I buy organic eggs and they're around $5/doz. It's even more brutal to eat organic/local. If we're getting gouged, we at least try and do it at our local farmer's market where we can easily drop $40 on fresh produce at the peak of the season.
You know I can't see how Choices stays in business or has regular customers. All of the organic stuff is through the roof. We actually got a pretty good system down where we bought organic and dairy in the US and brought that north to Canada and we got meat and oil/rice and brought that stuff down
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I should have mentioned, because I thought the same. One of the hosts brought that up, and the customer said "oh, we all go between 8 and noon on Saturdays, so if you get something you don't want, you can find someone to trade with" or whatever.
They also said that sometimes they got a lot of extras of things they didn't think they could possibly eat, but they got into caning and storing and that even during the off-months of the winter, the food was still paying dividends.
I actually hate BC, and don't want to make it my home! Prices is one of my many reasons. And the fact that I am heterosexual.
I bought a frozen Shepherd's Pie from Superstore (PC brand), and it was GROSS. Never again.
Speaking about eating out and groceries. it's so expensive to eat healthily. If I make a stirfry, fro example, I like to have various veggies, such as red and green pepper. One pepper can cost me $2! At least a bulb of garlic is cheap --six cents!
Yeah, that Shepherd's Pie from PC is bad. We tried the Blue Menu/healthy one and it was better, but not by much.
I've always wondered why peppers are so expensive in Canada. I actually recall the first time I seriously went grocery shopping in BC, I went to like 3 places because I could not believe the prices were correct, yet they were. That's one of those things I would buy down south and bring back home to Vancouver as they were usually about $0.99 USD.
Garlic might be better in Canada, mainly due to the Asian demand for it. I usually bought that up here. Shallots, however are ridiculous. I can't recall seeing them for less than $5/lb. in Vancouver.
Seriously, the lack of literate, non-gross men who are not complete losers (backwards baseball caps and pants halfway down their ass--WTH, you're not in a fucking Limp Bizkit or Eminem video!) is one of the things that make me want to leave this fucking city. I've fucking had it! Don't men try and impress women anymore?!
Well, you'd hate Montreal. Gen probably says ten times a day what pussies they are and their fashion sense is even worse. It's amazing because the women here are hot and they dress so...Montreal, I don't know, but they look really good and have style. And they're always with some mushy guy
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Um.. wow, that's really cheap. I always assumed that the South was cheapest, but i guess not. Ground beef (ground chuck, the fatty/cheap stuff) is around $3/lb here. (This pisses me off -- not all that long ago, you could get this stuff wayyy cheaper than $3/lb) Driscoll's strawberries are usually on sale 2/$5, but are more like $3 per pound regularly. A dozen eggs here are like $1.30ish or so. Maybe $1.50.
Maybe it's changed, but I was in Texas a few weeks ago and it was still dirt cheap, but there's a difference. In Dallas, everyone eats out. It's social, it's fantastically inexpensive and the food is both delicious and high quality. Where I used to live, Far North Dallas/Addison there is the most restaurants per capita and square mile in the world in and around Belt Line Road, something the locals are proud of. The restaurant business knows that if you can make it in that market, you've got a winner
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Actually, there are a lot of good restaurants here in Athens. We go out to eat probably 2-3 times a week. We are also only about an hour from Atlanta, so we get (oddly) grouped in to the "Atlanta market" a lot. I guess, if you feel like driving an hour there and back, we are in the Atlanta market, but we usually don't do that
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No, no they don't understand. Can I send you some circulars from the local area? LOL!
I can also send you some Real Estate magazines. Even though you and I would balk at the $139k starting price for a terrace-level 31/2, he'd probably crap his pants. Especially since strata fees out there are like $300/mo and here it's $60 everywhere you go.
We're looking in Longueuil. I was not really impressed by it in the past, but it's grown on me and I love being so close to downtown without having to BE downtown. You can't get anything remotely near downtown Vancouver for triple the price, and if you do it's a 420pi 1/12.
You really would be living the dream, though...being able to be in Montreal but not have to have a local Montreal guy. Gen imported me and I understand why after living here =D
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That would not work for me. I'd probably get tons of bananas, pineapples, eggplant, zucchini, and a bunch of other fruits and veggies I hate!
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They also said that sometimes they got a lot of extras of things they didn't think they could possibly eat, but they got into caning and storing and that even during the off-months of the winter, the food was still paying dividends.
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I bought a frozen Shepherd's Pie from Superstore (PC brand), and it was GROSS. Never again.
Speaking about eating out and groceries. it's so expensive to eat healthily. If I make a stirfry, fro example, I like to have various veggies, such as red and green pepper. One pepper can cost me $2! At least a bulb of garlic is cheap
--six cents!
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Yeah, that Shepherd's Pie from PC is bad. We tried the Blue Menu/healthy one and it was better, but not by much.
I've always wondered why peppers are so expensive in Canada. I actually recall the first time I seriously went grocery shopping in BC, I went to like 3 places because I could not believe the prices were correct, yet they were. That's one of those things I would buy down south and bring back home to Vancouver as they were usually about $0.99 USD.
Garlic might be better in Canada, mainly due to the Asian demand for it. I usually bought that up here. Shallots, however are ridiculous. I can't recall seeing them for less than $5/lb. in Vancouver.
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I always assumed that the South was cheapest, but i guess not.
Ground beef (ground chuck, the fatty/cheap stuff) is around $3/lb here. (This pisses me off -- not all that long ago, you could get this stuff wayyy cheaper than $3/lb)
Driscoll's strawberries are usually on sale 2/$5, but are more like $3 per pound regularly.
A dozen eggs here are like $1.30ish or so. Maybe $1.50.
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WTF is up with green bell peppers costing like 1.99 but red bell peppers costing like 4.99? SERIOUSLY, what is with that price difference?
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I can also send you some Real Estate magazines. Even though you and I would balk at the $139k starting price for a terrace-level 31/2, he'd probably crap his pants. Especially since strata fees out there are like $300/mo and here it's $60 everywhere you go.
We're looking in Longueuil. I was not really impressed by it in the past, but it's grown on me and I love being so close to downtown without having to BE downtown. You can't get anything remotely near downtown Vancouver for triple the price, and if you do it's a 420pi 1/12.
You really would be living the dream, though...being able to be in Montreal but not have to have a local Montreal guy. Gen imported me and I understand why after living here =D
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