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I made stew a few times last year, and I figured the cost was about $.50 per bowl.In that case, you are right. Fake food like that costs a lot of money---go figure. :doh:
I live now in a tiny town. They will never have a national chain store here; everything is mom and pop. The closest walmart is an hour away.It also depends on the neighborhood -- there are areas where you'll be hard pressed to actually find an affordable grocery store, but fast-food joints are everywhere. There's a working-class neighborhood in Boston that was up in arms recently because Whole Foods came along and bought out a local market that had served the area for decades -- and replaced it with its usual carrot-stick-up-the-backside high-end/high-priced approach. They didn't care a bit that the locals couldn't afford to shop there, or that they'd displaced the only store in the neighborhood where they *could* afford to shop. All they cared about was pleasing the preening gentrifiers who are steadily pushing out those locals.
We plan our grocery shopping for when we go off the hill.
Yup! I'll have to dig out my DVDs now.I loved MXC. It always left me with a profound gratitude that I wasn't the one eating mud.