Food Cost
Blaaaaah
It seems as though the past 10 years food cost have just gone nuts. I live
in Okla and we have dairy farms everywhere yet 1 gallon of milk is 3.23 ?
It's the same with cattle and beef prices. I could go on but this isn't
alt.groceries.
Is 7.60 PP PD too exorbitant?
Six String Stu
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probably wouldnt work.
Blaaaaah
you spend less? My mother is retired and single and she feels she spends
more because of portions being so large food ends up going to waste.
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Six String Stu
set of weights that I use regularly. :)
My portions are probably larger then what she would eat.
I think the point she might be trying to make is that if it were four people
of just one, the portion that you would buy stays the same. If you arent
eating all of your left overs (man i remember when i still had left overs
:-) and it stacks up in the fridge and winds up getting tossed the night
before trash pickup. :(
Ergo still spending more at the store. The current ecconomy isnt helping the
figures per day either.news:nyd3m.251415$Lo1....@en-nntp-04.dc1.easynews.com...
disasterpastor45
in the last two years because of inflation. Yes I'm overweight, but that's
more from an extremely sedentary lifestyle. I mostly microwave TV dinners,
drink diet soda, eat chips and chocolate covered almonds & pepperoni with a
few trips to Wendy's each week on the Value Meal. For nearly 20 years it was
$6/day. Hey, go to McDonalds and get a Big Mac Meal and that's getting close
to $8 now, but I don't, so I'm not sure.
Relayer
wrote:
Here the price of food has actually gone down. Some items, but an
extreme amount
Gerald Abrahamson
Milk (gallon--white skim to whole) on sale is $1.60 to $1.70
at major chains. Sale typically every two weeks for the past
6 months.
I live in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St Paul, MN) area and
monthly food costs for me are now under $150/month, up from
$100-$125 about 4-5 years ago. I don't buy a lot of junk
food, but do include Arby's (5/$5 on now, for example, as
one of those deals is good for five meals at $1 each).
SoundChaser
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And you can't see the incredible economic inefficiency of the way
you
eat? You could slash your food budget in half...
Blaaaaah
Pyramids, Wal-Mart, Reasors and warehouse market. Then there is Dollar
General or Sav A Lot. Really bad food in there. Reasor's has a internet
shopping but you have to pick it up but it still helps with social anxiety
issues. They charge $5 for that. We don't eat out. We cook at home every
night so the kids think they are being abused because they don't get
McDonalds. If we do fast food ,for a family of 5, $30 to $35 for everyone to
get what they want.If we scrimp and get the value menues without drinks is
$10 to 12 abd with drinks it turns to $ 15 to 18 real quick. We stay
relatively healthy by eating at home. The kids still get their school virus
stuff but for the most part still have no abscenses at school and never
really need to go to the Dr. same for my wife. I am a different story
though.
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D.F. Manno
Gerald Abrahamson <jer...@visi.com> wrote:
> Milk (gallon--white skim to whole) on sale is $1.60 to $1.70
> at major chains. Sale typically every two weeks for the past
> 6 months.
Except for states that have milk price supports, like Pennsylvania,
where's it's _illegal_ to sell milk at a price below a specified minimum
(currently around $3/gal.).
--
D.F. Manno | dfm...@mail.com
"When the fate of so many rests in the hands of so few, can the failure
to be accountable ever be forgiven?" - Stephen Hawking
Puddin' Man
Such a diet can also be incredibly inefficient re nutrition.
If you read a good nutritionist like Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's
Dilemma"), he might have you buying mostly whole veggies from the
produce dept. But the gen'l idea is that, the less processing and
adding chemicals to the food, the better it is for you. It's also
usually less expensive than highly processed foods.
I tend to buy beef and pork (on sale) at an upscale super, re-package as
individual servings, and freeze. Every night I pull next days
lunch and dinner to thaw in the fridge. Cook a good bit of rice, etc,
also individually frozen.
Doesn't mean I don't make good use of a pizza. Try to eat about 2 Big
Mac's/year. :-)
Milk and egg prices not too bad here in MO. But I can't fathom the
prices for ice cream, candy bars, and lots of other stuff. They just
won't come down.
P
"Law Without Equity Is No Law At All. It Is A Form Of Jungle Rule."
Blaaaaah
6 to 8 for a watermelon $1.80 for a cantalope $1.39+ for celery
name brand canned is over a 1 a can now.
