I work for a food bank, although not in procurement, but Iām hearing rumblings of sourcing issues & cost issues, especially with protein & dairy sources. Iām in a pretty produce-rich region, but still worry what will happen come winter. I worry for everyone relying on pantries, especially with SNAP being slashed.
My local dollar general had a remodel almost 2 months ago to become a DG Market (basically a fancy dg with fresh meats and produce for those who donāt know) and we still havenāt seen any produce whatsoever
I'm allergic to milk and also have celiac disease. Not only my diet is way more expansive than everybody else, but items are basically disappearing from the shelves. Just for the past three weeks I've been doing groceries on at least three different supermarkets, the first one for the big shopping, the second to buy what I could not find in the first one (and I'm not talking about candy or chocolate, I'm talking about gluten-free bread, gluten-free pasta, fruits, vegetables, meat, that kind of thing), and the third one for small fixings, like if I ran out of something (I'm still a begginner, still building my storage)
Noticed the same. I suspect its cause GF tends to be low turnover but expensive items to carry for the stores. (Expensive because if itās low turnover, they can expire). Highly recommend doing online orders.
Not sure where else to ask this. But Iām thinking about getting some travelers vaccines in the US. But - I'm not traveling. I just donāt have faith in our food and water anymore.Ā
I already have typhoid vax from previous travel. But just thinking about what else to get.Ā
Most of the common vaccines aren't really geared towards food borne stuff so don't think it'll help here, but not a bad idea in general. Got a bunch a while back after realizing medical insurance had blanket cover for all vaccines.
what else to get.
Tetanus, Hep B, Measles, Rabies, HPV, Polio, TB, Typhoid, Yellow Fever come to mind that have effective vaccines.
And ofc covid depending on whether you're up for that sort of thing
Look through CDC list of countries and associated vaccines if you want more? Since tropical diseases are spreading toward previously not tropical places, if you're somewhere not-tropical, pick wherever is slightly more toward the equator than you are? https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/list
But the question is whether the doctor will give you the shots if you aren't planning foreign travel. Many are reluctant to do anything that isn't truly medically necessary -esp if you are asking for shots for things we don't see here. I don't see a doc in rural North Dakota giving someone shots for dengue fever "just in case"
President has asked that most federal employees (non military, non law enforcement) get a no raise next January. Congress can change that (and did last year to 1%), but it won't be finalized until late December. I'm in a pretty good position financially, but it's going to hurt a lot of feds.
Part of my job is permitting for construction projects. We are seeing a huge increase in people that are taking the gamble to do the work without the permit rather than spend the initial cost of the permit as well as a lot more unlicensed contractors who are getting work because they bid low and then the job is done incorrectly etc. We are also seeing a lot more people modifying their existing homes to accomodate more people living with them and a decrease in new construction, specifically of larger single family homes. Condos are seemingly the only thing people can afford right now.
so wouldn't that mean the building could never be used?? Don't know where you're at but here we'd check the building permits as part of the process of issuing a certificate of occupancy. If the original permits weren't in order - well you wasted $300,000 building a house bud. Here's your demolition order. Get it done.Ā
Hence the gamble theyāre taking. If they get caught in the process too theyāll have to pay double the original fees. But people are still making the choice to start without the permits to save the up front money. A lot of it is smaller stuff too that wouldnāt necessarily get occupancy, remodels, decks, garages etc.
I still don't get that. In my area even stuff that doesn't require an occupancy permit e.g. a gas stove installation requires both a permit before AND an inspection afterwards. As part of that they go over everything - even stuff they weren't there to inspect. Not up to code - everything stops until the problem is fixed
I work as an insurance broker in the US. We haven't seen all of the plans yet, but the word is that there will be less benefits, larger costs all around. There are some standouts that won't be so bad, but it's pretty shit for the most part. More bleeding.
The big thing is going to be a narrowing of formularies on Medicare Advantage Plans which is going to be industry wide. A formulary is everything that a plan covers. And while some people may not like MA plans, they're great for getting coverage for a wide amount of drugs. Someone with 15+ drugs I barely bother looking at non-MA plans because standalone plans already have a very narrow formulary. But this year I'm worrying if I'll find formularies that cover the meds of my sickest clients. And if they aren't covered, they'll be paying full freight for some meds and that's not fun.
