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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids who would prefer to live on fruit and berries, but I'm a vegetarian and would easily spend that much here in DC even without kids.

But it's _where_ I'm spending that makes my shopping list so expensive:  a weekly CSA and small NW DC markets like Yes that are close to us.

We temporarily moved to my rural hometown at the beginning of the pandemic, and everything - especially produce - was SO MUCH CHEAPER at the suburban grocery store 15 miles away.

So OP, talk to other urban/suburban/rural shoppers based on your own situation.[/quote]

Wherever you are you can also make different choices--so it's worth it to take time to solve imaginatively.  When I was a vegetarian living in an expensive downtown without a car, I'd periodically--like every couple months-- rent a car and get all my bulk dry goods at an ethnic mart outside of the city that had great prices (this was before Amazon made it easy with extensive food offerings!)--dried beans, grains etc.  (The car rental would be generally a weekend where I'd do all my errands that needed a car). Then I would just shop the local market for produce and other perishables in the meantime. I never ate so cheaply or well. [/quote]

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