Food prices that piss you off
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Almost everything at the grocery store - $5 lb for brussel sprouts, $4 head for cauliflower, $4 for a pack of greens, $2 ea for red pepper, $2-$5 lb for mushrooms. $30 lb for fresh fish, $20 lb for antibiotic free meat.
This is why we garden, raise chickens, fish and hunt.
Wow this is so expensive! In comparison here in the Netherlands/Holland:
Cauliflower: $2-$2,50
Red pepper:$0,70-0,90
Mushrooms: $1
Fresh fish: Salmon $30/kg (=2,2 lb)
Brussel sprouts: 1,10/lb
I hate the prices of pine nuts $60/kg
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Artichokes. They're my absolute most favorite food on earth... and they're almost $3 for one. BOO.0
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Fresh berries. I only buy them when they go on sale, because $4-5 for a pack of strawberries or blueberries is insane to me, especially how quickly I go through them (within a day or two). Luckily I often see them on sale ($1.88-$2.50) in the flyer of at least one store most weeks, and my local grocery store price matches.
Limes, though I understand the recent cost impact as my boyfriend's coworker imports limes and explained it to me a few months back over beer at Hooter's, oddly enough.0 -
Fresh berries. I only buy them when they go on sale, because $4-5 for a pack of strawberries or blueberries is insane to me, especially how quickly I go through them (within a day or two). Luckily I often see them on sale ($1.88-$2.50) in the flyer of at least one store most weeks, and my local grocery store price matches.
Berries are insanely high here too. Sometimes as much as $5 for 1/2 pint. Do you know how small a 1/2 pint carton is?! Even when they are in season you're lucky to find them for $2.99 for a pint.
I only eat frozen when I can't go pick them myself.0 -
When you go to one of those dirty hipster farmer's markets that are springing up all over, and some jack wagon is asking $22.95 per pound for lamb.
Can tell you everything about how it was raised, and how happy it was, but has no clue what breed it was or its age at slaughter.0 -
5$ canadian for romane lettuce0
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sorry, I forgot to mention, $22.95 per pound for ground lamb.0
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I'm surprised to see cauliflower is a pattern. A small head of cauliflower costs no more than a dollar here, even less.0
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Milk (Skim ofcourse)... now way more than a gallon of gas!0
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Beef is absurd. I can find decent prices on chicken, but seafood here is getting crazy too. $4.99 is now the sale price for Tilapia filets - with full price being up at $9.99-14.99. Pork is expensive unless you get crappy, fatty cuts. Ground pork is still affordable at our local Asian market. Forget it if you're wanting to know what cut you're getting though. Yikes.
I still buy grassfed beef on occasion. I actually buy every time I can get $5-6/pound, otherwise forget it. I've had one steak in the past year, LOL, when it used to be a staple.
Heck, even rice seems to be pricier lately!!!0 -
berries ;-;0
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Grass-fed butter - $6 for 1/2 lb
Grass-fed beef - from $7 for 1 lb ground to $40 for 1 lb of higher grade tenderloin
Pastured eggs - $7/dozen
I still generally buy these things but I dream about the money I would save if I bought conventional products more often.0 -
tephanies1234 wrote: »5$ canadian for romane lettuce
Yikes! Where in Canada are you? In Toronto it's maybe $2.50 max for a big bunch, but I go to Fresh Co.0 -
Grass-fed butter - $6 for 1/2 lb
Grass-fed beef - from $7 for 1 lb ground to $40 for 1 lb of higher grade tenderloin
Pastured eggs - $7/dozen
I still generally buy these things but I dream about the money I would save if I bought conventional products more often.
How do you know that the pastured eggs are really from free roaming hens since there is no legal standard for labelling? At least there is not in the US.0 -
... you don't. Most of the time it's just a label slapped on without any real standard.
Unless you're buying off of Craigslist0 -
liftingandlipstick wrote: »
Where are you buying milk? I get skim for $2.79 a gallon at Kwik Trip. It's $2.38 if you buy the bags instead of the jugs. You're less than 30 minutes from me, so prices shouldn't be that different!
I usually buy milk from Kwik Trip, but if you go to Festival, it is closer to $4
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It pisses me off that the healthiest, least processed, least "fooled around with" food, is the most expensive.
I grow what I have time for and can in my area. I have a lime tree that had its first good year, I grated off the peel and froze to have the zest on hand, then I peeled and put the rest through the blender, and froze in cubes.
Tomatoes are producing now. Trying to get some chard going.0 -
successgal1 wrote: »It pisses me off that the healthiest, least processed, least "fooled around with" food, is the most expensive.
Meh, I don't actually find this to be true. Fresh produce and quality meats are outrageous, but bags of chips are $4+ dollars a bag. Even generic brand chips are usually $2.50 a bag. One low quality chocolate bar is $1-$2. Higher quality chocolates are outrageous. Box of something like Hamburger Helper is $3 and you still have to buy the expensive ground meat!
Some of the best bargains in the store are healthy options like dried beans, frozen fruits and vegetables. Some vegetables like carrots and onions are consistently affordable, and apples are always pretty cheap here ($2 for a 2 lb bag). Eggs are about $1.50 - $2 a dozen, I think.
It's possible to eat healthy on the cheap, you just might not always be able to eat the stuff you like best.0 -
Clementines. 3# for 6.990
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I hate that the baked chips or snacks cost more than the regular ones, even though you get less in the bag. WHY? Is it because they know people who are watching their intake will pay more? It doesn't seem fair that they take advantage of people who are trying to eat well and bypassing the crap.
Are you really "bypassing the crap" by eating baked chips?
Lays Classic Ingredients: Potatoes, Sunflower or Corn Oil, Salt
535 Calories per 100 grams
Baked Lays Ingredients: Dried Potatoes, Cornstarch, Sugar, Corn Oil, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Corn Sugar
428 Calories per 100 grams
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successgal1 wrote: »It pisses me off that the healthiest, least processed, least "fooled around with" food, is the most expensive.
Lentils, rice and beans are some of the cheapest foods in the store.
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My green juice that I like to have at breakfast is $6. $6 on top of whatever food I'm eating! Before 7am!0
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Grass-fed does not mean antibiotic-free.
In fact, grass-fed doesn't even preclude finishing the animal in a conventional feed lot.0 -
The prices that really piss me off are:
$18.99/bag of cup4cup gluten free flour. (Not optional, I have a celiac kiddo)
Berries - $5/small container on average
Lunch meat - $3/100g for turkey.
Whole roasting chickens!! - between $15-$20 per chicken.
$4.99 for 1 pomegranate
$8/small bag of grapes.
Wow, try buying your flour from King Arthur Flour online. They have many Gluten free items on their site.
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I like my white fish. I have been buying Swai fillets for a long time from my local grocer, but they stopped selling it, claiming they are now endangered. After researching the subject, I find the claim is bogus. It is getting more popular in the US, so I would suppose they will bring it back at double the price. If I am going to eat fish 3X a week, it hits my pocketbook HARD. And this is a coastal state I live in. It just goes to show that high income people can easily get the foods they love and their bodies need, but if you can't pony up the dough, it's sardines and soda crackers...0
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The difference in fat levels between grass and feedlot fed is trivial compared to the difference between either and wild game. Nothing raised in a pasture is going to be particularly "natural".
People may as well pick based on taste and price preferences.
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Grapes
it was like $11-$13 for a small bag - so frustrating! 0
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