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Unacceptable Prices for Trendy Items and Ingredients

rane008

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Toliver

Toliver

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I do a lot of my shopping at a discount grocers (a chain ironically owned by a big name more expensive grocery chain). In the cheaper grocery store, they will sell rotisserie chickens for $5.99. But if I go to the big name more expensive grocery chain, they sell the same chicken for 2 bucks more. WTF? :blink:

Or I can just go to Costco and get their freakishly large rotisserie chickens for the same price as the discount grocery chain (which offers a much smaller bird).

It's as if the stores don't realize that we comparison shop these days so they think they can charge whatever they want. Well, I ain't buyin' it in more ways than one. :wink:

Is it Food for Less vs. Ralphs? If so, you're paying for atmosphere too.

No. Though all of the major grocery chains seem to own discount grocery chains. The store I frequent is FoodMaxx, owned by the Save Mart grocery chain. Save Mart is a central California chain, so you may not have heard of them.

You're right about atmosphere. The atmosphere inside Food Maxx is depressingly "ghetto" (I actually overheard two Food Maxx customers talking about the store and one said "I admit I'm pretty ghetto, but this store makes me look like I'm Neiman-Marcus").

I will never forget my shock at seeing Ralph's delivery trucks in the Food for Less loading docks. It was eye opening, to say the least.

 

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L.sutter

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Rotuts: "I do it this way: If its not on sale, then why pay the more expensive price? it true from time to time you need to pay full retail, but its not hard to look at the 'weekly ads' and see what's on sale and use that as the basis of what you will (mostly) cook."

I've tried this several times, and every time I have to say it's a fail for me. I'm sure if you're older and/or just a more organized person that me, it might work out but I can't even plan my meal for tomorrow night let alone the whole week of meals. I'm always gogogogogoing no time to plan hardly time to shop.

Anyway, I've actually notices a decrease in the price of avocados in the past year. Is that because they're becoming less trendy or some other reason? They used to be as much as 2 for $6 in some places near me, but now I never see them more than 2 for $4 and usually 2 for $3.

Yesterday I saw organic valley organic butter (just a basic organic brand, not local or flavored, or from special cows or anything) that was almost $9 for four sticks.

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gfweb

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This from our sort of local designer supermarket. Its in a wealthy neighborhood and has comical prices. I go there occasionally for cheese.  A tiny NY strip will go for $15...a yellow 1lb cauliflower for $5. And this 11lb ish goose for over a hundred.  And it will be gone tomorrow.

 

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Deryn

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$100 plus sounds like a lot for a goose but that is a free-range, no antibiotics/no hormones 'happy' goose for less than $10 a pound. Hate to say it but that is a better price than I would pay here for a dour, caged, stringy goose with raging hormones (but no antibiotics, mind you).

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Anna N

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 Goose is most definitely a luxury. The last time I bought one many, many years ago it was close to $70 and did not approach the quality of this one.  It is not just the initial cost but the fact that meat to bone ratio does not make it a bargain. Still.....I do love goose. 

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Tere

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We usually have goose at Christmas, and the last one cost 50 quid from our local butcher, who gets it direct from a local farmer, so yeah, it does seem expensive. 

rotuts

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Personally, Id rather visit Shelby and whack a few Canadiene's ( goose's please )

 

then do a SV and buy the Goose fat frozen and vac's

 

that just me.

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gfweb

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28 minutes ago, rotuts said:

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@gfweb  

 

 

maybe you could take a few pics of that place ?

 

it would be entertaining   

 

OK

Its a pretty place.

It'll be a while before I get back though.

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gfweb

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Been ages since I cooked a goose. Any idea how many servings one could get out of it?  eG recently determined that a chicken will serve 6 or 7 if one counts the salad.

Martin Fisher

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Today's price-shocker at Wegmans, Elmira, NY

Wegmans Veggie Noodles (spiralized zucchini and yellow squash)....a jaw-dropping $6.99 per lb!!!!! :blink:

I'm shocked that there are folks who will buy it!!!

Insanity!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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rotuts

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goose needs SV.  

 

collect all the  goose fat if you like it, and do the skin differently  i.e. double pan'd w parchment in the Breville until crisp.

 

although the breast from the goose  is 'dark'  its delicious rare.  make sure you  get rid of those Br tendons.

 

personally I would not dream of conventionally roasting a goose.

 

of course, you might deconstruct one and put on stuffing  ( 2 - 3 x amounts ) in a large pan and roast it that way

 

then the trimmings would make a stock  ( ip'd ) which you would use for the stuffing that's under the goose parts you choose to

 

roast on top of the stuffing.

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Alex

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17 minutes ago, DiggingDogFarm said:

Today's price-shocker at Wegmans, Elmira, NY

Wegmans Veggie Noodles (spiralized zucchini and yellow squash)....a jaw-dropping $6.99 per lb!!!!! :blink:

I'm shocked that there are folks who will buy it!!!

Insanity!!!

 

Yeah, but those free-range, pastured vegetables are expensive. I mean, they roam far and wide and don't take kindly to being herded. it takes several farmhands all day to wrangle enough for just one day's worth of noodle production.

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IowaDee

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I'm rich, I'm rich I tell ya.  Some mornings we awake to 30 or more Canadas on the pond. Earlier this spring, I could have paid off the place with snow geese. And boy are they free range.  Just walk across the yard after they have been grazing on it! You know they have "ranged" thereO.o

 Also have blue winged teal, wood ducks, mergansers, and a pair of coots. (Oh wait, that last item is me and the hubby)   If you want them, I'll throw a muskrat in for free with every $100 worth of geese.

 Have fixed one goose in my life and I set off a huge grease fire in our first apartment.  I still remember the mess so never again.  

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IndyRob

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Property management companies in my area are always trying to find creative ways to be rid of them.  Roasting and sous-viding apparently are not on the approved list.

IowaDee

IowaDee

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Why not suggest a food truck featuring goose dishes? The Flying Goose , We Will Cook your Goose.  Possibilities are endless just like the damn geese appear to be.

Many years ago, The Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources rounded up Canada geese and took them to Canada at the request of a local government agency there.  Their local population had been wiped out and they needed a new supply.  We were happy to do it!  Hard to imagine any place actually having a shortage of them isn't it?

 

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rotuts

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big mistake, Iowa.

 

there are no Canadiene's in the my BOS area.  nice.  plenty of Deer and Deer Ticks.

 

i lived on L.I for a few years.  A Bazzilion down there.  Greasy lawns if you know what i mean.

 

way before SV

kbjesq

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2 hours ago, IowaDee said:

 

 Have fixed one goose in my life and I set off a huge grease fire in our first apartment.  I still remember the mess so never again.  

Haha!  The last time that I cooked a goose (on the rotisserie grill),  my neighbors called the fire department. They thought my house was on fire. My well-intentioned neighbor had a bit too much eggnog but bravely came running over anyway to try to save us. LOL 

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