When on the road how many eat in restaurants vs cooking?, the price of food now is just outrageous in the stores, last night at Safeway eggs where almost of stock @ $9.00 a dozen. I can buy 3 bacon,egg,and cheese biscuits for $10.00 at Carl's Jr, lol eggs for breakfast are off the menu around here I am not paying $9.00 for a dozen eggs.This shortage BS needs to stop lol I may need to map out all the senior centers when planning our trip just to eat
Temporary surge. 3 dollars a dozen here. With everything else going up, not surprising. Have you considered raising a couple of chickens? Anyway, how long does a dozen last? Still cheaper than a jug of oil.
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Quote from: chessie4905 on January 08, 2023, 04:39:46 AM
Temporary surge. 3 dollars a dozen here. With everything else going up, not surprising. Have you considered raising a couple of chickens? Anyway, how long does a dozen last? Still cheaper than a jug of oil.
I paid 3 bucks a dozen before in Alaska,eggs were $.59 cents a dozen here 2 months ago,egg producers are blaming the price on bird flu, feed prices and demand me I blame it on greed,the trend now is non caged eggs,how do you know a egg came from chickens running loose from an egg producer,so called non caged eggs were $9.79 a dozen at Walmart,Sonja is big into the organic stuff me I cannot tell the difference between a organic banana and regular banana only in price lol the organic turns black just like a regular banana
I agree eggs are expensive almost as much as the bacon & sausage. We hardly ever eat out. When we start out for an AK trip the bus gets packed with foods & staples a whole bunch. But we do go to Fast Eddies in Tok occasionally!
Last two summers, we ate in 75% of the time.
We eat in the Bus 90% of the time. Eggs here are $289 to $3.00 a dozen. Kansas just stopped the food tax for the first time. We were used to California because it has never taxed food.
Quote from: luvrbus on January 08, 2023, 03:46:01 AM
When on the road how many eat in restaurants vs cooking?, the price of food now is just outrageous in the stores, ......
How we do it is we mooch off friends along the way. Which house you gonna be at in Feb? Its looking a little dodgy to come home through Nogales - maybe you could go to Texas?
Quote from: Dave5Cs on January 08, 2023, 12:02:21 PM
We eat in the Bus 90% of the time. Eggs here are $289 to $3.00 a dozen. Kansas just stopped the food tax for the first time. We were used to California because it has never taxed food.
Very few states tax food,here in AZ the state has no tax on food but some greedy cities like Scottsdale add a sales tax Phoenix doesn't (yet).In CA I don't get the 10% tax on a SubWay sandwich if you have it toasted, The little girl told me the tax is for prepared food I had to laugh and tell her aren't you making the sandwich
Rarely eat out while travelling or stayin the bus. But we are not long distance, long time trippers. For those moving a lot, it might be easier to grab a meal on the way. Hell, I'm eating a bowl of noodles and I'm parked in my yard. LOL
And you are right . fast food used to be fast and cheap, now just fast.
Just to put the food security issue into perspective, we can complain but our bellies still hang over our belts. There are many parts of the world in a true starvarion mode. Availability and prices have gone nuts there; Ukraine is a breadbasket to Europe and it aint working too good these days
Quote from: luvrbus on January 08, 2023, 01:23:42 PM
Very few states tax food,here in AZ the state has no tax on food but some greedy cities like Scottsdale add a sales tax Phoenix doesn't (yet).In CA I don't get the 10% tax on a SubWay sandwich if you have it toasted, The little girl told me the tax is for prepared food I had to laugh and tell her aren't you making the sandwich
Noothing to do with toasted Clifford it is anything you buy put together. Raw food no tax. Prepared food taxed, LOL
Quote from: Dave5Cs on January 08, 2023, 03:17:27 PM
Noothing to do with toasted Clifford it is anything you buy put together. Raw food no tax. Prepared food taxed, LOL
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They never charge me and extra 10% unless I have it toasted at the Subway in the Dairy Queen in Needles,they charge tax on burgers there, all the restaurant foods everywhere in Needles charge tax
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Got it Dave I called the owner CA does not charge tax on a cold sandwich only on a hot sandwiches that makes no sense you prepare a cold sandwich too
Doreen said that is correct. I learn something, lol Anytime an appliance as in cooking or toasting it is taxed but not if it is cold and just put together. Weird. :^
Any "cook" food but I'll bet restaurants charge for salads!
