Double Your Money

 The title isn't how to double your money, but how you must double your money if you want to stay afloat in the shopping world. When I ordered my groceries online from my fave store that talks about "saving on foods", I noticed that in the last week or so, since the tariffs imposed upon the world came to dunk us, almost every item on the shelf and bin, has doubled. I once bought a nice big round sausage form of hamburger for meat loaves and meat pies, at twelve dollars and now it is twenty-four dollars. For a family of four, that size would make two small meatloaves even with the addition of crumbs. Not luxury but often beloved. The jar of honey that used to be six to eight dollars is now sixteen dollars. Often I would have the family over and pop into the oven, one or two nice little chicken fryers to roast. One fed three or four us. Now, the same two  that were eight dollars are now twenty. My grocery list has changed from scallops and prawns to, those itty bitty shrimp that come in a circle with a tiny bit of sauce in the middle. Big scallops are so expensive they are the new lobsters. How long ago have you done surf and turf that was once steak and lobster tails. Had to turf that idea! A tin of tuna just is not the same. It's for the cat. Canned salmon, however is quite lovely, especially in a sandwich. A salmon loaf is nice but, to me,  there's nothing like a big thick salmon sangie with mayo and butter lettuce. Lettuce? Most of us have switched to Romaine. It's far more nutritious and if it goes limp, you can pop it into soup. It works like spinach and tastes very gamy steamed up with butter. I won't even begin on butter and its cost. Spinach leaves and their versatility are my go-to green. Like everyone, even though an ancient single, I love cooking and good, fresh food. It's not more costly, but it takes work and change. No more sinking to that glass front store section with the precooked junk food. If  you really want to save your money for those Bingo nights, get fresh produce, and do it yourself. If you can boil or steam or mic a package of that stuff, you can steam the same things in the about same amount of time and do your body a double favour. Double the value of your groceries by reading the nutritional values, the ones that count more than money.