Price of rice could triple

If the DOT cuts the hours that truck drivers can drive like they are talking about it won't just be record prices on food. Currently you can drive 11hrs as long as you get it done withen 14hrs. you can't work more than 70hrs in 8 days. They are considering cutting it down 8hrs of drive time with no more than 40hrs of drive time a week. If they go through with this not only will it drive transportation costs up it will shut down the country. Shelves will be bare. Gas stations will be out of fuel. But hey it's for your safety, so enjoy.

BWM

 

You can blend up or grind up dried beans now, then either bag them up in serving portion sizes with a seal a meal or food saver. Or you can do larger amounts in mylar bags with an o2 pack.

We are fortunate in that we live in an area with low humidity most of the year and we put our bulk beans and grains in five gallon buckets.

We use a gamma seal for the buckets kept in the kitchen to ease opening the buckets for daily use.

We have a variety of beans, such as Great Northern, Kidney, Adzuki and black beans, as well as garbonzo and lentil. The grains we keep on hand our organic short grained brown rice, thick rolled oats, cracked wheat and quino.

Not sure if I spelled quino right or not.

A good friend and neighbor raised quino in her garden this year. All she did was broadcast seeded a five pound bag bought at costco. It grew really easily in our high mountain dry climate.

We keep on hand spices for the grains and beans.

We are using cover crops over winter and we hope to plant a 1/8 acre of dry land rice next summer, since we eat so much of it.

We are blessed in that we have local farms that are growing more beans and we can bulk order very easily here.

No shortage of rice locally at either the food coop, costco, or winco.

Our corn did not do well and we think we will use starts next year.

 

Recently, I purchased 25# of basmati rice, at about $18. About 1 year ago, that same bag was about $7/$8. So, yeah, looks like it may have tripled since then. Hope it does not go up much more real soon.