On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:55:49 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>
>"Steve Wertz" > wrote

>> The same salad would be 1/5th the price when you make it at home.
>> Whole Foods here would have charged $8/lb for that salad. The
>> individual vegetables would have been ~$1.40/lb at a regular
>> supermarket.
>
>Well, I bought .8lb. To make it I would have had to buy
>1 cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 yellow pepper, a container of grape
>tomatoes. Parsley. Could I have bought all that for $6.40?
>Maybe.

>Regardless, I didn't buy it based on price, I bought it because
>it just looked so damm good. I took note of the ingredients so
>I could recreate it for myself. I'll even fork the cuke ... which ... now
>I'm wondering, would English cucumber be good for this? Hmmm.
>
>nancy
I hear ya there. I am just flabbergasted at the prices of things
here...at least here in Richmond. Even stores unlike Whole Foods
charge an arm and a leg for stuff like that. Seems like the farther
you go west in this country, the cheaper the veggies become. Even in
NM I could probably get all those ingredients for less than half that
price.

And yes, English cucumbers would be very good, I would think.

Christine