Two Dollars and Thirty-eight Cents!!!!

Okie-Dokie · #1 01/02/08, 01:09 PM

Yep, that's right. $2.38 for ONE sweet pepper at the Wal-Mart in Bristow,OK! I was just passing by the veg. dept. on my way to find some old Roy Dog chow because I dind't want to go all the way out to the feed store for the good dog chow. Is every one experiancing the same sort of pricing for fresh stuff from the Grocery? Not just the bell peppers, everything in the fresh veg. dept. is like that. I guess folks are actually paying that for stuff or it would not carry such a price.

TedH71 · #2 01/02/08, 01:14 PM

I don't feed my dogs the Roy dog chow. Makes them eat 4 times more and have dirrhea so I switched to a better dog chow. Am planning on going to a RAW diet before long for them. Less poop...etc.

Anyway, yep, soda is expensive those days.

Pony · #3 01/02/08, 01:16 PM

Even though we're surrounded by the Borg stores, we have found one benefit of living near Chicago: The little bodegas and ethnic groceries have incredibly good prices on loss-leaders. We just picked up over 20 pounds of celery for 29 cents a pound. (We're dehydrating and sharing with friends.) And you don't have to buy in bulk to get those kind of prices.

I just watch the ads from the local stores, and note the trends. If one store has sweet peppers on sale this week, one of the other stores will have them next week. Same with meats and canned goods. There is a 6 week trend around here, so if I miss a sale one week, I can either make it up at another store or wait for it to come around in a month or so.

I have found that the bigger chains (Meijer, Jewel/Albertsons/Dominick's) charge more even when stuff is supposedly on special. I don't trust them, but I do keep an eye out because once in a while, I find a screaming deal.

Pony!

pancho · #4 01/02/08, 01:31 PM

Sweet pepper, if it was 3 for a dime it was too high. No reason for a person to have to eat one.

NWoods_Hippie · #5 01/02/08, 01:34 PM

My Sister and BIL still tell people about when they were up here on vacation in June of 07, and BIL wanted Asparagus, it was $6.58 per pound at our local grocery store!!

Margie

**ladycat** · #6 01/02/08, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Okie-Dokie

Yep, that's right. $2.38 for ONE sweet pepper at the Wal-Mart in Bristow,OK! I was just passing by the veg. dept. on my way to find some old Roy Dog chow because I dind't want to go all the way out to the feed store for the good dog chow. Is every one experiancing the same sort of pricing for fresh stuff from the Grocery? Not just the bell peppers, everything in the fresh veg. dept. is like that. I guess folks are actually paying that for stuff or it would not carry such a price.

YES, the produce prices are WAY higher. I've seen the bell peppers (not organic) for $1.50 each.

#7 01/02/08, 01:58 PM

This is why one of my 2008 projects is to expand the greenhouse so I can over winter some potted peppers and stuff. I hate fighting the white flies, but I just can't bring myself to pay what they want for a fresh one in the stores and dried peppers aren't always suitable.

.....Alan.

DownHome · #8 01/02/08, 03:22 PM

Makes me thankful for the 2 gallons of green peppers in our freezer. They are one of the few things that did very well this year.

Jim S. · #9 01/02/08, 03:32 PM

Good for you, DownHome. Not a durned thing made worth a toot here in the exceptional drought lands. You could pour water on the garden, it just sopped it up like a drip on a giant sponge. Now those pesky catalogs are showing up, and they make me resentful, because I am not planting this spring. I think we are in for Year #4, before we see improvement. Just no use to plant, it won't do anything but disappoint and we won't have the water to spare.

Callieslamb · #10 01/02/08, 05:05 PM

in the summer and freeze them. It isn't the same as fresh, but I won't be buying one at $2.35! Then I appreciate the fresh ones next summer. Doing with out a few things doesn't hurt -in fact, I think it helps. It wasn't too long ago that you couldn't find oranges/peppers/apples in the stores year round like we do now.

Jerngen · #11 01/02/08, 05:54 PM

I've seen Bell Peppers over $4 a piece up here last winter. Yes I said a piece, not a pound.
So this summer I made sure to dehydrate and freeze some! Haven't looked to see what the prices are this winter.

vancom · #12 01/02/08, 07:39 PM

I'm learning to modify what I cook with-long for based on what's available. used to be I'd think nothing about peppers in January, or whatever. I guess I'm trying to work with what's as local as possible. And what I can grow. But last year was a bust for us with drought here in Tennessee-- like Jim I am drooling over the seed catalogs but worry about the 2008 summer. I have a rain barrel but when the sky is dry, so's the barrel!

Jim-mi · #13 01/02/08, 09:49 PM

Red grapes up to $3.99 a pound.

Guess my smoothies will be without grapes for a long while.

james dilley · #14 01/02/08, 10:41 PM

They were 2/88cents here the other day. H E B has them on sale right now! Thats A benifit of living in A produce growing region. Everybody thinks ALL winter produce is from Floridiot land, But its not!!

**ladycat** · #15 01/02/08, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by james dilley

Thats A benifit of living in A produce growing region.

There are a few produce items grown here. But this summer they went up a LOT since last year, probably because of the severe drouth.

Last year, you could get in-season cantaloupes 3/$1 for smaller ones and 2/$1 for big ones. This year they were $1 to $1.50 EACH!

Last year, Roma tomatos would go on sale frequently 3lbs. for $1. This year they went on sale a couple times only- for 99 cents a pound. (Other tomato varieties are also grown, but I'm not paying close attention to the prices).

Peaches did go on sale a time or two for 69 cents a pound, so I guess the peach crop did ok.

They grow watermelons, but I'm not sure of the prices.

They used to grow onions here, but for some reason stopped growing them some years back.

I think that's about it. They mostly just grow cotton and wheat.

hotzcatz · #16 01/02/08, 11:18 PM

We are putting in a much bigger garden. Even the local produce is going way up because of the price of imported (i.e. "from the mainland") fertilizer and then the earthquake a year ago wrecked the irrigation ditch so they have been having to truck water in. The only local produce I'll be able to afford soon will be VERY LOCAL from my backyard produce.

elkhound · #17 01/02/08, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by hotzcatz

We are putting in a much bigger garden. Even the local produce is going way up because of the price of imported (i.e. "from the mainland") fertilizer and then the earthquake a year ago wrecked the irrigation ditch so they have been having to truck water in. The only local produce I'll be able to afford soon will be VERY LOCAL from my backyard produce.

very local....i like that...roflmao....i am eating out of my freezer and from the canned goods from summer time.it is nice to be eating homegrown stuff and at less cost for the most part.i will thaw out some jalpenos and stuff with cream cheese or sharp cheedar and grill them this weekend.we have not seen nothing as far as prices go.hang on folks its coming fast.this time next year watch out.

free-2-b-me · #18 01/03/08, 06:47 AM

We love sweet red peppers . Last spring I saw that the Dollar Tree store had 12 ounce jars of roasted red peppers . They are good . There are at least 3-4 peppers in each jar . They also had a 19 ounce jar when they didn't have the other = even better deal . So I don't grow them now . Cheaper to buy them all done . We love them fresh in our salads but not at those high prices .

chickenmommy · #19 01/03/08, 07:24 AM

Was at the Wal-mart last week and noticed (I never buy produce there!) that head lettuce, scrawny heads too, was $1.53 a head! They sure were proud of that lettuce! Guess they wanted to keep it.

Delrio · #20 01/03/08, 07:32 AM

I wonder how much of that high priced stuff ends up going in the dumpster? Would people actually PAY that price?