09-04-2009, 08:54 AM
KathyH, seems from both KTA and Safeway. We've bought Safeway nonfat refried beans for 10 years now, and the couple cans we got here were like soup. Very odd. Hopefully just a fluke. I've bought frozen chicken both good and bad, from both Safeway and KTA. I'll try to dig to the bottom of the freezer now - maybe they weren't hard frozen enough? Weird about the Walmart cat food - sure seems across the board on that one! MtnViewBlue, totally agree about how much we save on other things. Don't forget no garbage or water bills. Food prices are actually similar to SF area, maybe 10% more here, except for things like potato chips and cereals, which are way more here. But dairy is just as expensive there, canned foods about the same. Thank goodness we can grow more of what we eat here than we could on the Calif. coast. And property taxes - we were paying, get this, $8700 a year there. Can't afford THAT retired!