True North wrote:


"NOYB" wrote in message ...

On 5/8/11 4:12 PM, Harryk wrote:
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We have three major grocery stores here...Giant, Safeway, and Food Lion.
Their prices are comparable. No Magruders, sadly.

All the gas stations down here are within a penny of each other for
regular. Saving $1.00 a gallon for a fill-up leaves $23 in my pocket.

Well, since you very rarely leave your basement, and from your size it
appears that you can easily eat $1000 of groceries a week, it is easy
for you to always pay $1 less per gallon.

For the rest of us, it would take over a month to spend $1000 at the
grocery store, and we fill up at least once a week.

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Y'all crybabies down there have it made.
Wife just spent $240.00 CDN for next weeks groceries at a local
supermarket... and this doesn't even count most paper products etc that
we pick up at Costco
No problem spending a grand a month up here on grub... and that would be
equal to about $1050. of your funny money.


Food in the Washington, D.C., area has always been considered
"expensive." The prices probably are very similar to what you pay.
Beef is very, very expensive here. The saving grace for us is that we're
not beef fans, although we do eat the occasional steak or burger.

Of all the traditional dinner staples, chicken is still the most
reasonably priced. Fortunately, we like chicken and there are a zillion
ways to fix it.

Fresh fish is also pricey.

It's not difficult to spend $250 a week for food and staples for two
people at the grocery store.

My wife works downtown in an area that was once dominated by inexpensive
and very good Chinese restaurants. Many of these are now gone, replaced
by expensive "name-brand" restaurants and upscale sandwich shops where a
simple lunch is $7 to $10.