Sam's Club restricts purchases of certain types of rice

[Filly]

Gosh, if you can't live on rice when money is tight, what's left?! lol

Kraft Mac and Cheese. Come on TM you knew that. BTW, I have to agree with Autumn. I lived a macrobiotic lifestyle for years and I was a mere 90 pounds and healthy as all get out. Brown rice galore.

 

[BarnGoddess]

Did I hear right? The government came out and said there's no shortage. If that's correct, what the devil is going on?

A year ago, I did buy a huge bag of Basmati from Sams. The one in the gunnysack with the zipper. Lasted us for a long time.

 

[ShannonOhara]

My brother freaked out about this whole rice ration situation, sent me this long email and voice mail. He gets some anxiety at times. He really does not eat rice though so it was a bit odd. The we talked about the price of gas ...his infiniti vs my little hyundai tibby 6 speed, I swear I can get 45 mpg if I baby her....hit the highway and slide into 6th gear. That pisses him off. People comment on how small my car is and a tight fit with more than 2 people, but man its worth it.

 

[c2cd208]

MY SS come home today freaking out saying they were talking about this at school and insisted that we go to the grocery tonight! So we did, that boy filled 3 carts of stuff, and I have to say, made some nice choices. He got mteans and rice, and vianna, tons of beef steaks, and lord only knows what else! I just let him shop till he was tired, and he did not spend much either, only $350 and our freezers and cabinets are full and he feels better now.

 

[drip~drop]

For those of us who can plant a garden, should. We are finishing up ours today and I plan on freezing and canning everything we grow.
It is just a matter of time before rationing is a part of our lives.
Food being grown to make fuel is just insane to me but now it is a fact of life.

We do not eat a lot of rice but I do have some stored away, along with dried beans.

My husband told me last night he was gonna go buy a case of SPAM "just in case" LOL! I pray he is only joking!

Wow...sounds like my house. We have 3 huge gardens and can and freeze everything we don't consume right away. Then we actually re-plant to get as much a second crop as possible. We still have a lot left from last season and trying to finish off the frozen veggies and dried stuff.

I never thought I'd see rationing of food in my lifetime. It's pretty scary.
We have beans and rice and plan on getting more, just in case....flour too.
And my husband....he wants a couple cases of Spam too!! LOL & ugg. I wonder wtheck turkey spam is made of.:waitasec:

 

[Mygirlsadie]

Jasmine or Basmati is all I buy. You should buy some you will love it.

Hubby and I love rice...especially the throw-it-in-the-microwave-zap-for-90-seconds-and-its-done kind. We'll eat it straight outta the bag.
I've never had jasmine or basmati rice though.

 

[drip~drop]

Jasmine or Basmati is all I buy. You should buy some you will love it.

What kind of taste do those rices have? Like white rice but nuttier tasting?

 

[Karole28]

Load Up the Pantry
April 21, 2008 6:47 p.m.

I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food.

No, this is not a drill.

You've seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they're a long way away from the U.S. But most foodstuffs operate in a global market. When the cost of wheat soars in Asia, it will do the same here.

Reality: Food prices are already rising here much faster than the returns you are likely to get from keeping your money in a bank or money-market fund. And there are very good reasons to believe prices on the shelves are about to start rising a lot faster.

"Load up the pantry," says Manu Daftary, one of Wall Street's top investors and the manager of the Quaker Strategic Growth mutual fund. "I think prices are going higher. People are too complacent. They think it isn't going to happen here. But I don't know how the food companies can absorb higher costs." (Full disclosure: I am an investor in Quaker Strategic)



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[Pepper]

Hubby and I love rice...especially the throw-it-in-the-microwave-zap-for-90-seconds-and-its-done kind. We'll eat it straight outta the bag.
I've never had jasmine or basmati rice though.

Basmati is the best rice in the world! I learned to love it when I learned to love Persian food. Tahdig is the best and a Persian appetizer. It is basmiti rice fried to make it stick together in sheets, then covered with a topping of fesenjon (walnut & pomegranate paste) or other Persian toppings.

