Food Shortage & Price Explosion Thread

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Tomatoes are so easy to grow there is really no reason to ever buy them from a grocery store..

I picked up my 1/2 beef the other day. Worked out to 265 lbs in the freezer for 2300. About 8.70 a lb. Expensive for ground beef but cheap for most other cuts. My guess is if I went to the grocery store I could save roughly 500 bucks over buying it from the local farmer but where does grocery store beef come from? How many different animals are you buying you went in and bought up 100 lbs of ground beef and 30 lbs of roasts ect. In my life I have pissed away far more than 500 bucks on far worse things than supporting my local farmer so I'm ok with the price.

Costco seems to be coming down on beef prices. Been seeing prime rib eye for 12.99 if you buy it whole and cut it yourself.

I have found with my diabetes that if I eat the protein 1st I can have some carbs afterwards. The portion slows the uptake of the carbs and I dont get a huge spike like I would if I just ate a bowl of rice. Lets;y I have been eating baked sweet potato as a snack. Just butter when it's finished. my BS jumps to around 220-230 but only for a very short time and it comes right back down. Not sure why.
 
A Michael B opinion piece. As usual, dyodd.

Grocery Prices Are About to Push MILLIONS Over the Edge​

May 14, 2026
Michael Bordenaro examines how surging fuel and transportation costs are fundamentally reshaping the economy and driving up grocery bills nationwide. By analyzing recent inflation data and market trends, the discussion explores why these structural challenges impact supply chains and consumer affordability far more than current reports often suggest.

25:19

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Cigarlover said:
huge spike like I would if I just ate a bowl of rice.
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You'd be better off eating a bowl of ice cream instead of rice. Especially white rice.

I say that just having gotten done eating some white rice with terriaki chicken.
......but I'm not diabetic. It'll spike mine to about 150, then head right back down.
 
searcher said:
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Yep, I have seen it. A few weeks ago, I snagged a brisket marked down to $3.50 It was fatty, but no problem. I ground up some for burger and used the rest for stew. Next time at Walmart, no deals.

Now that ground beef is around $5, I am looking at every chance to just buy better cuts and grind them up myself.

EDIT: Every time I visit WM, I check for their "value" burgers with heart meat. It is hit and miss, but last time I got two boxes (5 pounds, 20 burgers) for $12 each. Can't beat $2.40 a pound for decent meat that does not shrink as much as their usual hamburger.
 
Someone_else said:
Yep, I have seen it. A few weeks ago, I snagged a brisket marked down to $3.50 It was fatty, but no problem.
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The fat ones are the best ones.


Someone_else said:
. I ground up some for burger and used the rest for stew. Next time at Walmart, no deals.
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OMG! You ruined it!



Seriously though, next time smoke that thing.

Especially if it's a fat one. Do it right and you'll never wanna grind one up again. Lol
 
  • Americans will pay more for everything from gas to meat for the barbecue heading into Memorial Day weekend.
  • Prices for travel, recreation and food saw sharp increases, giving consumers headaches as the summer unofficially kicks off.

Americans are feeling inflation's pinch into the holiday weekend. Here's where prices are rising the most

Prices related to travel, recreation and food saw particularly steep increases, stretching Americans' wallets as they celebrate the unofficial start of summer.
www.cnbc.com
 

McDonald’s and Walmart Issue STARK WARNING To U.S. Economy​

Jun 4, 2026
Michael Bordenaro examines how rising operational costs and shifting consumer spending habits are affecting major retailers. By analyzing recent corporate statements and workforce adjustments at these industry giants, the discussion highlights broader economic trends impacting low-income households and overall market stability.

12:36
 
The Fallen Arches are a frivolity of our Age of Plenty. Now about to be gone.

Wally World can only exist in a high-trust environment. Which is why Wally Worlds only exist in Suburbia. Areas where the 'hood crept out to envelope a Wally World, is where you find a closed former Wally World. And Wally World depends on motivated, competent management - something they once had but no more. You can credit DEI for that advancement - and Woke board members, now that Old Sam is dead.

Yes, food prices are going up. As if we didn't WATCH...the scheissekopfs WORK to SCARCIFY meat and vegetables, lo these last six years! Did we not just watch the Elites try to extinct meat chickens, for the love of God?

They're having better luck taking away grazing land and fertilizer, from ranchers and farmers.
 

Egg producers will pay $3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price fixing claims​

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department and 17 states reached settlement agreements with three major egg producers this week to resolve allegations that the companies illegally colluded for years to raise prices, including when the cost soared to record highs last year.

