What I couldn't get this week shopping

The last week or so the toast has not been the same without my butter. I guess we can both say we are addicted to our butter. LOL
 

It's not that we can't get them, but DD and I've been comparing notes on yellow onions. Up to a year ago they were usually 3 lbs/$1.00, and 5 lbs/$1.00 on sale. Now we're lucky if to find them for 50¢/lb and they spoil very quickly. This is true in all our grocery stores, not just one or two chains.

Has anyone else come across this? I wonder what that's all about. Climate issues? Poor harvest? Trucking issues? All of the above???
 
Blessed said:
Well, I have found a sale price on butter, it was not advertised. I was shopping the loss leaders for meat for the freezer. Went by the dairy section and they had a buy one get one free sale, got 2 pounds for 3.97.
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Can you please share the region of the country you live in? $2.00/lb of butter is unheard of right now.
 

I'm on the east coast, not saying exactly where ... I got what I wanted and this is what it cost! 🤑

Organic butter - $6.49
Eggs - $4.99
Organic heavy cream 1 pt - $ 5.29
5 lb. Vidalia onions - $6.99
Organic blueberries - 4 oz $4.99
Kiwi- 2 lb pack $6.49
Asparagus - 1.04 lb $4.15
Gluten Free Bagels - 4 pack $7.49! (on sale $5.99)
Pomegranate juice - 48 oz $10.49
Maple syrup - 32 oz $15.49
Bottled water - 24 pack $5.29 (on sale 3/24 packs $11.00)
Auto dishwasher detergent - 70 oz $7.29
Toilet paper - 20 rolls ON SALE! $20.99
Ga$ down to $4.89

JC_OMG_sign

It doesn't look like prices will be going down any time soon. Whenever I see a sale, I stock up on non-perishable items.

Bella ✌️
 
Bella said:
I'm on the east coast, not saying exactly where ... I got what I wanted and this is what it cost! 🤑

Organic butter - $6.49
Eggs - $4.99
Organic heavy cream 1 pt - $ 5.29
5 lb. Vidalia onions - $6.99
Organic blueberries - 4 oz $4.99
Kiwi- 2 lb pack $6.49
Asparagus - 1.04 lb $4.15
Gluten Free Bagels - 4 pack $7.49! (on sale $5.99)
Pomegranate juice - 48 oz $10.49
Maple syrup - 32 oz $15.49
Bottled water - 24 pack $5.29 (on sale 3/24 packs $11.00)
Auto dishwasher detergent - 70 oz $7.29
Toilet paper - 20 rolls ON SALE! $20.99
Ga$ down to $4.89

JC_OMG_sign

It doesn't look like prices will be going down any time soon. Whenever I see a sale, I stock up on non-perishable items.

Bella ✌️
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I'm in CT, but I don't pay those prices for butter or eggs. I don't buy organic anything. I love pomegranate juice also, but it's always been expensive. You're wise to stock up on sale items.
 
@Kika - My store brand organic butter is $5.99. I do buy it sometimes instead of the other one that I prefer. On occasion, both have been out of stock or there are just a couple of packages on the shelf. I get what I can when I can. :rolleyes:
 
Bella said:
I'm on the east coast, not saying exactly where ... I got what I wanted and this is what it cost! 🤑

Organic butter - $6.49
Eggs - $4.99
Organic heavy cream 1 pt - $ 5.29
5 lb. Vidalia onions - $6.99
Organic blueberries - 4 oz $4.99
Kiwi- 2 lb pack $6.49
Asparagus - 1.04 lb $4.15
Gluten Free Bagels - 4 pack $7.49! (on sale $5.99)
Pomegranate juice - 48 oz $10.49
Maple syrup - 32 oz $15.49
Bottled water - 24 pack $5.29 (on sale 3/24 packs $11.00)
Auto dishwasher detergent - 70 oz $7.29
Toilet paper - 20 rolls ON SALE! $20.99
Ga$ down to $4.89

JC_OMG_sign

It doesn't look like prices will be going down any time soon. Whenever I see a sale, I stock up on non-perishable items.

Bella ✌️
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these are all pretty much our average prices ^^^ ( onions are cheaper)... except we pay over twice that much for fuel...:confused:
 
Bella said:
I'm on the east coast, not saying exactly where ...
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Thanks for sharing that, Bella. Geographical context helps on threads like these.
RadishRose said:
I'm in CT, but I don't pay those prices for butter or eggs. I don't buy organic anything. I love pomegranate juice also, but it's always been expensive. You're wise to stock up on sale items.
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I bought eggs at Costco a little over a week ago at about $5.00 for two dozen.
Like Rose, I don't generally buy organic produce, but all produce - even organic - is much cheaper here. ($4.99/4 oz of organic blueberries? Yow! I keep Costco frozen organic blueberries in my freezer: 3 lbs/$10.49)

I try to stock up on sale items, too. Fortunately I have the storage space, but not everyone does.

Our gas has dropped some and now costs $5.49/gallon at Costco.
 
StarSong said:
Thanks for sharing that, Bella. Geographical context helps on threads like these.

