Is it true that the price of gas and food is not factored into the inflation index numbers that we hear?
Ghetto cooking is about to rear it's head here.
What is ghetto cooking, well it is high carobs, vegetables, and little meat.
Some of the best meals I have ever eaten were at homes of my friends that lived in a Ghetto area. The base was Ramen noodles or rice and some kind of green and perhaps a bit of meat used as flavoring.
It is difficult for a family of two working parents, or single parents to cook a meal at home for the family after a full day of work.-----Cheaper also to buy prepared meals then to cook at home.
Then the factor that in a rush to get to work, who has the time to make a decent breakfast for the family. Just plunk a gallon of milk on the table, get out the bowls of super expensive cereals loaded with sugar and feed the kids this in fact JUNK food.
Yes food is is at the top of human needs, it and water come ahead of clothing and shelter. Check out the price of rice a staple for 85% + of the world.
When food prices go sky high the first to be hit is the meat industry of all kinds, then the wheat, rice and all grain industry's.
We in America have been moved into the large consumption of meat products. We seem to need loads of animal products.
Quick story, back in the early 1970's the meat--all meat production shut down, on strike for some reason--higher prices--what ever.
I could not get to the military commissary's at that time and walked into a big time grocery store. What a surprising thing, the meat cases were empty, no steaks, hamburger, roasts or even hot dogs or Kalbasa. No meat at all unless in cans and the deli was empty.
People had bought out all the canned tuna and spam, not even one can of potted meat was left. This problem went on for a week or so and someone made a deal with someone else and soon the meat was back on the shelves.
This was just a quickie way back then for the unions to flex their muscles and scare the hell out of the American public.-----
This was California and I do not know if the other states were effected but it made its impression on me.
When the price for flour, rice and other grain products begins to climb, that is the time to get out there and buy a big plastic trash can or 3 and start loading it up. The grains and flour will last years in that container.
See a sale on vegetable oil, get out and buy a few gallons and stash them with the grains in a closet.
Buy one container for dried beans and stock up on canned vegetables. Sale on canned meat, you don't have to like it but you will when you are hungry.
A closed container for dry milk, dried potatoes and dried eggs will help feed one in an emergency.
When one follows the sale ads and does what we use to call hoarding ----a bad thing at the time---- In times of stress with no electricity or other methods we can feed out family's on these things on a small fire pit in the back yard.
