worth1 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:11 pm

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:14 pm I just haven't developed a taste for canned peas no matter the brand. In a good year I'll have enough in the freezer from the ones I grew and if not, I'll buy frozen peas at the store. To me canned peas are too mushy and definitely won't do for making pea salad.

For me it depends on how hungry I am.
I've been known to eat them right out of the can at work.
I always keep canned goods in the truck for working late emergencies.
You'd be surprised how less picky a person becomes if hungry.
One guy I know from Ecuador ate a can of mackerel I gave him with a J hook for hanging wire for lunch.
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Wasn't that J hook kinda crunchy?

Potatoes are finally coming down in price. 10 pound bags (check to make sure they are not the new 8 pound bags) are $5.69 to $5.99 in a few stores.

One local store had boneless skinless chicken thighs for .89/lb. I filled the freezer.

I saw some pork rind panko for $10 at the store.
12 ounces.
The price of pork rinds at a convenience store is 2.49 for 4 ounces.
3x4=12.
3x2.49=7.47.
It's an easy task to make your own and I guarantee I can buy them for less at the Mexican market where they make their own.

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 5:33 am I saw some pork rind panko for $10 at the store.
12 ounces.
The price of pork rinds at a convenience store is 2.49 for 4 ounces.
3x4=12.
3x2.49=7.47.
It's an easy task to make your own and I guarantee I can buy them for less at the Mexican market where they make their own.

Can I get you to blow a gasket if I mention Epic rendered pork, beef, duck, and chicken (discontinued?) fat in 11 ounce jars, with an average price of about 13 dollars? All of my fat comes for free on the meat. I save and freeze a small amount of chicken and duck fat, but find that I don't have hardly any use for beef and pork fat.

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 7:42 am

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 5:33 am I saw some pork rind panko for $10 at the store.
12 ounces.
The price of pork rinds at a convenience store is 2.49 for 4 ounces.
3x4=12.
3x2.49=7.47.
It's an easy task to make your own and I guarantee I can buy them for less at the Mexican market where they make their own.

Can I get you to blow a gasket if I mention Epic rendered pork, beef, duck, and chicken (discontinued?) fat in 11 ounce jars, with an average price of about 13 dollars? All of my fat comes for free on the meat. I save and freeze a small amount of chicken and duck fat, but find that I don't have hardly any use for beef and pork fat.

I see all manner of extremely priced products.
The panko I buy is now 2 dollars but they sell the exact same thing another brand for 4 something.
Right now I'm training myself to like the store brand version of A1 steak sauce.

Yesterday I opened my last pound of chile powder.
My favorite brand.
They haven't sold in in one pound juggs for over a year.
They have it in 4 ounce bottles for over 4 dollars a pound.
That's crazy expensive for the amounts I use.
Almost 20 dollars a pound.
Not gonna happen because I use it by the handful.
Picked up the store brand two 8 ounce bottles totalling $6.56.
It has salt added but not a ton because I tasted it when I got home.
Probably just the right amount I would add anyway.
Needs more cumin too but no problem there.
I rarely if ever buy any spice mixes or anything with salt added.

Saw a bag of corn chips at a convenience store for practically 6 dollars.
These little stores in predominanty poorer neighborhoods in small towns seem to always have the highest prices.
A cheap cup of ramen noodles was over 4 dollars.
I had went in to get something and saw the outrageous prices and walked out.