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disasterpastor45
store prices were on average 70% HIGHER THAN URBAN SUPERMARKET PRICES.
Relayer
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:21:18 -0500, "Blaaaaah"
>
And that is even cheaper than here, We are at 2.28 a gallon for milk,
down from $3,50 a year ago. But most things have gone down anyway, For
me, it has to do with a price war between the two big chains here,
Once that is settled, I expect prices to rise again. Also, I can't
believe the number of people who don't shop for specials...2 for one,
etc. So what if you eat more that month of something that you like but
are not wild about. On a fixed income, you have to do things like that
SoundChaser
> The cost of fresh produce is just about stupid here. .69 .89 lb for
> onion $ 6 to 8 for a watermelon $1.80 for a cantalope $1.39+ for
> celery
> name brand canned is over a 1 a can now.
You could always move; I did and cut my grocery bill by 40%. At
least you won't have to find a job... :-)
George
Cooperative Extension in most states offers at least advice advice and
probably classroom programs on healthy less expensive meals.
I worked for them some years ago, and when I left the nutrition aids
(who taught healthy & inexpensive eating) made a super farewell lunch
for next to nothing. I especially remember the sweet potatoe pie, fat
back in okra and the best fried chicken in the world.
Here's on site:
Six String Stu
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here. The damn yankees looked like I was asking for martian food.
It's a damn good thing I didn't ask for neck bones too! :)
Six String Stu
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> parents had a garden every year. I'm having canned collards for lunch
> today. Canned okra does not cut it. No pun.
Ya, the grocer here once asked me if he could order anything that I couldn't
find in his store. I said Collards.
He ordered a case and I was his only customer. Add to that he had to jack
the price up past what I was comfortable paying (transportation and
"specialty item" and I finished off the case and he didnt order anymore.
I could probably order a case myself and spend less then I did being
appreciative for his "efforts".
Yet they have more fish that has been cured with lye then they can sell and
throw it out into the dumpster every month. :(
SoundChaser
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> parents had a garden every year. I'm having canned collards for
> lunch
> today. Canned okra does not cut it. No pun.
You can't even get grits here in the miserable place I live. And
it borders Tennessee.
Six String Stu
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> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:27:40 -0500, "Six String Stu"
> "buythecase.net"
> I buy Sylvia's brand of collards. If you like blackeyed peas, Sylvia's
> is the best I've ever tasted from a can.
Hey, thanks a lot for that info. There might be other foodstuffs there that
I can afoard too!
wuffa
I have a big freezer, i buy 400 lbs of meat a year at $750 for the
whole 400lb i am buying 100 whole birds whole 1/4 beef and 1/2 a
hog .
thats about $2.04 a day for meat i send about another $750 on rice
( 100# bags olive oil( 10 gal each) and spices.
and spend about another $3 a day on veg's
milk is $1.29 to $1.59 a gal whole.
butter is about $1.79 a lb for me ( on sale is the only time i buy)
so i at about 7.50 a day for the year( BUT $180 of that a month is
food stamps ) so only about $53 a month is cash.
Six String Stu
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You're doing well. Thank goodness you have the deep freezer, yet I wonder
what you would do in case of a natural disaster? I remember down in North
Carolina, if a hurricane came through you had to cook up all of that meat or
lose it. :(
Since then I only keep my refridgerator freezer full. Even tho i am now
positioned in a place where the electricity only goes out for monents at a
time.
Still hate thunder storms as much as the service animal. :)
wuffa
> "wuffa" <magewu...@gmail.com> wrote in message
well there the solar power system that gives me 40% for the whole
house. so can run the freezer and cook with that.then i have
power back up for 96 hours( UPS) and then i go to Propane Generator
and can go on that for two months.
I will be putting in more power gen or back up system next year
this last dec we had snow and ice for 3 weeks ( been 40 years from
the last time that happened{power was out for 2 and a 1/2 weeks [ no
post/ no trash pick up , no-one was going up or down our hill]})
M.B
> OK it was off topic but I am really wondering what food is costing everyone.
> It seems as though the past 10 years food cost have just gone nuts. I live
> in Okla and we have dairy farms everywhere yet 1 gallon of milk is 3.23 ?
> It's the same with cattle and beef prices. I could go on but this isn't
> alt.groceries.
>
> Is 7.60 PP PD too exorbitant?
