+- Punaweb Forum (http://punaweb.org/forum)
+-- Forum: Punaweb Forums (http://punaweb.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Forum: Punatalk (http://punaweb.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=10)
+--- Thread: Food Inflation (/showthread.php?tid=12189)
RE: Food Inflation - Sue Nomie - 07-12-2013
I've been buying this Freeze Dried stuff in a #10 can from Oahu. Shelf life is anywhere from 7 to 25yrs.
The brand is Thrive. Fresh food is always better, but storing a few months worth in the back of a closet
is not a bad idea. We do live on this little dot in the middle of NO where. There is going to be a lady at the HPP
Swap Meet tomorrow who finally sells it here. I like the idea of filling a closet or under a bed and forgetting about it until you need it. With that shelf life you can do it. I've tasted several and not bad. I still want fresh until it is not available. Worth looking into. I think she is also going to be a the Emergency Preparedness fair in Keaau HS in AUG.31.
RE: Food Inflation - pander75 - 07-12-2013
Seriously. Don't shop at Wal-Mart! All your hard earned $$ goes off-island. Yes I know it's cheap and we're all hurting for cash, but Wal-Mart is NOT. They paid their CEO's MILLIONS last year, while their employees make so little that many of them need food stamps.
For just a bit more money you could support local businesses that actually care about Hawaii. Costs a bit more, but personally I think it's worth it.
RE: Food Inflation - rainyjim - 07-12-2013
quote:
Originally posted by pander75
Seriously. Don't shop at Wal-Mart! All your hard earned $$ goes off-island. Yes I know it's cheap and we're all hurting for cash, but Wal-Mart is NOT. They paid their CEO's MILLIONS last year, while their employees make so little that many of them need food stamps.
For just a bit more money you could support local businesses that actually care about Hawaii. Costs a bit more, but personally I think it's worth it.
This. Someone recently found a steamy **** in their parking lot.
RE: Food Inflation - pahoated - 07-12-2013
quote:
Originally posted by pander75
Seriously. Don't shop at Wal-Mart! All your hard earned $$ goes off-island. Yes I know it's cheap and we're all hurting for cash, but Wal-Mart is NOT. They paid their CEO's MILLIONS last year, while their employees make so little that many of them need food stamps.
For just a bit more money you could support local businesses that actually care about Hawaii. Costs a bit more, but personally I think it's worth it.
It's not going to help. Hawaii imports 92% of its goods and produce, meaning that much money leaves these islands, one way or the other, not just Walmart. Not only that, Walmart and Target have started selling local produce. Even then, quite a bit of produce doesn't grow here. Even in the farmers market, more and more of that produce is being brought in from Thailand and Indonesia. The primary reason is that farmers and farm help in southeast asia are getting paid a fraction of what even a subsistence farmer needs to live on here. That difference is paying for the shipping, which the Jones act doesn't apply, and still providing profits along the way. The snag on the Hawaii end is when the price of the oil the food is floating on starts going to the heavens.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
RE: Food Inflation - unknownjulie - 07-12-2013
I have so many things I want to say about all of this, but will try and keep it short. It is an absolute necessity that I shop at walmart for food for my kids. Cant feed them any other way. I am also a bit of a prepper and have certain foods planted out on my lot that will be producing soon, with the idea of sustainable food. I have some pigeon pea bushes that should start producing a constant stream of legumes with little or no cultivation. I also have 3 "spinach trees" that someone gave me that are used mostly in the carribean. YOu can harvest up to 50% of their leaves at one time- and these cook up like spinach. Again, with little or no cultivation. I am also going to be planting a fodder beet type tuber that can grow up to 2 pounds! (but this may rot- I will experiment). This combined with various fruit trees and wild strawberry guava should help feed the family. But, milk and meat is still an issue and growing kids need this (IMO). I will just be glad when school starts again and they can eat breakfast and lunch everyday at school.
RE: Food Inflation - Carey - 07-12-2013
Oregon... We were visiting outside of Phoenix, and noticed prices were more similar to on island than I thought they would be...I thought maybe my internal 'pricer' was a bit off...thanks for confirming that things are going up all over!
Now if only there were more colors of tiles there....but no...same as here (OK, I KNOW that this is very odd...but i thought maybe there would be COLORS....but just the same as here....so we only dragged back a very few tiles that were odd lot from a custom order....odd...yah...but hopefully they will yield something creative)
RE: Food Inflation - Hawaii Bound - 07-12-2013
quote:
Originally posted by Sue Nomie
I've been buying this Freeze Dried stuff in a #10 can from Oahu. Shelf life is anywhere from 7 to 25yrs.
The brand is Thrive.
Do you mind sharing where you are purchasing it at? I use to have that brand on the mainland (free shipping from Costco) but Costco's contract is with UPS so it's too expensive to have it shipped here. I am curious to see what the rate is from Oahu.
RE: Food Inflation - csgray - 07-12-2013
Carey,
Have you thought about connecting with any local clay artists who would make you tiles whenever they need to fill out a firing? A friend of ours in Oregon who was an artist did that so she would have a way to use up the ends of glazes and clay from other projects, and then she would use them to fill out her firings too. She made mosaics and liked always having a good stash of tiles ready to go for borders and fill.
You might also contact tile workers who do high end custom work, they probably end up with left over colors from custom jobs, also the recycled building supply people who have stores in Kona and Hilo might be willing to call you when they get tile in.
Good luck.
Carol
RE: Food Inflation - riverwolf - 07-12-2013
.... "I will be glad when school starts again and they can eat breakfast and lunch at school".
You do not feed your children before sending them off for the day to school?
I thought school was to educate, not a day care centre, where you can drop the kids off for the day and have somebody else feed them and pay the bill.
Too many people expecting society to pay the bills and help raise children. What ever happened to independent and responsible behaviour and lifestyle choices.
Most of the people I have met here in Puna who cry for subsidized support with an entitlement mentality have paid minimal into the system that they expect to support them....
enjoy.
riverwolf
RE: Food Inflation - Hotzcatz - 07-12-2013
We just got back from five weeks on the mainland and there wasn't much if any drop in food or restaurant prices over there at all. Restaurant prices were higher, although we weren't at McD's, so perhaps that would be similar priced.
As for food, if you grow the stuff, you save 1.25% of what it would cost to buy it since you pay taxes on getting the money and taxes on buying the stuff.
We almost always have vegetables from the garden although it got decimated by the house sitters. Apparently they did eat a lot of vegetables from it. They harvested the whole plant instead of just a few leaves at a time but the roots are still there so it will grow back. Still need to plant a few more seeds since there is now going to be a gap in the production where they didn't plant when they harvested, but the avo tree should fill in. This is just a pair of small gardens, about twelve feet long by four feet wide made of stacked concrete blocks with dirt piled inside. The only fertilizer is bunny manure and most of the seeds are harvested from the previous season's plants. There is almost always something to eat from the garden, usually up to 85% of what's on our plate can be from the garden. Can't get much less expensive than that for edibles.
House prices were almost comparable to the mainland, although the sizes here were much smaller for the same number of bedrooms. Smaller lot sizes, too. But a two bedroom costs about the same here as were we were visiting.
Kurt Wilson