Grocery prices are all the news here, including the fact that our supermarket giants are reporting record profits - aka "greedflation".
Meanwhile in my shop of choice, I scored two more cans of coffee at $15 instead of $18. I have enough to get me into January at 'regular' prices. The 3L can of cooking oil I've been holding off buying I meant to get today anyway, happened to be marked down a couple bucks, so at $23 for olive oil not bad and about the usual. That will last me a couple months.
Cheese was on for 2 400 g bars for $ll, $10 for the so called pizza mozzarella which isn't too tasty but I bought some anyway as well as some of my standard choice old white cheddar. Just on the news that price increases on dairy have been approved (it is regulated here) and that isn't good news since the cheese wars are evidently over. One of the brands I like is now selling for $9 for 400g bar regular price, everything else is at least $6.50. Milk is up to nearly $5 for 2L. Eggs are close to $5 a doz.
The real news today was meat specials, one of those days when everything in the store was on for less. Federal gov has just issued a double GST tax credit to lower income people, so needy folks had a little more to spend and if you have a freezer, you're good. Well they know who they are catering to at my store, that's for sure. Ironic and to the point of the thread, I bought a pack of chicken thighs at $6.49 per kilo - still 8 thighs in the bulk pack and still around $8 for the package, but they were much larger than the ones I bought last time at "special" price $11 which used to be regular price. Smaller vs larger dinner servings, is what it comes down to. Hard to fathom they are picking smaller chickens to disguise or 'soften' the higher price. There were also anacondas available at the same price but I found a smaller piece of pork loin for the rock bottom price of $5.49 a kilo and was happy with that. I also got a top round beef roast at $11/kilo; some bulk steak packs (which I usually cut up for stew) at $13.50/kilo both of which are excellent prices for beef here. Chicken livers at $9.90 per kilo. Medium ground beef at $6.59/k. So overall it was a great day to score some meat, which has been hard to find in any flavor for less than $11/kilo this fall.
I had a look at the turkey bin. Lots of butterball and other seasoned or butter infused birds, I've been looking for something untampered tbh I don't want a seasoned bird... I found a couple of what looked like plain turkey at the end of the freezer and ooooooh.... looked at the price on one it was $68. Not for me thanks! There was a lonely duck there for $25 and I will go for that for xmas if I don't find a proper and ordinary turkey somewhere.

Many chickens are running smaller because feed prices are only going up. I hear that those smaller ones are being processed about two weeks earlier than previously, which means two less weeks of feeding them more costly food. Also, the quicker turnaround means more packages on the store shelves, although lower weight per package. If feed prices stabilize, perhaps they will go back to the bigger birds.
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The IGA's grocery flyer in this week's newspaper has started some Thanksgiving promos, mainly a free turkey ("up to ten pounds") if you spend $100. Wow. It used to be a low price per pound if you spent $25. Then last year the price per pound increased to .68 and the amount spent went to $35.

I've never in my life seen ANY turkey in the reefer case ten pounds or under, EVER! I'm glad I snagged mine at WalMart last week for .99/lb. Still, it was 17 pounds, the smallest one in the case but I know the longer you wait to buy one, the larger the birds you have to choose from. The week before Thanksgiving good luck finding anything less than 20 lbs!

Other holiday sale items usually include celery, onions, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce (and Durkee fried onions but I haven't seen any mention of those yet. Maybe in next week's flyer. Last year there was a huge shortage of fresh green beans and fresh cranberries were a bit hard to find. Today I read something today about a possible shortage of regular potatoes this year. Something about bad growing conditions (weather) out in Idaho and Washington so we'll see more fresh sweet potatoes being pushed. Nope. I'll use my own sweets for pie and need regular ones for my mashed taties!

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 5:52 pm Many chickens are running smaller because feed prices are only going up. I hear that those smaller ones are being processed about two weeks earlier than previously, which means two less weeks of feeding them more costly food. Also, the quicker turnaround means more packages on the store shelves, although lower weight per package. If feed prices stabilize, perhaps they will go back to the bigger birds.

I wish they would get a bit smaller here. They're still about 5 lbs or a tad over per bird. And it's amazing how they're all just about the exact same weight, give or take a few ounces. The roasting recipe I use calls for a 4 lb bird so I've had to tinker with extra oven tie to get the same results. It's one of those recipes where you roast it a bit at high temp, turn down to 350 for a while and then turn the oven completely off and let it finish roasting in the residual heat. Tricky business with the added bird weight!