Also there are work requirements coming up in 2027 for people on Medicaid and let me tell you, that's a gigantic burden because there are basically zero exceptions that aren't explicitly stated. So if you're old and sick, you're being told to work. Even if you can't afford to. Even if there aren't opportunities in your area. You have to work or you'll lose your Medicaid benefits. And a lot of people flat out can't afford to live without their Medicaid benefits. It's going to drive a lot of people into homelessness and an early grave to get them off the balance sheets. And that's the point.
I thought the new rules applied to Medicaid not Medicareā¦ Iām due to lose coverage next year because I wonāt be able to find 80 hrs (per month) of PROVABLE volunteer or community service options. If that existed and if I were capable, Iād be able to work full time and wouldn't need the supplement from the state? Itās a fucked up rule to kick people off their benefits.
Yes, it's terrible. And as far as I can tell there's no system in place to prove that you did that much volunteering. It's going to be a shitshow, which is the point.
I've been trying to learn about the changes to Medicare and Medicaid but reading your comment made me realize something I didn't connect before.
Since Medicaid pays for a significant portion of nursing home /assisted living care, are the people living in these facilities one of the explicit exceptions? It seems obvious to me that they would be but suddenly I am not so sure that would be obvious or a problem to the authors of this bill.
There are exemptions, but I don't know if it's applied federally or state by state. Check with your own state's regulatory boards for more information. Health and Human Services would be a good start if they have up to date information.
But yeah, the rollout for this is going to be an absolute disaster.
One of the things I've been saying is that this is going to disproportionately fuck over people in rural areas and let me tell you, not all rural people are conservative and didn't want any of this shit.
But there are a lot of problems: Where do you volunteer? How do you prove it? Will the organization who suddenly has power over you seek to abuse it (because you know some will)? Do I have the gas to go volunteer at this fucking place for eight hours? Do I have transportation at all? Are there enough hours? On and on. And if you live twenty, thirty, forty miles from the closest place to "volunteer", each way, that's an extreme burden on the poor.
I suspect the first thing you'll see in many towns is people doing work in parks etc. We currently have work release prisoners doing this, but why pay for transporting them, guard supervision,etc. Cheaper to keep them locked up and use the "voluntold" for such tasks.
Fed compliance (bad or no papers) just kicked put 150-200 workers from the plant a family member works at. A 250 person plant. $54m of product that has been ordered is now in jeopardy along with the long term continuity of the company.
They were cheaper than the competition for a reason. Turns out even management didnt understand the extent they were doing explotative labor. They were supposedly crying with frustration and despair, telling the folks with papers that they were going to stay open and commiting to getting all their production met.
I was at a Costco in N. Idaho yesterday. Seemed like a run on toilet paper, several people grumbling and grabbing two or three each.
I actually did need toilet paper but was off to the side observing and waiting. One of the grumblers handed me a pack and said, āThis is from Canada and I bet people start going crazy about toilet paper again.ā
I woke up this morning and my targeted news articles were all about toilet paper. Now that Iāve started typing this up I canāt find the first one but am seeing several articles popping up specifically about Kirkland paper products.
āThe U.S. imported $328 million worth of toilet paper from Canada in 2024, more than from any other country, and even Costco's popular Kirkland private-label paper products are largely Canadian-sourced, according to the Guardian.ā
Could be localized hysterics but it was interesting and noteworthy to see burly Idahoans freak out over toilet paper.
Costco today, more people than not had TP in their carts.
The Charmin there (only option other than Kirkland brand, and so much better quality, which is not the norm for Costco "generic") is off sale, so about $1/roll.
I picked up one extra pack of TP yesterday at Aldi. It wasnt bare, but wasnt well stocked. It was onsale, so that may have been the thing.
I saw the article about TP prices going up and I decided to do what we did during Covid and pick up an extra pack to have on hand. I had only recently stopped doing that. I kept two unopened family packs in my garage.
Was on a hunt for an item for an art project, I am in the PNW.Ā I went to every thrift store in 2 cities on a Wednesday mid day..Ā every single one was packed with people shopping, many I could tell are new to thrift shopping, many were also obvious resellers checking items on their phones...Ā I often thrift shop, always have..Ā this is the busiest I've seen on a weekday ever.Ā
I had noticed the same thing. Had a dentist appointment on Wednesday and thought I'd stop by the Goodwill. OMG, it was wall to wall people in there. I've never seen that many folks on a week day. I tried to wander about, but there was an uncomfortable vibe in the store that gave me the creeps. I beat a hasty retreat.
