Wheat, Money, and Butternut Squash

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I buy 45 pound buckets of wheat through a company called Wheat Montana. A lady at church organizes an order once every few years. Last time we ordered wheat was about $12 a bucket. I store the wheat in my basement and I grind it as I need it.

It is time to order more wheat. She called 2 weeks ago and the price had gone up to $24. a bucket.

Yes, DOUBLE!

Wait, it gets worse. They told her that $24 was only guaranteed until that Friday and that in two more weeks the price would be up to about $26 dollars a bucket. GULP. So we decided to order quick. Fast forward to last night at church. We are going to write her our checks. I am planning on buying 20 buckets. It was supposed to be $520 for the wheat. (That was including shipping)

Pat called to get the price Wednesday morning. It had gone up. But not to $26. Oh, no, we should be so lucky.


$32. FOR. ONE. BUCKET.

Molly is here on the calculator. $640. That is not pesos!


Now today when talked to them and they can no longer include shipping in that price because of the rising fuel prices.

Please add $6.20 a bucket for shipping.



We have decided that our family will be filling our food storage in another area this year. I really really like having wheat. I think it is an important element. But dang! As Adrian keeps pointing out, wheat futures are going down, so maybe in a year we can get 20 or 30 buckets for less. In the mean time we will work on pasta and tomato sauce and tuna and everything else that I can just buy locally.


And then there are Butternut Squash. I paid almost $6 for a Butternut Squash yesterday. That feels like highway robbery. But Harrison likes to put cooked Butternut Squash in his mac and cheese and who am I to tell the non vegi eater to not eat that vegi, since it is basically the only one he will eat. SO when I cut it open tonight I took the seeds out and am going to start them here in the kitchen and then grow Butternut Squash in the flowerbed. And those of you that know me know how I hate gardening.

But my gosh people! Harrison can be in charge of a couple of squash plants this summer and save us mucho denero. How do you spell denero?

I am considering a few other plants. But I know myself and surely I will let them wilt and die and get suffocated by weeds rather than actually go outside and take care of them because, yuck, I just really do not like being outdoors.

Oh, and next week I will start having to buy milk again.


I think that somehow the democrats and their bio fuel ideas are behind this all.

Yeah, that will probably get me some comments, but I don't care cause I am feeling a bit peevish about this all right now!