Food Prices

[Annoyedlistner]

has anyone else started to notice the increase in food prices yet?

Here are a few small changes that I've noticed lately.

box of Mac and Cheese has risen from about $.33 to $1.19.
Tostinos Frozen Pizza from $.99 to $1.89.

[tiger_rascal]

YES! I've noticed that!

I noticed that a dozen eggs went up to about $2!!! For regular large eggs!!! However, you can still sometimes find sales. I got a dozen eggs the other night for $1.40.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Me, too. Regular old hamburger was more than $3.00 a pound yesterday. Not ground sirloin, not even ground round, just regular hamburger meat. Dang!

[Incident]

Perhaps putting our food in our gas tanks wasn't the brightest of ideas. Besides the higher prices you and I are paying people in the third world are literal starving.
Of course this could be halted if we would just stop using ethanol in our gas now, it should be prohibited.

Thank You, Al Gore

[Richard Tafoya]

Corn ethanol, specifically, which Al Gore does not support. It's the most inefficient form of ethanol and only happening because the powerful corn lobby made it so. Roll that stuff back. Use other, more efficient forms of ethanol.

[Incident]

Corn ethanol, specifically. The most inefficient form of ethanol and only happening because the powerful corn lobby made it so. Roll that stuff back. Use other, more efficient forms of ethanol.

What Sugar-Cane?, so we can deforest the rainforest?

What you need to do is develop something like Switch Grass and then only grow it on land that otherwise not suitable for farming. But that is probably 20 years off. But what you can't do is grow plants for ethanol on land we use for food and take that land out of food production.

[Richard Tafoya]

Actually, you mean cellulosic-ethanol, which is sourced from a wide range of materials, including things like switchgrass, animal feedstock wastes and vegetable and fruit peels, corn cobs, etc.

That's the way to go.

As for cane-waste ethanol production, it's working out pretty well in Brazil and they have ample unused land mass for planting and won't allow planting in the Amazon, so rainforest depletion is a non-issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil

[ConnieB]

YES. I noticed food prices going up last year....dairy was first, then meat. Now it's all the grain and fruit going up. This is why I can or freeze my own veggies and fruits each spring and summer, and we go hunting and fishing for alot as well.

However, I don't pay 1.19 for a box of Mac and Cheese or 1.89 for pizza. In my area at Wal-mart, I pay .89 cents for Kraft Mac and Cheese, and .78 for Tortinos cheese/sausage pizza. Milk in my area is 2.50 and shredded cheese is over 4.00 for a small package. I get my eggs from a local farmer for 1.45 a dozen.

I also gotten in the habit of buying only things on sale for the week, so that helps.

[lions1mew]

Our local grocery chains have "10 for $10" specials all the time. Boy do we stock up a LOT when those happen.

[tiger_rascal]

My mom lives next door to a farm. They always have extra milk and eggs fresh from the cows and chickens. They share with my mom.

She said she could get us some eggs! But Im not so sure I want to try that fresh milk.

I have a cousin that keeps chickens. I could always get some eggs from her, she always has extra.

[pinky]

Perhaps putting our food in our gas tanks wasn't the brightest of ideas. Besides the higher prices you and I are paying people in the third world are literal starving.
Of course this could be halted if we would just stop using ethanol in our gas now, it should be prohibited.

Thank You, Al Gore
That's crap. The reason people in the third world are starving is because the food isn't getting to them, either because of cost or corrupt governments.