Spacing Trips to the Grocery Store?

 Since I live several miles from the nearest grocery
store and since gas prices are rapidly increasing, I
have been thinking I should increase the time between
trips to the grocery store. The problem is perishables.
While some can be frozen, others can't.

Any thoughts on the longest interval one should have
between trips? (For me it looks like milk would be
the determining factor).

What is you policy on this? What are you freezing because
of the freshness problem...

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  On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:09:56 +0000 (UTC)


While gas was still cheap, I was living over 30 miles from the nearest
supermarket.  And I HATE grocery shopping.  I managed just fine with
grocery shopping every other week.  But I had given up drinking milk
years before then.  I can't stomach milk now, it makes me ill.  

But if you need milk, many convenience stores actually sell gallons of
milk CHEAPER than supermarkets, hoping you will stop there for cheap
milk and load up on lots of over-priced convenience items while you are
buying the cheap milk.  My point?  You should check the local
convenience stores to see if you can get your milk there.  If so, then
two weeks between grocery shopping is easily done.  But, obviously, you
have to be careful in making your list before you leave home.

On a side note, where I'm living now, I could easily walk to a
convenience store that carries milk for $1.99 per gallon.  -Dave

 

Where do you live that milk is only $1.99 a gallon?

Here in PA state minimum price is $4.10 a gallon.

 
Don't tell me PA sets state minimum price on MILK????  Most convenience
stores sell cheap milk gallons, this isn't a NY thing, I've seen it all over
the U.S.  -Dave

 

Of course, we have the PA Milk Marketing Board to set minimum prices. You
can read all the nonsense at http://www.mmb.state.pa.us/mmb/site/default.asp  
.

I visit Long Island, NY a few times a year and the milk prices there are
always higher than they are in PA. Last month it was $4.49 a gallon. I never
see cheap milk in NY.

In New Jersey there is a dairy in Trenton that sells milk for $1.33 a half
gallon, but regular stores have a much higher price, but still lower than
PA.