Groceries are going insane

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Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

If I don't use very many onions, that just means that I will end up throwing out rottens ones. Is that preferable?

Be like a normal person and plan your meals around the ingredients on sale, and plan to use up the cheaper options. Plus a bag of onions lasts like 2 months.

No one feels sorry for anyone complaining about the price of pomegranates and dragonfruit! Some of you are SO out of touch. Food prices for staples are the same as pre-Biden now. If you want expensive, out of season, organic stuff, you pay more and no one feels sorry for you.

That is simply not true.

BS.

A half gallon of half and half is 6 bucks.

It was $1.50 when Biden was president.

[Anonymous]

I took out a pack of frozen oxtails I had bought at Costco in June-$7.99 a pound. The same was $8.99 a pound at the store yesterday.

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It is only going to get worse.

Trump has destroyed our food supply.

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Interesting how the slightest conveniences during the Biden administration were blown out of proportion and the sky was falling. This man has literally put our country up for the highest bidder and we get comments akin to suck it up or it’s not so bad. The emperor is not only naked by screwing folks in the street.

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Hahaha!! That’s rich.

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Anonymous wrote:I shop in bulk and I shop from Costco and from ethnic markets.

The fact that I can cook from scratch, I can cook many different cuisines, and I am familiar with many different kinds of ingredients allows me a lot of flexibility. My friends comment on the veggies I buy from ethnic stores because they have never seen or tasted it, let alone cook it.

Shopping at various ethnic markets to save money is not realistic for working parents with kids.

That depends entirely on where you live.

Fairfax has an H-Mart, 99 Ranch, and India Bazaar all within like 5 minutes of each other. Wheaton has an H-Mart, a Vietnamese grocery, and countless smaller Hispanic stores all next to each other. Rockville and Gaithersburg both has many ethnic supermarkets.

In fact I'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of neighborhoods in the area where you don't have at least one ethnic supermarket, mainly the whitest of white bread suburbs so I guess it's unsurprising that DCUM believes nobody lives near one.

Please tell me where the ethnic supermarkets are within DC.

You’re not missing much. H-Mart and Lotte now cost as much if not more than regular grocery stores.

Yeah, I live near an HMart and the selection is great, but Aldi is still cheaper for comparable items.

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I only buy organic oil/meat/produce/dairy/eggs so I haven't noticed. It's always expensive to eat well but worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how the slightest conveniences during the Biden administration were blown out of proportion and the sky was falling. This man has literally put our country up for the highest bidder and we get comments akin to suck it up or it’s not so bad. The emperor is not only naked by screwing folks in the street.

There was a lot of food inflation during the Biden years. It wasn't slight inconvenience but genuinely real and quite high inflationary prices. Not Zimbabwean inflation but still noticeable. It was people like you who insisted it wasn't happening or it was only transitional or what was the big deal as you could afford it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

If I don't use very many onions, that just means that I will end up throwing out rottens ones. Is that preferable?

Be like a normal person and plan your meals around the ingredients on sale, and plan to use up the cheaper options. Plus a bag of onions lasts like 2 months.

No one feels sorry for anyone complaining about the price of pomegranates and dragonfruit! Some of you are SO out of touch. Food prices for staples are the same as pre-Biden now. If you want expensive, out of season, organic stuff, you pay more and no one feels sorry for you.

That is simply not true.

BS.

A half gallon of half and half is 6 bucks.

It was $1.50 when Biden was president.

It is not $6. Where are you buying your half and half??? Because unless you are buying it at a speciality store it is not $6. And it was literally never $1.50 for a half gallon of half and half.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

If I don't use very many onions, that just means that I will end up throwing out rottens ones. Is that preferable?

Be like a normal person and plan your meals around the ingredients on sale, and plan to use up the cheaper options. Plus a bag of onions lasts like 2 months.

No one feels sorry for anyone complaining about the price of pomegranates and dragonfruit! Some of you are SO out of touch. Food prices for staples are the same as pre-Biden now. If you want expensive, out of season, organic stuff, you pay more and no one feels sorry for you.

That is simply not true.

BS.