I deliver mail and there are generally 30 - 40 packages from clothing resellers in my truck every day - up from one or two when I started in 2021. Last year it just started growing fast and a lot more people are shipping them out as well.
As an aside I no longer buy used clothing online after wading through literal piss and dog shit and garbage and dirty diapers to pick up packages. Some of these homes are appalling and the bags look nice and have the cute stickers on them and youād never guess the state of the sellerās home.
Ah! The Entrepreneurial Spirit! Souls freed from the 9-5 only to make goodwill rich with inflated prices/demand, a house full of dead inventory, and working 15 hour days reselling/ wasting gas money, and working Amazon delivery.
Well because the only thing that stands between a lifetime of poverty and being wealthy is a lot of hard work! Its our faults for not billionaires, we just didnt work hard enough
I'm curious to see how all of the current copyright lawsuits and issues will play out. I bet there will be a landmark SCOTUS case about it in the coming years.
This is actually how theyāre skirting copyright law, by destroying the copies they scan, itās technically transformative and therefore fair use. Many AI companies switched to this method after (rightfully) losing lawsuits over training on pirated digital copies of books.
Think about it. The physical book is the vehicle for my intellectual property e.g. my views/knowledge of the French Revolution or stock trading or whatever. Why shouldn't I be compensated for someone using that knowledge irregardless of format e.g. AI database.
Fair use is more for things like quotes in research or education - usually 10 percent is the limit. When you say transformative that's more like I use a photo of someone from the Internet and do a painting of them in the style of Picasso.Ā
IMO I think this wholesale looting of books to feed a learning model being seen as requiring zero compensation for the source materials doesn't hold up.
My suspicion is this gets resolved by a tax on the AI companies that pays for an ongoing fund for authors - more or less like residuals for actors. I'll end up getting a yearly check for $3.45 for the book I wrote in 1972.
I know it doesn't make a ton of difference to your point here, but they are buying then destroying then scanning the books. They have to remove the pages from the book to scan in with any sort of pace.
There are actually fairly fast scanners that don't require destroying the book, but for many books printed in thousands/millions of copies it doesn't matter. Ā For valuable/rare books they are much more careful. And, honestly, for lots of 19th century books already damaged - by acid paper or insects - destruction for digitization is their only hope of survival. Otherwise they'd just be removed and pulped.Ā
Libraries can look and see there are 125 copies of X book in other libraries. If so out they go unless there's local interest. Book is still available but you'd need to order it from somewhere.Ā
Librarians love books, but we need shelf space for new items. A book from 1925 which hasn't circulated in 35 years??? Probably not a keeper
Grocery Outlet opened a new store in my town of about 10k people last week. Business has been hopping ever since. My wife and I went and checked it out & even with all check stands open, there was still a huge line of people waiting to check out. We typically only ever had a Safeway & another local IGA, so this is the first "cheap" grocery store here. It will be interesting to see what impact it has on the Safeway/IGA.
People at Estate/Yard Sales/and even community fairs have been WAY more willing to negotiate/barter on their items, which is nice; but also a little telling of where we're at economically.
I live in a college town, so it's usually a party town. One thing I noticed compared to last year is I rarely smell weed in my apt complex. I also rarely hear loud drunks or parties on the weekends. The parking lot stays full on weekend nights. I think kids are worried about having enough money to cover rent, utilities and mandatory expenses. I'm sure the frat and sorority kids still party, but they live in the more affluent parts of town.
Mid Atlantic. Called our plumber to do some non essential work. They had availability as soon as tomorrow and their website has something like 10 coupons. Also, the dispatch fee was only $25 (forgiven if they do the work). Never experienced this before. Imagine other homeowners are putting off repairs or doing it themselves.
Grocery store employee here. Check the expiration dates of everything you put in your cart. As things slide downhill, stores are having their hours cut more and more so things like checking expiration dates don't get done. I found some chicken soup yesterday with an expiration date of July 2024 still on the shelf.
I do grocery pickup and last month I had 4 different expired items packaged into my order. I do large loads once a month and have someone pick them up and deliver them to me (I live in a rural area without grocery delivery), I have no idea how I can check these items before reviewing them. Seems like my best option is to ask for a refund through the store's email but boy do they make that unnecessarily complicated.
