Has your grocery shopping changed with rising prices?

[Stewie]

We know food prices are rising fast. Have you changed what/where you buy?

Have you moved from beef to pork to chicken?

Do you substitute items that you used to buy for something else?

Just curious, Stewie

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Stewie

We did the big grocery shop today. Man, some items have gone way up. We hit the sales, but sale prices are the old regular prices. The only thing that seems semi stable are fresh veggies and some fruit.

Not here. Produce has moved up substantially and meat is quite a bit off the highs.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Not here. Produce has moved up substantially and meat is quite a bit off the highs.

Interesting. There are stores selling meat cheap but it has to be a loss-leader for the Easter holiday.

Veggies are still stable here. 2 lbs. carrots for $1. 2.99 for 10 lbs of potatoes. 99c/lb for romas, lettuce is the same depending on your preference.

It might have to do with the huge inter-modal just SW of KC. Food from everywhere east of the Rockies move through there via train.

[displacedinMN]

didnt know where to put this. Could ( will) affect prices

OMAHA, Neb. — A major fertilizer company says the limits Union Pacific is putting on rail traffic to clear up congestion will delay shipments that farmers need during the spring planting season.

CF Industries said Thursday that the railroad ordered it to cut its shipments nearly 20%. Union Pacific has said it is limiting rail traffic and hiring aggressively as part of a plan to improve service after grain and ethanol shippers complained about shortcomings.

Federal regulators have announced plans to hold a hearing later this month about the service problems along Union Pacific and other major U.S. railroads that have forced some grain mills and ethanol plants to curtail production while waiting on trains and left farmers without a place to sell their crops because grain elevators are having trouble shipping grain.

"The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers," said CF Industries CEO Tony Will. "Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all.

CF Industries said the limits will affect fertilizer deliveries to Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and California from its plants in Louisiana and Iowa. The company said it believes it is one of just 30 companies Union Pacific imposed restrictions on.

Union Pacific spokeswoman Kristen South said the measures the Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad is taking are designed to address problems in the supply chain that have clogged rail shipments. The railroad has also brought 100 locomotives out of storage and shifted roughly 80 crew members to high-demand locations.

[Stewie]

Union Pacific has significantly reduced their presence east of the Rockies in the past few years. They mostly move coal from west of the Rockies to the east. They've laid off employees and closed facilities.

With the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southrern there's more ability to move food and rail commodities that are not west coast centric. The footprint of those two railways (when merged) is stunning.

[Hammock Parties]

What sort of single man drinks 8 bottles of wine a month?

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

What sort of single man drinks 8 bottles of wine a month?

A lightweight.

[Hammock Parties]

I might drink 15 in a YEAR

[TripleThreat]

I bitch about prices going up but will go out on a Friday and drop $200 on a dinner. So to be honest, I can only blame myself.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by TripleThreat

I bitch about prices going up but will go out on a Friday and drop $200 on a dinner. So to be honest, I can only blame myself.

I completely understand. A family of four at Wendy's is pricey.

[Kiimo]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

I might drink 15 in a YEAR

something something missouri wine

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

What sort of single man drinks 8 bottles of wine a month?

I dont like wine. Most gives me a headache very quickly.

[scho63]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

What sort of single man drinks 8 bottles of wine a month?

Bottle of red with my steaks, lamb, pizza, Italian, charcuterie.

Bottle of white with my chicken, pork, Chinese, Indian, cheese and crackers, cookies

What kind of Murano beta doesn't drink wine?

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by scho63

Bottle of red with my steaks, lamb, pizza, Italian, charcuterie.

Bottle of white with my chicken, pork, Chinese, Indian, cheese and crackers, cookies

What kind of Murano beta doesn't drink wine?

Th last time I drank wine was when I lived in North Carolina, I drank a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 and sat in the middle of a field in a lightning storm. Not in an automobile either. I mean I SAT in a field in pooring rain with lightning striking all around.

I think it was a soul cleansing moment.

[scho63]

The shelves still have a lot of holes

[ghak99]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

I might drink 15 in a YEAR

Even that's still pretty gay.