Groceries are going insane

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

SureOP, sure. Butter, flour and sugar will run you $15 max- all pantry staples. No fruit is in season except strawberries, and those are not costing you $20.

Butter: $8.50
Flour: $8.79
Sugar: $5.99
Berries: $7.50

Add tax. $35.

Go back to your expired food section in the lowest of the low store, Carol. I bet you buy flour with weevils in it, then brag about how thrifty of a shopper you are, lol.

Safeway:

Butter: $4.39 for a box
Flour: $3.49 for 5 lbs
Sugar $4.79 for 4 lbs
2 lbs strawberries: $3.99 (online Safeway coupon)

Total: $16.66

NP. People still clip coupons? Interesting, I used to do that as a young girl with my grandmother.

It’s called an app grandma.

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yes, if you log onto safeway.com, go to safeway for U, there's tons of online coupons you can add to your loyalty card. And free grocery money rewards. I check it every time before shopping.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

SureOP, sure. Butter, flour and sugar will run you $15 max- all pantry staples. No fruit is in season except strawberries, and those are not costing you $20.

Butter: $8.50
Flour: $8.79
Sugar: $5.99
Berries: $7.50

Add tax. $35.

Go back to your expired food section in the lowest of the low store, Carol. I bet you buy flour with weevils in it, then brag about how thrifty of a shopper you are, lol.

I buy 50 lb for $20 then store it in the freezer like a normal person. I don’t waste $9 for 5-10 lb flour, Susan.

Normal people do not buy 50 pounds of flour and store it in the freezer.

+1 nobody non-commercial has that kind of space. And commercial would be using the flour up quickly.

I don’t live in a DC shoebox, plenty of room for a few pounds of flour.

Keep up. This whole thing has to go in your freezer.

You put it into 1-2 gallon freezer bags and lay flat in a chest freezer. 25 pounds is about 5 bags, maybe 6-7 if you don’t want to fill all the way. It doesn’t take up that much room. If you don’t have a freezer you can store in an airtight plastic bin.

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Anonymous wrote:I take a great deal of comfort in knowing that the people insulting "mormons and preppers" and "obese people" for having... flour... are not likely to survive any sort of extended emergency or crisis, especially since we're likely to face at least one if not several of them in the not-so-distant future.

The anti-science, anti-preparedness trolls will be the first to go, and good riddance!

Why so trigger? Enjoy your flour if you love it so much.

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Anonymous wrote:I take a great deal of comfort in knowing that the people insulting "mormons and preppers" and "obese people" for having... flour... are not likely to survive any sort of extended emergency or crisis, especially since we're likely to face at least one if not several of them in the not-so-distant future.

The anti-science, anti-preparedness trolls will be the first to go, and good riddance!

Why so trigger? Enjoy your flour if you love it so much.

Your troll skills could use improvement. Try an actual response next time. Keep it up kid, you’ll get there!

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Why pay $20 including shipping for 5 lbs of store flour that's not very good when i can pay $35 for 25 or 50 pounds of amazing flour with airy open french style crumbs? And freeze the extra in mylar bags of course.

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Things I’ve learned lately and I’m getting great savings compared to shopping randomly.

1. Get the store apps. They give you extra coupons for things not on sale. The also will have bonuses like “$10 off groceries today”.
2. Lidl. For some reason I find Aldi gross, but I get great prices at Lidl. They don’t always have everything I want but I can get out of there with a ton of things for $50-60.
3. Amazon Fresh. I went to the store in person and I was shocked. I had just done a shop at WF the day before and I found the same items for less. The prices there are the prices you wait for at the other stores’ sales. Some really random things are dirt cheap. I told my parents about it and they went over, and my mom said she kept asking the people in the store if the price marked was correct.

And the $8.99 butter person is crazy. I pay way less than that, even at WF.

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Anonymous wrote:Why pay $20 including shipping for 5 lbs of store flour that's not very good when i can pay $35 for 25 or 50 pounds of amazing flour with airy open french style crumbs? And freeze the extra in mylar bags of course.

OMG, who in their right mind is paying $20 for 5 lbs of flour?

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Anonymous wrote:Why pay $20 including shipping for 5 lbs of store flour that's not very good when i can pay $35 for 25 or 50 pounds of amazing flour with airy open french style crumbs? And freeze the extra in mylar bags of course.

OMG, who in their right mind is paying $20 for 5 lbs of flour?

That’s actually a good price for organic, non-GMO, free range, cruelty free flour.

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Anonymous wrote:Why pay $20 including shipping for 5 lbs of store flour that's not very good when i can pay $35 for 25 or 50 pounds of amazing flour with airy open french style crumbs? And freeze the extra in mylar bags of course.

OMG, who in their right mind is paying $20 for 5 lbs of flour?

It's $10 at big box grocery store for the best bread flour they offer, which isnt super.

Or I can pay $10 + $10 shipping for better 5 lbs of bread flour.

Or, I can pay $50 total for 50 lbs of the best bread flour (that's not organic) and store most of it in mylar in the freezer and iron bags closed at top - https://www.bakersauthority.com/products/king-arthur-flour-sir-galahad-artisan-flour

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Anonymous wrote:Why pay $20 including shipping for 5 lbs of store flour that's not very good when i can pay $35 for 25 or 50 pounds of amazing flour with airy open french style crumbs? And freeze the extra in mylar bags of course.

Even King Arthur flour is not $20/5lbs and off brand is even lower cost. False comparison.

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I don't know anyone who eats that much flour.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know anyone who eats that much flour.

You sound like someone that can’t cook.

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Say thank you to MAGA

In a few months there will be no fruit, potatoes, soy,

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. 1000% OP.

This economy is a disaster.

I've been buying ingredients to make a pie for a Memorial Day cookout. I sh*t you not, I've spent over $35 to buy flour, butter, sugar, and the fruit going into it. INSANE.

SureOP, sure. Butter, flour and sugar will run you $15 max- all pantry staples. No fruit is in season except strawberries, and those are not costing you $20.

Butter: $8.50
Flour: $8.79
Sugar: $5.99
Berries: $7.50

Add tax. $35.

Go back to your expired food section in the lowest of the low store, Carol. I bet you buy flour with weevils in it, then brag about how thrifty of a shopper you are, lol.

I buy 50 lb for $20 then store it in the freezer like a normal person. I don’t waste $9 for 5-10 lb flour, Susan.

Normal people do not buy 50 pounds of flour and store it in the freezer.

+1 nobody non-commercial has that kind of space. And commercial would be using the flour up quickly.

I don’t live in a DC shoebox, plenty of room for a few pounds of flour.

My mom bought flour in 50 lb bags, but that was when she was a stay at home mom who made homemade bread and buns for a family with 5 kids every week.

But 50 lb kept in the freezer makes sense if you have the freezer space and aren't going through it quickly. That prevents mealworm eggs (there's always going be be a few in there) from hatching (might actually kill them).

My parents' neighbor who was an avid veg gardener kept his carrots in buckets of sand over winter.