 

[Yeah me]

Basmati is the best rice in the world! I learned to love it when I learned to love Persian food. Tahdig is the best and a Persian appetizer. It is basmiti rice fried to make it stick together in sheets, then covered with a topping of fesenjon (walnut & pomegranate paste) or

I definitely did NOT get enough sleep last night. I read that as "...when I learned to love Prison food". :crazy:

 

[c2cd208]

I was listening to Dave Ramsey yesterday and someone asked about stock piling and Dave said he doesnt believe in it becuase when you do that, you are just putting off the fact that the prices are going up and when you do have to purchase again you will feel it. I have to dissagree with him. I for one feel you can never have enough foods stored. I normally agree with him but on this one I beg to differ.

I am planting a few things today myself. Our ground is terrible here, we have tried and tried to grow things and we just can not get anythign tgo grow in the ground. So we have decided to make a home made, make shift, cheap as wen do it, green house and make shelves and plant in pots and make some boxes and put soil in those to grow in.

We do not have a lot of space in our small home, so were going to do a spring cleaning so to say and give a lot of stuff we are not using to charity and make some space to stockpile some more. I have been on the look for another freezer as well. I do not have the space inside for it, but what I was thinking was putting it in our tack room of the barn and putting a lock on it. We already have a lock on our tack room because a few weeks ago we had some bags of feed come up missing. If someone needs feed so bad they will steal it, they dont need the animals to start with if you ask me.

 

[Karole28]

We do not have a lot of space in our small home, so were going to do a spring cleaning so to say and give a lot of stuff we are not using to charity and make some space to stockpile some more. I have been on the look for another freezer as well. I do not have the space inside for it, but what I was thinking was putting it in our tack room of the barn and putting a lock on it. We already have a lock on our tack room because a few weeks ago we had some bags of feed come up missing. If someone needs feed so bad they will steal it, they dont need the animals to start with if you ask me.

If you're going to keep the freezer where it's not AC cooled, make sure you put an insulating blanket around it, to keep down your electricity $$.

Yeah, I like Dave Ramsey too, but I really don't agree with what he said.

I'm thinking about the "grow them upside down" thingies for some tomatoes this year. (I haven't a clue what they're called) but if you google them, you can find ways to make your own.

 

[Pepper]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I definitely did NOT get enough sleep last night. I read that as "...when I learned to love Prison food". :crazy:

Never tried prison food. No desire at all. :chicken:

 

[c2cd208]

If you're going to keep the freezer where it's not AC cooled, make sure you put an insulating blanket around it, to keep down your electricity $$.

Yeah, I like Dave Ramsey too, but I really don't agree with what he said.

I'm thinking about the "grow them upside down" thingies for some tomatoes this year. (I haven't a clue what they're called) but if you google them, you can find ways to make your own.

My grandmother has those things! She said she got hers at Dollar General. My husband said he wanted to try that too and I think I will try ONE to see if I can make it happen but want to use pots for some of the others just in case.

 

[Karole28]

My grandmother has those things! She said she got hers at Dollar General. My husband said he wanted to try that too and I think I will try ONE to see if I can make it happen but want to use pots for some of the others just in case.

Right me too!

(don't wanna put all my tomatoes in one basket)

/get it? lol

(they do look like they'd work though! I wanna grow a couple of test ones first)

 

[Autumn2004]

Kraft Mac and Cheese. Come on TM you knew that. BTW, I have to agree with Autumn. I lived a macrobiotic lifestyle for years and I was a mere 90 pounds and healthy as all get out. Brown rice galore.

I always believed the low carb way of life was the way you should eat, I love carbs and it was such a nice wake up call to be able to eat what I wanted too for once.

 

[MissieMt]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Never tried prison food. No desire at all. :chicken:

After going to the grocery store today prison food doesn't seem so bad. Heck, it's free (for the prisoner anyway)lol

 

[Texana]

We can all create shortages if we buy more than we usually do, and significantly more, to save for ourselves.

