We Are Alive! May 26th, 2022 Quick Trip to the Grocery Store
We are alive and thriving! We ran out of veggies, so I took one of my little ones to the store for some groceries. We found lots of treasures, including a clearance sale on (glass bottle) spices for $0.99/each, organic baby food pouches, also $0.99.
We are watching prices increase, but there are still some "good deals" available to scoop up. What's painful is watching staples like bread, milk and eggs going up in price. We used to get bread for about a dollar, now it's on SALE for two dollars. A dozen eggs were always less than a dollar, now they are three dollars. Milk used to be less than two dollars, now it's three fifty.
I know this type of inflation is nothing like what people have experienced in other nations, where prices double or triple over night. We may very well be experiencing this hardship in the coming months and years.
"Give us today our daily bread" we can only rely on the Most High for our life, not our own hands or our own money or anything of our own.
Have you noticed food items increasing in price in the US?
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We live in the part of Panama that has all the dairy cows, yet our milk is $6 a gallon!! That is one of the main reasons we got a milk cow. And we drink about 3/4 of a gallon a day! We can get eggs from a "basics" store for around $1.30 a dozen currently. Hoping that doesn't increase too much. We go through 10 dozen eggs a week (my hubs drinks a dozen a day!!!)! Meat has been the same for a few months at $1.95 a pound for ground seconds, but basically all the cows here are grass fed, so we think that's pretty good. Bread is still about the same - $1.75 a loaf more or less depending on the quality. It is crazy to think how all these poor Panamanians are making ends meet!
One of the strange distortions in the world economy is that locals end up paying more for exported crops than the people in the nations that import the crop. The distortion is usually caused by taxation and regulation.
I understand that Panama produces coffee and that it is a good source for premium arabica beans. What are the coffee prices in Panama?
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Yes, there is a lot of coffee grown here, and the fancy ones like geisha. If I go to a local farm, I can pay $5 for a pound (I believe). It is usually $1 more at the stores and I hear it is good. I don't like coffee at all, so don't ask for my opinion on the taste! Ha!
Coffee is a cash crop that grows year round throughout the tropics; so it makes a decent economic indicator.
Coffee starts around $10 a pound in the US. People in Venezuela were saying it was twice as expensive as that ... which blew my mind. It should be significantly less expensive (and better quality) in the country where it grows.
I looked today and it was around $7 for about a pound at a local grocery store for the cheaper kind that is made in town. I know you can get around 250g of beans of geisha for $14 here. It is pretty crazy. We live in the breadbasket of Panama where 90% of the country's crops are. We can drive up the road and get 20 pounds of veggies in a bag (called a puerca) for $5-6. If you hand select your produce it is more expensive. I'm glad we have such fresh produce available close and cheap, but many Panamanians don't eat fresh veggies...they prefer processed stuff, bakeries, chips, rice, beans.
What is most amazing about the tropics is that the food is available all year round. I guess things change with wet and dry seasons, but I suspect that it would be easier to live in climates without such pronounced seasons.
In Northern climates people have to process foods during the fall harvest so that they can eat in the Winter. If I lived in a place with fresh local produce all year round, I would make it the mainstay of my diet.
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BEER.I'm glad you have access to affordable groceries, except milk seems pretty high! Our family also goes through a LOT of eggs, but we've been cutting back since the price went up.
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Do you really think there is someplace they are not on the Rise?
In my imagination. :-)
It is just as crazy in Tennessee.
Crazy USA and the entire world!
Here in Germany prices are also going up like crazy. Im trying to eat less, lose weight and save money at the same time. :)
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Seeing food go up in price is extremely concerning. Nobody wants to loose weight because of famine!
hmmmm! i am Nigerian, i think it is only my country when everything is 3X. a crate of egg was not up to $1 2 years back but now, the price is more $2.
this inflation is everywhere now; people can no longer eat three meals in a day. because of inflation, stealing everywhere. this is where a thief will come to your house and steal only food items.
a bag of rice that is not up to $20 some years back is now $54.
Days may be coming where food pantries will have to be locked up like a vault! Food is even more valuable than gold or silver - you can't EAT gold or silver. But with precious metal you could buy land to GROW food...
I thought that things were bad in Spain, but seems like your place is even worse
My understanding is that in the US it varies from region to region, State to State. Gasoline is still under $5 USD here, but in other places $7