the primitives sure hope

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115747786

Oh my.

The things primitives worry about.

grasswire (41,883 posts)    Tue Nov 18, 2014, 01:59 AM

Sure hope the price of butter comes down for Christmas baking!

$5.69 a pound for Land O' Lakes and Challenge butter currently!! Out of sight.

Butter is usually going on sale this time of year for under $3/pound.

How is the price where you are?

<<<always buys butter, and butter only; no margarine or other grease.

<<<didn't pay attention to the price when last purchased two one-pound boxes of it, about two or three days ago, but it vaguely seems to me it was somewhere in between three bucks and four bucks.

<<<if truly needs butter, just buys it without worrying about the price; if it crawls too high, will just cut back on the luxuries of life so as to afford it--but it hasn't ever reached that point.

catnhatnh (6,723 posts)    Tue Nov 18, 2014, 07:43 AM

1. Rochester NH

Market Basket Stores-Cabot 2 for $5 thru the 29th...sorry

Erich Bloodaxe BSN (4,981 posts)    Tue Nov 18, 2014, 08:01 AM

2. $6/lb for LOL atm when not on sale

We picked up 10 lbs on sale for $4/lb though. (Butter can be frozen.)

I'd just about swear, though, that we got it for $3/lb or less last year.

^^^a bona fide registered nurse with no impediments to employment, but unemployed nonetheless.

Think about it.  An unemployed registered nurse.

Given the shortage of, and demand for, registered nurses nationwide, how is that possible?

The primitive parasites off a woman in some other sort of job, who brings home the bacon.  So, one supposes that's why; easier to take advantage of a gullible woman than to work for a living.

sinkingfeeling (30,078 posts)    Tue Nov 18, 2014, 08:48 AM

3. Best I've found is $3.68 for the store brand.

kentauros (25,497 posts)   Tue Nov 18, 2014, 11:20 AM

4. I buy butter only once a year. For Christmas baking.

So, I never really notice how much it goes up or down.

I suppose you could portion out smaller amounts to everyone and blame it on the republicans!

Heh, heh.  Yeah, yeah.  Who's been in charge since January 20, 2009?

[Carl]

No amount of butter could fix this mess.

[GOBUCKS]

I buy a heaping cart full of stuff every week.

The only thing in the store that I can remember a price on is a little bag of medium grain rice that I like.

Over the past four or five years it has fluctuated between $0.99, $1.09, and $1.19, back and forth.

The rest of the several dozen items we use regularly I have no idea of the price.

These grocery store price-wailers must take all day to do their shopping, checking the price on every item.

They screech about every penny of grocery price, but claim to shop at uber-expensive stores like Whole Foods, and buy silly organic-scam food, just for DUmp cred.

[franksolich]

The "back story" of every Judy grasswire complaint about "high" food prices--and she's had plenty--is her notion that Big Grocery is out to cheat her.

Like her good pal the vindictive primitive, the notorious re-seller, always says, "You've got to be sharp; you've got to cheat the other guy before he cheats you."

[thundley4]

I buy a heaping cart full of stuff every week.

The only thing in the store that I can remember a price on is a little bag of medium grain rice that I like.

Over the past four or five years it has fluctuated between $0.99, $1.09, and $1.19, back and forth.

The rest of the several dozen items we use regularly I have no idea of the price.

These grocery store price-wailers must take all day to do their shopping, checking the price on every item.

They screech about every penny of grocery price, but claim to shop at uber-expensive stores like Whole Foods, and buy silly organic-scam food, just for DUmp cred.

It's shameful that you don't keep track of the price of necessities.  Bacon has doubled in price over the last couple of years.

[67 Rover]

No amount of butter could fix this mess.

Yea and the pie looks like $hit too.

[franksolich]

It's shameful that you don't keep track of the price of necessities.  Bacon has doubled in price over the last couple of years.

I just noticed--I paid $2.68 for a 3-ounce jar of Hormel real bacon bits the other day.  I never paid attention; is this high or normal or low?

[Chris_]

Butter was on sale for $1.99 a few months ago.  It's doubled since then.

[BannedFromDU]

I just noticed--I paid $2.68 for a 3-ounce jar of Hormel real bacon bits the other day.  I never paid attention; is this high or normal or low?

     The price of real foodstuffs used to create actual foods that people enjoy eating? It's all gone up. Butter, bacon, beef, pork...all quite high. Yet another
way we are stung by 0loser policies of making life more expensive for everyone.

[thundley4]

I just noticed--I paid $2.68 for a 3-ounce jar of Hormel real bacon bits the other day.  I never paid attention; is this high or normal or low?

I'm not sure about the bacon bits, but a couple of years ago bacon would go on sale  two 1lb packages/$5, not it's over $5/lb.  They also have more bacon in 12 ounce packages now.

