I suppose you don't grow too many in tassie? Our plants have three bunches waiting for us to get them before the bats find them. They are only small but they taste great.
I went to get some Green beans yesterday they were 18.99 a KG. I don't ever remember paying that much!
Well with so many people already struggling and meat is off the menu... Link : http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ply-to-pay-bills/story-e6freon6-1226024687587 It makes me wonder what all these debt laden Australians are going to start eating in order to get by? We back to bread and dripping again I wonder?
Are these the inflation figures they use where they strip out any indicators that don't support the 'low inflation' theme? You know like oil/energy/commodities/food/PM's (lol)...Just wondering what is actually left, and how is it not rising? aaahh that's right ....with house prices plummeting it all balances out...no problem
saw this coming ages ago.......we just started a garden....also have some chickens in the back yard in a reasonable patch of garden. for over 5 years we have had fresh veges.....fresh eggs..... ...having a garden in the backyard is simple....easy to get started, easy to maintain. i make that a routine in my daily life as i make viewing and posting on SS....once you start...it becomes an addiction
I'd be willing to bet that's about the same percentage of people who actually HAVE a budget they try and stick to. Most people I know haven't even tried to make a budget.
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That's correct. I was correlating between the two. Meat too expensive & now fresh fruit and veges are getting too expensive. That cuts down very sharply into the food budget for those living on the debt ridden knife edge. I'd rather eat well and live longer than sit in an over sized mcmansion you never really needed in the first place. What's your health worth to you?
Can anyone tell me where rents have gone down? malachii PS Above is not a quote from Auspm but from the article - I seem to have cropped a bit much. Apologies.
I must admit that what surprises me is that, in normal times, the big supermarkets can quite easily import fruit and vegetables direct from overseas, and undercut the local prices. Yet now they can't? I smell a case of price gouging, under the guise of Yassi and the QLD/NSW/VIC/TAS floods.
Saw some bananas recently for 1.99, marked "from Ecuador or Philippines" I think Now it is just the Aussie variety, a steal at 12.99 a kilo