I got a really big whole chicken today for this weekend.
The Poco Loco Mexican store has good prices on some things but not everything.
I looked at a jar of Duke's mayonnaise and it was 7 something.
Horrified I went to my regular HEB store today and it was 4 something same jar.
That's still outrageous but I'm keeping my supplies up.
It's getting so bad I'm considering quitting who I work for and going to another place for more money.
A lot more money and I dearly know the person so it isn't like I'm going into something I'm not aware of.
I hate job bouncing but a man's gotta look out for himself.
These constant almost daily price increases are starting to really suck big time.
I've watched a single HEB soda go from 50 cents to a Buck 29 in about a year or so.
I guess to stay on subject they call it big savings at the store.
Really?
Big savings my butt the price keeps going up.
That's how they disguise price increases by calling it a big savings?
I'd hate to see what the price would be without the big savings.
I think that big raise everyone got just went sailing down sewer creek.

@GoDawgs One store here is giving away a free turkey if you spend $150 on groceries...no mention of any weight limits. I did pick up a turkey for 89 cents/lb and was happy to get that. Hopefully before Thanksgiving arrives, I can pick up another to add to the freezer.

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 6:12 pm

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 5:52 pm Many chickens are running smaller because feed prices are only going up. I hear that those smaller ones are being processed about two weeks earlier than previously, which means two less weeks of feeding them more costly food. Also, the quicker turnaround means more packages on the store shelves, although lower weight per package. If feed prices stabilize, perhaps they will go back to the bigger birds.

I wish they would get a bit smaller here. They're still about 5 lbs or a tad over per bird. And it's amazing how they're all just about the exact same weight, give or take a few ounces. The roasting recipe I use calls for a 4 lb bird so I've had to tinker with extra oven tie to get the same results. It's one of those recipes where you roast it a bit at high temp, turn down to 350 for a while and then turn the oven completely off and let it finish roasting in the residual heat. Tricky business with the added bird weight!

Spatchcocking a chicken is the way to go, if one can do it, and do it safely.

Most of the roasters that I buy are 5 1/2 to 6 pounds. The fowls for chicken soup run 7 to almost 10 pounds.

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 6:07 pm The IGA's grocery flyer in this week's newspaper has started some Thanksgiving promos, mainly a free turkey ("up to ten pounds") if you spend $100. Wow. It used to be a low price per pound if you spent $25. Then last year the price per pound increased to .68 and the amount spent went to $35.

I've never in my life seen ANY turkey in the reefer case ten pounds or under, EVER! I'm glad I snagged mine at WalMart last week for .99/lb. Still, it was 17 pounds, the smallest one in the case but I know the longer you wait to buy one, the larger the birds you have to choose from. The week before Thanksgiving good luck finding anything less than 20 lbs!

Other holiday sale items usually include celery, onions, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce (and Durkee fried onions but I haven't seen any mention of those yet. Maybe in next week's flyer. Last year there was a huge shortage of fresh green beans and fresh cranberries were a bit hard to find. Today I read something today about a possible shortage of regular potatoes this year. Something about bad growing conditions (weather) out in Idaho and Washington so we'll see more fresh sweet potatoes being pushed. Nope. I'll use my own sweets for pie and need regular ones for my mashed taties!

My local WalMart just brought in 4 bins of russets, and parked them where they could, all over the produce section. The regular bins are filled, too. Each new bin is about 4' X 4' X 4'. The price went down to $2.78 for a 5 pound bag. It was double that about a month ago.

They are pushing Great Value brand fried onions and canned green beans, in the center aisle, but not the GV cream of mushroom soup (it's not that great, although it is a value by price).

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:12 pm
My local WalMart just brought in 4 bins of russets, and parked them where they could, all over the produce section. The regular bins are filled, too. Each new bin is about 4' X 4' X 4'. The price went down to $2.78 for a 5 pound bag. It was double that about a month ago.

