Grocery Store

Ro just started his "practica" so he has had to cut down from working 30 or so hours a week to 16 hours a week. This means that we are poor. We have to go to the grocery store only for the necessities every other week and can only spend maximum 20.000 pesos (roughly 40 bucks) if Ro makes that much from a weekend of work. If not we have less. This week we bought 2 jugs of water, 1 tray of ground turkey, 1 tray of ground beef, one bag of frozen chicken breasts, 20 eggs, 1 bottle of juice, 1 bottle of cheapest brand (acuenta) pop, a package of Q-tips, a loaf of bread and a bag of sugar. Sometimes after a trip to the grocery store I feel like we bought tons of stuff, but this week because I know our cupboards freezer, and fridge are getting bare I feel like we bought nothing. I was looking forward to being able to buy the stuff to make pumpkin pie, but we couldn't. Anyways, while we were at the grocery store looking at the prices of stuff I saw a tub of powdered Gatorade mix. I looked at the price, it was 7.590 pesos!! That's almost 15 dollars!!! 15 dollars for 7 liters of Gatorade! And not even real Gatorade, the koolaid like crap!!!

After seeing the price of that I stopped wondering how I could be spending so much money at the grocery store. I need to find a cheaper place to buy eggs and meat. I will not buy eggs at the feria because they sit in the heat and the sun all morning before I get there. Well, I hope everyone had a great weekend.