Well if the salad is part of a meal then yes it is taxed but if it is just a salad probably not. Just guessing there.
We eat in the bus about 98% of the time. With friends 1.5 % percent. Eat out .05%. My wife is an excellent cook and I prefer her meals over all else. I am a starvation cook meaning if I cook, at least I won't starve.
Roller dogs and pizza burgers play havoc with my plumbing and decent restaurant food (and I use the terms loosely) play havoc with my pocketbook.
TOM
Quote from: oldmansax on January 09, 2023, 04:46:09 AM
We eat in the bus about 98% of the time. With friends 1.5 % percent. Eat out .05%. My wife is an excellent cook and I prefer her meals over all else. I am a starvation cook meaning if I cook, at least I won't starve.
Roller dogs and pizza burgers play havoc with my plumbing and decent restaurant food (and I use the terms loosely) play havoc with my pocketbook.
TOM
4 decent burgers at a restaurant (not a fast-food joint) now will cost you 60 bucks.Send me some crab cakes Tom I know how to cook those LOL
WOW! $9 a dozen? Holly crap! I guess being here in rural TN and having Amish neighbors is a good thing. We get "free range eggs all day long for $1.50-$2.00 a dozen and fresh milk for $2.50-$3.00 a gallon depending on which farm we go to. (funny thing is the farm I prefer to get it at has the $2.50 a gallon price and it's about 35-50% cream! The more expensive ones separate the cream and it's always 5% or less cream!)
Also one of the local guys sells whole hogs at $0.80 per pound! One of the guys that rides with me everyday on the work crew, I haul everyday bought a 300# hog ($240) Saturday and we delivered it to another guy that runs a butcher shop to have it butchered. I plan to buy one myself and do the same when we go pick up his. I haven't found out the price for butchering it yet, but the guy doing it does it all from making the sausage, curing the bacon, and even making some of it into summer sausage!
I guess I'm spoiled.
:D BK :D
Quote from: Busted Knuckle on January 09, 2023, 08:08:31 AM
WOW! $9 a dozen? Holly crap! I guess being here in rural TN and having Amish neighbors is a good thing. We get "free range eggs all day long for $1.50-$2.00 a dozen and fresh milk for $2.50-$3.00 a gallon depending on which farm we go to. (funny thing is the farm I prefer to get it at has the $2.50 a gallon price and it's about 35-50% cream! The more expensive ones separate the cream and it's always 5% or less cream!)
Also one of the local guys sells whole hogs at $0.80 per pound! One of the guys that rides with me everyday on the work crew, I haul everyday bought a 300# hog ($240) Saturday and we delivered it to another guy that runs a butcher shop to have it butchered. I plan to buy one myself and do the same when we go pick up his. I haven't found out the price for butchering it yet, but the guy doing it does it all from making the sausage, curing the bacon, and even making some of it into summer sausage!
I guess I'm spoiled.
:D BK :D
Your not spoiled BK with no internet the Amish don't know how much money they are losing ,but they will figure it out the ones in OK always did lol keep your Amish people away from Walmart so they don't see the prices
Quote from: luvrbus on January 08, 2023, 03:46:01 AM
When on the road how many eat in restaurants vs cooking?, the price of food now is just outrageous in the stores, last night at Safeway eggs where almost of stock @ $9.00 a dozen. I can buy 3 bacon,egg,and cheese biscuits for $10.00 at Carl's Jr, lol eggs for breakfast are off the menu around here I am not paying $9.00 for a dozen eggs.This shortage BS needs to stop lol I may need to map out all the senior centers when planning our trip just to eat
LOL! Clifford they have been there, but they don't like it (or the prices).
