11-09-2024, 11:38 AM
Yet the quality of food has tanked & companies "seem" to have swapped out crap ingredients for even crappier ones. My biggest rant being Campbell's Soups (cream of's) tasting like a big glob of thickeners instead of potato, chicken, mushroom. Have the same issue with most yogurts.
Look folks, I'm a smoker.
If I can still taste thickeners & other fillers just how bad is it? Cheese is rubbery, eggs are hit & miss awful. Produce has been very obviously trimmed multiple times (so it's OLD) yet still sold at full price like it just arrived! Shopping has turned into a scavenger hunt for prices I'm willing to pay. Great info on Barillia Pasta!! I thought it was just me.
One thing that has saved my butt is shopping for produce at Oriental Wholesalers. WAY better quality and still cheap compared to anywhere else. While not everyone has places like this, try looking for wholesalers who supply restaurants or take-outs. Some sell to the public as well.
Even driving that far & paying for parking, getting stink-eye from the staff the prices & quality are worth it. I'm a dumb American so the stink-eye amuses me no end!!! It's also fantastic fun playing "what's that fruit/veggie?" I genuinely have no clue about a lot of it but try it anyway.
My rock-bottom in this spate of food aggression perpetuated by the US food system will be the day I have to make cabbage & noodles with Udon Noodles. Total line in the sand.
Frozen Veggies still "seem" to be ok. If you can find any that aren't in the ridiculous steamer bags. Good luck with that!! The endless multiple trips needed in one direction 15miles this way for paper towels, garbage bags, then 6 miles the other way for quality pet food, downtown for fresh veggies, then 20mi north for frozen veggies has been one HUGE pita.I gave up on meats & just buy the 1lb packages of Elk or Bison ground meat. Chicken or beef is always hit & miss. Mexican Food store for powdered milk, canned stuff, bay leaves & tortilla's. I gave up on bread.
Can't/won't total up just how much meat/food I've had to toss out cause it was gosh awful.
Did do the math once, realized quick it cost me MORE than driving all over God's green acre for food that's edible.
You know it's BAD when living on snack foods isn't any worse than purchasing from regular grocery stores. At this rate my birds are gonna have to share their sunflower seed.
(thanks for letting me rant!!)
Look folks, I'm a smoker.
If I can still taste thickeners & other fillers just how bad is it? Cheese is rubbery, eggs are hit & miss awful. Produce has been very obviously trimmed multiple times (so it's OLD) yet still sold at full price like it just arrived! Shopping has turned into a scavenger hunt for prices I'm willing to pay. Great info on Barillia Pasta!! I thought it was just me.
One thing that has saved my butt is shopping for produce at Oriental Wholesalers. WAY better quality and still cheap compared to anywhere else. While not everyone has places like this, try looking for wholesalers who supply restaurants or take-outs. Some sell to the public as well.
Even driving that far & paying for parking, getting stink-eye from the staff the prices & quality are worth it. I'm a dumb American so the stink-eye amuses me no end!!! It's also fantastic fun playing "what's that fruit/veggie?" I genuinely have no clue about a lot of it but try it anyway.
My rock-bottom in this spate of food aggression perpetuated by the US food system will be the day I have to make cabbage & noodles with Udon Noodles. Total line in the sand.
Frozen Veggies still "seem" to be ok. If you can find any that aren't in the ridiculous steamer bags. Good luck with that!! The endless multiple trips needed in one direction 15miles this way for paper towels, garbage bags, then 6 miles the other way for quality pet food, downtown for fresh veggies, then 20mi north for frozen veggies has been one HUGE pita.I gave up on meats & just buy the 1lb packages of Elk or Bison ground meat. Chicken or beef is always hit & miss. Mexican Food store for powdered milk, canned stuff, bay leaves & tortilla's. I gave up on bread.
Can't/won't total up just how much meat/food I've had to toss out cause it was gosh awful.
Did do the math once, realized quick it cost me MORE than driving all over God's green acre for food that's edible.
You know it's BAD when living on snack foods isn't any worse than purchasing from regular grocery stores. At this rate my birds are gonna have to share their sunflower seed.
(thanks for letting me rant!!)
