Food Prices

Wombat457 said:
Grocery prices have sky rocketed where I am - upstate New York. Being in the bush we don't get a great choice of where to shop unless I want to drive an hour or more. Our local food store is Wegmans. When I first moved here I could shop for 4 of us my wife, 2 teenage boys and myself for a couple of hundred dollars a week for basic things - nothing flash. Now I hardly get a paper bag of groceries for $100, it's rediculous and all about greed in my opinion.

Oh and someone mentioned insurance - my car insurance has gone up $300 a year for the past 3 years. Not bad for someone who has never placed a claim, only has one speeding ticket rfom 20 years ago and some very VERY high standared specialized driving courses behind me.
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Yep. Serious greed.
I used to buy however much I needed of whatever ingredients were wanted for the dish I’d like to cook.
Now I look at the ‘shrinkflation’ and having to buy two packets of everything instead of one and it sets off “No 🤬 way” !!! and I won’t cook it!
 
karadekoolaid said:
I've been watching some tik tok videos from a farmer in East Anglia,UK, who has decided to sell his products directly from the farm. No middle men, no supermarket, cheaper than anywhere, and dispatched to where ever people want it. He's also making more money (not much, but more) than if he sells to a supermarket. Maybe that's what other farmers should be doing against giant corporations.
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He came up again on Instagram this morning and apparently his business is taking off at the speed of light, with the help of other local farmers. Fresh, fresh, beautiful vegetables, packed in boxes and dispatched across the UK - you pay the postage. He sold out the other day.
A 10kg box of veg for 30 quid. No fancy packaging, no "perfect"sizes, no ghastly plastic wrapping. He makes a profit, the supermarket doesn't, and that, in my book, is worthy of applause.
 
To be honest, it works out cheaper for my wife and I to go out for dinner than to have to buy everything, cook it and all that goes with that, and I am not talking about fast food rubbish either but a very good local resteraunt and bar.

Other than for specific foods, I'd rather pay Marino's to use their electricity and make my food so all I have to do is sit, have a beer, have fun and eat with no cleaning up afterwards. Okay so I do clean up after myself there, but I have been going there for almost 15 years and the staff wont run after me anymore :D
 
karadekoolaid said:
He came up again on Instagram this morning and apparently his business is taking off at the speed of light, with the help of other local farmers. Fresh, fresh, beautiful vegetables, packed in boxes and dispatched across the UK - you pay the postage. He sold out the other day.
A 10kg box of veg for 30 quid. No fancy packaging, no "perfect"sizes, no ghastly plastic wrapping. He makes a profit, the supermarket doesn't, and that, in my book, is worthy of applause.
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It is great but farm gate sales are taxed differently to a supermarket so it’s always going to be different profit wise.

We farmed, produced and sold our own produce so no middle man and complete control over the quality of the end product.
We did supply supermarkets as did a friend of ours (Thatchers cider) and it’s a whole different ball game. They demand what they want and treat you very, very shoddily 😔
 
Updated thoughts?
Dairy prices have come down a tad but upwardly creeping prices still an issue and spiking gas prices added into the mix.
 
Updates....
Life here has become very expensive due to exchange rate fluctuations.
The U$ was trading around 27 to the Zambian Kwacha and is now down to 19.
Meanwhile, prices in the shops or anywhere else have not come down
(Fishing license in kwacha terms up by 35%, groceries keep going up as well)
I earn U$ a
 
It's fuel here that's gone up.

Yesterday I saw prices AUS$1 more than normal per litre. That's about a 50p/litre on fuel.

So we've gone from AU$1.89/ litre to AU$2.99/ litre. When your tank is 96L that's a massive increase.

Annoyingly the LPG (gas in Australia and the UK) on my 4x4 doesn't work at all anyhow else I'd be using it again, if most fuel stations had not stopped selling it, because that's not increased in price at all. Australia has good reserves of its own gas.

But foods prices are going to go up here as well because flooding has severed major highways again meaning little interstate traffic West to East. Sadly we've not had the rain they've had, so we're still on water restrictions, whilst typically dry parts of Australia like the Northern Territory and Western Australia are flooded.
 
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