That’s why I made it plural. You’ll know when they’re all dead and you can go through all their shit, right?
But if I go to all the effort and they turn out to be poor planners I'll be disappointed. And possibly hungry depending on timing.
Having all your neighbors’ stuff, regardless of how they plan, is still more stuff for you. Also, eat your neighbors.
I make sauce in 8 quart batches. I'm due to make another batch in a few days. But since it does not require wheat, I felt no sense of panic getting it done.
I read about the wheat thing recently. I have some ideas of what might happen but it's better to be safe than sorry. I just about got through all my early pandemic flour so I went ahead and got about 25lbs of flour and a 10 lb sack of sugar for good measure. Plus some pasta and some frozen veggies. With the prices soaring every grocery trip, might as well lock in my price now for stuff I can store and use gradually.
Aside from that period where we all got really into bread making, are people really using flour at a high rate? I can't even remember the last time I used flour.
I kind of go in spurts. I do make bread but also a lot of pizza dough. I also have to maintain a sourdough starter. I just woke it up from the fridge recently. I baked my kids bday cake as well. Ice cream cake, deeelicious
Same. I make pizza dough somewhat frequently and have been experimenting different types of bread recipes. I transferred custody of my sourdough starter to my mom. She’s retired so she can feed it to make the bread babies.
They just approved up to 15% ethanol in fuel, up from 10%.. Which is not recommended to be run in things like boats, mowers, motorcycle, and other power equipment. The coast guard actually issued a statement telling people to not buy it for there boats. But the engines in automobiles are so wildly different that it is ok for them. When it is cheap, there is usually no ethanol in the gasoline, even though the pumps still say it may contain up to 10%. The pumps may still say 10%, you really don't what you're getting, anywhere from 0% to 15%, now
Costco provides a nutrition complete package of canned and dried food for a very reasonable price at the one, two, and three year levels. You just need to have a place to put a pallet.
Fucking LOL if you think people who can't afford basic wheat products can just "settle" for meat and poultry. Keto at the societal level means there's enough game to go around because everybody else starved to death.
People are technically meat and there seems to be quite an over abundance of those. I mean, if we're going to go full on societal collapse scenario, cannibalism is most certainly going to be on the menu.
Yeah the meat prices are just rocketing lately. I remember within the last 5 years, I was able to get the jumbo packs of chicken breasts for 1.29, on sale regularly for .99/lb. We moved here, it was regularly 1.99/lb and sales were infrequent. Then with all this inflation hitting the meats, it's up to 4.60something a lb with an average price per tray of $17 and is constantly sold out. My walmart app says the last time I bought chicken was in January. Sounds about right. I just looked, and it now says it is $1.88 a lb?? I don't know what the fuck is going on but I'm about to make a grocery pickup for just chicken and throw that shit in my freezer. We mostly eat ground turkey, which is also way up in price, with a little chicken thrown in. Occasionally I'll get a whole chicken on sale and cook it down for a ton of meals. Bacon is a rare treat, and we simply can't afford to eat most red meats, unless I'm happening upon a sale or markdown. (or a coworker leaves town and gifts us red meats.)
Chicken prices have risen like crazy for multiple reasons. You have inflation that's run up the price of everything. Then you had some supply issues due to one of the major suppliers trying to switch to a different breed of roosters. They turned out to be less efficient at fertilizing the eggs so less chicks were hatched. Lastly bird flu has hit this year causing flocks to be culled in an attempt to stop its spread.
This is info I was not aware of. That being said... The price marked on my meat trays was 2.96/lb. It was not marked for sale, and the app had it listed as the regular price, not a markdown. Somebody must have goofed up. Oh well, we have chicken for the next year.
Bone in chicken breasts are around 2.69/lb. here. Boneless are 3.99/lb. This is in a state that is #3 in poultry production nationally.
If you have the freezer space for it, look for local beef cattle farms that sell quarter/half a cow. It's a higher upfront cost, but significantly cheaper in the long run.