Next food run???
 

OK, rice is now much more expensive because of a "RUN". Most of us here have already stocked up so we are not hurt.

Soooo where is the next "smart" buying oportunity before it "runs" too???

I vote "Pinto beans". Right now at Walley World they are 5.92 per 8 lb bag

That's .74/lb. I don't have the Costco price in 50lb bags. Sam's doesn't carry it at my store anyway!

sb

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Sam's used to have 25# bags of popcorn reasonably cheap (I haven't checked recently). If you have a grain grinder, popcorn makes great cornmeal...

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i'd be worried if pasta went on the shortage list

pasta is easy storage (when in a dry place)
pasta is easy to prepare
pasta is still relatively cheap(?)

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Just picked up 50# bag of popcorn at SAM's...It was $16 and change before tax... around 35 cents a pound... I hadn't thought about the cornmeal..
Thanks!

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cooking oil is next.
then wheat,
then sugar.
then the bees die, and then the elections are decided by television producers.....
Hilary Obamacain becomes prez.........and we are screwed.

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I bought a 25lb bag of pinto beans at Costco 2 weeks ago. It was $14.00.

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My Sam's seemed fairly well stocked. There were several pallets of 50lbs Rice bags throughout the store (probably 7,500lbs to 10,000lbs on hand). About $18.00 for 50lbs and approximately $11.00 for 25lbs. They are limiting purchases to 200lbs per trip which in my opinion is hardly rationing.

Of course this could all change over night.

Dave

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Yeah 200#'s of rice is a lot... I kinda doubt I've eaten that much rice in the last 20 years!! :shocked_ma:

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There is no food shortage now and there never has been in modern history.

We, as a species, produce more than enough food globally to feed everyone.

The problem is the cost.

Over one billion people live on less than $1 per day. That doesn't buy much food, considering that overall food prices have risen 83% in the last four years.

As someone else said, it is a DIRECT result of federal reserve note inflation.

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+1

This is a EFFECT not a CAUSE.... and this will continue as people move from DOLLARS into TANGIBLES.

Astute observation my good man.


T

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Oops,I just posted some Winco prices on another thread....Yeah,bean prices are crazy.

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this stands as the best advice you may ever find:
"move from DOLLARS into TANGIBLES"
Just do it.

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Ummmm I luv tangelos :D.....I know , that was sad.

I checked Smart & final 2 days in a row, looks like they are rationing out the rice. AmforPm as got me started on the converted rice , picked up 50 #s .... I have plenty of plain white, jasmine , basmanti and brown rice, the wife has been giving me hell for over prepping not real bad mind you but all the rice is pizzen her off cuz she doesn't like it....I told her if she got hungry enough she would, then I told her she could trade for something else that suits her appetite.

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I over heard two conversations at the Hospital yesterday where food shortages and rice restrictions at Sams and Costco were being discussed. The price of gas was also a hot topic all over the hospital. People are beginning to wake up.

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Was doing my regular shopping yesterday at three different stores, Walmart, Publix and Albertson's. I just listened to the others in each checkout line and the conversations were all the same about rice shortages, high gas prices and fear of the next few months. I was really shocked at how many were discussing what we have been talking about all along. The 20 # bags of rice were still on the shelves at all stores though you could see that half the stock was gone. Walmart is out of 9mm ammo by the way, usually they have tons of it.

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I would love to do a poll and see how much rice the people on GIM have bought from Sams and Costco in the last few months. I was wondering if we were responsible for the rice shortage.:bear_w00t:

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Beans are good to stock up on. I think that any cheap alternative is going to show a big demand increase as people continue to get squeezed on their budgets.

Also starting to put away some pasta.

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not hurt, stocked up? we are all going to run out of preps at some point, preps just delay the inevitable. If famine hits, we have a few more weeks or months unless you are like some here that can live off the land.

I am feeling tremendous pressure with 4 kids now. I keep thinking of them crying to me " Dad, we are hungry" and there is nothing left and the stores are all boarded up and empty. The only place to get food by design is fema camps. What better way to get people into camps than to starve them and tell them a hot meal awaits at the camp

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We are not changing how we stock the larder. The time to run out and load up is NOT when everybody else is doing it.

Remember: SELL HIGH buy low.

Dollar cost average your preps along with your PMs.

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This was actually the gist of my question. Rice is high right now. It might come back down a little. But there are other things out there that are still a good buy. I gave an example, "Pinto beans" . While the "run" on rice has caused it to double and nations around the world to protect themselves, the little pinto bean's price has barely budged.

It's easy to pinpoint things that have skyrocketed after the fact

So back to my question. What is still a good buy that will soon "run", before TSHTF occurs(everything will "run" then).

sb

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Pasta is high on my list too......I can grow the beef and tomatoes for spaghetti, but the pasta is easier to buy.

Pinto beans were 10lbs for 5.79 at Sams last time I bought them about a month ago. I left with 100lbs.

The beans and rice I'm storing now are for extended family and charity later.

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Hello Andy,
Wife visited an oriental market today.
She noticed that the pasta there, packed in a 5 lb cube,
was 25% cheaper than the regular stores she frequents.
Not quite as cheap as RandyMatt and Agnut find it sometimes,
but real close.
We already have some buckets from Walton, but we have
started buying some more on every trip to bucket ourselves.
Regards, Haystack

Wake up and smell the
 

COFFEE! I have several bags of whole beans in the freezer from months ago, and also a can of ground. Especially if you drink it, but also for trade. How about chocolate? Cocoa powder (w/o sugar) or choc. chips, sugar etc... Nothing fancy (no Starbucks beans!). I figure that anything that trades futures contracts is a good bet.

OJ futures? Do oranges grow in your parts? Plant whatever does, then.

Edit: Definitely oil & pintos, too. Buying bulk really saves! Oats?