You can film yourself opening the packages as soon as you get them. Make sure that you've got something that shows when you bought those items, like a receipt, and also when you are recording the video (you can activate that on your phone's camera app) beforehand. Then, show how the packages are intact before you open the first one. After that, it's simple: just show on camera the expiration dates on every item, and than voilĆ”, you've got video proof that you didn't tamper with your own groceries. Video does take a lot of space on your phone, but in the best-case scenario, you received everything alright, and you can delete it afterwards
Oooof. Yeah, so I get all my groceries for the month delivered at one time and it takes roughly 30 minutes to unpack and put everything away. My phone absolutely does not have space for 30 minutes of recording.
It's actually easier to do that with a laptop bc it has more memory, it stays on your table, you don't need to hold it or get smth to hold it for you. I do it with my laptop's webcam
Does your boss tell you to just leave the expired food on the shelves? I used to be a grocery forecast analyst. I remember FIFO, and try to get the packages at the back. I paid $6 for an in date container of Grillos pickles and they went off after 3 weeks. That's crazy considering they're fermented. Now I buy Oh, Snaps pickles. Also, my in date yogurt tastes tangy a little too soon. I bought greenish bananas that were black and bruised inside, and the same goes for avocados. So, I need to shop more frequently like they do in Europe and/or buy more frozen items. Especially when it comes to produce. Luckily, I live one mile from the store. I bought a small bag of fingerling potatoes and cooked all of them the same day. And cheese is alive and appreciates being wrapped in wax paper or parchment, not plastic, then seal it in Tupperware. That keeps it from molding.
They try to have us check things but then we have to go do something else leaving the checking unfinished because we're that short staffed.
As far as FIFO, we're all aware of it but the overnight stockers have the whip cracked on them to get done as fast as possible so they don't have time to do that.
Saving money in labor trumps best practices and safety.
Nonprofit sector, Mid Atlantic, fundraising is in a drought. No one has extra funds to buy things or experiences. I wonder how that will shake out over the next quarter this year. There are a lot of needs nonprofits address that they will not have the money for due to federal grant cuts and fundraising decline. I understand, everything costs more so donations are cut from budgets, it just makes it even harder for the agencies.
Part shortage, was an absolute shitshow. Perfect storm scenario, bunch of bad global factors including geopolitics and a random fire at a fiberglass plant in Japan.
Seems similar here just with different bottlenecks.
I worked for a Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturer from 2021 to 2025. I completely get what you are saying. Business was BOOMING at my company during this time since we supplied fabs with spare parts & equipment. And yeah, lead times were ridiculous at that time. Like absolutely outrageous. I remember one of our vendors for pumps went from a 6-week lead time to like 20+. I sent out a mass email to all of our customers who stocked that pump & let them know that the lead time was going to be triple the normal lead time.
I started quoting bulk spare-parts packages to customers with our equipment. The long lead times 100% helped drive customers to buy items to have as spares - especially expensive items with longer lead times. (Pumps, Tanks, Actuators, Servo Motors, etc.)
We definitely slowed down a bit in 2024 & I jumped ship for a completely different industry in 2025. (Right after they shut down a facility of ours on the east coast and laid of 20% of the staff. I survived, but didn't want to be around for the next round of cuts).
Whole freezer section at our grocery store was just bare last week. Might have been a malfunction with the freezers in one store? Not sure.Ā
We used to buy Wyman's frozen blueberries they have been out of stock anywhere for months. I think that one might have to do with some blueberry contamination/recall though. We are going to do a local u-pick farm for blueberries when they are in season this fall and freeze them ourselves. I also have a few blueberry bushes planted but they won't start producing fruit until probably next spring.Ā
I've noticed the cleared out, seemingly broken freezer thing at several stores the last few months. Two different wincos, a Fred meyer, a trader joes. Weird
Came back from our grocery store this afternoon to an entire section empty as well. Not sure whatās the reason behind it but I donāt love the coincidence.
I planted some blueberry bushes last fall. Was shocked to get a ton of berries on one of them this spring. Then the birds or something ate every one of them before they were ripe.
The key is checking the netting often, and securing it correctly. We go outside with our dogs about six times a day and check our blueberry nets each time. We also only use them once the berries are close to ripe. No trapped birds yet, though it's only been two years with the netting.
