A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2005 The price of coffee and other stuff

When you guys were talking about half and half and beef and such , I got to thinking it would be interesting to know about the prices of food in different areas, like:

Bath , Maine

dozen eggs $1.19
toilet paper, store brand , six pack $3.49
eggo waffles , dozen $1.59
coffee, 13 oz. can , $3.19
nestles morsels, 12 oz. bag, $2.39

I have no idea what most things cost...I notice the prices when I'm in the store, but then I forget. I know a gallon of milk is $3.48 here...and a loaf of Butternut bread is $2.29. I bought a 10-pound sack of taters yesterday for $5.89 and thought that sounded high for taters...

Oh, yeah...I remember one more thing...butter is $2.89 a pound.

Me either, I had my reciept here in front of me!

What in tarnation is that??

5 lb. bag of potatoes $3.19 , but on sale this week for $2.50 and those were Maine potatoes

Bread!

Oh, I was thinking it was some kind of squash bread, you know,like pumpkin bread. You mean regular white bread? Loaf of white bread here is $2.69

Man, I was just thinking about where milk comes from...
...and got kinda grossed out.

I milked a cow once.....

I know someone who won't buy a turkey from a turkey farm, she likes to pretend that turkey is manufactured at the grocery store and was never alive?

I would be in BIG twouble if eggs were that high here! I usually pay about .68 a dozen...although I rarely buy a dozen, I usually get that 18 count pack or the 30 count pack. This is the first time in a long time I have actually had to "buy" eggs. At the other house we had a friend that brought us 3 dozen fresh eggs every week...that's the way I like to buy them!

Butternut brand white bread, Melcon, is famous in other parts of the country.

Eggs... I had the most difficult time adjusting to the price and attitude about eggs when I moved to Maine.

Down home, WHITE eggs were the standard, inexpensive eggs. In the stores they were always less than the brown eggs. And all the local egg farmers produced white eggs. I used to drive out to the farm and buy flats of them for mere pennies.

Here in Maine, the BROWN eggs are the standard and the local egg farmers produce brown eggs. The white eggs are so pricey most of the time, it is silly.

Now coffee... I am a picky coffee drinker and will pay more for the brands I prefer, unless I'm in a tight budget month then I will mix an off brand with one of my brands, making it go further and cutting the off brand taste a bit.

I do believe the dairy industry went berzerker a few years ago and skyrocketed the price of milk.

Anyone here use alternate milk or milk products?

Merme

Here in NB Canada

1 dozen eggs $2.19
Toilet paper $5.99
Coffee $6.29
Bread $2.19
Morsels $3.29
Waffles $2.69

Forgot:
10 lbs potatoes $4 (potatoe farmer next door)
Milk $3.49 for 2 litres/ $6 a gallon

Tamara...can't believe the price differences you have out there. Here in Ontario...those things are much cheaper!

I also never notice prices but I do know I can get 10 lbs of potatoes for about $2.

Ice cream...2 for 6
butter...2 for 5
2 lbs. cheddar...5.99
Milk....3.29, on sale for 2 for 5
eggs...on sale .69

I didn't think there was a difference in white and brown eggs. Why the drastic price difference?

This tells me for sure that I never shop. I only know that a 20oz Pepsi is $1.09 and the gas station up the street.

I think a loaf of bread is around $2.24. And that chuck roast (Charles) was around $8.00.

The only things we buy regularly are bread, Pepsi, water, Northern Tissue, Dove Soap, Tide, Clorox, tea, peanut butter. I don't mean this the way it's gonna sound, but since we don't buy many groceries, we just pick up what we need and don't look at the price.

I have a friend that tells me I'm not a good shopper. She can find a sale anywhere. I don't enjoy shopping so I get in and out as fast as I can.

I do know where I can get a manicure and pedicure for $35.00, and a haircut for $25.00.

Here's at Tops...$1.68 a Gallon..*it's a lost leader*

Eggs...0.79 cents..

Waffles.. 2 for $5.00 *16 count*
but I normally go to BJ's for the mega size,
60 of them for $6.98.......
Or Tops store brand 10 boxes for $10.00 on sale.....