One Amish community about 70 miles from here has an Egg Sorting Facility that ships about 10-12 53' truckloads of eggs to CA every week!
And one of my Amish friends has a neighbor that just put in a set of 4 barns for nothing but laying hens that produce about 40,000 eggs daily! (all together or roughly 10,000 each)
It's not owned by Amish as it has too much technology involved, but they do help him with the harvesting, packing and shipping on a part time basis and I imagine when his kids are old enough they will probably work there in the summers until they finish school!
:D BK :D
Quote from: luvrbus on January 09, 2023, 08:38:23 AM
Your not spoiled BK with no internet the Amish don't know how much money they are losing ,but they will figure it out the ones in OK always did lol keep your Amish people away from Walmart so they don't see the prices
Now, that is hilarious! and no electricity so no radios or tv either, no wonder they charge 1850 rates!
Not to give the legislators any ideas, but even a cold sandwich is a "prepared" food. They are not selling you the ingredients to make the dough!
Quote from: luvrbus on January 09, 2023, 05:39:03 AM
Send me some crab cakes Tom I know how to cook those LOL
I'll have to look around to find some I trust that are good. All the old timers who were in the business either died, retired or the covid mess closed up the retail ship-it-in-the-mail businesses. The people still making cakes have cut corners and are selling all they make to local restaurants and tourists. What a mess! I have not had a good crab cake (by the old standards) in 3 years and I live here. You will have to dig up one of your gold bars and send it to me so I can trade for them if I find any that are good... ;D ;D. I'll see what I can do.
TOM
Quote from: oldmansax on January 09, 2023, 04:42:33 PM
I'll have to look around to find some I trust that are good. All the old timers who were in the business either died, retired or the covid mess closed up the retail ship-it-in-the-mail businesses. The people still making cakes have cut corners and are selling all they make to local restaurants and tourists. What a mess! I have not had a good crab cake (by the old standards) in 3 years and I live here. You will have to dig up one of your gold bars and send it to me so I can trade for them if I find any that are good... ;D ;D. I'll see what I can do.
TOM
I don't think Luke would mind me sharing this photo of him. It's one of my favorites of him - heck it's probably one of his favorites too! Nothin' like a cold water NJ blue crab! Lol :^
Just don't eat those delicious buggers if you have an upcoming lab for blood work as they WILL spike your cholesterol. :o
Tom sent me some real crap cakes several years ago they were the best I have ever eaten even with a few crab shells mixed in.Sonja loves King Crab legs,I guess I need to break down and buy her a couple of pounds @ 80 bucks a pound now wasn't long ago at Casnios here it was 20 bucks for all you eat now it cost a 100 bucks for 2 trips
During the California and Alaska gold rush days, eggs were a dollar each.
Quote from: Ed Hackenbruch on January 10, 2023, 04:20:12 AM
During the California and Alaska gold rush days, eggs were a dollar each.
In today's money that would be $25.00 each or $300.00 a dozen, I don't like eggs that much
Quote from: luvrbus on January 10, 2023, 04:33:01 AM
In today's money that would be $25.00 each or $300.00 a dozen, I don't like eggs that much
Egg laying chickens were probably worth their weight in gold!
A steak house we eat at sometimes in Scottsdale has raised their prices to $40.00 a once for steaks, I am not paying those prices, plus the sides and drink lol a side of Mac and cheese cost $15.00 now
Y'all must be rich to be paying those kind of prices for food.
Jim
Quote from: luvrbus on January 10, 2023, 05:11:13 AM
A steak house we eat at sometimes in Scottsdale has raised their prices to $40.00 a once for steaks, I am not paying those prices, plus the sides and drink lol a side of Mac and cheese cost $15.00 now
Now you know why I chose a Mexican resteraunt yesterday Clifford, they got the best burgers by the way lol!
