Posted on 03/12/2022 8:03:03 PM PST by Mount Athos
With the elites poking at the Russian bear and trying to get us into World War III but in a way where they think none of us gets hurt, we are now facing food shortages.
That could mean possible monthly grocery costs rising by $1,000.
It’s the beginning of crop planting time. Crops need fertilizer. And through the brilliant mechanisms of globalism, guess where we get a lot of our fertilizer?
Russia. They provide two-thirds of the world’s supply.
And they’re temporarily shutting down their fertilizer exports.
So there’s one more log being added to the out-of-control inflation fire.
“We’re going to get hit on every front, on every expense possible,” Oklahoma farmer Ben Neal told Ingraham, “From fertilizers to fuel to labor, insurance – everything in between [including] our packing supplies.”
Neal’s farm operates on a farm-to-market business model, so he has direct fuel costs for transportation. But every farmer essentially faces the same thing – crops need to be transported to processors and final markets and there are increasing fuel costs to power the trucks, trains, barges and ships that make that happen.
But that’s the harvest. Right now there’s the problem of planting the crops in the first place, with their attendant fertilizer.
Already experiencing inflation, Neal predicts fertilizer will drive his costs up by about 25 to 30 percent, “And I think that will soon be reflected at the grocery stores … on top of what we’re already seeing.
Costs further along the supply chain for processing, packaging, transporting, distributing and general retailing may have their own inflation issues which bump prices beyond the 25-30 percent fertilizer cost increases Neal predicts for his farm.
So with costs for fuel and everything else going up, there’s no telling where prices will end up without Russian fertilizer.
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So far the poorest people are still the most likely to be obese. We had a supposed world wide pandemic and the obesity rate increased.
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Living on a farm has its benefits. Self-sufficiency. While we city dwellers have to hunt and gather. You think Pelosi et al are ‘hunting ang gathering’?
People also buy a lot of stuff they eventually throw out.
Its amazing as food waste in this country was pegged a decent percentage.
I do know firsthand people buy a lot of produce they never get through because they kid themselves they are eating healthy and appear to others they are, then they eat chips and crackers and crap and the produce never gets touched or is lightly eaten a small bit, and tossed.
They are trying to convince themselves and others whzt a healthy eater they are. But they arent and half to 2/3 of their produce gets thrown out.
In the area I live, there were many Trump signs and very few Biden signs in 2020.
my advice is to shop the sales...every store will have a loss leader...BUY as much as you can afford and store for your needs.....
one week it might be pasta, the next cereal, etc.....BUY ON SALE....
also, stretch your meals....here in this house we're used to alot of meat....
so I've started stretching our meat thru more than one meal....potroasts, spaghetti sauce, steak, etc...
That’s where my stickers go — right next to the roasts.
meanwhile, my property taxes just went up $600....
It's really quite simple, tasty and cheap. You pour boiling water over the large Shredded Wheat biscuits, press out the excess water, and put a few pats of margarine on top.
Grosses out my kids, lol, but I like it. Current cost per meal is about 50 cents.
It won't be a shock when that cost doubles.
Many of them don’t know how to prepare fresh produce to make it appetizing.
I am thinking right now of my mom’s wonderful vegetable soup, made from scratch. On this snowy weekend, it would be perfect.
Of course with homemade bread, and lots of butter.
Its simpler than that.
Im not even talking about having to prepare anything.
They buy a bag of oranges or some bananas. They eat other crap instead and have to throw away most of the bag or bunch.
https://twitter.com/RalphClaytonUk/status/1502568646190718979?s=20&t=h3GhZ7_eymqRpCaScvn0ew
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CCP bought up 60% of world’s wheat in Nov of 21. Like they did with PPE.
I used to enjoy looking at the table full of food for six of us and see that we grew, canned, froze or dried virtually everything. (Add shot,trapped or caught!)
We are a throw-away society, so spoiled.
Property taxes are going to be another killer.
We homeowners bear the brunt of financing the public schools.
Think of how fuel inflation will affect public school bus transportation.
Then increasing costs of school lunches will be piled on. (In NYC public schools, where my niece is a kitchen supervisor, the kids get FREE breakfast, lunch, and supper!)
Again, middle class taxpayers get socked right in the kisser.
In October I saw hundreds of charter buses on I-70 in Missouri, and they were all carrying “immigrants.”
They are being dispersed throughout the country like a metastatic cancer.
Right now their free housing and EBT cards are taking care of them just fine, but that won’t last forever.
What happens then is they start roaming the countryside robbing and stealing and when legacy US citizens defend themselves from them the UN will declare a humanitarian crisis of White Supremacists committing mass murder on the “immigrants.”
They will then bring in hundreds of thousands of Peoples’ Liberation Army troops disguised as UN “peacekeepers” to exterminate the legacy US citizen White Supremacists.
And that’s how the Chinese Communist Party takes over America.
I remember that!
Oatmeal is cheap and hearty,also.
I see you are up to snuff on your TV programming!
One of my worst recurring nightmares.
Shredded wheat with bacon and milk - it’s what’s for breakfast! (and sometimes dinner and snacks)
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