"FarmI" wrote

>> The most obvious one was 4$lb for ground beef. That would be roughly
>> 1/2kg?
>
> Near enough, but these days I get confused myself going from metric to old
> measures, I can never remember whether it is the US pint or the US lb
> that is less than the old Imperial measures.

Nor can I, no matter, we are close enough here for all but breadmaking <g>.

>> The new train to Darwin probably has reduced that now though.
>
> I suspect that it probably crries more people than goods given that it
> isn't starting its journey from a huge food growing area, but I admit to
> ignorance there.

Dunno, I never got to ride it. It must be better though as it's cheaper
than shipped by truck all the way up there. Now they only have to truck it
to the lower end of the rails.

>> It was for a local chain in his town, normal store not 'chopper' and the
>> link below was for his actual city.

He's now posting Publix, a very high end place with the highest prices in
any area I so gather. We have one like that called Harris Teeter. Harris
Teeter is good for when you need the odder items but their cans of veggies
are the same brand as anyone else so paying 1.19 there vice 79cents
elsewhere is silly.


>>> Tonight I chose Amsterdam and some of those prices are very cheap. They
>>> had a A roasted chook for $US4.99 whihc would cost me about $A8 (or as
>>> near as dammit to that), half a gallon of ice cream for $US1.99 is very
>>> cheap -
>>
>> Yes, not a bad price and normal here but depends on brand of ice cream.
>> The better ones will cost more.
>> The roasted chook would be 4.99$ most places.
>>
>>> can't recall what I pay but much more than that for a 1Litre pack (but I
>>
>> Grin, 1 litre of what here?
>
> Sorry - ice cream as continued in the brackets following.

Ah ok.

>>
>>> could buy cheap ice cream for a lot less). I pay $A4.19 ($US3.69) for 2
>>> Litres of milk (which is a bit more than 2 US quarts). My bread is
>>> $3.50 for a grain loaf ($US3.08).

Some icecreams can be 5$ but it's exceptionally easy to get the same ones on
sale for 2.50.

>> I would not be amazed if he did spoend over 7$ a day, but he's getting
>> fancy premade junk food and pre-made meals REAL often and probably a
>> major part of his diet. He probably eats more too
>> as he says a 14 inch pizza 'leaves him still hungry'.
>
> :-)) It does sound like he has a good appetite. We don't make a pizza
> that big for 2 of us and even then the smaller one will do us for 2 meals.

A 14 inch pizza feeds the 3 of us though I grant, with no leftovers.

> Thanks for the prices. I've been thinking about it a bit over the past
> couple of days and I guess it depends on how much a household budget would
> be for food. Mine is $A550/fortnight for food and cleaning products. I
> go very easy on the cleaning products though :-))

Nothing wrong with spending more if one has the budget and such, but i
merely objected to his making you think it was the norm for healthy eating
here. It isnt.

The rule of thumb here is the more spend, the larger the junk foods and
fancy premade TV dinners in the cart.

Food in the USA is flat out cheaper than most lands when it comes to quality
staples.
Your A550 for 2 weeks, would be USA250$ for the same stuff probably.