Overview
Made more purchases in the past, but the cost increases have made it much more financially difficult to make purchases even with a discount. Additionally, so many meals tend to have more rice, potatoes and pasta than vegetables and/or meat. Love the products, the taste and the long term storage capabilities, but on a retirement budget and this countries soaring inflation, it makes it much harder to prepare for emergencies, both weather and societal related. Personally, the weather issues only account for about 5% of our preparedness worries. The societal concerns (governmental, legal, racial, social, economic, cultural and religious) far outweigh the weather in the 95% preparedness worries. This includes the war in Israel, the possibility of US involvement in that war and the anti-Semitic rhetorical and involvement by our citizens.