Quaker Oats Whole Grain Old Fashioned - 42 Oz
We went into town and not only had gas jumped in price, so had groceries. We went into the local Safeway store, and they had proudly displayed Quaker Oats for $7.49 like it was a great sale or something. That makes it $2.85 a pound. I didn't have my phone on me, so I didn't take a picture. So, when we got home, I went to their website to make sure it was the correct price. It was the same outrageous price. Walmart still has theirs priced at $5.68 on their website, but I am pretty sure that it is about to go up in price. I just wanted to give a heads up to anyone who buys Quaker Oats like me to get what you need before the price goes up.
Sam's still had their 10-pound box for $12.88, so we purchased one for $1.28 a pound. That is a big difference. It is still double in price from what it used to be. I make homemade granola for less than the cost of a large box of cereal. If oats jump by $2 or more then boxed cereal is sure to follow. You can find my granola recipe here: Almond Cranberry Granola or a less expensive version here: Basic Homemade Granola Chicken breast went up .71 cents a pound and ground chuck hasn't been available for a month now. Ground beef went up to $3.88 a pound if purchased in the 10-pound roll. That is all that they had available. They did not have smaller packages like they normally do. They did have milk and butter this time, but they were out of other items that we were looking for. Ugh! It is a long way to drive to find out that they are out of something. I was able to purchase two of the items online, but I was unable to buy the peanut oil that we were looking for at a decent price.
We saw more than a few carts with several of the same items that were about to jump in price or be in short supply soon. I got tickled when I saw the guy's face who was pushing a cart filled with cases of canned pumpkin following his wife with a long list. They must really like pumpkin or maybe they are going to profit off the upcoming shortages like the people who are selling Siracha online for $40-$60 bucks a bottle or maybe they are going to donate the pumpkin to those who feed the masses for Thanksgiving. I don't know how much longer the world is going to be able to cope with the ever-increasing cost of food. Something has to give, or the pressure will break this already fragile food system.
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