Text 4422, 70 rader
Skriven 2008-03-26 13:58:56 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 4392 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
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Hi Sean!

>> You can check out the cans of dry goats' milk - I buy that pretty often..
>> it probably won't save you a ton of money at Kroger's (I remember what it
>> was like shopping there.. at least in Louisville, you didn't save much at
>> Kroger's when you bought the dry milk type (bg))... but it might save
>> some..

> I didn't know that even existed, to tell the truth, but it makes
> sense.  I'll tell my wife (we're about to leave so she can put in a

Yeah, I started buying it since they didn't start selling the fresh stuff til
much later.. and I used goats milk a lot for making yogurt and just for
drinking early on.. helped my allergies quite a bit :)


> As for Kroger, yeah, it can get really spendy.  What we do is go to

Yeah.. and now, we've got Wegman's here in NY which is about the same as
Kroger's was in KY :) :)  It's funny.. I'd heard that Kroger's tried to buy
Wegman's but that failed.. I don't know whether it was good or bad that it
failed haha.. but they are really two peas in a pod.. fancy stores.. high
prices.. but they do have big selections.. :)

> Food Depot and buy all the basics there.  It's a good 15-20 minute
> drive across town, so we clean out the VUE and fill it back up with
> groceries.  The Kroger is a five-minute walk across the street from
> where we live, so I tend to go there to get milk, bread and the other
> things that are consumed quicker than others.  But I have their
> "card", so while it's a gimmick, it does save me a little money.

Yeah, we've got a 5 minute supermarket close by that isn't the cheapest place
to shop for some things, but it's more of the A&P type shop if you know what I
mean by that.. more of a small "supermarket" than a big one :)

> I do appreciate their organic food manager ordering the goat's milk
> for us.  Otherwise, it's a 15-mile round trip to the other Kroger near
> my work.  There's three 24-hour Kroger stores in town, along with a
> 24-hour Wal-Mart stuporcenter (so named because all the employees seem
> to be in a stupor there :).

Ah.. you must live in a large town, two kroger's??? <grin>

>> Our Giant SuperMarket here in Binghamton just started carrying goats milk
>> in the dairy case as well.. haven't checked out the price though.. will be
>> doing that soon though since I do drink it pretty often :)  I was
>> surprised to see it
>> :)

> We're paying somewhere along the line of $3.99 a quart; however, if we
> lived more into Atlanta "proper", we could probably get it cheaper by
> going to Trader Joe's or Harry's Natural Foods (owned by Whole Foods).

> But it's a long drive (20+ miles) for a single quart of goat's milk
> and Maura doesn't drink it too fast, so right now, it's okay with us
> to run across the street and pay more.

Sure, I can understand that :)

> At least she doesn't suffer so badly from drinking goat's milk.  I
> probably should start drinking it too being allergic to the whey in
> milk.

It's pretty good stuff :)

Take care,
Janis

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