My pal and I, having equated one morning over a roll and sausage that you can get 14 lorne sausage for £1.15 and 14 rolls for about £1.70, and a roll and sausage sells for about £1.20, we could sells rolls and sausage outside Uni in the morning for £1 each and turn one hell of a profit.
He has no exams, and I have about 2 so we might get a load of burgers and a cheap BBQ and set up outside the big exams
Now there’s a thought. You could probably sell enough to keep yourself in sausages and rolls for the next month or so. A buddy of mine tried this at a football game. Set up as a tailgate party and sold the stuff on the sly. He made well over 150 bucks in about 2 hours. I’ve been tempted to try it but never had the enthusiasm to actually proceed.
I just did the math on what Boo paid at that Aldi place...and that same stuff would cost me about $40. (Well, 20 pounds is 39.73 in USD.) I don’t know anywhere I could go & get the stuff we need for $40. Unless we were just eating spaghetti for 2 weeks.
A gallon of milk, a jar of Peanut butter, a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs...costs about $12. It just seems like such a LOT for so very little. Milk is up to $4/gall. Eggs are almost $2 for a dozen, now. I think last summer is was 89 cents.
Milk and eggs, in particular, are WAY up right now—mostly due to energy prices (for transportation and refrigeration). And milk has been up, up, up for quite a while. I thought the prices were up pretty much worldwide, but I have a hard enough time just keeping up with U.S. commodity prices, so I could be wrong about that.
Of course, I work for a farm organization, and farmers pay part of my salary, so even though I don’t like high food prices either, I can’t see higher farm prices as an entirely bad thing. Although prices on some commodities are way up, so are farmers’ costs—energy, feed, fertilizer, everything. But energy costs are the main problem, and the farm price is a fairly small percentage of the cost of any food item. Food production is a very energy-intensive process.
Yeah, I’ve noticed milk prices going up a bit. Last week I went to buy milk, and I only brought along a dollar bill because that used to be enough. It came up as $1.09 though. Luckily I’d picked up a dime on the sidewalk on the way into the store.
I tend to have quite a knack for getting lots for only a little money (sometimes legally, even ), and I tend to be somewhat . If it wasn’t for the extortionate level of some bills, I’d be able to get by well enough on probably a couple hundred dollars a month. Darn telephone bill. . .
Hmm.
Both milk and eggs are pretty much equivalently the same price (depending on where you get them), but bread and peanut butter are cheap enough that they wouldn’t bump it up to £6.
Which reminds me: I have an internet friend (another one) who is from Scotland though she lives in England currently, and another from Ireland, and they both claim that they have never had a peanut-butter-and-jelly (or “jam,” as they insist on calling it ) sandwich. They say it sounds just repulsive. Are they just odd? (Well, OK, they’re friends of mine so they are bound to be a bit odd.) Or in the U.K. is it really as peculiar a combination as they seem to think?
Milk and eggs, in particular, are WAY up right now—mostly due to energy prices (for transportation and refrigeration). And milk has been up, up, up for quite a while. I thought the prices were up pretty much worldwide, but I have a hard enough time just keeping up with U.S. commodity prices, so I could be wrong about that.
Of course, I work for a farm organization, and farmers pay part of my salary, so even though I don’t like high food prices either, I can’t see higher farm prices as an entirely bad thing. Although prices on some commodities are way up, so are farmers’ costs—energy, feed, fertilizer, everything. But energy costs are the main problem, and the farm price is a fairly small percentage of the cost of any food item. Food production is a very energy-intensive process.
I personally think it might have to do with so much corn being diverted for “alternative’ fuels. The oil companies are now mandated to mix almost every gallon of gas with 10% ethanol. (Even though it end up costing more and having less energy which means you get a double whammy..)
With all the corn going for fuel, there is much less for chicken feed, cow feed, etc. Higher costs there are just passed on. I am lucky to get by with less than $200 for groceries per week, and I cook almost all of our meals from scratch. (flour, water, basic ingredients.) Heck, bread, even the cheap store brand has doubled in price in the last 6 months. Arrrggghhh. Or as my wife is fond of saying,
Well, it’s way too complicated (AND boring) to go into in any depth, but from what I understand, that isn’t really accurate. At least currently, there is plenty to go around for fuel, feed and food—within the U.S., that is. The problem is—dear God, I can’t believe I know this stuff—that there has been a worldwide increase in the use of food and feedgrains, mostly because of enormous increases in demand in places like China and India. They have a lot more money than they used to, and pretty much the first thing that a country does once it starts acquiring wealth is to start importing more food because its people want to eat more and better food.
In addition, one thing that most people who don’t raise cows don’t seem to realize about ethanol is that just because grain is used for ethanol doesn’t mean it disappears from the food chain. A major byproduct of ethanol is are dried distillers’ grains with solubles (usually called DDGSs), which make fine cattle feed. You can’t feed a very high concentration to chickens or hogs, but ruminants such as cows can eat a lot of it. Therefore, corn that is used for ethanol can also be used for livestock feed.
So international demand is a much greater factor than biofuels. That’s what the economists tell me, anyway.
Hope I didn’t put anybody to sleep! I’m feeling a little drowsy myself....::thump::
I have noticed that wheat based products have sky rocketed. I heard on the radio that for the first time (I can’t remember if they said ever or just a long time) we had to import wheat from other countries. Too many farmers jumped on the bandwagon of growing corn because it was paying so well with the subsidies and such. Ethanol is a horrible fuel source. It takes about as much energy to produce a gallon of ethanol as can be had by burning it, but it is still produced because it is mandated and there are serious tax advantages. So once again it comes down to money, and I am sure Mother Nature is pleased.