>
Calorie count for a man my size 6'3 240 lbs should be about 2500 calories a day, don't wait until you are starved to eat. Eat a sandwich or fruits in between meals and that should help cut down. You can cook pasta and put butter and garlic on it and you'll be full for a long time. If you get foods that digest quickly then you be hungry quicker like (Chinese Food)
Blaaaaah
eating enough is not the issue lol. If I ate pasta with butter and garlic
I would just pass out from the sugar spike. I amy have an allergy to wheat
because when I eat any type of bread I puff up in the upper abdo really bad.
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M.B
Have you tried pasta made with rice flower? Pasta knocks me out light a burnt out light bulb, I can't eat bread either.
M.B
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:27:40 -0500, "Six String Stu"
> "buythecase.net"
> I buy Sylvia's brand of collards. If you like blackeyed peas, Sylvia's
> is the best I've ever tasted from a can.
Try Bush's in the can, that whole line of beans is good especially the black beans, the only thing canned okra is good for is Gumbo, I got Relatives in Beaumont TX who shrimp and they bring me 100 lbs of shrimp every other month and 50 lbs of crab and Flounder and catfish.
MB
M.B
You know here in Texas the Food chains price match if one has milk for 2.00 then the other like Kroger, WalMart will match that price also coupons we are on food stamps and they take coupons we get from the Sunday or thurs newspaper and here is a online coupon place where you go to places like Kraft and print out coupons and the stores will take them. My wife goes to the store and get 40/50 bucks off because of coupons.
http://coupons2.smartsource.com/smartsource/index.jsp?Link=5S2ZUA6PWPEPO
Enter your zip and it gives you coupons to use in your area
http://www.couponloop.com/id133.htm
This one has WalMart coupons
and the sales work for meat also Kroger offers 5lbs of chicken legs and thighs WalMart will match it, eggs you name it we got steaks last week.
The only thing WalMart won't match is buy one get one free.
I drink Diet Cokes, 5~12 packs for $10.00 or two 24 Packs for 11.99
We shop twice a month and my wife saves over 100.00 a month price matching with all the local stores.
http://www.grocerycouponsusa.com/grocery-coupons
MB
Six String Stu
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Please, oh PLEASE, send them to my house!
Blaaaaah
once and it just never seems to work out too well.
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M.B
> She needs to write a book on how to do it. I have tried coupons more than
> once and it just never seems to work out too well.
she goes off on them once and calls the manager then the head office followed by an email, and picks the youngest checker in the store and we shop late at night we have 24 hr stores and will tell the manager she will go to their competetors. Announcing loudly I mean it been on Oprah and all the afternoon talk shows how to save money, some of the morning shows have them also.
David "Doc" Leifheit
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> You know here in Texas the Food chains price match if one has milk for
> 2.00 then the other like Kroger, WalMart will match that price also
> coupons we are on food stamps and they take coupons we get from the
> Sunday or thurs newspaper
You certainly have some nice people in Texas.
The Wal*Mart here follows company policy when it comes to matching prices
and accepting coupons. It must be for the same brand and size, which means
that almost nothing matches. The Wal*Mart here stocks mostly the Wal*Mart
brands. Very little in the store will be the same as any other store, and
the few items that are the same brand (not food) are a different item
number (made specifically for Wal*Mart) so sale ads on those items are also
not matched.
If I had other options, I'd never shop at Wal*Mart. As it is, our
Wal*Mart's produce is so expensive, I can buy cheaper at the Safeway store,
and it used to be the most expensive place in town.
M.B
Here Store brands are matched to WalMart store brands. They match ground meat with WalMart ground meat not that mystery meat in the tube but stuff like Chuck and Sirloin. Even the eggs WalMart has it's own brand but will match the store Eggs for Large Eggs. Fruits also Mangos and Bananas, Apples and Grapes. they match name brands also.
The only thing they can't match is Deli stuff, beer and wine, most stores have Boars Head and Private Selection Cheeses and ham and Roast Beef etc. Kroger on Thursdays triple the Coupons up to .75 cents and double the rest of the week.
They match to:
Kroger
Safeway/Randall's
Food Town
Food Lion
Fiesta
We live so close to the Mexican Border and we have a huge port where the fruit comes in from South America, that our produce is really cheap Mangos .99 cents each, the most expensive are Pineapples.
