Have you guys seen the prices at the supermarket lately?

I went shopping tonight and was just bowled over by the sticker shock of getting grapes. Green seeless grapes for $4.99/lb and a gallon of milk for $3.89. Deli ham was $4.99/lb. I couldn't bear to even think of Orange Juice...a (small) box of Post cereal was $4.29. Is it any wonder poverty is growing so quickly across our nation??

I've watched them go up every week for the last 20 years..

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yo momma

I have more time on my hands these days after leaving a job that was hell on earth so I'm able to cook from scratch and plan to garden this year

but I can't buy a cow and milk is more expensive than gas :banghead:

but I plan on buying some chickens for the stew pot and the eggs

but damn, she needs the calcium. Soy milk is good, but it's even MORE expensive.

Salmon, Rhubarb, Sardines, Collard greens, Spinach, Turnip greens, Okra, White Beans, Baked beans, Broccoli, Peas, Cowpeas, Brussel sprouts, Sesame seed, Bok choy, Almonds, Shrimp, Most Fruit. Check the serving sizes to see what she needs.

Of those, the following have MORE calcium than milk:
Kale, turnip greens, collard greens and other dark green vegetables. Kale has 200 mg per cooked cup, collard greens boasts 300 mg, and turnip greens contain a whopping 450 mg.


Soy has estrogenic effects. Moderation is the key to anything except milk. (but that's just MHO)


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consider some goats. They eat anything, are good to eat and give milk too.

The poor get poorer, and the middle class disappears. Gas is over $3.00/gallon, health insurance goes up and up, heating one's home in these cooler climates gets more and more expensive. No problem, right? Except that my goddam wages are not going up in proportion. Fuck all this. Power to the people! Edwards for President!

OJ might kill you.
:evilgrin:

I looked. and was just disgusted...

so I'd give it a miss unless it's cider from an orchard stand next to the road.

I can't believe that fruits, and vegetables are more per pound than some meat is. Price of oil?

If we stopped giving our tax dollars to Monsanto and paying farmers NOT to grow food......

But you know, how can the rich get richer if somebody isn't giving them kickbacks in exchange for their favors?


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Hello from a farmer in Nebraska. I can tell you we are not getting wealthy. I can also tell you that the price of oil, fertilizer, seed, taxes, insurance,equipment,land are all going up for us to. Oh and wait, we shop at the grocery story too!
The family farms, 1500-3500 acres and up to 10,000 acres are not the ones you need to address. Talk to the ted turners of the world who are paid to sit on land. He is not and never will be a farmer. What about all the land that is owned by foreign investors?
Before you go knocking subsidies maybe you better look around.
Yes food is going up and it is not us, the farmer, getting the money. Get use to the prices as they are going much higher. The shipping (OIL) is what is running up the price at the stores.
Oh and BTW you might want to thank a farmer next time you go to the store and find food. It doesn't miraculously appear out of no where.

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I have a 40x40 ft plot where I grow as much as I can, and it is not easy!

then pull yourself up by your bootstraps, get wealthy--ANYONE can do that in Amurka if they work hard--and buy all the orange juice you want.

So those already succumbing willingly to the "obesity epidemic" can still eat within their budgets.

Yes, I too bought both Thompson and red seedless, having mistakenly thought them $1.99/pound (sign was in wrong place). Imagine my shock when I found I had purchased over $20 in grapes!!! These are steak prices to me. And people wonder why the poor don't eat "healthy!"

of debt and increasing poverty? I saw a man tonight outside the store asking for change and gave him a couple bucks. I wonder what change Hillary or Obama would give him? Sorry to get political, but damn, Edwards really talks about situations like this and i just wish he had a better shot...money be damned.

The only thing I can do if gas keeps going up, is to move closer to work, but that is costly, too.

Apparently they don't know how expensive it is to move. With deposits, boxes and tape, more deposits, a rental truck, and then all the things the new place needs that you forgot to factor in, moving's very expensive. We've moved four times in our ten years of marriage, and it cost us a bundle every time. Heck, it took us years to get over the third move to a house. Now that we're in our second (and hopefully last) home, we're able to dig out from the credit card moving debt month by month.

In so many different ways, I ave lost count, spiralling inflation (edited out of our Bushie-Soviet "inflation reports")

only because it was buy 18-get-18-free. The cheapest dozen was $3.09. friggin ridiculous.

We're going to have to do some things differently here at home. I remember that families used to put a plate of sliced bread on the table and a person could fill up on that. As a newly diagnosed diabetic, I'm wondering what to do for myself if carbs are the only way to feed the family. How to survive? I don't know.

inflation is better to deal with than a recession. Obviously these folks aren't at the bottom. John Edwards is right to talk about class warfare 'cause, it is.

... it doesn't really matter because we are going to have both.

There is nothing the Fed can do to fix this problem at this point in time.

It can be delayed and spread out, but not eliminated.

There is a problem.
Can make better choices.
Remember who he works for.

imagine if there was!

The kids like english muffins in the morning with their breakfast. I've had to start getting them at the bakery outlet because of price increases. Last night at our cheaper market, I found they were $2 for a 6ct. package. Just last summer, they were $1.50. On sale, a year ago, they were a dollar.

The cheaper stores in the area are getting slammed. After keeping a price book for a few weeks, I found that the grocery store I usually shopped at and thought I was getting decent deals on and saving gas by getting it all in one place was costing me as much as $40 extra per bigger shopping trip. That's a lot of money. So, I have developed a routine of what I get where to make sure I get the cheapest prices, and it's not like it's that much more gas, since I often end up near those stores for other errands anyway.

Oh, and the cheapest place to get cereal is Big Lots--$1-2 a box, depending on size. I got Cheerios there for a dollar a decent-sized box, $2 for their biggest box. I get canned nuts, cereal, and other canned items that I trust there for much, much cheaper.

...if you have a Trader Joe's near you, the nuts (salted and un) are top quality there and usually less expensive. (Although if you are getting peanuts for a dollar a can, that's cheaper.)

Many grocery items are cheaper at TJ than at supermarkets. Example: Better Than Boullion chicken stock jar is $3.99, and $5.99 at my local grocery. Grated parmesan cheese, excellent fresh quality, in a 12 oz. bag for $3.99.

*sigh* Such is not to be.

Nuts at Big Lots are $2-3 a can, depending on what's in them.