It's not just frightening, it's completely unsustainable.

The cost of living is simply out of line with the average wage.

Same with rent and mortgages.

[KTemplar]

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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I paid 1.50 each for two last week lol!  I was making blts, and they were fresh local I couldn’t resist!

[worldstarcountry]

The wife has a problem with low pottasium, 

Is she allergic to Bananas and Avocados?? Duck.ai gave me this information:Fruits High in PotassiumFruitPotassium Content (per 100g)Avocado485 mgSweet Potatoes337 mgCantaloupe267 mgHoneydew Melon228 mgPrunes732 mgKiwi312 mgOranges181 mgPomegranates236 mgAdditional Sources of Potassium

• Dried fruits, like raisins and apricots, tend to have even higher potassium levels due to their concentration once water is removed.
  
• Coconut water is also a great source, providing around 250 mg of potassium per cup.
  

I mean, I guess IBS could be an issue ... seems a strange justification for hydrogenated oils consumption to pick chips over fruits and veggies naturally rich in potassium.

[rickymouse]

Is she allergic to Bananas and Avocados?? Duck.ai gave me this information:Fruits High in PotassiumFruitPotassium Content (per 100g)Avocado485 mgSweet Potatoes337 mgCantaloupe267 mgHoneydew Melon228 mgPrunes732 mgKiwi312 mgOranges181 mgPomegranates236 mgAdditional Sources of Potassium

• Dried fruits, like raisins and apricots, tend to have even higher potassium levels due to their concentration once water is removed.
  
• Coconut water is also a great source, providing around 250 mg of potassium per cup.
  

I mean, I guess IBS could be an issue ... seems a strange justification for hydrogenated oils consumption to pick chips over fruits and veggies naturally rich in potassium.

She likes bananas, and she has the genetics to break down the high histamine in bananas.  She does not like avacados, and maybe that is because the avocado has an enzyme that destroys the DAO enzyme in the gut, which relates to having a histamine reaction to any foods high in histamines.  I also don't care for avocados.  Kiwi also has a similar enzyme.  Tomatoes just have chemistry that release histamine stores from the muscles.

A medium size potatoe baked has about six hundred fifty mgs of potassium, and all white potatoes have it too.  But when she was trying to lose weight, she restricted potatoes from her diet, and she was on a diuretic that is not potassium sparing.  so her potassium is being peed out.  She will grab chips when she craves them, they have a lot of potassium.  Ten potato chips has about a hundred fifty or more mgs of potassium.  It is actually pretty bioactive too.

Baked or boiled potatoes or fried potatoes..sauteed actually, are cheap sources of potassium in foods.  Potatoes fried at lower temps are not as much of a health problems as french fries, but usually retain more solanine.  But if they are peeled and fried, the solanine level is not very high.  You would have to eat a lot of potatoes a week to get poisoned by solanine, most of the issues with eating lots of potatoes comes from the active hormone calcitriol it contains...a night shade chemistry...which can lead to stiffness of tendons because it bypasses the regular vitamin D syntheses and is the active form.  It is just in small amounts, but the bioactivity of it is a hundred times as potent as D3 from what I have read.  eating too much potatoes can make you stiff and sore.  The calcitriol is formed from calcidiol from the liver which is processed in the kidneys to calcitriol which circulates to increase calcium uptake.  Too many potatoes can also cause little calcium crystals within the muscles to form and also in the knee joints and almost any joint which causes some symptoms.  Doctors can prescribe calcitriol for people who need it, it is an actual medicine.

Too much of anything is a problem, even things that are good for you.

The doctor just prescribed potassium supplements, which she does not take regularly, because the diuretic is not potassium sparing.  We boosted up potato consumption after her diet caused her problems, three meals a week is enough to keep it into the normal level with maybe a banana and sweet potatoes when we have meals they pare with like chicken.  She also does get the orange juice with potassium added, she hates taking those prescription pills but will take the small suplement with two percent RDA every couple of days. 

I learned if I eat bananas with lots of different root veggies and some other veggies, I get allergic to my underwear.  Same with kiwis and avacados which are in the class one with the bananas, but I never tested those, because I don't care for avacados or kiwis anyway.  I have the class one to class two chitinase reaction...I get a rash where the latex rubber touches my skin from the underwear if I eat those foods together.  I usually wear all cotton, but I am not spending megabucks for breifs and socks and t'shirts without latex rubber.  It is easier to just avoid bananas...which by the time I finish eating one I am coughing anyway if they are ripe.  Fast acting histamine in those.