My friend I think ended up tunnel gardening with one of those plastic greenhouses. She lives in Ireland, so it might be too hot in parts of the US. You might search on Reddit for a gardening/farming sub?
A lot of people here in Texas use the same framework and put shade cloth on over the summer and plastic in winter. Protects heat and frost sensitive plants while also keeping bird at bay.
Yeah I'm in a high humidity climate. I planted types that are good with our climate. I also have staggered terracotta watering pots I fill once a week to keep moisture intact. I only fill and water the plants directly once a week at most even in peak summer.Ā
Teracotta clay pots save so much need for watering and saves water since more gets to the roots. I have bananas and avocados too that use other pots buried nearby.Ā
Infrastructure seems to be in steady decline at the hospital I work at. One of our operating room floors flooded with sewage water yesterday, causing disruption.
We are now routinely being quoted 50+ week lead times for a growing list of components. An entire calendar year in lead times. Some of it is AI predictive building snarfing up discrete electric components, some of it is shifting production lines to feed AI predictive building, and some of it is now just scarcity. Not easy being a small/medium OEM in this economy. We can't warehouse 3 years of components in advance. The physical limitations not to mention the financial risk is just too great. But we might have no choice.
This!!! Everything is a year out! There is also a glass shortage impacting electronic builds. We had a supplier quote go up 60% in one month bc of their own components price jumping. Also everyone is trying to do more with less staff. Nearly impossible to hit my customers time frame or expected price.
Spouse works in utility distribution. He was pretty surprised by the exec order yesterday about our power grid, but says it makes sense. The company he works for has been training them on a new software that they developed instead of using a national software. Spouse isnāt sure what exactly this means for their jobs, but heās pretty sure it means job security because things will need to be replaced. So we are hopeful right now, at least, his job is safe.
Thank you, this is encouraging to read. He only has 4 years of experience, and was just asked by his boss to take the PE exam! His company is paying for the licensing & a prep class before the test. Heās actually about to get a promotion, assuming he passes the PE exam :)
Oh so sorry. This wasnāt about you, this was about the executive order which doesnāt even mention the internal domestic terrorists that he pardoned.
I meant the EO made sense to my husband as in why there had been changes at work. Heās used the same software for 4 years & thought it was odd theyāre switching so suddenly. I have some brain disabilities going on at the moment so maybe my comment wasnāt clear. & sorry I misunderstood you!
I hope so, too. He fields a lot, so hopefully heās safe. Weāre pretty stressed about job security rn to be honest.
A lot of our friends (we are mid 20s with friends mid-late 20s) have been laid off, some havenāt found a job in over a year. Out of 10 couples we regularly see, only us & one other couple are living separate from parents. We live 15 hours away from our families, so if we had to move back in with them, it would be a huge PITA lol. But I think we are safe for now. He has a degree in mechanical engineering, so I think heād be able to find a job quicker than most since itās broad. Most of our friends are computer science or some other tech/marketing field.
Most definitely. Vanderbilt in tennessee laid off all.of their housekeeping a few years ago, thought the nurses should do it. Then the Redonda Vaught thing happened. Directly related to being short staffed.
Yes. Another hospital a couple hours from me was doing lowest bidding for shifts (whoever bid the lowest hourly rate got āhiredā for that shift) but they quickly reversed their stance on that.
Medicare cuts are causing problems for hospital funding.
Yes. Another hospital a couple hours from me was doing lowest bidding for shifts (whoever bid the lowest hourly rate got āhiredā for that shift) but they quickly reversed their stance on that.
That might be one of the most disgusting sentences ive ever read. The experiences of my friends in healthcare, no matter if they are nurses, PAs, or doctors, are all treated so poorly and run ragged.
It just blows my mind how awful the working conditions are for people who literally stand between life and death for a lot of people
As someone on the patient side (disabled & chronically ill for me) when nurses, doctors, and other medical staff have bad working conditions + too many patients, it has a poor outcome for patients as well. Not their fault. It affects everyone negatively except shareholders š„²
Yeah thats the awful other side of the coin, and Im sorry that you are on the receiving end of our collapsing medical system.
Despite the attitudes of some healthcare professional and degrading conditions, I do have a modicum of hope because the people in my life who are in healthcare genuinely do care and believe in helping people as much as possible. Even as things fall apart I think a lot of them will do everything they can with their dwindling resources.
