Do You Buy Food Staples Online?

 Hi everyone,

   This week I have been food shopping online. Do you do that? We live more rural for shopping here at the lake, then when we lived in the woods. At the woods house, the closest town had everything we would need, a super Wal mart, Aldi, Lowes, lumber yards, hardware stores, really anything at all one would need.

  Here at the lake, we are situated between two cities once we reach the highway-left has a local grocery store-very expensive, a Sav a Lot which I have been exploring. Their meat is usa meat and pretty good, everyone bags their own groceries so I think that keeps the prices down. Neither store is great with fresh produce.  If I turn right that will take me to the county seat, and they have a very small Wal Mart store so they don't always have many things do to it's size, and still since covid they are still not fully stocked. That's it pretty much for food shopping there-if I would want to drive another 20-30 minutes that will take me into the Amish communities I don't like doing that by myself though.

  Since I am not set up to can here or have a veggie garden-the night time critters eat everything-I started shopping online at Wal mart.com, Amazon, Vitacost, even Ebay for canned items and other staples. Yesterday I cleared and boxed up a shelf that had empty canning jars-and started adding canned fruits-no sugar, all sorts of beans, canned  meats too.

   I found at Wal mart a really good USA product of canned beef and turkey by Keystone.  Online this same company has chicken, hamburger, pork and in smaller cans. These are good to have around for quick meals and as a back up. When you open up their cans it looks just like if you had canned it yourself-quite impressed with the quality. 

   I have never lived near a Whole Foods Market but searching for different canned beans, found that Amazon is selling their organic beans at an excellent price-and free shipping can't be beat either. (after spending $25.00)  Of course one needs to research out the prices ahead of time as the price of food online is all over the place-allot of it is very over priced

  We have a neighbor that keeps telling us to stock up as food will be scare this winter-not sure if that is really true but I am thinking allot of items will be more expensive do to the extreme heat or in some areas too much rain.  I have always put up enough food every year to last for the upcoming year or two except for meats and fresh produce--so it is strange to me not to be doing that here at the lake.

  I grew up always freezing, canning, dehydrating  food from a huge veggie garden  Growing up in northern Indiana they had a huge huge covered market-fresh produce came in from Michigan and Indiana-have never lived any where else through the years that compares. Any kind of veggie or fruit you would want to can or freeze. 

Thoughts?? Do you put up the harvest or store foods for the up coming winter and year?  With the severe hot and humid summer here I am thinking our winter could be a doozy too