A half gallon of half and half is 6 bucks.

It was $1.50 when Biden was president.

It is not $6. Where are you buying your half and half??? Because unless you are buying it at a speciality store it is not $6. And it was literally never $1.50 for a half gallon of half and half.

It is more than $5 at Aldi or Weis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

If I don't use very many onions, that just means that I will end up throwing out rottens ones. Is that preferable?

Be like a normal person and plan your meals around the ingredients on sale, and plan to use up the cheaper options. Plus a bag of onions lasts like 2 months.

No one feels sorry for anyone complaining about the price of pomegranates and dragonfruit! Some of you are SO out of touch. Food prices for staples are the same as pre-Biden now. If you want expensive, out of season, organic stuff, you pay more and no one feels sorry for you.

That is simply not true.

BS.

A half gallon of half and half is 6 bucks.

It was $1.50 when Biden was president.

It is not $6. Where are you buying your half and half??? Because unless you are buying it at a speciality store it is not $6. And it was literally never $1.50 for a half gallon of half and half.

DP but where are *you* buying half and half that a half gallon is not $6? It's 5.49 for the store brand at Safeway if I have a personalized coupon.

It was not $1.50 under Biden, that's true. But it was around $4 on sale then; now it's never below $5.50.

[Anonymous]

I have never been one to pay super close attention to prices at the grocery store. But when we went yesterday I noticed that I had spent a lot more than I was spending a couple of years ago -- not quite twice as much, but almost.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how the slightest conveniences during the Biden administration were blown out of proportion and the sky was falling. This man has literally put our country up for the highest bidder and we get comments akin to suck it up or it’s not so bad. The emperor is not only naked by screwing folks in the street.

There was a lot of food inflation during the Biden years. It wasn't slight inconvenience but genuinely real and quite high inflationary prices. Not Zimbabwean inflation but still noticeable. It was people like you who insisted it wasn't happening or it was only transitional or what was the big deal as you could afford it.

I mean it was transitional — covid caused worldwide inflation but it had slowed. It was people like you that voted for the orange menace out of pique and now we have inflation by choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

If I don't use very many onions, that just means that I will end up throwing out rottens ones. Is that preferable?

Be like a normal person and plan your meals around the ingredients on sale, and plan to use up the cheaper options. Plus a bag of onions lasts like 2 months.

No one feels sorry for anyone complaining about the price of pomegranates and dragonfruit! Some of you are SO out of touch. Food prices for staples are the same as pre-Biden now. If you want expensive, out of season, organic stuff, you pay more and no one feels sorry for you.

That is simply not true.

BS.

A half gallon of half and half is 6 bucks.

It was $1.50 when Biden was president.

A half gallon of whole milk is $1.49 at Aldi, today.

https://www.aldi.us/product/friendly-farms-whole-milk-0-5-gal-0000000000001815

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Onions aren’t in season unless they’re spring onions- buy in season and freeze or put in your root cellar in some sand. Also don’t buy 3 individual onions buy 5-10 lb.

If I don't use very many onions, that just means that I will end up throwing out rottens ones. Is that preferable?

Be like a normal person and plan your meals around the ingredients on sale, and plan to use up the cheaper options. Plus a bag of onions lasts like 2 months.

No one feels sorry for anyone complaining about the price of pomegranates and dragonfruit! Some of you are SO out of touch. Food prices for staples are the same as pre-Biden now. If you want expensive, out of season, organic stuff, you pay more and no one feels sorry for you.

That is simply not true.

BS.

A half gallon of half and half is 6 bucks.

It was $1.50 when Biden was president.

A half gallon of whole milk is $1.49 at Aldi, today.

https://www.aldi.us/product/friendly-farms-whole-milk-0-5-gal-0000000000001815

How much is water? Because no one was talking about milk. Half and half is not milk.

Here: Aldi, a quart of half and half is $3. Half of a half gallon, and of the actual product under discussion, for those who are apparently having difficulty following the thread. So a half gallon being $6 is not refuted by your link whatsoever. https://www.aldi.us/product/friendly-farms-half-half-creamer-32-fl-oz-0000000000001134