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Originally Posted by kkingston57
A lot of beefs about food prices here. Basically we have two major grocers in Florida, Publix and Walmart. Not a monopoly but close. Can argue that we have Sams but who owns Sams(rhetorical). We spend about 1/2 of our food budget at Aldi. Not bad but choices are limited
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We get the same stuff at Publix in the Villages as we get at Stop and Shop or The Big Y up north and the grocery bill is almost identical. Some things are a little more and others are a little less. The only good deals we get up north relative to the Villages is frozen goods from Trader Joe’s. We eat relatively healthy stuff, fresh fruits and veggies, yogurt, nuts and beans, multigrain bread, and lean protein (lots of fish) and our grocery bill has easily doubled in the last four years. I supposed if we bough food (if you want to call it that) with sugar and white flour then our grocery bill would be significantly lower (but the savings would catch up to us in health care expenses). Bottom line, healthy food has become very expensive.