I bought eggs at Costco a little over a week ago at about $5.00 for two dozen.
Like Rose, I don't generally buy organic produce, but all produce - even organic - is much cheaper here. ($4.99/4 oz of organic blueberries? Yow! I keep Costco frozen organic blueberries in my freezer: 3 lbs/$10.49)

I try to stock up on sale items, too. Fortunately I have the storage space, but not everyone does.
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I know, right? I'm crazy, lol. I could drive to the fruit farm that's about twenty minutes from me where blueberries are slightly cheaper, but I factored in the cost of ga$ plus time and decided to just buy them at the grocery store.

I have plenty of storage space. If I didn't, I'd work out something so I could store things. I hate having to run to the store for an ingredient when I want to make something, and now with the cost of gas, I try to limit trips. Lately, I've been shopping at my least favorite grocery store because that's the one that's closest to my house. The one I prefer is in town. These days, a few extra miles add up quickly.

Bella ✌️
 
@Bella, those prices are crazy.

Since we’re talking about butter, it was C$5.99 for the store brand. I still have some in the freezer.

The shelves that were nearly bare the other night were now moderately stocked this morning at 9:00. Sort of laid out to make it look fuller. Some areas in the meat department hadn’t been replenished.
 
Bella said:
I'm on the east coast, not saying exactly where ... I got what I wanted and this is what it cost! 🤑

Organic butter - $6.49
Eggs - $4.99
Organic heavy cream 1 pt - $ 5.29
5 lb. Vidalia onions - $6.99
Organic blueberries - 4 oz $4.99
Kiwi- 2 lb pack $6.49
Asparagus - 1.04 lb $4.15
Gluten Free Bagels - 4 pack $7.49! (on sale $5.99)
Pomegranate juice - 48 oz $10.49
Maple syrup - 32 oz $15.49
Bottled water - 24 pack $5.29 (on sale 3/24 packs $11.00)
Auto dishwasher detergent - 70 oz $7.29
Toilet paper - 20 rolls ON SALE! $20.99
Ga$ down to $4.89

JC_OMG_sign

It doesn't look like prices will be going down any time soon. Whenever I see a sale, I stock up on non-perishable items.

Bella ✌️
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Your list looks so much like mine.
 
StarSong said:
This is true in all our grocery stores, not just one or two chains.

Has anyone else come across this? I wonder what that's all about. Climate issues? Poor harvest? Trucking issues? All of the above???
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Conagra, Bill Gates, and other super-large conglomerates/ monopolies have control of most of the seeds available to farmers, contracts for most of the food grown everywhere and where it goes, and it is all for money - not for people's health nor welfare .
 
Blessed said:
The last week or so the toast has not been the same without my butter. I guess we can both say we are addicted to our butter. LOL
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After a week without butter, years ago, just because we had run out and not picked up any more,
a lightbulb went on over my lounge chair as I was changing the world on the internet,

'we have coconut oil', "try coconut oil" and see if it works.....

tada - wonderful, to put on toasts, vegetables, potatoes, to cook with, and more.
 
Just Jeff said:
Conagra, Bill Gates, and other super-large conglomerates/ monopolies have control of most of the seeds available to farmers, contracts for most of the food grown everywhere and where it goes, and it is all for money - not for people's health nor welfare .
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So you're saying this is due to seed prices, and that Bill Gates is somehow involved in controlling seed prices and availability?

Please provide links to your sources.
 
StarSong said:
So you're saying this is due to seed prices, and that Bill Gates is somehow involved in controlling seed prices and availability?

Please provide links to your sources.
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No, not prices. Control. Corruption. Monopoly or other -opoly in place and growing for a century. Altered by monsatn mostly - largest known. Public news for long time.

Try to find unaltered seeds, unaltered food. Heirloom , 'original' , non-harmful healthy kind.

Just like many pointed out the media worldwide is controlled by two entities, very censored, very controlled,
so also the food sources, treatments, conditions, processing, etc etc etc ....
 
RadishRose said:
of what?

You said:

Conagra, Bill Gates, and other super-large conglomerates/ monopolies have control of most of the seeds.
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When I saw "of what?" I thought, what not ? Then searched on the internet 'just for fun' , sorrow and grief.

For most recent articles or exposes or info 'allowed' .

Control, corruption, monopoly, is so normal to everyone today, they apparently do not even realize the harm it has caused for over a century, exponentially bad the last three years, worse every year , even though it 'makes the news' fairly frequently since "60 Minutes" and other watchdog television or agencies started revealing it or warning about it, or even promoting it.

In any worldwide , internet, search engine, put the words , and include anything, any area, you think or hope is not too far gone already.

Look up for a worst and major example monsatan seeds.

edit in: just tried it 'for example' to see what comes up >>

Monsanto’s Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming ...vanityfair.com › news › environment › monsanto’s harvest of fear
April 2, 2008 - Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
 
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Bill Gates, The Rockefeller Foundation, and others have invested in a doomsday seed vault in Norway but that's a far cry from controlling the food supply.

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