Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint.

[Yavapai]

92. Our closest supermarket store is 80 miles away, one way!

Our small ranch is really out in the boonies.

So we buy in large quantity and store the food in a large freezer and pantries (two).

Since we are subject to being snowed in for a couple weeks at a time we must be self-sufficient. Also, when we go shopping, we try to not forget anything.

Our main complaint is that the vegetables we get in northern Arizona are old by the time they get to the supermarket. Usually the iceberg lettuce is starting to turn brown while still at the Great-Wall-of-China-Mart. Our problems are lessened because of just two words.

1. Freezer

2. Garden

One more thing. We live in an area of open range, where cattle roam freely and eat the switch-grass that grows here. It has been a couple years of really bad drought and the cattle ranchers have thinned the herd drastically. I would expect to see a greatly increased price of beef in the coming year.

edited to add the word years