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Originally Posted by pgrundy
We are also witnessing the money we do have go a shorter and shorter distance. I wonder how many people are going through this but are too ashamed to say so. It seems to me that people often take their financial condition as a personal failure or success, but I think right now it isn't personal so much as the times. If no one admits they are hurting how can we know this?
Just a small example: We eat almost no meat now (which is good) because in just the past few months it has become unaffordable. Last summer I bought bratwurst regularly. It was $2.99 for a package of five. Now the same package is $5.99. That's nearly double in a year. Figure the same with about half the foods in the market and you've got an alarming trend. We also eat a lot more starch now. It's what we can afford.
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Yes, pgrundy, same situation here. We eat lots of beans, rice, pasta, potatoes (white and sweet) and vegetables we grow ourselves. It's pretty boring. And, as you say, you can almost stand in the supermarket and watch the prices rise. If and when we do get meat of any kind, we cut it into small pieces and freeze all of them separately so we can take two out and make it go farther that way. I don't know about your area, but some of our neighbors are hunters and they'll sell us venison or wild boar for a dollar or two a pound. That makes a nice change. There's almost zero meat of any kind being sold in supermarkets around here for less than four dollars a pound, on sale. And fish? Forget it. Take care!
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