Cripes and crimeny! Stop the madness. Milk, eggs, bananas… All my staples are way up.
I may have to stop eating.
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Cripes and crimeny! Stop the madness. Milk, eggs, bananas… All my staples are way up.
I may have to stop eating.
Last week I decided to dehydrate whole eggs since I have been following the Avian Flu and the
millions of chickens that are “no more” whether they succumbed to the flu or they met an early death
due to regulations.
I bought 6 18-packs (108 large eggs) from Walmart. Then, the cost was $2.42 per pack equalling $14.52 and I am storing 3 full quarts of egg powder as a safeguard and long-term storage. I saved a lot of money by not purchasing dehydrated egg powder from an online retailer who would charged well over $75 these days … if you can even find it. I checked the store pricing today and that same 18-pack of eggs is $3.92 so my total would be $23.52. It has gone up 62%.
I just checked for purchasing whole egg powder and the only one I can find is $23.99 for the equivalent of 24 eggs so $1/per egg as powder. It seems still a bargain to buy the 18-pack at $3.93 and make more. I will get 108 eggs for $23.58 minus the cost of drying … which is minimal and the dehydrator does all the work except I do blend it up into powder with my blender when all done.
I will be heading to the store today and get another 6 18-packs because tomorrow it may be well over $4 per carton.
Robyn
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I’m impressed that you dehydrate eggs yourself. Wish you were my neighhbor and could teach me a thing or two!
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I may have to stop eating.
I think you just stole Gwyneth Paltrow’s next idea for GOOP. 
They say eggs can be frozen. Any body tried it?
I don’t think an egg could fit in my over-stuffed freezer.
PSU
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They say eggs can be frozen. Any body tried it?
Fresh eggs can’t be frozen in shell because the shell will likely crack which allows for bacterial contamination.
It is possible to freeze separated eggs but the recommended time to use them is 4 months. Not that useful.
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I don’t think an egg could fit in my over-stuffed freezer.
You’ll have room after you use up some items.
We’re retired, living mostly on SS plus a little. We constantly hear all the ruckus about inflation in the grocery store and wonder why? Do people bother to SHOP? Do they watch for bargains? Do they use coupons in the flyers? I can tell you that many refuse to do it. They grab what they like, pay the price, and then grumble.
We eat pretty standard fare, but we rarely buy costly stuff like steaks or bacon or even cold cuts, except when they go on sale. Each week, we look over the flyers from the only major grocery chains we have (we refuse to shop Walmart), and then choose where we’ll buy most staples. Usually, somebody has things like eggs, butter or whatever on sale. Milk is usually from Hannaford’s because we like it from there, but it rarely changes.
(Shaking my head…)
We sometimes watch what is happening at the checkout and are amazed at what people buy. Almost always name brand, pricey stuff. Hey, if you won’t lower your standards, and maybe try something else, pay the price and live with it.
Vermonter
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We sometimes watch what is happening at the checkout and are amazed at what people buy. Almost always name brand, pricey stuff.
You are making a judgement without knowing their means.
PSU
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“if you won’t lower your standards, and maybe try something else, pay the price and live with it.”
Ah, the key to living below your means - lowering your standard of living…
Ah, the key to living below your means - lowering your standard of living…
…or increase your means.
Thus far, increased grocery prices haven’t impacted our spending much that I can see, although I do notice that prices are increasing. But, we had quite a bit in our freezer and pantry that we’ve been working through. So, our inventory is probably down compared to normal.
Last calendar year, our groceries were around 11% of our spending. Last 12 months it’s been about 7% and Year to date, it’s been 6% of our spending.
Come summer, we’ll be getting our produce from our CSA, where the prices are already set for this season. We generally don’t buy a lot of meat. But we have been known to buy a quarter beef or an entire lamb from a local farm. For most everything else, we tend to buy stuff when it’s on sale. We try not to buy a lot of prepared food.
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This is a spot where DH and I decided we could afford to trade a little saved time for some extra cost. We are both working very long days right now, and we were spending all day Sunday doing good prep for the week:
- Sautéed breakfast vegetables
- Roasted breakfast potatoes
- Sliced raw vegetables for lunch
- Lentils for lunch
- Grilled chicken or pork for lunch
- Grilled chicken/burgers/steak for some suppers
We also make salads, roasted vegetables, and some supper proteins the same day.
So we switched to ordering 3 Hello Fresh meals a week, we buy some of the vegetables pre-cut, and we started using salad kits. I’ve also switched to canned beans instead of home-cooked lentils for now.
It has been a nice change of pace, though even the lower calorie Hello Fresh meals turn out to be too many calories for me. We’ll try SunBasket in a few weeks and see how that is.
ThyPeace, figuring out where we are willing to trade dollars for convenience is hard for us, but something had to give.
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PSU:
“You are making a judgement without knowing their means.”
Obviously. But the general comments we hear are made by people who also do not usually disclose their means, and the media is publishing those observations as being generally true.
Interesting to observe, anyway.
Vermonter