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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Surging costs of groceries hit home
  • Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:01:10 -0400

At 10:14 PM 3/10/2008, you wrote:

er... how much time DO you spend in convenience stores? BTW today we spied
on a new China-Mart in town and we were stunned at the prices. WAY UP.

Yep, no longer the cheapest place to shop, if they ever were.

I inspect grocery stores for a living, and spend most of my time in convenience stores. The big chain supermarkets have in-house compliance staff, so they don't get inspected as often. The little Mom-and-Pop gas station/convenience stores are the ones I see the most often. Depressing, as far as actual food is concerned, but they are often the only stores that the poor or elderly have easy access to.


On another personal note, I rarely eat any kind of bread but eat potatoes
fixed various ways, all delicious. Bread is going up, but potatoes hardly.
And we're about to plant some fingerlings that don't even need peeling.
They'll bring three times the regular potato price at market.

Have you tried Jerusalem Artichokes? I used to grow those in Florida, and just ordered some tubers. I had meant to plant them again here a long time ago, but my job was taking so much time that I kept putting things off. Now I'm trying to cut back on work so I can spend more time on my garden.

If I didn't buy grain and grind it myself, I wouldn't want to eat bread either! But I know what goes into mine.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com




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