The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs" between June 2022 and March 2025. In particular, their investigation found that the companies coordinated on what bids they would submit to Urner Barry Publications, a company that runs an index key to determining how much grocery stores, restaurants and others pay for billions of eggs each year.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...ce-fixing-claims/ar-AA26Up9k?ocid=socialshare
 

Trump calls Walmart ‘patriotic’ for cutting beef prices — in a stark change of tune​

President Donald Trump on Monday said Walmart would cut prices for ground beef and other items, saying the move was made in response to a “request” from his administration and calling the retailer “patriotic” for doing so.

A separate price-cut announcement from the big-box chain on Monday did not mention the government. The prices announced in that release went into effect last week, a company representative said.

“I have just been informed that one of the biggest, best, and smartest Retailers in America, Walmart, will be lowering prices, by a lot, at my Administration’s request to celebrate our great Country’s 250th birthday, Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...k-change-of-tune/ar-AA27lV3b?ocid=socialshare
 
And prices will go up in other parts of the store...
 
Yak Motley

"Grocery Prices Are BREAKING Americans: Millions Had ENOUGH and Are Tapping Out"​

Jul 7, 2026
The cost of living just keeps getting worse! Here is what they are not talking about with grocery prices and basic necessities of life! What do you think?
Current Focus: working on your car, Walmart, Food costs, inflation, debt traps, real estate risks, government overreach, and how regular people are getting squeezed in 2026.

24:50
 
Unh… anybody here havin a hard time putting food on the table?
I ain't havin a problem.
Costs a bit moar, but that's been going on as long as I been buyin groceries.
 
Well, it cuts down on my gold and silver buying, but I'm a cheapskate by nature so I don't suffer like the poor people with children...
 
Bottom Feeder said:
Unh… anybody here havin a hard time putting food on the table?
I ain't havin a problem.
Costs a bit moar, but that's been going on as long as I been buyin groceries.
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Not yet, but there's a trend.

I'm on fixed income. Meantime my rent went up 30 percent from 2022; my electric bill likewise...$20 a month to $29 and change.

Insurance on the car increased 50 percent.

Groceries roughly doubled.

But, fear not...we have a one-point-nine-percent COLA in your RRB...

I had a lot of cushion, seven years ago when I retired.

Now I have a little cushion.

Soon, if the trend keeps up (and it will) I'll have to start dipping into my stacks to pay for stuff.

Already I'm doing without A/C....because the cost isn't worth it. Moar to come.
 
Driving the Prius C almost exclusively, 55mpg takes the sting out of gas prices.
 
Fatrat said:
Driving the Prius C almost exclusively, 55mpg takes the sting out of gas prices.
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True.

But you still see it, in the food cost, retail price of widgets in Wally World. Because fuel, oil, is baked into EVERYTHING. From cost of taking Uber to wages (when someone spends half their money getting to work, they won't work; so we have $25/hour labor now, instead of $2.35/hour).

AND...the cost of replacement.

Priuii are reliable. But they do had a finite life, and replacing one is gonna COSSSTTTT.... Especially now that their advantages are appreciated.

AND they are complex. They cost bigly even when cars were priced reasonably...IIRC, about double what a Corolla cost, back in the mid-00s when they came out. Now, look at the prices of both. PLUS the new ones are even MOAR complex, with stupid turbocharging, ten-speed transmissions, cameras, detectors, the CAN-buss...all that crap, most of which is to enrich dealers and satisfy goobermint busybodies.

So, what you have is a temporary stopgap solution.

The REAL solution is to again legalize inexpensive, efficient, light cars that were outlawed by the Brown Clown (or George W Potatohead) because of SAAAAFFFFfffeeettttyyyy..... Cars like the Suzuki Cultus, aka Geo Metro, aka Chevrolet Sprint.

Crapbox? It was. It also got 50 mpg. I had three - they were perfect transportation appliances and actually kinda fun to drive (with a manual gearbox) I bought them cheap and ran them into the scrapyard. One blew a motor, when the EGR valve stuck...the other had a frame break from rust. The third, I sold for less than it was worth, as I was looking at a move...not knowing how such a car would become extinct, thanks to GOOBERMINT.

It was not a complex car. Changing an engine was a matter of two motor mounts, unbolting the transmission from the bell housing (transverse mount) and lifting all 255 pounds of aluminum. Cost me $800 in a shop after the EGR episode.

Now an engine change costs ten times that, twenty years later.

We need, desperately NEED...LESS GOOBERMINT. Let the people buy what they want; and let the safety cultists with their permanent Face Diapers, buy the $100k six-door pickups lifted so high they can run over construction equipment...let them satisfy THEIR fetish.

I know what the winning side would be. But we don't have that choice, so now the only choice left in a few years...is, walking.

Which is almost-certainly what they planned.
 
Meanwhile in England some peeps aren't too happy with the cost of ice cream.

 
searcher said:
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The vast majority of the increase happened in '21 '22 and '23.

