Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

[MaxPower]

it’s not a culture issue
it’s a hater issue

Ok let’s go with a culture hater issue….

[rexsmith]

anyone know the prices for market goods right now e.g. bodi, pumpkin, peppers, dasheen bush etc

[adnj]

anyone know the prices for market goods right now e.g. bodi, pumpkin, peppers, dasheen bush etc

Wholesale prices.

http://www.namistt.com/

[Rovin]

with diwali just a few days away d price of everything in d market will magically raise ...

[Chimera]

anyone know the prices for market goods right now e.g. bodi, pumpkin, peppers, dasheen bush etc

pumpkin is about $10 a lb retail
baigan i paid $8 lb in farmers market weekend but most sheds have it for $12 and up per lb

eh sure about any of the others

[pugboy]

pumpkin was real scarce last few weeks and retail at $8
seeing plenty now but price gone up
i feel they was holding back the pumpkin until now divali

[death365]

i actually buy squash not pumpkin, cooks nicer

anyone know the prices for market goods right now e.g. bodi, pumpkin, peppers, dasheen bush etc

pumpkin is about $10 a lb retail
baigan i paid $8 lb in farmers market weekend but most sheds have it for $12 and up per lb

eh sure about any of the others

[Chimera]

pumpkin was real scarce last few weeks and retail at $8
seeing plenty now but price gone up
i feel they was holding back the pumpkin until now divali

yeah alot of persons probably hold back for this week but alot of farmers get flooded as well eh

[Chimera]

i watching a padna with a truckload of pumpkin the other day, the pumpkin worth about 30,000

one big pumpkin is near $200

[Dizzy28]

with diwali just a few days away d price of everything in d market will magically raise ...

Demand and Supply is not magic

[pugboy]

tomato went down a little in last week though

if there are some sureties is that come august tomato price triples until end of year
and month before divali prices go up
followed by seasoning prices going up for xmas

[adnj]

tomato went down a little in last week though

if there are some sureties is that come august tomato price triples until end of year
and month before divali prices go up
followed by seasoning prices going up for xmas

El Niño will cause warmer, dryer weather this winter that will help Mexico's winter crop production, like tomatoes.

[Chimera]

tomato price is heavily based on weather

tomato is a very hard and expensive crop to grow

with current weather...pressure in yuh mc

[88sins]

tomato price is heavily based on weather

tomato is a very hard and expensive crop to grow

with current weather...pressure in yuh mc

if u kno how ppl don't remember/know/consider this eh. And lettuce too, one small flood and is the entire crop lost.

Some farmers I kno already abandon the idea of certain crops like lettuce, tomatoes and pumpkin as an option till January.

[Chimera]

african snails are making persons abandon acres of land as well.....

people doh understand the struggles of farmers na

[88sins]

african snails are making persons abandon acres of land as well.....

people doh understand the struggles of farmers na

Ent
Snails, locusts, fungi, flood, drought, theft, animals, bad batch of salts, that is just a few things that can destroy entire crops.

[pugboy]

you can add counterfeit seeds to that list
last couple years has seen many seedlings sold being fakes from india

the converse is also true in that many tomato farmers have also abandoned crops in february and march when prices are too low

[Chimera]

that rain really drives prices up like hell, plenty more pests so plenty more chemicals....and chemicals expensive as firetruck

every 2 weeks i does consider planting my 2 acres of land that i've more or less given up on, and then when i look at the plant guides and the list of chemicals...i doesnt bother

all i does do is spray basta/carista/sunquat/paraquat to keep down the grass and even that expensive like hell

i have coconut trees and these muddac**t snails in the heart of the coconut trees living

the chemicals like they not working or they more watered down

basta normally works great to keep down grass

it useless now i find

[Rovin]

with diwali just a few days away d price of everything in d market will magically raise ...

Demand and Supply is not magic

sarcasm flew right pass u ...

[pugboy]

locally the extreme swings between very hot to rained out days messes with plant grow cycles too

farmers have to resort to biostimulants to get a proper response
it not easy having to spend money upfront for a month to hope you can get some kind of results and them some crap happen

[Chimera]

i see a farmer put up his pawpaw field the other day
his first picking....9 months he caring for his plants and he only pick once......

floods come and wipe out everything, with the watersoaked land the trees collapse with the weight

real heartbreaking

[paid_influencer]

dais why i do not quarrel about vegetable price

[daring dragoon]

pumpkin was real scarce last few weeks and retail at $8
seeing plenty now but price gone up
i feel they was holding back the pumpkin until now divali

yeah alot of persons probably hold back for this week but alot of farmers get flooded as well eh

hymc people who hold back the ponkin.

[DMan7]

pumpkin was real scarce last few weeks and retail at $8
seeing plenty now but price gone up
i feel they was holding back the pumpkin until now divali

yeah alot of persons probably hold back for this week but alot of farmers get flooded as well eh

hymc people who hold back the ponkin.

[88sins]

i see a farmer put up his pawpaw field the other day
his first picking....9 months he caring for his plants and he only pick once......

floods come and wipe out everything, with the watersoaked land the trees collapse with the weight

real heartbreaking

dat so hard it friggin painful. is dem kinda thing does make ppl give up and abandon planting altogether, especially when similar happens every year.

Is only so much losses a man can take before he decides to quit.

[bluefete]

like we hadda do like d amish ppl & churn we own real butter ...

- 8th October Rovin posted .. now comes:


A butter shortage is looming, so I tried churning my own at home. Here's what I learned.
Jamie Davis Smith
Thu, October 20, 2022 at 10:29 AM

There may be a butter shortage coming, right around the time many of us need to stock up on sticks for holiday baking. Rather than foregoing cakes, cookies and other high-fat treats this year, TikTok has the baking world covered with tutorials on making homemade butter using everything from specialty hand-churners to the ubiquitous stand mixer.

I don't want to live in a world without butter, so I tried two ways of making my own. It wasn't as hard I thought it would be and the taste can't be beat. Even if the feared butter shortage does not materialize, I love knowing I can whip up homemade butter for special occasions.

While I probably won't be a permanent convert because it's hard to beat the convenience of store-bought butter, I do sleep easier at night knowing I have an easy and economical solution in my back pocket if the butter shelves are ever bare.

What do you need to make your own butter?
Homemade butter is incredibly simple to make. It only requires one ingredient: heavy cream. You also need something to churn your butter. The good news is you probably already have a kitchen gadget that will work, like a stand mixer or electric hand-held mixer. Some TikTokers like using the manual Kilner Butter Churner to churn their own butter. It's old-timey, but I like it best.


Read the rest on how to make butter here:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/how-to- ... 36357.html

[eliteauto]

That's only applicable to home cooks so inclined to use butter in baking, most commercial-made baked goods don't use butter, instead, they use oil, lard, and margarine. Heavy cream ain't cheap either

[paid_influencer]

karailee doubles went up to $7

[pugboy]

yeah, commercial shops use cookeen type shortening
gives that nice greasy mouth feel
only the real high end shops use butter

boy I sorry I didnt buy out the kerrygold shelf that day in trinicity truvalu
looks like i will be using a fair bit with panettone soon

[eliteauto]

yeah, commercial shops use cookeen type shortening
gives that nice greasy mouth feel
only the real high end shops use butter

boy I sorry I didnt buy out the kerrygold shelf that day in trinicity truvalu
looks like i will be using a fair bit with panettone soon

Remember you passed after me I still have in the freeze, but I've told the wife anytime we encounter that again buy AWL!!