Quote from: Jim Blackwood on January 10, 2023, 06:14:37 AM
Y'all must be rich to be paying those kind of prices for food.
Jim
I am not eating there lol prices weren't bad a year ago even the salad was included not now ,all the steakhouses in Scottsdale are into the Wagyu or Italian yuppie beef fad now. Paying someone 20 bucks a hour to bus tables is crazy that doesn't help with prices, There is just too much money in Scottsdale I never did like living there because of the HOA's.Fuel prices are always at least $.50 a gal more than Phoenix @ the same owner places,Scottsdale is a good place to make money on real-estate if you can keep up with taxes and put up with the BS,there is no land left in Scottsdale it has reached it's limit and vacant land selling for 20 + bucks a square ft is a little pricey to me
I like Olive garden here. Unlimited salad and after meal can get a takeout spaghetti and meat sauce for each guest for 6 bucks each. We always get one for each in party, even if they don't want one. When we get home, put them in freezer. One portion will take care of both of us now, since we don't eat as much. Great spaghetti, btw.
Cooking is above my pay grade, it makes it tough cooking food from all fresh ingredients Sonja eats, grilling I can do but steaming veggies doesn't work out ;D I do slip some Bob Evans packaged food past her every now and then, next you have to clean the mess up. I am going to be honest about the cooking deal I don't know how Sonja kept the job for almost 50 years cooking is a lot of work, gone are my days of walking in and asking what we are having for dinner, you better hug that cook things can change
Heck, any of you Poor Downtrodden Bus owners get Central Texas way (78639) , Wife and I will feed you for a day or two. Even let you hook up to 50 amp electric juice.. ;D
I feel really bad that Clifford is whining about a 10 oz steak costing 400 bucks. I'm in line with Chessie at the garden. lol
Don't worry Cliff. Cat food tins have peel off tops like beer cans. Lots of variety. Salmon, turkey, chicken, etc, there are even some tasty blends. A nice salad and you've got a nice meal. Remember to nuke the cat food for a tastier result.
"Eating when traveling" more specifically eating when driving, yes at the wheel reaching for the snack stash when driving solo. Within an armsreach - mixed nuts, granola bars, dried fruit, fresh fruit, jerky, and the list goes on. When traveling with my soul mate - anything in the fridge and pantry but prefer to stop and sit in the dining nook for a walk & relief (release) :^
Quote from: windtrader on January 11, 2023, 10:47:12 AM
I feel really bad that Clifford is whining about a 10 oz steak costing 400 bucks. I'm in line with Chessie at the garden. lol
I am not paying $40.00 a once for a steak or $25.00 for a baked potato, it is a good steak marinated in buttermilk and cooked at 1000 degrees for a couple of minutes. The last time I ate at the place they were $10.00 a ounce. It was my friend Bruce Halle (RIP) favorite place lol he always picked up the tab it was pocket change for him and a write off he owned Discount Tire. There is no steak worth $40.00 a ounce to me. I like Olive Garden too, but I don't care for Red Lobster from the same owners as Olive Garden
Quote from: dtcerrato on January 11, 2023, 01:09:47 PM
"Eating when traveling" more specifically eating when driving, yes at the wheel reaching for the snack stash when driving solo. Within an armsreach - mixed nuts, granola bars, dried fruit, fresh fruit, jerky, and the list goes on. When traveling with my soul mate - anything in the fridge and pantry but prefer to stop and sit in the dining nook for a walk & relief (release) :^
I am happy with my Goldfish crackers when driving
I liked Red Lobster years ago when seafood restaurants were rare here. Avoid anymore for several years. Only thing good is those Cheddar bay biscuits. Now Walmart sells them frozen in a bag. Have them, but haven't tried yet. Last year they offered them in a dry mix, which you had to add the other ingredients. They turned out awful. Our local firehall used to have an oyster fry years ago. Ate them till stuffed with side of cocktail sauce. Not offered anymore, too expensive. 14 bucks per ticket. Most women there ate the ham and beans.lol 14 bucks for that.