Here too, but they're Russet's....

I tried to milk a BULL once

$1.29

Here...2 for $5.00 on sale *tops brand*

Good gravy, I'm glad I live where I do! It doesn't sound like I could afford to eat anywhere else! Barley, the next time you come through down here, stop & shop, & save a few bucks! You could even make it home before your $2.50 ice cream melted! (half gallon.)

Milk here (at the Warehouse type food store & at Walmart) is $2.09. Safeway has a coupon in the freebee paper every-other week for milk (Gallon - chocolate, 2%, non-fat, etc... your choice) @ $1.99/limit 2. (non-sale choc milk is $3.89! I live on the coupon choc milk & go through a gallon per week... run out just in time for the next free paper!)

White bread .68 (Safeway-coupon, 3/$100 about once a month.)
Hamburger (20% fat) $1.39
Boneless pork ribs (lean) $1.89
Beef shoulder roast $1.69
potatoes $1.89 (15# bag/Russets)
Gas (unleaded/reg) was $2.68 today. When we went to Calif last weekend, we were shocked to see it @ $2.39, just about everywhere! Any time we'd ever been in Calif before, their gas was .50 higher than here!

Milk prices are supposidly regulated by The Dairymen's Association, but I find it odd that prices vary so much for a "regulated" food!

1 of the 1st things we noticed when we moved here was that the cost of living was remarkably lower than anywhere we'd been before. (Don't know why that is, but we're not complaining!) We bought a house for $175,000 that would have valued at $275,000 in the Portland area, just 300 miles north, & well into the $600,000 range in Seattle! (Seattle, I saw, was among the top 10 most expensive places to live, last month! No thankyou!)

Sheri ~ I THINK the difference in egg prices for brown and white has to do with availability. Most egg farmers down home produce white eggs, so they were in abundance, hence the low cost. Up here it is the other way around. Still, I can remember people down home insisting that brown eggs were "better" and "healthier" for you because they were "more natural".... as if the farmers bleached the brown eggs white or something!

Let's see... I buy a bottle of nail polish for anywhere from $1 to $2.50. Since I have a large collection, they last a long time, though I couldn't tell you the exact number of manicures I get out of each bottle. But I still consider it a good value purchase. I only do pedicures occasionally, and yes, I do polish the nails on the prosthesis. It would look silly in summer shoes with bare toes, wouldn't it?

Once a year I go to the salon and have my hair done for Christmas Eve. She charges me $5 because I wash and blow dry before I go so she only has to put it "up" for me. I do my own cuts at home. But this season I am sporting a very short, boys cut so I won't be having it "up" in my traditional French Twist.

For a few years I experimented with so many outrageous color changes, I decided to try going "natural". I wanted to see how gray I might have gotten under all the Cupcake Pink and Inside-Of-A-Banana-Peel Yellow and of course the purples and blues and greens, apricots and reds. So... I cut it as short as I dared to get as much of the color out as possible. As it grows I keep trimming the color out, and I'm almost a natural girl again. Still dark blonde overall, with a touch of grey at the temples. Not as bad as I was guessing.

Merme

I went to the store today to get that chicken for chicken salad and paid 7.34 for a roaster. It was 5.28 per pound.

1/2 gallon 2% milk 2.49
6 pack Dansani water 2.50
bread 1.50
blueberries are very expensive. A little thing for 3.29

Sheri~ WOW! That is a FORTUNE for one silly chicken!!

I wonder why the price is so high there?

Blueberries are cheap up here because it is a substantial crop in Maine.

And your milk seems a bit on the steep side, too, for just half a gallon.

Merme

the prices here are pretty close to what patty said. gas was $2.10 at walmart today, but i don't use their gas, my car runs funny on it.

i shop the ads, although, i usually just take the ads to what ever store i am going to that will honor competitors ads so i don't have to run all over 3 towns...

Merme, I was wrong. I don't know why I typed that about my chicken. It was 1.39 a pound. Sorry. I've got it in the oven right now.

The chicken industry is big around here...I get 40lbs of chicken for $10.00. So it is easy to keep the freezer good & stocked.