One of the Super Wal Mart here refused to price match so my wife called Benton ARK headquarters and the store manager. You could always do the Email thing. I drink Diet Cokes and I kept the end bar codes half the cans were flat, I sent the coke company a picture of me standing in front of 40 55gallon plastic bags with empty Diet coke cans with my complaint letter (I saved the cans to recycle)the local coke distributor rolled up with a truck and put a coke machine by my pool and kept it supplied for a whole two years. diet Coke is the only soft drink that keep saliva in my mouth (six heart attacks and twelve back surgeries) so now they send me coupons to buy five 12 packs and get five free. Because I am diabetic the 12oz can is what I carry in my pack due to the mountain of meds I must take.
But try calling Bentonville Ark.
479-273-4000
702 Sw.8th St.
Bentonville AR 72712
Customer Service Manager
www.walmart.com
I explained that I am on disability my wife is also on disability and work comp and if Wal Mart refuses to price match we will be forced to shop in other stores. We would get a van full of seniors to go to the stores that will price match.
The other problem that we had was that here in Texas we have had 40 days of 100 degree temps and our group preferred to shop at night, the lighting in the parking lot was out and dark and scary and the security guard was all ways on break. The next week all the lights were replaced and two security guards patrolled the lot after dark. They even added extra new carts for people who could not walk the entire store (my wife). Most of the managers are rotated from one store to the next so problems are not followed up on. Now this Wall Mart places all the sales ads at all the check outs with green checks for the cashiers to know what is accepted. Try it you won't get it unless you ask for it, my wife had to "get LOUD" twice before things changed. If you have anymore questions you can email me look at the headers, if I can help I will. My wife got 6 lbs of Hershey's bars because Walgreens sold them a year out of date. Oh and if Kroger or WalMart over charge you then before you leave the store Kroger give you your money back and WalMart if you do it the way I do is get one off the shelf go to service center and tell them I was over charged for this item they scan it refund the money and put in in a bag to carry out, actually Kroger will do the same and so will Safeway. When we had Weingarten store here they did it for you. The two for this price scam Jif peanut butter large size they wrap them together and let's say two for 3.00 well if you don't have the 3.00 then just get one and the cost will be $1.50, no where does it say you must buy two, the sign reads two for $3.00. Now the sign that reads you must purchase ten dollars to get cokes for 2.00 a twelve pack, that stands. If the sign reads you must buy 10.00 to get this deal (XXX) then what you do is separate your order into two piles (any questions) I am shopping for my Neighbor who is unable to come shop, this works for the ten item limit separate the order and pay separately
David "Doc" Leifheit
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> One of the Super Wal Mart here refused to price match so my wife
> called Benton ARK headquarters and the store manager.
> I explained that I am on disability my wife is also on disability and
> work comp and if Wal Mart refuses to price match we will be forced to
> shop in other stores.
In our town, Wal*Mart is the only game in town for many things. If we plan
on going shopping, we drive the 20 miles and shop at the stores in "the big
town" and even the Wal*Mart there. Our store says their prices are
competitive to the local area, and that is all they have to be. They won't
even match the Wal*Mart store that is 20 miles away, they tell us if we
want that price, drive there.
What is really stupid is the "big town" has 3 Wal*Marts, 2 super centers
and a standard store. All 3 have different prices, they claim they only
have to match the nearest stores, and they won't price-match the other
stores.
I know several current and former employees, and they are where I get my
info regarding pricing and policies. I have talked to management in the
store and their attitude is that if we can find it cheaper somewhere else
then go there. They don't really care.
Our local store is a standard store, very little in the way of groceries
and what they do carry is their own brand. Anything name brand I have not
heard of them honoring another store's price, I don't know for sure anymore
since I shop at the local one as little as possible these days. Only for
things I need right away. Otherwise I plan a trip and buy elsewhere, where
I can get what I need cheaper.
Cheryl
You know here in Texas the Food chains price match if one has milk for 2.00
then the other like Kroger, WalMart will match that price also coupons we
are on food stamps and they take coupons we get from the Sunday or thurs
newspaper and here is a online coupon place where you go to places like
Kraft and print out coupons and the stores will take them. My wife goes to
the store and get 40/50 bucks off because of coupons.
http://coupons2.smartsource.com/smartsource/index.jsp?Link=5S2ZUA6PWPEPO
Enter your zip and it gives you coupons to use in your area
http://www.couponloop.com/id133.htm
This one has WalMart coupons
and the sales work for meat also Kroger offers 5lbs of chicken legs and
thighs WalMart will match it, eggs you name it we got steaks last week.
The only thing WalMart won't match is buy one get one free.
