Food: The Presence and The Afterglow

cooking with intention, cooking with presence, cooking with anticipation

Great food doesn’t come from secrets—it comes from time, patience, and presence. It comes from connection. I want these words to be a meditation, something you can revert back to and draw from as you take back control. We all know what’s happening with price gouging by Big Food. It’s time to take back the real power.

The Inflation-Illusion Conspiracy

inflation, price gouging, conspiracy, FTC refusals to investigate, IMF and World Bank conspiracy, forced poverty, population control, population elimination

Remember the movie Soylent Green?

We may not be eating people disguised as crackers anytime soon, but make no mistake, our government and governments around the world are in a power and money grab the likes we’ve never seen before. Why is everything (not just food) so expensive these days? You’re about to find out.

Big Banks Just Stole Your ATM – What’s Next?

banks pull ATMs, double ATM fees, bank customers switch to credit unions, bad bank practices

It’s not just grocery chains and food manufacturers squeezing households. When a big bank quietly rewrites the rules on accessing your own cash, the shock waves hit the dinner table too. For many families, that “something else” is grocery shopping, meal prep and the already–tight food budget. But there are alternatives, ways to stick it back to Big Bank.

C&S / SpartanNash Merger Tightens the Noose

C&S Spartan Nash merger, FTC stays silent, WalletGate, SpokenFood investigates

Let’s do the math. If C&S touches roughly 7,500 stores pre-merger and SpartanNash’s wholesale network spans another 2,500, that’s about 10,000 retail outlets whose shelf pricing can be influenced by a single procurement ecosystem. Add in 60 distribution centers, unified freight contracts, centralized purchasing power, and national vendor terms, and you’ve created something close to a food-supply monopoly in everything but name.