Quote from: chessie4905 on January 11, 2023, 02:45:25 PM
I liked Red Lobster years ago when seafood restaurants were rare here. Avoid anymore for several years. Only thing good is those Cheddar bay biscuits. Now Walmart sells them frozen in a bag. Have them, but haven't tried yet. Last year they offered them in a dry mix, which you had to add the other ingredients. They turned out awful. Our local firehall used to have an oyster fry years ago. Ate them till stuffed with side of cocktail sauce. Not offered anymore, too expensive. 14 bucks per ticket. Most women there ate the ham and beans.lol 14 bucks for that.
What a waste to fry oysters ,split the shell and eat those suckers a local Mexican restaurant serves oysters on the 1/2 shell, they went from 50 cents ea up to 4 bucks now, so I only eat a couple now not a dozen any longer
Oyster stew, scaloped oysters, and fried oysters. No oysters on a half shell. I've tried them, but don't care for them.
Quote from: chessie4905 on January 11, 2023, 06:59:40 PM
Oyster stew, scaloped oysters, and fried oysters. No oysters on a half shell. I've tried them, but don't care for them.
I like the Rockefeller style oysters is that what you are calling scalloped oysters?. I miss that part about Texas we never had to buy oysters or shrimp you took your buddy and boat to the bays and load up on all the oysters you could eat in a few minutes. LOL it was a coin flip to see which one got in the cold water when you found a bed of oysters.Shrimp was easy you netted those then the work began removing the heads and the veins
I munch on Blue corn chips while driving, preferably Garden of Eatin, lots of flavor...
We have a couple pretzel sticks each when travelling before our midday lunch Linda even found a sliding drawer small pencil box that neatly holds 10 pretzels. Refilled every couple days. Used last two summers and on and road or shopping trips.
We have a couple pretzel sticks each when travelling before our midday lunch Linda even found a sliding drawer small pencil box that neatly holds 10 pretzels. Refilled every couple days. Used last two summers and on and road or shopping trips.
That's so funny! We eat Garden of eatin' blue corn chips when on the road! Yeah, I am in the camp of not eating out much anymore. $#!%, a quick lunch for two will set you back 30 or more dollars and they guilt you into tipping the fast food credit card machine. Portions are small too. We gave up Olive Garden due to our morbid obesity. In the last 5 years we lost 60 and 70 lbs and kept it off. No more carbs, dairy or sugar. Eggs are hard to find which we go through many as part of our diet.
Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds is where it's at.
Quote from: Glennman on January 13, 2023, 10:22:44 PM
Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds is where it's at.
We love them but they're above our pay grade, LOL
Deluxe mixed nuts are expensive enough! ;)
Planters cocktail peanuts, sometimes their pecans and Planters whole Cashews are Linda's favorite
I had to pretty much give up the nuts and chocolate once I learned they were causing me headaches, but I really liked the Planters Deluxe Mixed nuts in the big can. Used to be able to buy those for $10 at Sam's. I bet they are close to $30 now.
Jim
Quote from: chessie4905 on January 14, 2023, 08:25:47 AM
Planters cocktail peanuts, sometimes their pecans and Planters whole Cashews are Linda's favorite
When in Texas during the Pecan season I stop and buy 5 lbs of the large paper shell pecans and go down the road cracking and eating the pecans sometimes I buy the ready cracked shell pecans.Going to my daughters place we go through 50 miles of pecan orchards, and they are cheap there they don't cost you $10.00 a pound either. If you have the time, you can pick up pecans along the hiways for free lol Sonja like the free ones.in west Texas and New Mexico she makes me stop for the free peanuts and she doesn't even like peanuts.
I didn't even know this was a thing, I've got bad loads of M&M peanuts free to anyone that wants them. I only buy them for the chocolate coating and would hate to see them go to waste. :^
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