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In Superstore flyer tomorrow


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Here in the US things are getting a bit hairy at the supermarkets. There is definitely a shortage of food on the shelves and in the dairy and meat departments. With a shortage of truck drivers and the storms that we have been having the last few weeks, a loaf of bread is silver.

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Here in France too, surprisingly shortages in the vegetable department, as in iceberg lettuce, green beans have been sparse for months. Sometimes we have fresh fish other times not. Some brands of TP and kleenex and soap have been off th list for click ordering and home delivery since over a year ago when the lockdowns began.
Costs also have gotten higher and food was already expensive in France compard to other eu countries we lived in before like spain and italy. Where will it all end. With rents and food prices rising and quality and choice declining, seems Covid has really changed my expectations of the future.

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I haven't noticed any shortages food wise here in BC where I am, although prices have inflated which could be reducing demand, COVID was a slight benefit to rents in BC, did lower them a tad in some specific spots like Downtown Vancouver but also caused inflated rents outside of Downtown Vancouver, so overall its likely made housing affordability worse.

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Can’t say I have noticed shortages in groceries, apart from some seasonal fruit.

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I think I did alright on this produce box; I wanted some carrots to make hash and saw those little ones peeking out.
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What I ended up with is those carrots, 4 big bananas, a grapefruit, 2 pomegranates, 3 mandarins, 2 oranges, carton of oyster mushrooms, carton of big stuffer button mushrooms and a handful of loose ones, and 3 limes, 1 of which is gracing a vodka and tonic as I write.
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I really love those product boxes you can buy. I'd love that.

We have a pomegranite tree in the front garden area. but they never fully ripen off on one side as it is not in mega full sun.

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Please don't laugh at me, but how in the world do you eat a pomergranite? Do you eat the seeds only or only the white part of the fruit?

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Not eaten one since I was a child, seeds only. Mum used to cut it in half, then we picked the seeds out with a hair pin/grip.

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Wow, that was worth watching until he was done. I wasn’t ready for how well it turned out. Now I need a pomegranate.

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I have one left; didn't do quite as nice a job on one this morning but hey-ho. There are a gaggle of pomegranate videos on youtube, with music so more entertaining. It's supposed to be good for you which is a bonus.

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Oo. That's a bit good. Our pomegranates are all flush red on one side and green on the other. They also split on the tree.

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So Walmart's flyer (from last Thursday) had Maple Leaf chickens @ $1.97/lb.
Instacart didn't show that price until Sunday when it said average price about $7.50
Scrolling down there was another listing for ML chickens, average price $4.14 :blink:

It was strange, when I searched chicken, filtering the ML brand, only the $7.50 ones came up.
When I filtered on sale, both came up but the picture of the $4 had Lilydale on the label when magnified.

It still looked like a mistake but I ordered 2 @ $4.14 in today's delivery. My receipt shows $8.18 for 2 chickens whose offer price totals $13.27, which is already pretty good.

It's times like this when I wished I'd ordered half a dozen. :lol:

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I ate so much pomegranate growing up, I love pomegranate season my mom not so much. :lol:

We had several trees in our backyard, produced more fruit than we could eat or giveaway.


I worked out the cost of my wife's breakfast today if we tried to make it at home $2.20 is what it costs through the meal program she is in, would have cost about $4 in total making it at home, so it's not always cheaper to make your own food. ;)

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We have 13 (thirteen) chickens in our freezers :rofl:

(but only one Turkey ;))

On today's grocery order corned beef was $4.77 but I noticed the Halal version - same brand, same weight - was $2.77. So that's what I ordered. 3 tins.

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Breaking News.....
Butterball Turkeys advertised in latest Sobeys/Superstore flyers :lol:

Not what I'd call a 'deal' though as it's the same price as the one we got last week. $4.34/kg. $1.96/lb.
Pretty sure I paid $1.49/lb for a Butterball (or PC equivalent) last year and the basic Walmart ones 99c/lb a couple of years ago when we had about 5 in the freezer.

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I picked up some teeny tiny lambchops this morning and have located the little jar of mint jelly in the fridge door.
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Super Store employees in Alberta have voted to strike by a wide margin, the strike vote is good for 120 days and the union only needs to provide 72 hours notice, no notification yet about a strike and the union seems open to the company coming back to the table to negotiate and make an offer that is acceptable to the majority of the workers as 97% voted to strike so whatever the offer was seems it was not acceptable to the large majority.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8229378/a...s-vote-strike/

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Leg of lamb hugely reduced in Walmart this week. $4.97/lb.
A great opportunity to stock up and then I discovered we have six in the freezers from the last stocking up. :lol:

Still bought two more though. $40 legs for $27. :thumbup:
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Gala apples in Superstore, $3.99/lb :eek:
They are still there. :nod:

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Food inflation is worse than the government stats show according to a study.

