Food shortages are here and getting worse.

[Mountain trapper]

So much for the dollar menu at McDonald's!

It's now called the new 15 dollar menu.

 

[GaRp58]

So much for the dollar menu at McDonald's!

I remember stopping by one of the first McD. in the 60's and getting a bag full of burgers at $.10 each and fries also at $.05 each and going fishing or hunting with family.

 

[Dani]

Was told yesterday that if I needed any brown sugar, I should go ahead and buy. We ran out at Thanksgiving and looks to be the same for Christmas time.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

Was told yesterday that if I needed any brown sugar, I should go ahead and buy. We ran out at Thanksgiving and looks to be the same for Christmas time.

i saw a substiute recipe yesterday for brown sugar. I believe it was 1tablespoon molasses to a cup of granulated for light brown sugar. 2 tablespoons for dark.
You may want to double check this, I could be off on the cup of granulated.
Wife has been using a lot of dark lately and I hate paying grocery store prices because i can only find light brown sugar in bulk.

 

[jimLE]

I don't use brown sugar that often.but I am getting a little low on it.now several bags of it is looking good to me.and I might stock up on some more of the 2LB bags of white sugar as well.

 

[DrHenley]

The only thing I use brown sugar for is mixing up some coffee rub. And I only use two tablespoons.

 

[jimLE]

I haven't used any type of sweetener in my coffee in years.i love my coffee strong,bold, and obnoxious enough to slap me.

 

[DrHenley]

I haven't used any type of sweetener in my coffee in years.i love my coffee strong,bold, and obnoxious enough to slap me.

Jim, I don't drink the coffee rub. It's for cooking meat. I haven't use sweeteners in coffee since the 1970s. And even then I did not like sugar, I only used wildflower honey.

 

[Mountain trapper]

The only "shortages" that I see at the grocery store is the shrinking size of the packaging, and the increased costs.

 

[Dani]

i saw a substiute recipe yesterday for brown sugar. I believe it was 1tablespoon molasses to a cup of granulated for light brown sugar. 2 tablespoons for dark.
You may want to double check this, I could be off on the cup of granulated.
Wife has been using a lot of dark lately and I hate paying grocery store prices because i can only find light brown sugar in bulk.

Your memory is correct. So this may be a reason to stock up on molasses too for some who have enough sugar on hand. In fact I may just get a few more jars. My discount kicks in tomorrow until the 24th.

 

[Cindyd]

I use it for meat rubs too, including baked ham, smoked pork with other seasoning at times, also for sweet potatoe casserole, acorn squash, fried apples, homemade bbq sause, once in a while throw pinch in sautéed onions. That said, those are foods I make rarely.

 

[DrHenley]

I was looking in the canned meat department for some kind of non perishable meat to keep on the shelf at BOL2. I saw the Spam price...
Sitting next to the Spam was Armor Star Treet, and it was significantly less expensive. I looked at the ingredients and it a blend of several different meats. I bought some of the low sodium Treet to try it.
I like it a LOT better than Spam! Spam I have to mask the taste with mustard or hot sauce (same with Vienna sausages). I can eat the Treet cold straight out of the can.
Not bad as a SOS with some baked beans on toast. Not bad at all!

 

[Mountain trapper]

I was looking in the canned meat department for some kind of non perishable meat to keep on the shelf at BOL2. I saw the Spam price...
Sitting next to the Spam was Armor Star Treet, and it was significantly less expensive. I looked at the ingredients and it a blend of several different meats. I bought some of the low sodium Treet to try it.
I like it a LOT better than Spam! Spam I have to mask the taste with mustard or hot sauce (same with Vienna sausages). I can eat the Treet cold straight out of the can.
Not bad as a SOS with some baked beans on toast. Not bad at all!

I seen that next to the Spam yesterday at the store. I'll have to give it try next we go shopping.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

 

[Oddcaliber]

Buy the store brands. Just as good but cheaper.

