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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those were the days.
I've got lots of spam and also lots of tuna, as well as a whole bunch of tiny canned hams.
“Mine is Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam,bacon, eggs, sausage Spam, eggs, sausage, bacon and Spam.”
👍
You have the better hobby, plus the better tasting hobby.
Ukraine doesn’t taste that good....kind of bland....not enough salt.....must be an Eastern European thing.
its how many meals you get is the ticket.
$4.99 a pound at Fry’s (Kroger).
Deer will be hunted out in the first year or two.
Too bad Bill Gates just bought the largest share of farm land.
Raised on a farm. We used cow manure for fertilizing the crops. To bad, now days framing is done by imported fertilizer from Russia When going fishing looked under the cow dung and find worm’s.
Poor people live on carbs. That’s what they can afford.
We shop at Aldis. Almost everything is made from scratch, although we do cheat with some things.
4-5 gallons of milk. Two loaves of bread. Bag of potatoes every other week or so. Our main protein is chicken. Most weeks a dozen eggs. Rice. Noodles. Salad makings.
Sunday dinner is roasted turkey breast or pork loin - about $7. Roasted potatoes and carrots. Or pork stew. That leaves enough leftovers for one more meal - usually lunch on Mon or Tue, although the stew lasts a couple meals.
Tue is tacos (I have taco salad). Wed is something like chicken noodle soup or chicken casserole. Thur is date night for the wife and I - the kids have grilled cheese (and ham slice) and french fries. Fri is meatballs and rice. Many of the meals will have steamed broccoli (the only green veggie the girls will eat).
Mon and Sat is “fend night” where we go through leftovers or you pick your favorite. Sometimes that is fried chicken (banquet frozen). Sometimes frozen battered fish. Sometimes just baked fish. Or just about anything else.
Breakfast is typically waffles (from Sam’s pancake mix - bag lasts a month or so). Wife has oatmeal or cottage cheese and mandarin oranges. Sometime scrambled eggs. Sometimes french toast. Sometimes just peanut butter toast.
Lunch is leftovers, or peanut butter sandwiches, or ham luncheon meat. Or (frozen) fried chicken. Or scrambled egg sandwich.
“Date night” runs us about $20-40 depending where we go. I guess I should include that in the food budget. And about every two months a trip to Sam’s to pick up a bag of frozen chicken breast, pancake mix, shredded cheese. Hamburger every other time. With other odds and ends (laundry soap, etc) it runs about $200. So adding up weekly Aldis run, “date night,” and Sam’s, we are under $150 a week. We could cut out date night and be close to $100.
Admittedly, the price of things is going up. And a lot in many cases. Eggs were under a dollar. Now they are nearly $1.50. Milk has gone from around $1.80 to $2.50. But we are still under $100 a week for everything but date night. Not much longer I’m afraid.
Are Murkowski and Collins Democrats?
Is Judas Pence? Mitt Romney?
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason two parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
DC is a fertilizer factory.
Really.. The globalist fear porn is sickening.
I would love the steak and such, but the girls are such picky eaters, so it would just be me. So instead I settle for the chicken they will eat.
I used to do a chuck roast once a month or so. But the price of that has doubled lately. Heck, even hamburger is hitting $5 a pound. Nuts. Thankfully we eat little of that.
We have splurged and picked up a couple corned beefs at Aldis - $2.99 lb - about $15 each. Last year they were $1.99. Ouch.
The girls have a treat with a six-pack of root beer that they milk for 2-3 weeks. But generally no soda and bottled water (a case of water lasts about 6 months). Koolaide is their sweet drink - we stock up when it is 5/dollar or less.
Yes, you can eat well on a budget, if you are willing to cook from scratch.
the rats here and some GOP are on board with the great reset. “Build back better” is an indication of their future plans. Building back from the destruction of western civilization
Never underestimate Joe’s ability to f—k things up.
I was standing in the self checkout line at my local supermarket one Saturday morning. The line was really backed up with people that had full shopping carts. I noticed a lot of the people were having a hard time operating the self scanning equipment.
There was a black woman in line in front of me. She turned around and clued me in. The reason for the logjam was because this was the first Saturday of the month. Everyone’s EBT cards were just recharged.
She wasn’t being nasty about it.
Now I avoid grocery shopping on the first Saturday of the month.
You do a bang up job admittedly, I do too, for two two people. I even start with 250 lbs of beef, this year $3.30 lb and put in a garden and it is still impossible, and has been impossible for over a year, to do what you say, $1.20 per meal per person.
“Bottled water”
The SW house uses two food grade five gallon buckets.
Filter in the bottom of the top bucket, filters into bottom bucket, which has a spigot, used to refill five gallon water bottles that sit atop ceramic dispenser.
Filter isn’t cheap, but lasts six months.
Large mouth mason jars with flip up closeable lids are kept filled in the fridge, which can be carried out and reused.
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