Think of this: The rice production in this country is based roughly on what people bought last year. Farmers aren't going to produce more on the off chance that you and I will suddenly freak out and buy ten or twelve more bags of rice. It's been fairly constant, adjusted for growth, for years.

However, if we all go out and each of us double/ and triples our rice purchases because we are afraid, we create the shortage. In the short term, rice farmers will not be able to step up production. Eventually they will, but putting bags of rice on shelves is not an over night process.

We see the same thing around here with water supplies during a predicted hurricane. The shelves will go bare, simply because everyone is tripling or quadrupling their purchases of water. There's no bottled water shortage, there's a temporary supply/demand problem due to a sudden increase in demand.

I believe in having hurricane/disaster supplies, but I don't believe in hoarding or buying food I may not be able to eat. I don't mean to sound harsh, but it's almost approaching a kind of moral issue with me.

We have more food at our disposal, most of us here, than we need, and thankfully and rightfully (due to the hard work and good sense of people in this country, going back to our forefathers.) so. We do not need to stockpile food simply because we're all feeling edgy and jumpy. People in other hemispheres are facing issues with literally not having the means to buy food OR make more money to buy it.

We don't have that problem. I went to Wal Mart today and we're good, believe me.

I do not mean to get on my preachy little soap box, but having piles of food stockpiled in our pantries while the food banks and food pantries in our town are desperately in need of donations, because some people are, with rising fuel costs, having harder times making ends meet, seems to me to be totally wrong. we can donate that extra $10 to a non-profit organization that helps feed people across the globe.

I think about my great-grandparents during the Depression. They, along with a few other people in the East Texas town where they lived, would load up their vehicles with food and take them to the poorer people in town. They certainly weren't rich and my grandmother began working as soon as possible. But they didn't stockpile canned goods. They gave them away.




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[drip~drop]

I was listening to Dave Ramsey yesterday and someone asked about stock piling and Dave said he doesnt believe in it becuase when you do that, you are just putting off the fact that the prices are going up and when you do have to purchase again you will feel it. I have to dissagree with him. I for one feel you can never have enough foods stored. I normally agree with him but on this one I beg to differ.

I am planting a few things today myself. Our ground is terrible here, we have tried and tried to grow things and we just can not get anythign tgo grow in the ground. So we have decided to make a home made, make shift, cheap as wen do it, green house and make shelves and plant in pots and make some boxes and put soil in those to grow in.

We do not have a lot of space in our small home, so were going to do a spring cleaning so to say and give a lot of stuff we are not using to charity and make some space to stockpile some more. I have been on the look for another freezer as well. I do not have the space inside for it, but what I was thinking was putting it in our tack room of the barn and putting a lock on it. We already have a lock on our tack room because a few weeks ago we had some bags of feed come up missing. If someone needs feed so bad they will steal it, they dont need the animals to start with if you ask me.

If you are having soil issues and a good tilling won't help AND you are strapped for space, you can actually grow crops in haybales!

We have a stockpile of canned and frozen goods from last years garden and I'm looking forward to more this year. Tomorrow is stock up on dry staples day. I hope they actually have the rice, beans and flour in stock!

Sorry someone is stealing your feed. That's unheard of here but I guess someone near you has poor starving animals. (that they don't need to have.)

 

[c2cd208]

If you are having soil issues and a good tilling won't help AND you are strapped for space, you can actually grow crops in haybales!

We have a stockpile of canned and frozen goods from last years garden and I'm looking forward to more this year. Tomorrow is stock up on dry staples day. I hope they actually have the rice, beans and flour in stock!

Sorry someone is stealing your feed. That's unheard of here but I guess someone near you has poor starving animals. (that they don't need to have.)

Our ground here is terrible, we have tried for years to grow something, anything! And get NOTHING I did not know you could grow in hay bales I will have to look up that procedure.

The feed ordeal is just sad, its not actually OUR feed, the neighbor uses our barn and pasture for his horses and we share the tack room for his feed and stuff I want to store. Thats not the only stuff thats been stollen around here either. Recently we are having a lot of crime.