It'll be even crazier when you can do that with a Kia.
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It’s SHRINKflation Time
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It'll be even crazier when you can do that with a Kia.
You should have a Costco in New Zealand pretty soon and their Kirkland (generic) house brand is actually pretty good. I usually look for their house brand name on things and buy those over whatever else there is. It's usually a lot less expensive and it's often better quality than the branded products.
And their cheesecake is just amazing!
I miss Aldi, we always shopped there in Ireland. They were great. Whatever you wanted they had one option, which was both cheap and of decent average quality. I've visited Aldi in Australia though and they don't seem as good, so just because a brand enters a country doesn't necessarily mean they'll be as good as they were somewhere else.
One thing I'd like to point out. For those stocking beans and rice, or any particular staple:
Please also make sure to get a sufficient amount of multivitamins. Scurvy is real but preventing it is relatively easy.
Please also make sure to get a sufficient amount of multivitamins. Scurvy is real but preventing it is relatively easy.
A couple big bottle of Kirkland (or other multivitamin) are pretty cheap insurance. Also, we eat some produce from the garden year around. Potato has a lot of vitamin C.
Two things that are universal with Costco around the world are the cheap (US$1.50) hot dog and soda meals, and then the US$4.99 hot rotisserie chicken. I hope they have the cheesecake for you...it's simply amazing!
The rotisserie chicken for $5 is a heck of a deal. We use to have a choice of hotdog or polish sausage, but now just the hotdog (which is pretty good too). I tend to buy too many "impulse purchases" at Costco.Two things that are universal with Costco around the world are the cheap (US$1.50) hot dog and soda meals, and then the US$4.99 hot rotisserie chicken. I hope they have the cheesecake for you...it's simply amazing!
One complaint about Costco is that they were pretty uptight about the covid nonsense masks (unlike Winco where nobody ever gave me any trouble about the masks).
I think it must depend on where you live and/or who works there? I just walked in like I owned the place, and no one stopped me. However, when we were traveling, I was definitely stopped from walking in w/o a mask.
Plant comfrey. The leaves are rich in vitamin C, and tonnes of other minerals. It grows like a weed, and you can just forget it. But when hard times come, chuck those furry leaves in your salads or blend them into something if you or the kids can't stand the texture or taste. It's perfectly edible though, I snack on it in the orchard when I'm peckish and there's no fruit.
If you search the internet you'll find people warning you shouldn't eat comfrey. Ignore that, it's fine in the sort of quantities you'd be consuming. People panic about little things.
I hear that comfrey also has medicinal uses (as a poultice). I've never grown any, but think I will. It is just such a useful plant.
I think vitamins are relatively easy to grow,.even in a somewhat smaller garden. Kale, collard greens, and Swiss chard, are highly productive, easy to grow,.and are loaded with nutrients. Carrots are also easy to grow and nutritious. They can be grown in great quantities using equidistant spacing in beds. I leave them in the ground all winter (covered with mulch to stop the soil from freezing).
Butternut squash store a long time and are nutritious. We just ate out last butternut squash two days ago. I picked them all last October. That squash lasted eight months in my basement.
Oh yes, you can grow all sorts of nutritious things if you're gardening. But even the laziest or busiest of people can grow comfrey. Just bury the root somewhere and it will outcompete the grass and survive for years. Nobody else recognises it as food, so nobody's going to steal it. You could even plant it on the roadside if you've got no garden space.
I like foods that grow and look like weeds.
I like foods that grow and look like weeds.
Best food is hideable food.
There is story how once Prussian peaseants survived Russian invasion. Russians didn't know or couldn't dig all potatos in fields.
After several weeks peaseants just returned to their burned houses. If they planted wheat all food would share same fate as houses.
I use the leaf and root to make a salve ... great for all sorts of things! (bug bites, cuts)
And then we use the fresh leaves (and the salve) for sprains and breaks ... it's helps bones heal.
AND - one more fabulous thing about comfrey: it has a very long taproot, so it's good to plant under fruit trees by the trunks to help draw up the nutrients from deep down, and then dies and fertilizes in the colder weather.
As prices are going up, has anyone here noticed an uptick in theft in your area?
Yes, a considerable increase.
feels like we just got robbed. We had to buy hay and paid 22 bucks a bale for alfalfa. It coulda been worse. That price was delivered and local (semi local) price several places is 25 a bale.
Gone are the days of 6 or 8 dollar bales.
Over three times what it was? Ouch!
That was years ago. But it's been a steady climb for some time. It was 12 a bale just a couple years ago. While usually higher in winter, word is it is not going to drop at all this year because mega dairies in China and India are buying all the hay they can get and driving prices up 70 bucks a ton. So we csn thank the global market for ruining things at home.