Stats Canada says 2.7% where this study done by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab says its closer to 5%.

Meat has risen the most at 10% over the past 6 months. (eggs are 33 cents more per dozen yesterday vs January according to the 2 receipts I have.)

49% of Canadians surveyed are buyng less meat and even higher in Alberta where 57% say they cut back on meat.

42 per cent of respondents doing more flyer shopping this year.

40% say they are buying discounted near best by date products more.

Even if prices haven't gone up shrinkflation has shrunk products so you just get less for the same price, like the cereal I buy, it was 1kg now its 907grams which is kind of an odd number, why 907, why not 900? Price did go up a bit as well though, so inflation and shrinkflation all in one box. :rofl:

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Who copied who I wonder?

Apparently a tiny chain in the US midwest called No Frills, looks kind of familiar doesn't it?

The US chain looks to have started in 1979/1980 time frame, and got up to 15 stores by 2005 when the owner died, now they appear to have 3 stores total so seems like the chain is dead, but interesting how similiar the colors and such were, just not sure who copied who, no way it's just a coincidence.

I only came across this similiariity as one of the stores in Iowa shut down and they found Larry who had been missing for 7 years, sadly Larry wasn't okay when found.
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I wonder if Loblaws paid to use the name? If they'd been first they would have certainly sued the small chain. Was Larry the guy they found jammed in behind a freezer or cooler?

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Yeah that was Larry, guess for his family its good the location closed otherwise he may not have been found for even longer, at least being found they got some closure, but what a crappy way to die.

It did cross my mind that Loblaws would have dealt with the issue, who knows, maybe it's like Target US and Target Australia, same name, similiar logos, not related though.

If it were just the name I would say conincidence, but it appears the US chain also used yellow and black, and just so similiar, but looks to be a mostly defunct chain now, only 3 small town locations listed on their very basic website, but I did find some old commercials, seems they were a little more frills than our version as they had deli, bakery, and butchers in store.

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Has anyone ever tried this candy? Say's it's made in England, never seen it before, seems interesting so I order a bag to try (Amazon has them) as first time I ever seen them, I like trying new candy.

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Bubble Gum flavour...no thanks.
You should try Sherbet Lemons or Lemon Bonbons.
And Topic for chocolate.

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No…sounds awful. :sick: I used to like Love Hearts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Hearts

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And Parma Violets?

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They do the same ones, but in the flavour of drumstick lollies :wub:

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Didn't care for those.

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Oh there will be a change in tonight's menu, but I'll have to figure out how to cook it. Snagged a couple of these.
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Nice pick up! I roast mine, but they're nice barbequed/grilled too.

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Walmart still doing their $4.99/lb leg of lamb.

I don't think I've ever seen butterfly style before. I wonder if they'd work cooked in a sauce like lamb shanks do?

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Actually it got a bit better; the other package was priced higher so bonus! I'll freeze the big one.

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The lamb is Australian, and you are Australian, so I shall roast mine as well.

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I wouldn't cook it like that. Lamb shanks are tough so benefit from slow cooking in liquid/sauce, whereas a boneless leg (which is all a butterflied lamb leg is) very tender.

I wish we could get lamb bargains like that over here! Bought a leg to roast last weekend, $37. Let me know how it turns out Sean :D

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You can have a listen to this while it's cooking :drinkingpals:

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I've always thought of a lamb shank as being the end part of a leg and those parts always cook well on a normal cook.but perhaps I'm wrong about that and they're different again. :unsure:


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It's just that when I've cooked shank slowly or leg of lamb normally, those end bits look the same with the meat sort of expanding but sliding up the bone.

Either way, I was thinking of a quicker cook time in the same way for a spatchcock chicken.

Tell you what though, I just read "lamb shanks are inexpensive" :eek: Not here they're not. Bloody fortune. Almost the same price as the boneless leg and quite a bit more than the leg. Looks to me like delicacy pricing :nod:

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Looks to me as if you got the best of both... a leg of lamb - with a shank you could cook separately (cook it slow and low)

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Upside to your local stores seem to be getting some pretty good deals on food, I never see anything this good. :lol: Can't beat that price at all.

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When it's sitting on the rack it looks a lot more like $7.50 worth than $25 worth. I just checked your Superstore and they have some decent looking produce and fruit boxes but the meat is half price pork chops so nothing to really get excited about. There is no perfect flashfood produce box. Some come close though.
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