I drink Diet Cokes, 5~12 packs for $10.00 or two 24 Packs for 11.99
We shop twice a month and my wife saves over 100.00 a month price matching
with all the local stores.
http://www.grocerycouponsusa.com/grocery-coupons
MB
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We do the same with coupons. We have small grocers, medium size grocery
chains, and superstores. What I've discovered in our area is that the medium
size grocery chains are cost competitive with the superstores, except, as a
rule, the items have longer expirations dates (i.e. the food is fresher). If
I go to a superstore, though, I usually go to either the grocery superstore
or another all-round-superstore. I avoid Wal*Mart like the plague for too
many reasons to cite in one post.
Cheryl
That's one of Wal*Mart's standard MOs. The move into a small to medium sized
location, put in dirt cheap prices until they drive out the bulk of their
competitors, and then they start saying, "Well, if you can get it cheaper X
miles away, then go there." They know most people won't drive 20-30 miles to
shop for groceries.
I shouldn't even get started on Wal*Mart. I could be here typing all day and
night and well into tomorrow.
Six String Stu
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coverage of the driver's fuel cost.
So I'm stuck with the local store, which charges "transportation" on every
item.
SoundChaser
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> than once and it just never seems to work out too well.
Problem with coupons is that they are never for anything that you
=need=, like milk and eggs, only stuff that they =want= to sell you,
which costs more than what you should be buying anyway. I couldn't
ever get anything out of coupons; less than $50 a year...
>
>
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Cheryl
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I know it may not sound like much consolation, but purchasing at your local
store does keep people employed and keeps some business profits in your
locale. I know I feel better about small stores keeping employees up-to-date
about how to collect taxpayer money (foodstamps, Medicaid, WIC, etc.) than
when I hear employees tell me Wal*Mart does. Even moreso after I remember
how many of the Wal*Mart clan don the top richest people in the US list.
Personally, I get tired of subsidizing those fat cats to cover their
payroll.
Six String Stu
The local grocery store hires all the young kids fresh out or soon to be out
of school. It gives them some praticle experiance.
Sill, the inflated prices are killing my chances to sock away a lil each
month!
I volunteer at the local food pantry and I see the same result in the older
folks who pass through there every month. They strech the finances and
skrimp and save. Some of the older folks have told me they are down to one
meal a day by the time they get to our lil pantry.
Blaaaaah
to .58 PP PD !
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Six String Stu
>I noticed in the newspaper a woman claimed to be able to get food cost down
>to .58 PP PD !
>
Or for that matter, how many strays there are in her neighborhood. :)
Relayer
> "Blaaaaah" <alcoho...@aa.com> wrote in message
She uses coupons, buy one get one, etc etc..only buys stuff on sale
SoundChaser
>I noticed in the newspaper a woman claimed to be able to get food
>cost down to .58 PP PD !
It can be done, I've done it, but it requires discipline, patience
and a very strong stomach. Plus, a total lack of pride... You can get
chicken thighs for about 10 cents each....
SoundChaser
IMO, the staples she should be buying rarely go on sale. How many
bags of rice or oatmeal go on sale?
Relayer
> "Blaaaaah" <alcoho...@aa.com> wrote in message
>
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>
> >I noticed in the newspaper a woman claimed to be able to get food
> >cost down to .58 PP PD !
>
> � � It can be done, I've done it, but it requires discipline, patience
> and a very strong stomach. Plus, a total lack of pride... You can get
> chicken thighs for about 10 cents each....
Chicken thighs and legs are both good..this has nothing to do with
pride...so you should eat eye of the round while on a fixed income?
SoundChaser
On Jul 23, 4:35?pm, "SoundChaser" <tmatth...@microsoft.org> wrote:
> "Blaaaaah" <alcoho...@aa.com> wrote in message
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>
> >I noticed in the newspaper a woman claimed to be able to get food
> >cost down to .58 PP PD !
>
> and a very strong stomach. Plus, a total lack of pride... You can
> get
> chicken thighs for about 10 cents each....
Chicken thighs and legs are both good..this has nothing to do with
pride...so you should eat eye of the round while on a fixed income?
Not sure I understand you, Relayer. Eat what you can afford!
Too many people just plain can not cook beyond nuking something
pre-prepared. Among those of us on a fixed income, this is insane.
Cooking is quite simple, and doesn't have to be time consuming.
OBTW, how are you doing? What's your weight nowadays?