Gas cost less/are food prices going to drop also?

[Swimmer]

It only took a month or so for the food prices to be affected by the rising gas prices. I wonder when the opposite is going to occur?

[afterhours]

lol......

[UserRemoved1]

pfft don't hold your breath Frank.

[spence]

It might take some time, but I think things could soften a bit. As the economy continues to suck, companies are going to have to attract buyers. If their transportation costs go down, they may reduce prices to increase sales.

-spence

[Raven]

Dream on

[Plum Crazy]

I went grocery shopping today.
$109 later and I don't have much.
I put stuff back cause I couldn't or wouldn't pay the prices they are asking.
On the flip side Lobster is cheaper than boneless chicken(and milk).
Bread, Milk, eggs are off the charts.
I found myself buying things I could make 2-3 meals from.
If everyone shopped the way I did today then they would HAVE to come down on prices or start throwing everything out.
Something's gotta give. It won't be me this time.

[EricW]

Are they going to also make the containers bigger again? I really miss that extra 2 (and the other 2 from the first reduction) "servings" in the edy's ice cream container

[Raven]

break out your smallest spoons and sandwich plates so all the food looks bigger and over flowing.

[stripersnipr]

Most transportation companies are rolling back fuel surcharges but the lag in price decreases slows increasingly through each step of the supply chain. By the time food prices drop fuel will rise again.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Raven

break out your smallest spoons and sandwich plates so all the food looks bigger and over flowing.

Ya, have you opened a can of tuna fish latley.?

Used to get 4 sanwiches out of a can, now your lucky to get 2.

[Jenn]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! yeah right! Theres a dreamer in every crowd!


I was in emotional/fiscal turmoil the other night in the store over a $7.00 block (if you can call it a whole block) of cheese!

[EarnedStripes44]

Originally Posted by justplugit

Ya, have you opened a can of tuna fish latley.?

Used to get 4 sanwiches out of a can, now your lucky to get 2.

I read an article about this phenomenon. Food industry packages less volume for the same price. Its inflation in one of its more obscure forms.

Anybody into bargain meat & poultry from Davis Sq/ Porter Sq area should no longer purchase any beef, chicken, lamb or pork from any other supermarket except McKinnons. Prime cuts (delmonico, NY Strip, Filet Mignon, Porterhouse) damn near %50 cheaper than @ shaws. The Chicken discounts are even more. They also carry rabbit if thats your thing.

[spence]

By "Prime" cuts I assume you mean good quality Choice.

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by spence

By "Prime" cuts I assume you mean good quality Choice.

I bought four choice cut strip sirloins from BJ a couple of weeks ago. Nice and thick. I was pleasantly surprised. Not something you'd get at Morton's, but after some careful grilling and my orange marmalade, brown sugar and mustard coating prior to cooking made it all rather delectable.

[EarnedStripes44]

Originally Posted by spence

By "Prime" cuts I assume you mean good quality Choice.

yes. choice.

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

It only took a month or so for the food prices to be affected by the rising gas prices. I wonder when the opposite is going to occur?

I'm wondering if it has to do with the cost of fertilzer which may have been impacted by rising fuel costs. Since fert. is a 1 time expenditure, the falling fuel prices may not have any impact.

[Plum Crazy]

It's Bull Sheeet for sure.
Pure greed. The tuna thing blows my mind!
I need 3 cans to feed 2 kids and myself.
Shaws and Stop & Shop are outrageous.
It is out of the question for me to shop there.
Market Basket is a little better.
EarnedStripes44 I wish I was close enough to that location to check it out.
Jenn I would have said no to $7 for cheese, even if it was Christmas.
I am turning into a food Nazi and it sucks.

[spence]

There is a huge variation in choice grade meat. Some shops pay good attention and tend to select the upper end. Bigger buyers like SandS don't seem to care as much and the quality is all over the place. I actually like good aged choice over some prime. You can get it at whole foods. Real prime isn't easy to find any more outside of a good steakhouse.

