Food prices that piss you off
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xomorganjc wrote: »Grapes
it was like $11-$13 for a small bag - so frustrating!
It's the middle of January. They *should* be expensive, unless you live in the southern hemisphere.
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watermelon during the winter is nuts same with cauliflower , grapes and portobellos0
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Alatariel75 wrote: »A few weeks ago, my local supermarket wanted $7 for a cauliflower. For a freaking CAULIFLOWER!
Cherry tomatoes are damned expensive, and so easy to grow, so I go without in the off season and have plants on my balcony in the growing season.
i'll only eat cherry toms I grow myself. Sun ripened, nothing like it0 -
Everything.... Just saying this time last year ground beef was 1.48 now its 4$ per lab, broccoli head large 90 cents now 2$ a pound..... At least raspberries and blackberries are cheapish atm. Apasauguss went from 1.99-2.99 up to 5.99-7.99, yikes!!!!!0
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anything gluten free...a loaf of bread here is $6!!! 3 coeliacs in 1 house....
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Ugh, I forgot. Bananas are getting WAY expensive, too. They were 75 cents a pound the last time I went to the grocery store. That doesn't sound like a lot, but when they were as low as 40 cents a pound only 2 months ago....
Do you live by a trader joes!!? Bananas are 19cents each, comes out to about 34-38 cents a pound depending on the size of the banana!0 -
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HERBS. Why are herbs so expensive. I want to make a meal with fresh herbs, I have to pay like $2 for a small packet of each one.0
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Sorry, the era of the auroch is over, not relevant.
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.
There is a significant difference between grass fed and grain fed if you're talking fat content. There is further difference if you talk industrial vs small producer.
Your thoughts about pastures make me think you are an urbanite.
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Berries, cheese and tomatoes are the really expensive things that I like to eat. I haven't bought berries in yonks because the prices are insane. They're in season in Australia and it's still about $7 for a tiny punnet of blueberries. I just don't buy them which is sad because I do like them a lot.0
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Yes this happens to me all the time!!0
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Sorry, the era of the auroch is over, not relevant.
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.
There is a significant difference between grass fed and grain fed if you're talking fat content. There is further difference if you talk industrial vs small producer.
Your thoughts about pastures make me think you are an urbanite.
I raise free range (really free range) heritage breed pigs. "Friends and family" use and supply a very small number of premium restaurants in the area. Make the best bacon within...a wide radius. Expanding into wider range of charcuterie this fall.
The nutritional differences are not significant - sorry.
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Meat. Poultry. Fish. Fruit. Vegetables. Cereal. I think I will start a small farm... Zoning laws be darned.0
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I am quite blessed where I am in Wales, pretty much everything is on offer all the time and hubby and I always shop at the end of the working day where a lot of the food we buy reduces in price for a quick sale.. passion fruit can be a pain to find, its not always there which really compliments fresh salmon, which most of the time is 1/2 or a 1/3rd off the price, but at full price its really expensive, we love the wild Atlantic salmon!0
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Since moving to New Zealand I have been shocked with some of the prices down here.
$12 for 1 kg (2.2 lbs) of tomatoes in the winter. Good luck with making salad.
$40 for 1 kg (2.2 lbs) of limes in the summer. Lime margaritas in the sun? LOL.
Yet I can't complain about the prices of avocados because they're dirt cheap compared to Canada!0 -
noexcusesjustresults2014 wrote: »Nobody in the USA should ever complain about food prices. We are spoiled here. In fact I wish prices on certain things were much higher (because we should be cancelling certain food subsidies which keep prices artificially low).
Food in Canada is overall more expensive than in the States, but I still agree with this statement. After living in both Korea and New Zealand, I took prices in North America for granted. Quality of life and food in NZ is much better, but ouch does it ever hurt your wallet.0 -
3 pomegranates came to $12.00 the other night. I also LOVE greens like swiss chard and spinach... but I find I am looking at $4 just to have a meal with it.0
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SO TRUE!! I love when they are on sale like 2 for $5 or $2 per container. I recently got a bunch of frozen berries on sale for $3 a bag and put a cup of them in my 0% plain greek yogurt and leave it over night and eat it at work the next morning. DELICIOUS!!!walking_the_labyrinth wrote: »Fresh raspberries and blackberries. $5 for the world's tiniest container that I could easily eat in a sitting.
PS: GREEK YOGURT! It is $6-$7 for a large container. UGH!
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I try not to think about it and focus on building a bigger garden each year. Last yer was our first year in a new home, but I was able to can tomato sauce, and zucchini, as well as storing onions and garlic, and all the blackberries I could want.
I guess the price of organic food is scary to me. I used to eat all organics, but now I don't feel I can afford it.0 -
I have to second the grapes, I can't wait until they come into season.
