On the News this morning, they were saying that chocolate prices will be going thru the ROOF! A simple Hershey's bar could cost 10 dollars - of course, it might take 20 years for it to peak. Plan ahead, quilters, make room in your freezers.............speaking of prices, did you see the price of BACON????? My DH, ya know, the one that has had 3 heart surgeries LIVES on bacon. He will NOT give it up............

Saw the same story about chocolate. I think its by 2020 that it is expected to be that price. I doubt I'll have the habit kicked by then :-(

Let the prices keep going up, my family is too fat anyway. There is more than 1 way to lose weight and in the future it may be thru starvation. I've already learned to live without the chocolate.

GASP!!!!!!!!

the really sad thing is is that chocolate is not the only thing that will be going up. A friend who watches the markets and the Federal Reserve is really scared that in the next year we are going to see astronomical food prices. Some inflation expert on a Glen Beck show apparently agrees I hear. We're talking $20 for a loaf of bread...$77 for a can of coffee...and so on. At those prices I doubt chocolate will be high on anyone's priority list of must buy groceries. I do sincerely hope my friend is wrong!

I heard the same thing thru another source........

expert on a Glen Beck show apparently agrees I hear. We're talking $20 for a loaf of bread...$77 for a can of coffee...and so on.

Guess we'll have to bite the bullet and buy coffee (my DH will NOT do without it), but I can make my own bread, grow my own veggies and raise and slaughter enough chickens and rabbits so that we won't go hungry. Sounds like it's time for more people to start homesteading...

There's going to be a lot of rage in this country if people don't get their chocolate!!
Like road rage, going postal etc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

I can make bread and have chickens and rabbits too. Enough room to expand the garden if need be. We won't eat high on the hog (though I could squeeze one in I think) but we'd eat. Now if I could just talk dh into those milk goats!

hmm? I wonder if cocoa plants will grow in Oregon LOL.

I'd rather have a cow (instead of goat), but our subdivision won't allow it! There are some about 2 blocks away. Poor farmer will have to hire a guard for his cows!

I've been thinking about milk goats too, but I'm not sure I want to have to deal with their escape artist" antics! :lol: As for the hog, we have room but I've heard they're also really good at escaping...

does anyone have a good recipe for possum, armadillo, skunk and mole?.........blAH!

I keep getting these emails from "Survival Nation" Maybe I should stock up on some freeze dried meats. The rest I can handle, Just got in another 50# bag of flour, so we are good for the winter.

where in the world do you store 50# of flour?

I started storing staples like flour, rice, beans, pasta, sugar, salt, etc. I got 10 of those 5-gallon buckets and Mylar liners and filled them all. My son helped me vacuum seal the mylar bags and then the buckets are air tight. Supposedly they will last for 20+ years. I need to order 10 more. I've started buying some of the dehydrated and freeze dried staples in #10 cans too. I buy extra coffee when there is a good sale.

I learned how to do canning and one of my requirements for the small retirement house I am looking for is that there be enough yard for a good sized garden. I just want to be self-sufficient.

chocolate prices going up doesn't bother me.....PEPSI!!! If Pepsi prices go up like that, I'll just have to do myself in!!!! Flour and sugar prices are sure high!

This is really really scary. How will any of us afford to eat anymore... not that I couldn't stand to drop a few pounds, but starvation wasn't really part of my plan. UGH!

I'll believe it when I see it. I don't care for chocolate very much (how very un-American of me!) so a $20 candy bar won't be hard for me to endure...I simply won't eat chocolate. My husband, on the other hand, will have serious mental health issues over it!

My hubby also came home telling me about the $20 loaf of bread. I don't see it rising that fast, but if it does there will be a bigger economical issue than there is already. We already have extended families living with each other just to make it by. I don't think I would be able to feed my family with the mortgage bill we have now if the prices of food go up, and I guess I would definitely have to stop quilting (or just use up what I have until Im out any way).... stock up of fabric if you wanna be able to do this in the future it sounds.

I have started stocking up on canned goods. I just started my economics class in college and my instructor said we will see inflation next year. One principle of economics is "prices rise when the government prints too much money."
Look out inflation!!

I guess we could always use our quilts as trades for food.

50 lb for the winter? lol! we can go thru that in a month! There are 8 of us though and I cook everything from scratch.

Doesn't bother me either. Can't eat chocolate, gives me migraine headaches. But they had better not raise the price of the red Twizzlers!!!

My thoughts exactly. In really bad times we can use any scrap of fabric just like our ancestors did. It's not out of the realm of possibility that there can be major shortages, just look back at WWII. Food rationing, saving and re-using everything you can.

Probably not a bad idea to stock up on fabric when there are major sales on good quality stuff. :wink:

If prices go up that much, I guess I will be like my parents during the depression and only eat meat when DH can hunt. They got protein from other sources. And, if it gets that bad, people will have animals and gardens even if the ordinances say no. I know that city ordnance or not, I will have chickens. That way we can have eggs and some meat. People will have to learn to can and preserve if they want to survive. I will use every inch of space I have for vegetables. My DD and DS have big yards, so they both can have animals and gardens. Everyone in a family will have to pitch in and pull together.

Or in Mississippi...coffee, too. Gee, the future is looking grim.

OH NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

well you know the thing to keep in mind is that people survived BEFORE coffee and chocolate......(typed that as I sat here enjoying my tiny little piece of chocolate and my cup of coffee) and so will we!

When we say the story my DH said we should "buy stock"
He meant invest in the industry but I was thinking buy stock....as in stock up on chocolate!

I store mine in my dining room - I set the bag down in a large trash can and it keeps just fine :)

Hence the reason so many people are going back to the "old ways" and raising their own food; not to mention the health benefits of knowing where your food comes from and that it isn't loaded with antibiotics, hormones and/or pesticides...

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"------or lemon meringue pie! or lemon bars,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sorry, I digress...

Wish I could grow a Dove chocolate tree, lol!

Note to self: Buy Hershey's stock :wink: 8-)

It will be where we eat what we can afford. I just can't imagine prices going that high. After all they haven't in the last 100 years. Hymmmmmmmmm???? Let's hope the economy turns around.

This is directly from a newsletter I received from our local LQS tonight - doesn't sound good :?

"Some news that can't be sugar coated: The price of cotton has gone up and is at it's all time high. There are several reasons for this...briefly, all of the storms and floods in China, Indonesia and other places that grow cotton ruined the crop. India pulled their cotton off the market. China bought up every boll they could find. It appears that now all cotton is owned by China except that which is held by India. China weaves most of the greige goods that our fabric is printed on so guess who holds all the cards in the pricing war? We expect to be selling fabric for as much as $12.00/yard before the end of next year unless a miracle happens. Hopefully someone somewhere is doing something about this problem!


We have also be forewarned that everything else is going up as well ... notions, sewing machines, etc. "

you know it just burns me that we don't have our own manufacturing anymore! My Grannie worked in a cotton mill her whole life. My grandpaw was disabled early on and that mill supported them and a lot of other people in town. Now its just a memory.....

just a quick hint on storing flour - tuck a few bay leaves in bag on on shelf where you store flour and it keeps those pesky flour worms away! Happy Baking

This is just too funny CJ.......mine is in the same situation as yours!!!!!!!!