[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('satjeet', 's')o lettuce is , on the east coast, a spring crop and if you're lucky mid fall. Why are you surprised, you're still living in the Maya!!!

[anthem]

I haven't noticed a lettuce shortage at all in my area, mid-Missouri, but I do think the overall quality of produce has be much diminished this year. We buy more leaf lettuce and romaine than iceberg, but the iceberg has been easily available.

[I_Like_Plants]

Who cares about iceberg lettuce anyway? That stuff's not food!

My local corporate market has collards, big ol' honkin' bag for like $2 or $3, spinach agains decent bag (2 servings and I like spinach) for $2 if you have "the card", mustard greens similar size/pricing as the collards, and stuff like cilantro, parsley, for "da cheaps".

Those things are food. All are good boiled, many are good chopped and marinated, too. Oh and chard, I didn't check for chard, they may not have it but chard's good too.

[Tyler_JC]

No lettuce??

I guess we need to head off to the bunker, right?

I think the reason we believe the stores are empty is because we are expecting them to be empty. The real shortages have even begun and we already have weekly posts on food "shortages".

Think about rain and the sky is always cloudy.

PS. Don't bother with that iceberg lettuce crap. It has no nutrients. You're better off eating snow (at least the snow is free).

Romaine, now that's a decent lettuce.

Or collards as I_Like_Plants pointed out. But then again, my mother is from Alabama...so I might not be the most unbiased source for that sort of advice.

[I_Like_Plants]

I never had collards until pretty recently, and they're good! Same goes for black-eyed peas, grits, and probably a few other things, and you know what? They're good!

Now I mentioned parsley. PARSLEY? Well, eat at a middle-eastern restaurant and you'll learn parsley can be a staple food. In some cuisines basil almost is, too. In others, prickly pear pads are sliced and cooked like green beans.

Iceberg lettuce is just awful, it's just not food.

[Tyler_JC]

If you haven't had a eggs, grits, gravy, biscuits, and bacon breakfast...you've been missing out on some good eats.

My grandparents live in Virginia, so yeah.

I see all these people eating bagels and drinking coffee every morning. It's a real human tragedy.

[I_Like_Plants]

Hey grits, eggs, bacon or ham or corned beef hash, and some coffee and maybe some OJ is a GOOD breakfast to get some hard work done on!

[pup55]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'i')ceberg lettuce crap. It has no nutrients

[kelee877]

Not lettuce here..but cheap tuna in a can I have depleted my preps..cause i like tuna..but the last 3 times i have been shopping there has ben no tuna..unless I want to buy the expensive stuff...

[Madpaddy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ot lettuce here..but cheap tuna in a can I have depleted my preps..cause i like tuna..but the last 3 times i have been shopping there has ben no tuna..unless I want to buy the expensive stuff...

[EnergySpin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ot lettuce here..but cheap tuna in a can I have depleted my preps..cause i like tuna..but the last 3 times i have been shopping there has ben no tuna..unless I want to buy the expensive stuff...

[Madpaddy]

Too true Energyspin,

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/Multimedia ... t/7157.pdf

I love babies, I just couldn't eat a whole one

[kelee877]

MADPADDY..yes I agree....I was watching the news the other night and they sid that the salmon have not come yet I think it was in Vancouver area..but there are suppose to be 11 million Slamon and they have eighter not arrived yet or have died because of the rise in temperature of lake waters..I have gone back and tried to google the news story but cannot find it..and they have not updated this yet

[Sencha]

link I don't know how many of you might have seen this or not, but you've got to check this out. Someone should really make a Peak Oil version of this!

"You must learn the ways of the farm." ~Obi Wan Cannoli

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DT2PPG3.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db]Target shares drop on tepid sales outlook (link)[/url]
The Associated Press/NEW YORK
NOV. 15 1:45 P.M. ET Target Corp. shares sank more than 7 percent on Tuesday, a day after the discount retailer gave a tepid November sales forecast.

[Trindelm]

I would have expected a small spike in October/November sales for blankets and space heaters.

[joewp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Trindelm', 'I') would have expected a small spike in October/November sales for blankets and space heaters.

[savethehumans]

Hear, hear, joewp!

I have been thinking of looking at Goodwill and thrift shops for blankets, though. Not gonna be turning on the gas heater much this winter, that's for sure!

[frankthetank]

I had her down to 43F in the living room...that'll keep company away! Heat robbing bastards!

I wonder if the heating bills will show up before or after the shopping rush? I think thats the wild card. Once these junk hording shopping zombies get those heating billz, game over!

[Leanan]

Retailers are very nervous

Some think it's worse to have the heating bills arriving after Christmas. Uncertainty may be more of a damper than knowing the worst.