Re: The cost of food

"Anny Middon" <AnnyMiddon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Opus the Penguin" <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >
> > Yes, I think that's true and your point is well taken. My question
> > had more to do with whether it was common among the savvy to drop
> > $542 per month on groceries. If not, then perhaps it's worth trying
> > to help the poor be more savvy than just to increase the budget. But
> > it's probably cheaper to increase the budget. Not increasing the
> > budget and shrugging at the problem is cheaper still.
> >
> This whole thread got me thinking:  Maybe some charity (perhaps the
local
> food pantry) should start offering bus rides from the poorer
> neighborhoods to reasonably-priced grocery stores.

Wouldn't it be easier to bring the mountain to Mohammad?  I would think
it would be easier to move food in bulk than people in bulk.  Start
non-profit/charitable/co-op groceries in the poorer neighborhoods.

> That, coupled with
> cl***** or handouts on how to feed your family well on limited money,
> might help the situation.

I think this would be easier to do in your own co-op grocery store.  The
other store might object to you using their store as a classroom.

(Although at Ralph's there was some kind of Kosher class.  A rabbi (I
assume) with a megaphone and a large group of people following him around,
going up and down the aisles talking very loudly about who make this item
and how it is manufactured, and how scholar Malachi thinks the method is
fine while scholar Nevi visited the factory and didn't agree.  The
loudness, the nasal, whining voice, the odd phraseology--it was like
"stereotypes on ice" only without the ice.)


> BTW, the bus idea came to me because I sometimes see the bus from a
local
> senior living complex at the grocery store.  This is not by any stretch
> of the imagination a home for the indigent -- there's a hefty buy-in
> amount plus monthly charges.  But the bus is full of residents who
either
> no longer drive or like the convenience of door-to-door service (or
maybe
> who view it as an outing with friends).

Yeah, we have that too.  I try to learn the schedule and avoid Henry's
when
the bus is there.  Nothing against old people, but trying to do my
shopping
when 80 old people with walkers are wandering around, ever so slowly,
looking for the prunes, I can do without that.

Xho

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