Fortunately nothing on that list will affect us. We rarely eat beef and almost never buy it (have plenty of deer - no shortage there). We use avocado oil most of the time, donāt do much in any canned food and what we do get comes in tin cans, not aluminum. The lettuce they are likely talking about isnāt what we use. Corn we only do local and fresh when itās in season. Oranges and orange juice are rare. No infant formula.
And with eggs, weāre still almost totally just using what our chickens produce. We raised 5 young ones last fall, so barring predators, they should give the two of us more than enough this spring. Weāll probably be giving some away.
Not having lettuce would require some revised thinking for my salads, but I wouldnāt be a happy camper if I had to lose oranges in my diet. I enjoy my freshly squeezed OJ and an orange almost daily, at least when theyāre in season, like now.
You need to find a friend or neighbor with an orange tree. Both my daughters have orange trees. One of them has so many that I told her to put a box out on her curb to giveaway. She said she wouldnāt have any takers as she thinks when her neighborhood was built every house got an orange tree.
I broke down and bought eggs yesterday. $6 bucks! for xlarge. They had large for $5.79 but I splurged. They had 5 dozen for $29. I didnāt think that was much of a bargain.
They did have name brands for slightly more (Happy) and sometimes there are coupons for those to bring the price lower.
Egg prices here (Boston) seem to be coming down. I just went to WF and they had their brand, 18 eggs for $4.19 or Nellies that are certified humane, 18 as well for $4.99. I had a $1 coupon from Nellies so went with them. I am starting strict Atkins diet tomorrow, so the price drop came at a good time for me.
Hmm, to me off brands tend to have inferior products, chosen usually because they are cheap. They may or may not be store brands - it depends upon the store as some of those are quite good or better than name brands. The ingredients and taste are key.
Hence, due to my thoughts I had to wonder how this happened with chickens/eggs!
Interesting list. I donāt use much on that list that would come from a commercial supplier. Maybe olive oil and canned cat food and maybe oranges. We can get locally grown lettuce year round. Bread I get locally or bake myself. Flour is milled locally too.
No eggs at a Trader Joeās just south of San Francisco a couple of days ago. Safeway had eggs at $4.99/dozen several days ago, which I thought was a great price compared to what Iāve been seeing, but they looked about the size of robinsā eggs. Super small.
I got eggs at TJs yesterday. $2.99 for the lowest priced option. But they limit all eggs to one dozen per customer. Last week I didnāt see the sign and tried to buy two dozen.