They are pushing Great Value brand fried onions and canned green beans, in the center aisle, but not the GV cream of mushroom soup (it's not that great, although it is a value by price).

I'll have to check Wally World next week for potatoes. When the local groceries start their holiday pricing, Walmart does too. I need potatoes. We like to can some up just to have on hand for quick fixes. They're almost like fresh cooked with none of that tinny taste store canned potatoes have.

The green bean casserole I make needs fresh green beans and I make my own creamed mushroom sauce. The topping is a mix of homemade bread whizzed into rough crumbs and mixed with the Durkee onions and butter. It was a recipe from America's Test Kitchen and is the best I've ever had.

A week or two ago someone mentioned a theory that some GV items or less expensive items are often out to make us buy the more expensive stuff to move it off the shelf. I thought about that this past week when several GV items were out. one of which was whole kalamata olives. The whole shelf was stuffed with Mazetti brand, including more Mazetti items that they've never carried before. I'm not paying $4-something for Mazetti brand when GV is just $2-something!

Caught a sale at walmart, frenched green beans, great value, at 50 cents a 14.5 can. Picked up some of those for the pantry. Turkeys are showing up or the ads for them are, haven't looked yet as we need to make a dent in the meats we have first.

I forget where, but a long time ago, was taught that the meat to bone mass ratio is better the bigger you get on chickens and turkeys. I like a big turkey, as canning up the left overs is not a biggie.

Yellow onions went from 3.98 for 3 pounds last few weeks to 98 cents a pound this week.

Big breasts count in chicks I guess, LOL.

I missed out on the deal on flour when it went back to regular price this summer. Just wasn't doing much baking. I went to get an extra bag yesterday only to find that, just on time!! it went up a buck and a half on the 5 kilos. Oh well....
The supermarket chain where I shop has advertised that they are locking in prices on 'no name' store brand products until January, to fight inflation. Guess what? They raised the prices before they locked it in.
The chain itself is one of those reporting record profits. But pricing tactics do vary from store to store. The one where I shop has a lot of local competition and they clearly are using affordable meat as the drawing card - works for me.
Still more irony and/or red flags - the main competitor for this supermarket chain is actually owned by the same people! Competition bureau or some such office is now investigating. The owners once before were sued for price fixing on bread. That happened when they didn't have inflation as an excuse...

Bower wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 8:09 am I missed out on the deal on flour when it went back to regular price this summer. Just wasn't doing much baking. I went to get an extra bag yesterday only to find that, just on time!! it went up a buck and a half on the 5 kilos. Oh well....
The supermarket chain where I shop has advertised that they are locking in prices on 'no name' store brand products until January, to fight inflation. Guess what? They raised the prices before they locked it in.
The chain itself is one of those reporting record profits. But pricing tactics do vary from store to store. The one where I shop has a lot of local competition and they clearly are using affordable meat as the drawing card - works for me.
Still more irony and/or red flags - the main competitor for this supermarket chain is actually owned by the same people! Competition bureau or some such office is now investigating. The owners once before were sued for price fixing on bread. That happened when they didn't have inflation as an excuse...

"using affordable meat as the drawing card"

Reading your posts on your local meat prices, I'd hate to see what the non-affordable meat goes for.

Currently, here, there are still supply chain disruptions for meat. The store managers simply over-order everything, to try to eliminate running out. When huge orders come in, and don't sell fast enough, it goes on discount. Those discount prices, like chicken leg quarters at .34/lb, make meat less expensive than just about all other foods. I think 25 lb bags of flour go for about the same price per pound, and nothing else comes close for solid foods. For liquids, milk is 1.43/gallon, which I think comes out to about .20/lb.

With chicken and turkey, there is often the skin and bones that are not eaten. So, for a rough estimate, I double the price per pound to estimate the true cost of the food. Then rice, pasta (on sale), potatoes (now), and dried peas are in the picture.

Fish, red meat, fruit, and veggies are sky high. Pork is between the extremes.