 

[Mountain trapper]

The only thing I couldn't find at the grocery store today was real salmon filets. All they had was that inferior frozen stuff from the east coast! Who eats that? I finally found one pacific coast filet. It was frozen too, but at least it was from the west coast.

 

[Cindyd]

Yeah, I don't buy any farmed raised fish what so ever.

 

[DrHenley]

My wife can't eat farm raised salmon. She really didn't know why or what the difference was, all she knew is that unless it was wild caught Alaskan salmon it made her skin break out.. I honestly thought it was all in her head that there was a difference, but when I looked into it, now I won't eat the farm raised salmon either, even though it doesn't bother me (other than mentally) to eat it.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I have found even with wild caught fish- its been frozen a couple times.
Once in the holding area of the boat, then after processing. When it gets to the store and says previously frozen, that’s a no for me.
I will stick to the frozen closest to the source. (Until I move near the 2 of the best salmon fishing rivers and sea docks)
I used to catch east coast salmon fresh. My boat at the time had the gear. Just pretty small for a Great Lake weather.
Snagging (when it was legal) put up a lot in the smoker. Hard part was getting them out of the river gorge.

 

[DrHenley]

I don't think wild caught Alaskan salmon would be fit to eat if it didn't get frozen before shipping it all the way over here.

Flash frozen seafood is not necessarily bad. Royal Red shrimp (deepwater Gulf shrimp) are flash frozen on the boat as soon as they are caught because they spoil so fast. You can't get actual fresh Royal Reds even at the markets on the docks.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

We all have food put back. Some more than others. This video is food for thought. The man is spot on regrading where to secure food from!

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/155/164/478/playable/975988c2d2446498.mp4

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

BRICS is taking control of the shipping lanes. This will not turn out well for us. We need the Red Sea for transportation of many things.


A huge delay of things needed for planting will wreak havoc on the world’s food supply.

The shipping lanes around South Africa have gone from pale yellow to bright orange within days because of the fighting in the RedSea near Yemen! Going around is a much slower route and a more dangerous route. Many ships sink in the Cap of Good Hope.

 

[Dani]

 

[user 7704]

This isn't about shortage, but price. we get a prime rib roast every New Year. The price has doubled or more this year. $160. Thankfully, my husband did an advertising trade so we didn't have to pay.

 

[Cindyd]

Weird! In my area, most everything has gone up, and I get prime rib every year for xmas dinner. For some reason that was less this year..I always get it at Publix..it was $48 this year! Last year I recall was $60+. I think it was mispriced because my whole bill in Publix was $67 and change w cple other things I picked up there. I had already done my other shopping elsewhere at 2 other places but I prefer to get the Prime rib from Publix given our choices here. I was expecting to pay over $100. It does go up for New Years..I checked this morning and it's $18.49 a lb. Would be $129 for same prime rib roast I got before Xmas. Go figure! I think it usually goes on sale before thnxgiving and xmas.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

Last year after the holidays I bought a Prime Rib from Ingles and it was just over $100 about 6 pounds I think. Haven’t bought one yet, but plan on it next week. Saw Prime Rib was selling for $13 per pound.

 

[Cindyd]

Again, not a food shortage, but for a while now I've been buying bottles of bleach tablets instead of paying $7+.00 for a gallon of bleach.. Wally W has had plenty of bottles of them. Last weekend I had to run in there and I went by isle to pick up another bottle or 2 for stock and they had only1 bottle on the shelf left. I got it.

Not really a big deal to me, (i have lots of bottles, plus other bleach equivalent (cds tabs), but interesting to now see the shelf bare for that product..
It's $3.00 and change vs $7.00 and change. I hear some areas a gallon of bleach is $9.00+! whoa!

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

A flashback to what a Kansas company put flour and grain in during the Great Depression…to help those who couldn’t afford clothing.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

Our tax money shutting down Amish Farmers. Where will this end? Our children and grand babies starving to death? Or us finally fighting back to remove this evil regime?

 

[user 7704]

A flashback to what a Kansas company put flour and grain in during the Great Depression…to help those who couldn’t afford clothing.



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I had flour sack clothes made by my grandmother