Reply #20: Maybe do-able if you live in a heavily concentrated area [View All]

[intheflow]

like Boston, NY or DC. But here in Colorado, where everythig is spread out over 50 miles, I spend a fortune on gas getting to the "right stores" with the "right prices." I work trips to the discount grocery stores around other errands I have to do in the general direction, usually only hitting them once a month or so. If I had nothing, was starting my life over from scratch, I would be hard-pressed to stock my kitchen so I could eat cheaply right away with $150/mo. of food stamps given the cost of gas to the discount* stores.

*By "discount store" I don't mean WalMart or Sam's Club. I'm talking about discount grocery stores that sell dented cans and squashed boxes and soon-to-expire foods the regular supermarkets have taken off their shelves.