Oakland Expedition #1: $20, to make some sandwiches!?

Bread, milk, butter, cheese and carrots. That's what I bought at the store. That's it; that's all, no more. Twenty dollars! Well, $18.35 to be exact, but still!

And you know I got the cheapest possible everything. Except for the butter. They had Land O Lakes, and I'll be darned if I'm going to support those so-called "happy" cows anymore than I have to! No siree, I got my butter from good old-fashioned Midwestern cows. The way dairy is supposed to be.

I also wound up with pre-sliced cheese. An extravagance in which I would usually not indulge. However, it was actually an economic choice this time. The cheese section included about 5 types of cheddar in any size you want. But the swiss. The swiss was only available in gigantic humugo family size, or pre-sliced. And pre-sliced was cheaper than the gigantic humungo family size that I would not finish before it went blue. I would also never buy organic veggies back home, they're usually twice as much. But, here, there was no other option, organic carrots or I'm Prince Phillip's horse.

The only bread that was less than $3, i.e. $2.99, was "Very Low Sodium Grain Bread". Sounds like something Daddy would buy. It's ok. At least it's not white.

I can't complain about the milk; it's cheaper than the gas.

This may take some getting used to. At least it looks like eating as cheap as possible will be much healthier here than anywhere else I've lived. That "cheap as possible" is just going to be much more expensive than any of those other places. Oh, for a bowl of nsima....

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