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Post by reuben on Oct 12, 2022 16:40:43 GMT -5
Wheelgarden, it's supposed to be similar to lemon but I didn't think so. It was a custard-like pie and wasn't bad. My mom made one a few years ago and I think she used regular cider vinegar and it was entirely too sour. The one I tried last week used ACV. I snapped a picture of the recipe but it's on my phone and I know I'll never get it to upload right now. I think there may be a recipe video as well. Let me go search and I'll add a link if there is. Recipe starts at 6:34 and is actually in the video description. I gotta try this.
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Post by shadetree on Oct 13, 2022 13:45:20 GMT -5
Buy what you can now and stock up, I say. It's only going to get worse before it gets better. So many cattle have been sold and sent to be processed due to the drought and high cost of feed.
Ditto with fertilizer.
I did read that Maine had a good potato production. I can still find some "reasonable" meat prices compared to some other areas, it seems.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Oct 13, 2022 15:28:09 GMT -5
shadetree, I think it will get worse, and in part b/c so many people don't plan ahead. Think of lines at the grocery stores just before a holiday. Other than gardeners, WWII survivors and others in that age group, I think most people just anticipate that what they want will be available in a store. When I think of food shortages, I think of the Turnip Year (1917) (https://emigrants.rhinedragon.de/turnip-winter-in-germany/), which extended into other countries besides Germany. From what I've, read, turnips were used as bases for coffee and baking as well as just vegetables. I think of those hardship stories often; it's one reason why I stock up whenever I can.
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Post by gardendmpls on Oct 13, 2022 21:36:33 GMT -5
I did read that Maine had a good potato production. Don't bet on lower potato prices. In anticipation of the good crop, the potato growers association got the USDA to block imports of potatoes from Canada. The motive was to keep prices up. The method was to claim that it was to prevent importation of a potato virus. For over 20 years, inspections have kept the disease out, but magically, this year the growers have suddenly become afraid. Hmmm.
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Post by emmsmommy on Oct 16, 2022 15:06:48 GMT -5
Iceberg lettuce. Four stores, two had none, one had two slimy heads and the other had an abundance that should have been tossed several days ago. It's for our dinner tomorrow and when I asked, I didn't get an objection to Romaine, so that's what I ended up buying and there wasn't much of it either.
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Post by breezygardener on Oct 17, 2022 12:48:40 GMT -5
Still haven't seen any shortages, but prices continue to go through the roof. It seems almost weekly now.
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Post by datgirl on Oct 17, 2022 14:14:07 GMT -5
Had 4 grandkids over the weekend. Cupboards are bare,so I went grocery shopping this morning. The only shortage I found was pasta. They had a very limited selection at Meijer. I usually shop Meijer,Aldi and a local grocery store for some things. I didn't feel like going to any other stores, so I just got everything at Meijer, and I had some coupons and they had some pretty good deals. I agree, the prices on some things go up by the week.
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Post by madamezil on Oct 17, 2022 15:51:16 GMT -5
One of our major food chains is freezing the prices of their No Name brand foods until the new year. Big whoop as this is the crappiest quality of stuff that you can buy.
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Post by shadetree on Oct 20, 2022 15:15:13 GMT -5
SpringRain🕊️, that is true, but even the ones that prepare are getting hit hard with the fast climbing food prices. And the reasons given over a period of time have run the gamut.
To me, a world food shortage is something to be concerned about.
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Post by emmsmommy on Oct 27, 2022 2:01:20 GMT -5
For the first time in months, the canned cat food section was completely stocked the other day! Looked like paper towel and toilet paper were stocked as well.
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Post by claude on Oct 27, 2022 14:50:49 GMT -5
The potato story peeked my interest…didn’t they develop a super Dooper GMO potato that doesn’t form the green and it was going to change everything in food service? Like the apple that doesn’t brown/oxides when exposed to air and light? Those sliced apples in the McD happy meals now…my daughter had a pkg given to her that kept brown free after more than two months in the fridge…slid behind the slide out drawer. Yuck
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Post by breezygardener on Oct 28, 2022 11:59:06 GMT -5
Big whoop as this is the crappiest quality of stuff that you can buy. Actually - that depends on where you shop & what you buy. We've found that the "store brands" at Walmart, Safeway, Lidl, Aldi, Harris Teeter, & other local markets are just as good if not better than the higher-priced "name brands" on many, many products.
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Post by madamezil on Oct 28, 2022 17:13:04 GMT -5
Sadly, this stuff is not good quality. And here's the hook- if you buy more than 2 or 3 of the same thing you get them for a cheaper price than if you just buy one. Sorry, but I cannot use 3 jars of maraschino cherries. I think it is terrible to make people buy more than they need just to save a few pennies.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Oct 29, 2022 11:56:19 GMT -5
breezygardener, If I can find something at Aldi's, I'd buy it there. Their chocolate is superior and less expensive, as are many of their other products, other than frozen food which are more expensive.
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Post by breezygardener on Oct 29, 2022 15:17:28 GMT -5
Sadly, this stuff is not good quality. And here's the hook- if you buy more than 2 or 3 of the same thing you get them for a cheaper price than if you just buy one. Sorry, but I cannot use 3 jars of maraschino cherries. I think it is terrible to make people buy more than they need just to save a few pennies. None of the stores I listed above have imposed any quotas that I've seen.
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