grocery prices to rise dramatically....

[grasswire]

.......so says NBC news today. Largely due to the drought here and there. South American drought has driven up coffee prices by 30% since November. Dairy, beef, and produce to go way, way up.

I'd stock up on some things now, if I had space.

Meanwhile, time to find more "peasant" recipes. If only those peasant recipes weren't heavy on carbs.......

[Warpy]

1. Hoarding of most things doesn't work

because most of it contains eggs and bacteria that will spoil the food if it's kept too long. If you like canned goods, stock up on those. They're good about the longest.

[grasswire]

2. We eat very little canned food

Tomatoes, tuna, deviled ham occasionally, peaches occasionally. I can't think of anything else, except an occasional can of refried beans or black beans if I'm too lazy to make from scratch. Sometimes a can of soup. And we don't generally buy anything storable that has eggs or bacteria in it. I assume that means processed things. I just don't go for that.

So there isn't much that I could "hoard." But I think I'll be putting up more produce from the farmers market this summer.

[SheilaT]

3. Another one who doesn't think hoarding

works very well.

I can recall in the early 1970's when there was a large rise in food prices. Except, as is always the case, the rise affected some things and not others.

Me? I haven't noticed that much change in food prices in the past few years, even though others on DU have complained bitterly about such things. I'm getting along with the same food budget I had five years ago. I have dropped fizzy water from my shopping list, and while I miss it somewhat, I've adapted. Perhaps since I do a great deal of cooking from scratch, I'm not as affected as others. But that does mean I buy fresh ingredients regularly.

[grasswire]

4. Hoarding?

I did not introduce hoarding to this thread.

Your fresh ingredients (and everyone else's fresh ingredients) are going to rise this year.

[flamin lib]

6. No, you didn't, but the line between stocking up and hoarding can be a thin one.

Having a sensibly stocked larder that might be expanded for special sales, which is how I read your OP, is only reasonable.

Sometimes people go overboard as evidenced by the fearful gun people who cleared shelves of all ammunition and drove prices up because someone told them they're coming to take all away!

Your advice is reasonable, they're coming to take it away and the associated panic isn't.

[fizzgig]

5. the price of milk has gone up a lot in the last year

i may have to free up some money to make a run on coffee. we just get the big cans of folgers, so they can hang out for a bit.

[intheflow]

7. Also, the cost of fuel drives food prices.

When fuel goes up, food goes up. Oil to run the processing and packaging plants, gas to transport it.