Been some since then too, but nothing like the increases we saw then.
....but back then it was being downplayed as "transitional" and nothing to worry about. Lol

How soon so many forget.
 
Is Walsh still serving as a puppet for Benny Mossad Shapiro?

I'm ashamed to think that I actually took the Daily Yarmulke seriously for a time. But, the Truth will out, with time, and it's come to pass...
 
Rents are up due to increased demand, insurance up because when hasn't it always been going up?


Food though? I know beef is, but I haven't really seen too much prices rises lately in run-of-the-mill type of groceries.


Anyone got some good examples?
..... with the receipts, if possible.

During Biden's term I saw some prices almost double at the grocery store. I hadn't seen anything even close to that during Trump's second term.
......yet now it's a crisis, but then it was nothing to be worried about. Lol

Prices are higher than pre-covid of course, but in an inflationary monetary system, prices are almost always going up.
 
I'll tell ya when prices didn't really go up. All during Obama's terms.

They kept interest rates near zero for almost a decade in order to help him have better economic numbers.

That alone primed the inflation pump so that soon as a fraction of it made it into regular people's hand during covid, it became a gusher.
 
The Wiemar debasement of the German mark, started almost immediately after the Treaty of Versailles.

It was deliberate. Everyone knew, most of all the Germans, that there was NO WAY the German government could ever pay the stipulated War Reparations.

So, the German finance ministry said, fuggitt, and started printing.

It took SIX YEARS for all that fiat to drift into the marketplace economy. That's not abnormal. The recipients of seigniorage, back then, foreign governments, in Obombah's tenure, the Banksters...they get maximum benefit.

That fiat takes TIME to leak into general circulation. In Wiemar times, foreign nations presented that fiat for gold, or equities. In Hussein's times, the money was leaked into the Stawk Market - Glass-Steagall was conveniently repealed, and banks were again free to hold House equity accounts.

I don't expect you to remember, but I posited, four years ago at GIM2, that Trump would wind up holding the exploding cigar.

And it's come to pass - but unfortunately for him and us, he's taken no steps to mitigate or get the money-printing party under control. Nor has he tried to educate the public. He doesn't even see it AS a problem - he thinks the Dow Inflation (which is what the recordbreaking highs are) and similar recordbreaking real-estate prices...he thinks those are all GOOD.
 
The dif between them and us, is that the rest of the World still wants our printing.

At the time, no one outside Germany wanted their printing.


Casey Jones said:
It took SIX YEARS for all that fiat to drift into the marketplace economy. That's not abnormal.
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Exactly. That's why people are still feeling the coof inflation, but wrongly blaming it on Trump's current actions.



Casey Jones said:
I don't expect you to remember, but I posited, four years ago at GIM2, that Trump would wind up holding the exploding cigar.
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I do vaguely remember that, but it's prolly been more than 4 years ago.
GIM2 was already gone 4 years ago.

Time flies, huh?

Casey Jones said:
but unfortunately for him and us, he's taken no steps to mitigate or get the money-printing party under control.
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That's Congresses job imho.

Sure, he can veto the budget, but there's enough idiots in Congress to over ride a veto if it means they get to spend more.


Casey Jones said:
he thinks the Dow Inflation (which is what the recordbreaking highs are) and similar recordbreaking real-estate prices...he thinks those are all GOOD.
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Not sayin' it's right, but a lot of people do.

Let's face it. Business men (and women) are in it to make money.
 
Joe King said:
At the time, no one outside Germany wanted their printing.
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Britain and France and Italy wanted it.

War reparations.

It wasn't a Reserve Currency (obviously) but it could be used to buy gold. Or perhaps (I haven't looked) the Versailles treaty stipulated convertability into gold.

In any event, the printed fiat went from Berlin to other capitals, to Central Banks, to the bullion markets, and then leaked into private banks, and then, into loans. Took some time.
 
Casey Jones said:
Britain and France and Italy wanted it.

War reparations.
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The Treaty stipulated gold Marks, not paper Marks.

Germany didn't have the gold to pay, so they printed.


We print and the World can't get enough of it.

For now at least.
 
Casey Jones said:
I don't expect you to remember, but I posited, four years ago at GIM2, that Trump would wind up holding the exploding cigar.
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I'd like to expand on my respose to this.

Imho, your warning about that is why we need Trump's policies, as questionable as some might think they are, to actually work.

If shit blows up before that has a chance to happen, the dems will get back in and then it will be over because they will load the SC*, they will work to get rid of the Electoral College*, they will open the borders back up, they will do amnesty, and a whole lot more of the far left socialist agenda.

*heard Kackles talkin' about those two just the other day.


As bad as some see Trump as being, his stuff is head and shoulders above anything the dems are waiting to serve up to us.
 
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