I also find Siggi's yogurt expensive, but it's my favorite kind, so I tolerate the price.
QuestBars, mozzarella sticks (is anyone else paying $4 a bag?), and Weight Watchers brand bread.0 -
Grass-fed does not mean antibiotic-free.
In fact, grass-fed doesn't even preclude finishing the animal in a conventional feed lot.
I think you are wrong here. It does not mean no antibiotics, but I'm pretty sure grass fed on the label (in the US) means the cattle can only be fed mother's milk and forage during their lifetime. The forage can be from grazing or from hay or other stored forage, but it could not include corn, which is used in a convential feed lot.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&rightNav1=GrassFedMarketingClaimStandards&topNav=&leftNav=GradingCertificationandVerfication&page=GrassFedMarketingClaims&resultType=0 -
I'm gluten intolerant and a loaf of bread for me is $6.49!!!! And seriously, it is the smallest loaf ever! Pretty much any grain products (crackers, cereal, pasta etc) I'm paying 3-4 times more. Needless to say, all these things are rarities in my daily diet.
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I bought multi-grain bread and it ended up being something like $4.99 opposed to you're run of the mill white bread for $.79! Avocados can get pricey. I bought frozen fruit yesterday that wasn't even name brand, and it was $5 EACH BAG!!! Come on now!
All seafood and fish is pricey... I always want to get real, fresh salmon but never can afford it. Have bought frozen before and they usually taste bad and are still expensive anyway. Soy milk is more expensive by a long-shot than regular milk... but I just bought some in a box yesterday that wasn't in the fridge aisle and it was much cheaper. Any ground beef, ground chicken, chicken anything really... I just can't handle the meat aisle anymore because all the healthier options (turkey bacon, ground turkey, etc) are SO much more than everything else.0 -
Sorry, the era of the auroch is over, not relevant.
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.
There is a significant difference between grass fed and grain fed if you're talking fat content. There is further difference if you talk industrial vs small producer.
Your thoughts about pastures make me think you are an urbanite.
I raise free range (really free range) heritage breed pigs. "Friends and family" use and supply a very small number of premium restaurants in the area. Make the best bacon within...a wide radius. Expanding into wider range of charcuterie this fall.
The nutritional differences are not significant - sorry.
If you don't think fat/lean mix is a nutritional difference, then that's a matter of your beliefs being held over reality.
Good luck with the charcuterie, I got into that about a dime back, and make the best stuff in my local region with the stuff I get from a local farmer. Fun hobby.0 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
Grass-fed does not mean antibiotic-free.
In fact, grass-fed doesn't even preclude finishing the animal in a conventional feed lot.
I think you are wrong here. It does not mean no antibiotics, but I'm pretty sure grass fed on the label (in the US) means the cattle can only be fed mother's milk and forage during their lifetime. The forage can be from grazing or from hay or other stored forage, but it could not include corn, which is used in a convential feed lot.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&rightNav1=GrassFedMarketingClaimStandards&topNav=&leftNav=GradingCertificationandVerfication&page=GrassFedMarketingClaims&resultType=
In general, he's usually wrong. He is right about the antibiotics though.
All cattle is grass fed. Occasionally they may need antibiotics, but if they aren't grain finished in a feed lot, the needed antibiotic load for health will be significantly lower.
Grass fed (and finished) cattle are pastured, and never sent to an industrial feed lot. You are basically correct with your statement about what they can eat, etc. They can eat corn though, just not like in a feed lot.
What's nice about that is that basically instead of being sent to a feed lot, they just get a bolt in the head and on to processing. What's sad is when people spend $15 a pound for grass fed ground beef, which I saw recently in San Francisco.0 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »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.
I just hope for the best haha. There is a huge community of Mennonite farmers in my province and they tend to stick to pretty traditional practices. I either buy directly or through a supplier I trust (they show me videos of the chickens and they look happy). There is of course an element of trust, nothing in life can be 100% certain. The whites are also thicker, the yolks are bright orange, they taste different than supermarket eggs. Even if I'm being conned about the chickens being able to eat bugs, they are a much higher quality product and not from a factory farm.
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meat and produce in particular but also cheese and anything that is geared towards a low carb diet like low carb tortillas0
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what does a happy chicken look like?0
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Generally all fresh produce. I'm vegetarian and shop almost exclusively in this section. I can easily drop $75 a week for 1 PERSON while maintaining a HEALTHY vegetarian lifestyle. It's absurd. It makes me so mad when I go to check out and see the person buying mac and cheese, pizza, chips, soda, etc paying a fraction what I'm paying.
Oh and goat cheese or feta cheese. You want 8.99 for 4 oz of goat cheese?!0
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