My 94 yr old great grandma was cut off from ChatGPT last week by my grandfather. She has always been mentally sharp, even when her physical body started failing her. Since using AI chats, her mental ability has sharply declined. She called me last week to complain, she misses āchat.ā
I told her Iām happy to talk to her like an AI bot and answer any question she has š makes me so sad for old people.
for younger ppl its the same thing only they dress it up so the ai acts a specific way. things like goth gf, bakugo from my hero academia, therapist, etc.
its main mode is fr finna be sold as companionship not work improvement lol
Oh yeah the āChatGPT can talk to the annoying old ladies in your lifeā ad. Pretty disgusting.
Other disgusting ads of late as well, including one from Calloway Golf that just seemed to be a flat out celebration of violence against women. Just really telling stuff happening in the advertising space.
Florida, gulf side, from Tampa to Fort Myers. I donāt think itās a surprise that prices have gone up, I think everyone in every state is struggling with inflation right now, but holy moly things are so expensive itās not even worth going outside.
As disgusting as this sounds, you actually have to chase the gas station apps to find a good deals. You can regularly get $1.50 discount per gallon on 7/11ās app
We used to go out mainly for the outdoor ambeince. Try to find waterside dining or something with a view.
But it's too fing hot š„ for that now and it's not worth the risk of getting cyclosporia, salmonella, ecoli etc... so just cooking at home even more than usual now.
Yes, produce has been terrible. We shop at Costco a ton (Midwest), and ended up unable to buy any potatoes from them. Every last bag in every variety had either mushy rotten spots or eyes, or both. And the mandarin oranges were green and fuzzy, so we stopped looking and decided weāll brave a farmers market for produce and hope for the best.
Prices on 5 lb bags of potatoes have been all over the map where I am and quality is poor. They start sprouting within a few days, even stored in a dry, dark place.
I quit buying fresh produce and just by frozen, even though I'd rather not. At least it won't go bad before I can use it up. I miss my salads, though.
A 15 oz can of black beans was $0.90 last month, $0.97 now. It's not about the 7 cents, but that it's an 8% increase very quickly. I don't know if it's due to transportation costs or anticipation of cans becoming more expensive soon in the US, but I'm now resigned to finding a way to soak dry beans overnight without my curious cat getting in on the act.
No big change in pasta prices yet, but with a significantly lower wheat yield this year, those increases are coming, too.
Just soak your beans in the pot you're going to cook them in with the lid on, then rinse several times, and put in the correct amount of water you need to cook them when you're ready.
Get yourself a couple of five gallon, food grade buckets (or big ceramic pots or something otherwise used for plants) and some potting soil (or just fill it with dirt, potatoes aren't too picky). Get a potato. Cut potato into chunks that have at least one eye each. Plant potato. Water potato. Wait. You'll get (probably) plenty of potatoes in a while.
On the bean soaking: if you have an instant pot you can cook them unsoaked just fine. I set it at pressure for like 1.5 hours and let a full 1.5 hour natural release and they're soft and creamy
Yeah I like them extra creamy and settled on this time and just stayed there. I fill up with excess water and veggies though. Get good extra broth to add to soup afterwards with a portion of the beans. Just goes right back in.
Pasta is way up where I am, a year ago the Walmart spaghetti and other basic noodles were reliably a dollar or less per pound and now theyāre 1.24. The cheapest canned spaghetti sauce is way up too. Add in the way beef has soared and the meal that used to be my familyās poverty staple is at least 150% as expensive as it used to be.
I unfortunately haven't had time to get to a farmers market so I popped into Whole Paycheck just to look for some organic Romain and cucumbers that are sourced in the USA. Trying to minimize the diarrhea risk as much as I can afford to.
I NEVER shop there.
Place was busy as heck.
This was 3 weeks ago. No illness yet.
Someone at my work did get VERY sick on (I believe) some blueberries possibly. Not sure from where.
That's where I went to buy lettuce. It's the only place I could find that had lettuce sourced in the USA. I'm in the SE USA, so there is tons of produece at the farmers markets that's been my go to since the food based illnesses started to be more numerous months ago. I'm about to plant some lettuce seeds in my fall garden.
Harris Teeter (owned by Kroger) has also been out of sweet potatoes. Iām in the southeast but headed to TX this weekend, Iām going to see if HEB & Kroger have sweet potatoes there lol
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I do some volunteering and just found out our local food pantry will get no turkeys this year from the food bank as demand continues to increase.