About a month ago, I posted an article, Why You Should Cautiously Worry About Grocery Prices.
While I’d never consider myself an alarmist, there are some grocery items I’m watching a little more closely right now.
Imported spices are high on that list.
This article is the first in a short series explaining what I’m watching, why I’m watching it, and how I’m adjusting my own buying habits.
Every day now, someone comes along with a list of reasons we should all rush out and stockpile food. Maybe it’s tariffs. Maybe it’s drought. Maybe it’s disease outbreaks affecting livestock. Maybe it’s geopolitical tensions. And now, maybe the apocalypse, too. And lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of advice that boils down to one thing:
Buy everything now. Let’s examine this.
Its Ausgust os 2021.
I’d like to post something a bit different today. Everyone who knows me knows I keep a well-stocked pantry, and at home, I doubled up on many things, slowly throughout the summer of 2020. Had I stayed at home in Minnesota instead of taking off to Georgia last August, I know I would have been extremely grateful!
The question came up on a budget Facebook page I’m involved in, and the answers are compiled below:
“If you stocked up at the beginning of COVID, what were your best purchases? What did you buy that wasn’t the best purchase?”
Hey, we’ve got some scary stuff going on and more to come! Have you guys seen some of the crazy lists out there about what & how much food to have on hand when you catch the fast-spreading Coronavirus?
We’ve all been there at one time or another. Maybe we overspent, maybe we’re just not meeting our goals, or maybe something unexpected happened. It’s triage time. Some things might not be totally under your control, but your food budget is.
Most of these ideas are very doable all year long, a few are only for the short term, and a couple are not good strategies at all unless you’re in a place of desperation. I’ll explain that more below. In the meantime, here’s how to put your thumb in the dike & slash your food costs.
