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paid $8 for 5/lb of whole wheat flour yesterday - Fritz - 05-26-2023
up in a little over a year from $5 that it has been for a decade or more.
and I had to go to 3 stores to find any.
despite wheat commodity prices going down by half in the last year.
In theory, wheat is a trailing commodity price. IE: when the commodity price goes up or down, the price change is reflected at the consumer level 6 months or more later.
Other than the occasional almond croissant, anything baked I bake at home coz we don't like soft flavorless bread with 50 ingredients on the bag. Only Alvarado Street comes close.
US Makes Rare Wheat Imports From Europe After Drought Ravages Crops
"The dismal weather also means American farmers are poised to abandon wheat crops at the highest rate in more than a century ..."
I may have posted this previously. Get over it.
Russia, because of climate change, the future breadbasket.
The US has given away technology manufacture, clothes manufacture, failing in automotive manufacture (except foreign car companies in rtw states. IE: no union and much lower wages than UAW), pharma, blah, blah, blah.
Thank dogness for the biG Mac.
My acct once said to me,
"once US corps have come to peak efficiency and use the least amount of humans possible to make the most cost effective products at the least expensive price, who will have a money/job to buy the future?"
Re: paid $8 for 5/lb of whole wheat flour yesterday - Speedy - 05-26-2023
Canada grows wheat and lots of it. With climate change they will grow even more.
Re: paid $8 for 5/lb of whole wheat flour yesterday - vision63 - 05-26-2023
I bought a tiny 2.5 lb bag of flour yesterday to make a roux with and that cost much more than I thought it would. A little less than 3 bucks.
Re: paid $8 for 5/lb of whole wheat flour yesterday - Racer X - 05-26-2023
no idea why the regional gouging. Just got back from Kroger. 5# of whole wheat flour was $2.79 :dunno: I checked because of this thread.
Re: paid $8 for 5/lb of whole wheat flour yesterday - Fritz - 05-26-2023
pootie!
Re: paid $8 for 5/lb of whole wheat flour yesterday - Racer X - 05-27-2023
blend it 50/50? Make your bread beige? I do that with "french" style in my bread machine, along with a healthy shot of EVOO.
Re: paid $8 for 5/lb of whole wheat flour yesterday - Fritz - 05-27-2023
I use it with other flours for sure. My main sammy bread is 8 grains or so.