Re: The cost of food

Larry Caldwell wrote:
> tightwad wrote:
>
> > There are four in our Household.
> > It requires about a thousand a month. We don't eat fancy eiither.
> > Beans and taters, occassionaly hamburger and chicken.
> > We have had too cut back on quality and tyoe of foods since 2000.
> > The cost that we experience is somewhere over 200% of what it was 5
> > years ago.
> > That's just looking at our checking account statments.
>
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this depends on where you live ...

> 50 lbs of potatoes costs $10. 25 lbs. of beans, rice or onions cost

if you're very lucky you can get those for $20 here, more like $30, I'd
guess, I'd never buy 50lb potatoes at a time, they'd go bad at my
house (but I don't buy rice in less than 20lb bags, and for those
I refuse to pay more than $5.-)

> about the same. 50 lbs. of flour is $16. Seasonal vegetables, like

beans I have no idea, but I couldn't store 25lb of onions (just like
the
50 lb of potatoes), and they'd cost more like $30 (again) here, if I
can
get them for that. I think I could get 50lb of flour for $16, but that
would
again be a storage problem (well, maybe not more than rice, come to
think of it).

> acorn squash, are 10/$1. Pumpkins left over from halloween are free.

yeah right. Vegetables under $1/lb are few and far between, maybe
cabbage,
and leftover pumpkins? The sores would give them to the food bank or to
piggeries before they'd give them to customers.

> 4 ounces of meat per person per day adds $30 per month for a family of
> 4.

You get meat for $1/lb? Once in a great while chicken (with bones)
might be that inexpensive, frozen only. Ground round runs twice that
if you're lucky.

>Green leafy vegetables are the most expensive thing you have to
> buy.

Now those, if hard pressed, I could probably find by the road side,
just like bananas and (this time of year) avocados, and a lot of fruit.

Your diet is short of vitamin C ...

Larry, I have a vague idea where you live, no idea where tightwad
lives, but these things are regionally somewhat different ...

Maren
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http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~maren/palms_etc/

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