Rumblings I'm hearing around social media is that it's going to be a whole lot worse than expected. There are still 20+ container ships docked outside of LA's harbors daily that are unable to be unloaded. Container cost has generally doubled with prices being 3-4x in many places in Asia due to so much demand to export. A year ago a container was like $2500, now $4000-6500 is pretty common. I saw an article the other day talking about how someone offered $15,000 for a container and couldn't even secure one. I saw some Italian food importer in the US saying prices were going to rise 40-60% soon.
Stock up on shelf-stable food now if you have not yet.
I'm 5 years ahead of you and have about a year's worth of food stocked already. I bought a freeze dryer 3 years ago and have been using it quite a bit. Just got another wire shelving unit for food stocking.
What's happening is a pandemic driven contraction and correction. All that money going to peoples' pockets from the government isn't helping because when everyone has money, no one does. We're correcting, the market is (in perspective) holding steady, and the massive rise in cryptocurrency prices is really the free-fall of the dollar.
The US is almost primed and ready to be ruined with just one nuclear strike and it doesn't even have to be on US soil or airspace.
A freeze dryer looks like a good idea, but they aren't cheap. I just dehydrated a lot last year and will continue doing that this summer.
Was it here I found that? I go to a number of content aggregation sites so I lose track. Funny thing is that I've been saying for the last 6ish months that this was going to happen. People really have no idea how close we came to supply lines snapping. And businesses will use any and every excuse they can to raise prices and never lower them again.