Canned pilot bread at mredepot is $7.45 for a 2.5 can, $42.95 for a half case (6) and $79.95 for a case (12). These prices are cheaper than on Amazon. I'll have to think about this purchase.
My last time at the grocery, I bought a box of Zatarain’s Red Beans and Rice and one of Black Beans and Rice. I have plenty of various canned meats to put in each one and it takes 3 1/4 cups of water for the Red Bean one and 2 3/4 cups water for the Black Bean one, plus 25 minutes to simmer at low heat. I will have plenty of water and plenty of fuel to make this food and it's a fairly fast one dish meal that will spicy/tasty. I'll get more boxes of these. Don't remember the price, a little over $2.00 I think. That would be three meals for me. If there is no power for the fridge, then I would eat it within one day or also the next day based on whether it's summer or winter.
AS an MREDepot customer, and maybe you can simply sign up and get the same, I get emails for free shipping and $15 off a case, etc, nearly weekly. So, $150 is the latest price but you rarely would pay that full cost.
Here are a few key parts of their (MRE Depot) latest email. I think his comments reflect on all of our efforts throughout all food sectors and come as a direct warning from someone that does significant business in the food sector.
“This is one of those times - unfortunately I have to announce that we’re looking at a significant price increase on all of the Yoder’s Meats. Some meats will be impacted more than others - bacon for example could take a 35% to 40% hit (pork sausage and pork in general will likley be hit hard), whereas chicken may not be as bad. Turkey will likely increase, but beef / hamburger products will increase more. The truth is, I don’t even know the extent of the increase yet, as we’re still negotiating delivery agreements for the next 6 months.
think you have probably already seen the news on the impact that the drought has had on the corn crop - and of course, corn is a major feedlot item for most meats, so we knew that we would be looking at an increase soon.
However, being so close to the supply chain side of most of the meats that we purchase, it was my understanding that we would see an actual reduction in meat prices in the near-term, BEFORE we saw an increase. I was hearing that this is because farmers would try to rush their livestock to market early in order to try and avoid paying much higher costs on the feedlot/grain market. The increase in supply SHOULD have driven prices down for a little while.
This just has not materialized. Much like news of gas refinery interruptions can bump gas prices without actually having any impact on supplies whatsoever (like the two refinery fires this past week in California that even though combined represent an impact of less than a quarter of a percentage point of the entire US supply, has still caused a sharp increase in gas prices nationwide in the last 48 hours), the meat market appears to be doing the same thing.
Even though supply looks stable for now, like most other industries, it is a handful of massive producer-level conglomerates that set pricing trends, and everyone else follows suit out of greed, fear, or any number of other issues (some legitimate - I don’t want to imply that they are all crooks, even though it feels that way to me right now...). We see this in the airline industry a lot - one airline comes out with a price increase, and the rest jump on the bandwagon within 24 hours - and we wind up taking the brunt as consumers.
Something tells me that the rest of 2012 is going to be a bit of a wild ride - but we’re going to ramp up for it and still plan on same-day shipping all of the meats and everything else that we stock,”