Don't try to eat a lot of red meat anymore, but if I do it's as good as I can find. If you're going to ingest that much saturated fat it might as well be good

Originally Posted by Swimmer

I bought four choice cut strip sirloins from BJ a couple of weeks ago. Nice and thick. I was pleasantly surprised. Not something you'd get at Morton's, but after some careful grilling and my orange marmalade, brown sugar and mustard coating prior to cooking made it all rather delectable.

[Jenn]

Originally Posted by Plum Crazy

Jenn I would have said no to $7 for cheese, even if it was Christmas.
I am turning into a food Nazi and it sucks.

I HAVE been saying no and I was so peesed off and wanted a good chunk-o-cheese......so I bought it. Then I fretted over it as I was enjoying it later that night with company. STOOPID

food nazi! I may have to use that term if you dont mind....

[Plum Crazy]

I don't mind at all. I didn't invent the term.
I just tweaked from Sienfeld's "SOUP NAZI"
I was really ticked of yesterday when I went to get lobsters for our New Years Eve tradional dinner.
For months they have been $3.99 lb.
All of a sudden yesterday they are $7.99 lb.????????????????
Not gonna happen.
I just can't wrap my brain around that. I am sure more people than me wanted to have lobster and won't now.
They could have sold tons of then if they kept the price low.
They can keep them now.
I think I will use the gift certificate I got for Chinease food.

[slow eddie]

the price of food is not going to go down period. the staples of the rest of the world are rice and wheat. now being made into ethonal gas. saw a price of perrerage farm bread for 3.99 yesterday at shaws. the% of what you spend for staples in your food are not going to drop. chourico at 4.99 a # is mind blowing. crafty and i are going hungry.

[Mike P]

Gas is up almost 20 cents a gallon since New Years Day. $1.51 January 1. $1.69 today.

What gives?

[cheferson]

Crazy israelis and palestinian people , russia cutting off natural gas

[Clammer]

WTF ;;

same as Mike P.

went up.10 since yesterday morning

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by cheferson

Crazy israelis and palestinian people , russia cutting off natural gas

WTF does Russian natural gas have to do with light and sweet crude? Any freaking excuse. I love how the futures market--speculation on the price of crude that is still in the ground--can affect the price at the pump right now

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by spence

There is a huge variation in choice grade meat. Some shops pay good attention and tend to select the upper end. Bigger buyers like SandS don't seem to care as much and the quality is all over the place. I actually like good aged choice over some prime. You can get it at whole foods. Real prime isn't easy to find any more outside of a good steakhouse.

Don't try to eat a lot of red meat anymore, but if I do it's as good as I can find. If you're going to ingest that much saturated fat it might as well be good

Sometime before I can no longer afford shopping at Whole Foods I am going to buy some of the aged beef. I stare at it in Hingham when the wife and I go shopping there every couple of weeks. I have watched specials on the aging/drying out process and find it very interesting. Slice of just a sliver and your right into some awesome meat. Emeril Lagasse chats it up quite a bit.

[cheferson]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

Sometime before I can no longer afford shopping at Whole Foods I am going to buy some of the aged beef. I stare at it in Hingham when the wife and I go shopping there every couple of weeks. I have watched specials on the aging/drying out process and find it very interesting. Slice of just a sliver and your right into some awesome meat. Emeril Lagasse chats it up quite a bit.

Make sure its dry aged and not aged in a cryovac pack. There really is a huge difference

[spence]

Whole Foods does dry age choice beef and it's worth the money.

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by cheferson

Make sure its dry aged and not aged in a cryovac pack. There really is a huge difference

Thank you for telling me.

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by spence

Whole Foods does dry age choice beef and it's worth the money.

Spence you don't have to buy the whole rack in the case do you? In Hingham at times there looks like thier maybe 15 prime ribs in the drying case. Some that I can see with my glasses and best eye squinting I can muster have a weight and price attached to the end of the cut. I always assumed you bought the whole piece and not just say three or four ribs. Do I understand that correctly or can you buy three or four ribs?