[Dori]

Costco butter - 4lbs for 10.58

Costco bacon - 4lbs for 15.28

[Big Dog]

Bacon has doubled in price over the last couple of years.

I got rid of satellite TV so I could continue to consume bacon in the manner to which I am accustomed.

A man must have his priorities!

[GOBUCKS]

I love to hear democrats whine about their evaporating food stamps.

All the while, their environut ethanol regulations are generating windfall profits for Big Corn and red state farmers, driving up the price of animal feed, which drives up meat prices.

They can add to that the democrat PETA regulations on keeping chickens happy, and the environut regulations on hog farm operations.

A hungry democrat is a beautiful sight.

[Chris_]

Costco butter - 4lbs for 10.58

Costco bacon - 4lbs for 15.28

There's no Costco around here.  I'll have to see what Sam's Club has on sale.

[GOBUCKS]

There's no Costco around here.  I'll have to see what Sam's Club has on sale.

I see people coming out of there with those gigantic 100-roll packages of toilet paper, 64 rolls of paper towels, ten gallons of dill pickles, and wonder if they use a pole barn for their pantry. Who stores that much stuff?

Unless you run a prison or a boarding school, you don't save much on groceries.

I got a membership because they had such a good deal on rental cars, better than any other I found.

A one-week rental paid for the membership.

[Carl]

I love to hear democrats whine about their evaporating food stamps.

All the while, their environut ethanol regulations are generating windfall profits for Big Corn and red state farmers, driving up the price of animal feed, which drives up meat prices.

They can add to that the democrat PETA regulations on keeping chickens happy, and the environut regulations on hog farm operations.

A hungry democrat is a beautiful sight.

Wonder what PETA would think of crazy Mo and her steel chicken coop.

[notaDUmmie]

I paid $2.85/lb for Challenge butter at the commissary this past Sunday...I've switched to Challenge for baking, just love it!

[DefiantSix]

There's no Costco around here.  I'll have to see what Sam's Club has on sale.

At the Sam's Club we stock up at out here, we buy 4lb of butter for about the same as Dori is paying at Costco: $10.50 - $10.88. Sam's Club bacon generally costs us $8.50 or so for 3lb of the good stuff.

[Chris_]

At the Sam's Club we stock up at out here, we buy 4lb of butter for about the same as Dori is paying at Costco: $10.50 - $10.88. Sam's Club bacon generally costs us $8.50 or so for 3lb of the good stuff.

I need to stop shopping at Kroger.

[DefiantSix]

I see people coming out of there with those gigantic 100-roll packages of toilet paper, 64 rolls of paper towels, ten gallons of dill pickles, and wonder if they use a pole barn for their pantry. Who stores that much stuff?

Unless you run a prison or a boarding school, you don't save much on groceries.

I got a membership because they had such a good deal on rental cars, better than any other I found.

A one-week rental paid for the membership.

We stock up on primal cuts of beef and pork there, for a fraction of the price the DUmbshits are paying at Safeway. Buy a whole beef sirloin or ribeye, and take it home and cut it up into steaks exactly the size/thickness we want, throw the individual portions into Ziplok bags, and voila'; we have meal planning taken care of in advance. I can get a pork tenderloin for around $20 or less, and cut 8 - 10 meals worth of pork chops out of that.

The whole point is to know what you need, and stick to your list; we routinely save a butt-load of money that way.

[DefiantSix]

I need to stop shopping at Kroger.

Actually no.  What we've found is that if you're watching the per unit prices on the shelf tags, some of them are better deals at Sam's Club, and others are better deals at Wally World or Kroger (Smith's, out here). We've just developed a knack for dividing our grocery list by which store is going to give us the best deal on what, and go from there. (We also don't get stupid/crazy about it: We divide most of our groceries between Wally and Sam's Club, and then every 6 months or so, we go to a Kroger or someplace which carries the few things we want that we can't get at either of the two main stores we shop.  That way, we're not killing our fuel budget by chasing our grocery list all over town.)

[franksolich]

You know, you guys with big families, I feel for you.

You're ensuring our future by bringing productive citizens into existence, but man, you get screwed, and not only by anti-family taxes.

I dunno how my parents did it.

Myself, being single with no dependents, I pretty much have the freedom to buy what I wish, regardless of price.  I don't make a whole lot of money, but just being one person, well--

I shop at the mom-and-pop grocery store in the big city where the Country Club set shops, because it's smaller than the mega grocery stores, and I really don't like spending a whole lot of time shopping.

Judy grasswire's in the same situation I am, although I suspect her income's higher, given her social security check and the disability check she gets on behalf of a disabled younger relative, whose guardian she apparently is.

She slices and fries carrots on top of the stove for him, and gets to spend the rest of that money as she pleases.

I have no idea why prices are an issue for her.