WOW! Grocery Bill

MrPants said:
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This pic is 5-7 years old so by now it would be considerably more for the same product. Food prices in the Arctic are beyond comprehension. A combination of delivery options/costs and zero competition, unless you're prepared to travel 2,200 miles to the nearest store, makes for the perfect high pricing storm.
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Can the average person actually afford to pay these prices ?..I would never pay that for grapes...
 

HoneyNut said:
I would save a lot if I would actually eat the food I have in my freezer and cupboards. I wind up throwing away a bunch of expired stuff (when I finally get around to cleaning it out).
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When I checked expiration dates on food in the pantry, I tossed out several boxes of expired food. I was especially glad to get rid of 4 boxes of healthy cereal my daughter bought, but didn't eat, and food I will never let pass my lips or enter my house again (like Aldi's dehydrated scalloped potatoes).
 
Last week was the first time I've been in a grocery store in over a year. I love ordering online and picking up. However, we had to get our booster's at the pharmacy and figured we might as well get a few things while we were there. Total was $163!!! I haven't spent that much in a long time. I think I'm going back to ordering online because, obviously, we can't control ourselves if we go in...haha. Actually, we didn't buy a lot of unnecessary things...everything just costs more. Can't wait to get that 6.2% raise...that'll really help with the price of groceries and gas. (I'm being sarcastic...sorry).
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Believe it or not, scalloped potatoes can be made using canned potatoes. I haven't done but have seen recipes online.
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These aren’t bad when it’s snowing and blowing outside.

Emergency Shelf Cheese Potatoes

Rinse one can of whole potatoes in boiling water and pat dry.

Make a cream sauce using:

1 T butter
1 T flour
1 1/4 cups milk
Salt and pepper to taste
A good dash of cayenne pepper
6 slices of American processed cheese chopped in small dice. (do not use cheese food)

Combine the potatoes and the cheese sauce in a small casserole and bake at 325 or 350 for about 45 minutes until the top is brown and it is bubbling.

You can also make this as a stovetop item by adding the drained potatoes to the cream sauce and heating but, I think the time in the oven improves it.

It is very important, for me, to rinse and refresh the canned potatoes with boiling water. I think it removes the tinny canned taste.
 
MrPants said:
Not really. Food poverty is a huge problem in all Arctic regions. You learn to do without a lot of things and live off the land as much as possible. Lots of hunting & fishing going on all the time.
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but what a terrible waste for that grocery store food then... if not sold it'll just go rotten and be thrown out.... ..
 
hollydolly said:
but what a terrible waste for that grocery store food then... if not sold it'll just go rotten and be thrown out.... ..
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There are folk that make ridiculous amounts of money working in the arctic regions (because very few people want to live there even short term) so they can afford those prices but certainly not the indigenous population. The stores there know what they can sell and what they can't. Of course, there's some waste I'm sure but I don't think it's more than other places.
 
MrPants said:
There are folk that make ridiculous amounts of money working in the arctic regions (because very few people want to live there even short term) so they can afford those prices but certainly not the indigenous population. The stores there know what they can sell and what they can't. Of course, there's some waste I'm sure but I don't think it's more than other places.
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I'm stunned that anyone could afford $28 for a small bag of grapes...
 
Speaking of avocados, I love them. I buy them every time I go to the store. They've been costing anywhere between 59-89 cents for reg size, and like a $1.79-$ 1.99 for a larger one. They're always an addition to my salad.

I have 3 of them on my window sill waiting to ripen right now. 🥑🥑🥑

ETA: grapes were only $1.49lb at Winco yesterday.
 
Tom 86 said:
Same here as winter is coming & there are times I can't get out to a store living in the country.

I bought 3 bags of groceries at Meijers for $55.00 Mostly canned goods & frozen things. I remember when we went to the store & had a cart full for less than $20.00
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that's us...we didn't like to go to town ...even before this covid stuff...wintery days...coming...and even in nice weather..can't spend too much time going...messes up a whole day...ha!
 
MrPants said:
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This pic is 5-7 years old so by now it would be considerably more for the same product. Food prices in the Arctic are beyond comprehension. A combination of delivery options/costs and zero competition, unless you're prepared to travel 2,200 miles to the nearest store, makes for the perfect high pricing storm.
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are you in the arctic...how'd you get online?...just wondering
 
HoneyNut said:
I would save a lot if I would actually eat the food I have in my freezer and cupboards. I wind up throwing away a bunch of expired stuff (when I finally get around to cleaning it out).
But definitely groceries have really gone up. I too used to be able to get my week of groceries with a sixty+ total, but now it is over a hundred, maybe even 120, but, to be fair, since covid and working from home my groceries include a lot of bird seed. Also, pre-covid I actually went into the store so I would see what was on sale and I would stock up on my favorite food when it was on sale, but now I just do the pickup order that they bring out to my car and I don't pay as much attention to sales that way.
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And that’s the problem with stocking up, you end up throwing food-money-away.
 
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GeorgiaXplant said:
@WheatenLover Um...have you tried rehydrating and cooking the scalloped potatoes before eating;) LOL!
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Why, yes I have! :) I hate those things. They taste nothing like the scalloped potatoes I make, which I think are delicious. I am just not used to eating processed food. Or buying groceries that aren't mainly ingredients. Processed foods make me grumpy. OTOH, I love White Castle cheeseburgers (sold only at groceries here), so there is no accounting for taste! They are processed foods, I guess, although I think of them as a taste of heaven.
 

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