I am basically going to consume grocery store sushi, high end protein, and craft beer right up to the point food riots start.
I'm just shifting more aggressively towards buying direct from producers and expanding the garden.
Nice. I currently do 90% of my shopping at a local farm market and butcher.
Feels good to avoid the large chain grocers.
I noticed over the winter as beef prices went up in the grocery stores, the price at my local butcher was going down. He told me his price per cow was going down, as there was a backlog at all the major processors. I can't verify any of that but my own anecdote is that you win by buying directly from the people doing the work.
We used to buy fish sometimes in my house. It's too fucking expensive now. I haven't eaten fish for months. Turkeys are expensive. We used to get a turkey every couple of weeks, but now we have one at Christmas.
What we've noticed (my wife and I) is that not only is food more expensive, the quality has gone down. The cuts of beef have more gristle and are tougher. The lettice and celery is wilted, the onions go rotten faster, and so on. I think it's because people are buying what they can get, so the stores don't need to keep up their quality.
So far I haven't had to change any behaviors due to inflation.
5 dollars for a pale, small, beefsteak tomato.
Hell no. Living well is the best revenge.
No but I am canning meat instead of freezing until I get a stock pile of both. I can see the power grid being unstable in the near future. No big deal if I’m wrong. Also plenty of farmers to source from in the rusty bible belt..
Not yet.
yeah, all of the self service discounts have really increased the quality of my regular shop, there are some people that just have no idea how the system works, then there are the people that have such a firm grasp of it they walk out with half the fucken store for the price of a small basket of stuff LMAO
Been eating more pork since it is the cheapest ATM.
Pork steak is delicious if you marinate it first.
I've been buying more pork and chicken as well. Used to be all beef. Both are too lean and have to be eaten either together with carbs (which convert to fat) or added fat.
I'm gonna try making butter chicken.
You can do a lot with pork shoulder, that has a nice amount of fat.
Are you making that chicken from the Townsend YouTube channel that has to be boiled in a pound of butter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Biy5776ec
I'll check it out.
I just eat 15% less and drive 30% fewer miles per week. You want more productivity from me I expect a 30% raise, or you get 30% less from me.
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