Hub's and I sure had our eyes opened this week when we went to the restaurant supply store to stock up on some sugar. I bought 50 lbs. and put it in buckets. I will get three more ten pound bags at the grocer some time in the future.
We were talking to one of the managers there and he was we telling us about how from day to day prices were going up at astronomical rates. Restaurants in the area were worried about food costs, as they were losing money trying to keep their meals down to a level that people would come out and eat. There is a fine line of profit margin in the food industry. He said they were actually selling some foods at a loss right now, in order to get people to come in and buy. This can only go on so long before more places close.
I also noticed that one of the larger chain grocery stores (Tidyman's) we don't have one here but daughter has one in Twin Falls,has a new Christmas campaign out right now touting very expensive food choices for the holidays. As in don't make your holiday pies with just any old apples but our premium select apples, at $3.99 a pound. It will taste better and you family deserves it. Well I will tell you that if you make a homemade pie with any apple it will probably be good enough. But no let's be guilted into making one with apples that are $4.00 a pound bringing the cost up to about $15.00 a pie. I mean really do people fall for this crap? Obliviously they must or they wouldn't be promoting it. Also make sure your holiday dinner has non frozen $20.00 a pound beef and Alaska crab leg's which here can run $27.99 a pound. Like we are all going to run out and buy crab legs.
We have a huge sea food dinner at Christmas and it is pricey, but let me tell you if the prices get out of hand we will have shrimp, and oyster stew and that is it. We will be grateful for that. No amount of advertising is going to guilt me into spending extreme amounts of money so my family will have the best. Who comes up with these campaigns? I think they need a redo.
But having said all this, I do think it is important right now that you take stock of your food pantry and perhaps try and get a few more things in case there are shortages and because I think prices are going to continue to rise.
A cheap store brand of nasty bacon was $9.99 for 12 oz this weekend at Albertson's. I am so grateful for my storage and my ability to cook good meals without breaking the bank.
I will be able to do all my Christmas baking with out buying very much. I will have to get more butter and I am low on corn syrup. But other than that I have everything. I even have shrimp in the freezer from sales in the past.
I plan on taking all the pumpkins I can find and that people will give me after Halloween and making them into canned pumpkin. Even though I will be gone, I have neighbor that are saving their pumpkin decorations for me.
What does your family like to eat? DO you have these things on hand? DO you have any foods that you could store long term just in case? Rice and beans come to mind?
We will have leftover chicken, mash potatoes,gravy and biscuts from yesterday for dinner and I will scare up a vegetable to go with it.
By the way I had gotten a can of those wack a biscuits free at the grocer. They were the crecent rolls.As they had been in the fridge for awhile I decided to bake then yesterday. They were to be at 375 for 10 minutes. I know my heat element is right in my oven and the eight rolls were in for 8 minutes and were burned black on the bottoms and still gooey inside. SO glad I did not buy them. I actually fed them to the chickens and whipped up a batch of biscuits and cooked them in 12 minutes. What a waste and people buy those? Okay I am being critical, but learn to cook. Have your ingredients on hand for simple cooking basics and cook them often so you become proficient at it.
2 cups flour,
4tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cream of tartat
1/2 tsp salt
t tsp sugar
2/3 cups shortening
1/2 cup milk
there keep all this at arms reach in your kitchen. Have a pastry cutter (dollar store) and know how to use it. bake 425 10-15 minutes depending on size of cutter. Or you can buy some Pillsbury crescents and burn them for dinner. The choice is yours.
Okay I am off my soap box. My chickens are happy.
Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are int the negative.
Kim
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