The price of rice

On Feb 15, 10:44?pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

And is full of salt and preservatives (not to mention tastes like
crap). Tsk, tsk! Julie, with all of you and your family's health/
allergy/diet woes, I would think YOU of all people would be a "cook
from scratch" kind of gal.
 
"projectile vomit chick" wrote in message
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On Feb 15, 10:44 pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

And is full of salt and preservatives (not to mention tastes like
crap). Tsk, tsk! Julie, with all of you and your family's health/
allergy/diet woes, I would think YOU of all people would be a "cook
from scratch" kind of gal.

Actually it's not that bad. I only buy the plain white or the roasted
chicken. Generally I use the roasted chicken in soup when we are too sick
to cook. I just add canned chicken, canned or boxed broth and some carrots,
celery and onion if we're not having stomach issues.

Mostly I do cook from scratch. It is actually rare for me to find a
prepared food that we can it. But when I find it, and we like it, I go for
it.

I usually use canned beans too. Yes I know beans are very easy to make from
scratch, but they do take time. And that's what I don't always have.

I did make a couple of batches of rice from scratch when we were sick
recently and on the BRAT diet. We went through quite a lot of it. Gave
some to the cat as well.
 
"Julie Bove" wrote:

Uncle Bens rice in those precooked packages are revolting, horrible,
disgusting. I do not see how any one could eat that stuff. Ack!!! Bringing
back bad memories.

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projectile vomit chick wrote:



PVC,

I don't have a clue about soy bean prices. I am good at reading food
labels and buy the least processed, low sodium etc., foods that I can.
I'm picky that way! Most of Trader Joe's products are minimally
processed, if at all. Of course there's a price premium on most of their
stuff.

I usually only eat one full meal a day, breakfast, so my cost of keeping
fed is somewhat of a blur.

Best,

Andy
 
On 16 Feb 2011 02:37:39 GMT, notbob wrote:


I hope the white rice goes up enough that I can just buy the black mix
and not feel like it is a 'splurge'.

Damn, that's good stuff.

Jim
 
On Feb 15, 8:44?pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

Rice cooking is never the pacing item at any of our meals. If it was I
would just start the rice cooker before doing any other tasks.
 
Jim Elbrecht wrote:



First I've heard of black rice. I read up on it at Wiki. I dialed my food
stores and finally found it at Whole Foods. I didn't get the price or
weight but at least it's in stock. One box or bag ain't gonna break the
bank.

Andy
 
"notbob" wrote in message
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Here, Riceland is $4.79 for a 5-lb bag. Store brand is cheaper, I bought a
new bag a couple weeks ago on sale for $350.



Brian
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Current music playing: None.
 
On Feb 16, 6:34?am, Nad R wrote:

Right-O, I've known that for years. They trim off all the fat to keep
the hippies happy, then inject it with saline and carbon monoxide.
Yummy, eh.


Precisely. I wish you could run for office in Iowa.
 
"notbob" wrote


Keep in mind that 5lbs potatoes is same volume as you see when cooked. 5lbs
of dry rice, is a radically different issue. The standard rule of thumb is
1 cup rice to 2 cups water. This gives 3 cups of food. Now, I've never
measured a 5lb bag to see how many 'cups' are in there but a decent guess is
12 or so? Lets pretend it's 10. Yield after cooking is 30 cups of rice.
Try getting 5 lbs of potatoes to do that trick.

Even if you pretend it's 5 cups in a 5lb bag (it's more). You get 15 cups
of cooked rice for 1$ less than same weight of potatoes which comes a little
closer in serving amounts but is still way far off the dry rice amounts.

Convert this to price. While it used to cost about 5cents USA to put a full
cup serving size of rice (and earlier less of course), it will now run you
something like 15cents. What has happened is *potatoes* in the USA have not
risen in price as fast though they too have gone up.
 
"cshenk" wrote in message
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That's quite true.

Another problem that I've had sometimes when buying potatoes is that they
are not good! They will look fine on the outside but when I cut them open,
they are black inside, indicating that they were not stored properly. I
then have to throw out some or all of the potatoes. Sometimes I can cut
around the black part and get enough to eat.

Also, rice keeps for a long time. Potatoes sometimes do, sometimes don't.
I had to quit buying them at Costco because the bags were so large. There
was no way we could eat them all in time. It is actually cheaper for me to
buy them and throw some out but that is a pain. And no, I don't know anyone
to give them to. My friends for the most part do not cook. Neither does my
brother and my parents eat very few potatoes.
 
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notbob wrote:


Buy the big bag. I bought the twenty pounder of long grain Mahatma brand
last year, and my wife thought I was nuts. It lasted slightly over a
year. Rice doesn't spoil here. The bag cost about nine bucks last year
and thirteen bucks this year. The increase in price is significant, but
I have rice for a year for thirteen bucks, and the bag rests in an
insignificant portion of my pantry.
If I had a small potato cellar, I'd buy a load of Russets from a
Winnemucca potato farm and haul them home in a pickup. I'll bet I'd get
a helluva deal for a years worth.

leo
 
Lucille wrote:

I find that hard to believe. It would be difficult
to manufacture an item to compete with an agricultural
product. It would also be hard to make a convincing
replica of a rice grain.
 
"Julie Bove" wrote:

There are many potato dishes one can prepare and freeze. That's true
of all produce and other perishables. next you buy a large bag of
spuds at a good price cook double and triple batches and freeze the
extras... that practice doubles and triples your savings by cooking
once and eating trice. Potatoes is probably the largest frozen foods
department in any stupidmarket. Potato puddings are delicious and
freeze well but this one is scrumptious:
http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/slovaksausages/r/potato.htm
 
On 2/17/2011 1:54 AM, Mark Thorson wrote:

Why? Remember the Chinese drywall issue where they were using some sort
of industrial waste sludge to make a very heavy inexpensive product that
was shipped half way around the world and sold for less that locally
produced product?

Easy to do lots of things when you have extremely cheap labor.
 
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