Food Prices

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2008
Food Prices
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Mon, 11-03-2008 - 9:09pm
Will they go down? I'm going to have to live off rice now.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 9:10pm
Really?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 9:29pm

Please, if you don't have enough money to afford groceries, find a food pantry or apply for food stamps. There's no reason to go hungry or live off rice alone.

Hopefully, with gas prices down and some air out of the biofuels bubble, other food costs will also drop. We're past grain harvest season for the most part and some farmers probably took advantage of the high commodity prices to sell earlier but others will have gambled on rising prices continuing. They'll eventually have to put their products on the market and their loss will be consumers' and processors' gain.

Gettingahandle


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Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2008
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 9:55pm
And I think rice has gone up also. I normally shop at a Super Walmart and even they have gone up. Now their prices are going up and down (same products) all the time. I don't understand it. Do you remember several years ago where they made this big deal that cereal prices were going to go down because they all thought that $4 was too much for a box of cereal? Well, I never saw any kind of reduction there. I clip coupons, try to make sure that I don't buy anything that won't be eaten, try to buy what's on sale but it still is expensive. I hope the food does go down, everyone has to eat!
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 10:08pm

I totally agree there is a wonderful program, I really hope it is in your state

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 10:10pm
Can we state what states we are in because on the cereal thing, I just had a super cereal bargain at my store 2 bucks a big box on general mills cereal. I don't want to sound snotty because I felt better this week but perhaps things aren't adjusting all over?
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-23-2002
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 10:14pm

Chicken has gone way up here in Northern Virginia. And so did cereal.



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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2008
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 10:39pm
I'm in FL and you don't sound snotty at all...sometimes you can catch a good bargin! This cereal thing was about 5 years ago when I was in Mass. I remember it because it never happened!! I remember reading it in the newspaper but...nothing!
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-02-2008
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 10:44pm
oh thanks sometimes I think we can all help each other and if we are in the same area catch some of the good deals.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 10:44pm

There's a program in Kansas called Heartland Share which makes a wide variety of fresh, canned, packaged and frozen groceries available to low-income individuals/households in exchange for a nominal price and some volunteer participation. The church my father belongs to helps facilitate the program and he's one of the coordinators.

In any event, just subsisting on white rice for long periods of time is not healthy. Can lead to the thiamine deficiency disease of beri-beri.

Gettingahandle


Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.


Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.

Gettingahandle

Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2008
In reply to: hillaryt1123
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 10:48pm
I don't eat them but I haven't heard anything so no news is good news. Last year I remember reading about the canker on the crops which is not good. The tomatoes are pretty good down here (strawberries, too)

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