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Offline Tradman

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Re: Report - lσcкdσωn coming 2nd week of August
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2021, 09:21:40 AM »
Quote from: SimpleMan on August 01, 2021, 08:25:37 AM
Dollar Tree has many name brands of canned food, Green Giant, Chef Boy-ar-dee (phonetic spelling of "Boiardi"), Campbell's, and so on.  Don't get their Cojack brand dry beans, they're not fit to eat.  

There is also Aldi, but be warned, some Aldi stuff --- almost everything they sell is private label --- is very, very good, some of it is just okay, and some of it is absolute garbage.  Depends on the item.  You just have to take a chance, and then see if you like it.  Lidl is similar.  They are basically German grocery stores adapted to American tastes.  Makes me feel like I'm back shopping in Germany or Poland, and their checkout lines move blazingly fast.  Don't let a long line discourage you, the wait is never long.  And you do have to bag your own groceries (so take bags with you) and, for Aldi, don't forget that quarter for the shopping cart, you get it back when you leave.  Walmart's prices are right, but their grocery aisles (so I've found) are shambolic, crucial items will be missing, and nothing is where you'd expect it to be.

I'd like to keep chickens, and it's legal out here in the unincorporated county, but our HOA would have issues with that, and it gets pretty hot here about seven months out of the year, so it could get fragrant in such a small space.
Sadly, I found Aldi canning practices often results in failure after only a year or two.  I bought some cases of various types of foods back in 2008 for storage, and the fail rate was high. Even if the can looked good outside, the contents were strange looking or discolored.   
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Re: Report - lσcкdσωn coming 2nd week of August
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2021, 10:45:06 AM »
Quote from: Tradman on August 01, 2021, 09:21:40 AM
Sadly, I found Aldi canning practices often results in failure after only a year or two.  I bought some cases of various types of foods back in 2008 for storage, and the fail rate was high. Even if the can looked good outside, the contents were strange looking or discolored.  
That is good to know, I wasn't aware.  I hate to be a slave to brand names, but when you buy brands, at least you know what you're getting.  Money's too hard to come by, to buy garbage in the name of saving a few pennies.

Aldi has a whole lexicon of made-up "brand names", some of which are just cheesy --- for instance, "Burman's" mayonnaise instead of "Hellmann's", blue label is almost identical. (I cannot eat mayonnaise.  The mere thought makes me gag.)   Aldi is more good than bad, but they try too hard sometimes.  Their frozen pizzas and sausages are amazing.  The cheese is kind of bland but still okay.  Lidl carries more brand names.
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Offline 2Vermont

Re: Report - lσcкdσωn coming 2nd week of August
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2021, 11:13:50 AM »
I think the timing is off, but I do think this is in the relatively near future....Fall sometime.
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Re: Report - lσcкdσωn coming 2nd week of August
« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2021, 12:20:52 PM »
Quote from: SimpleMan on August 01, 2021, 08:25:37 AM
Dollar Tree has many name brands of canned food, Green Giant, Chef Boy-ar-dee (phonetic spelling of "Boiardi"), Campbell's, and so on.  Don't get their Cojack brand dry beans, they're not fit to eat.  

There is also Aldi, but be warned, some Aldi stuff --- almost everything they sell is private label --- is very, very good, some of it is just okay, and some of it is absolute garbage.  Depends on the item.  You just have to take a chance, and then see if you like it.  Lidl is similar.  They are basically German grocery stores adapted to American tastes.  Makes me feel like I'm back shopping in Germany or Poland, and their checkout lines move blazingly fast.  Don't let a long line discourage you, the wait is never long.  And you do have to bag your own groceries (so take bags with you) and, for Aldi, don't forget that quarter for the shopping cart, you get it back when you leave.  Walmart's prices are right, but their grocery aisles (so I've found) are shambolic, crucial items will be missing, and nothing is where you'd expect it to be.

I'd like to keep chickens, and it's legal out here in the unincorporated county, but our HOA would have issues with that, and it gets pretty hot here about seven months out of the year, so it could get fragrant in such a small space.
It's spendy but Spam is well worth the price of admission, it will get you the energy you need and is meat (teeters on zogchow status but...). Almost all outdoorsmen eat tons of spam. You can never underestimate the versatility of Spam. I've never really delved into Dollar Tree because on the west coast we have Winco and Costco (the latter you really have to do your math on each purchase because of how they price things), whenever I'm in town I just buy basics like tomatoes by the flats. I think one of the times I checked out Dollar Tree I wasn't impressed with the amount of food I was getting for the price I was paying so I didn't buy anything. It's possible that's entirely a local/regional thing but it seems like their business model is a shrinkflation spree.
HOAs/CCRs are exactly why I had to buy land where there are no zoning restrictions, hopefully you get out of there eventually.
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Offline SimpleMan

Re: Report - lσcкdσωn coming 2nd week of August
« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2021, 08:56:39 PM »
Quote from: bodeens on August 01, 2021, 12:20:52 PM
It's spendy but Spam is well worth the price of admission, it will get you the energy you need and is meat (teeters on zogchow status but...). Almost all outdoorsmen eat tons of spam. You can never underestimate the versatility of Spam. I've never really delved into Dollar Tree because on the west coast we have Winco and Costco (the latter you really have to do your math on each purchase because of how they price things), whenever I'm in town I just buy basics like tomatoes by the flats. I think one of the times I checked out Dollar Tree I wasn't impressed with the amount of food I was getting for the price I was paying so I didn't buy anything. It's possible that's entirely a local/regional thing but it seems like their business model is a shrinkflation spree.
HOAs/CCRs are exactly why I had to buy land where there are no zoning restrictions, hopefully you get out of there eventually.
I actually like Walmart's Great Value equivalent of Spam better than the Armour brand, and it's cheaper.  I always keep a can in my cupboard.

It is meat, and it is protein.  I never cease to be amazed at how these food-storage programs (including those that seem to be oriented, at least implicitly, towards Mormon prepping) offer so, so many sugars and carbohydrates, and relatively little protein.  Think --- how much cereal, macaroni, rice, pancake preparations, and so on, can you eat?  For my sugar situation, that would be a nightmare.  I eat protein and lots of it.  In fact, my nurse-dietitian told me "you don't eat enough carbohydrate, you're making your body look for sugar in all that protein".
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