[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 [@shagbark_hick](/creator/twitter/shagbark_hick) on x 43.2K followers Created: 2025-07-24 15:22:01 UTC What's actually incredible about food commodities markets today is -- even at RETAIL prices, in grocery stores and restaurants, we still spend the lowest level of our income on food in human history: 11.3%. But if you got into buying raw commodities yourself, processing them into edible food, this figure could be lowered to astonishing levels. Literally could make a year's worth of masa (for tortillas and tamales) for a family of X for $XX. Rice for $0.26/lb, Pintos for $0.40/lb, wheat for less than $0.10/lb. You'd have to figure out how to buy in bulk, purchase some processing equipment, and take a week or so every year to process the bulk foods, but you could be feeding a family amply all year for obscenely low prices. Obviously no one does this. It's a hassle. Your time is probably worth more than doing the research it'd take to buy straight from producers at commodity rates and learn to process it. Up-front costs of machinery might be steep. But it'd pay in dividends if done right. The idea that you could even remotely be able to spend substantially less than X% of your income on all food needs would be preposterous to our ancestors. They would be unable to conceive of it. XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [steak](/topic/steak) [subway](/topic/subway) [masa](/topic/masa) [Post Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1948403302384783669)
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𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick on x 43.2K followers
Created: 2025-07-24 15:22:01 UTC
What's actually incredible about food commodities markets today is -- even at RETAIL prices, in grocery stores and restaurants, we still spend the lowest level of our income on food in human history: 11.3%.
But if you got into buying raw commodities yourself, processing them into edible food, this figure could be lowered to astonishing levels. Literally could make a year's worth of masa (for tortillas and tamales) for a family of X for $XX.
Rice for $0.26/lb, Pintos for $0.40/lb, wheat for less than $0.10/lb. You'd have to figure out how to buy in bulk, purchase some processing equipment, and take a week or so every year to process the bulk foods, but you could be feeding a family amply all year for obscenely low prices.
Obviously no one does this. It's a hassle. Your time is probably worth more than doing the research it'd take to buy straight from producers at commodity rates and learn to process it. Up-front costs of machinery might be steep. But it'd pay in dividends if done right.
The idea that you could even remotely be able to spend substantially less than X% of your income on all food needs would be preposterous to our ancestors. They would be unable to conceive of it.
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