You know when you go grocery shopping and what you desperately want to buy is far more expensive than you are prepared to pay? Do you resist purchasing or just suck it up? For me it sort of depends a bit on what it is, why I need it and if it’s a special treat or an everyday item.
There are some many food items that have a price limit for me.
Today, when I went to buy an avocado, an item I purchase at least three times a week, I had to pass. I came close to passing last time when they were $3.50 each, but at $3.99 for one avo, I just couldn’t do it.
Avocado prices were beyond my prepared-to-pay budget. Sigh.
I should add that the avocados from my local green grocer are nearly always perfect, and are usually very large, so I’m more than happy to pay up to $3.50. But over that? No way.
And, just to clarify, I also wasn’t tempted to purchase a lower priced avo from the supermarket next door. Been there, done that, never again. They are always bruised, usually smaller than at my greengrocer, and thus end up being a very false economy.
And I ABSOLUTELY wasn’t prepared to buy avocado in a tube. For those wondering, I have done that when desperate, and rapidly decided I would never be that desperate again. Ever. Ugh.
So instead I’ll savour the little bit of avo I have left in the fridge with my breakfast tomorrow, and hope that the price drops back to $3.50 or less over the next few days. Rather than cranking up to $5.00 each as they were for a brief far too long period last summer.
Are there foods that hit a price point you just are not prepared to pay? And what about avocado? What’s the most you have paid for one?
Agreed. Some things do go above and beyond, even for the quality. My 18yo son devours blueberries. I mean he literally funnels them straight from the punnet into his mouth. But they’re brimming with goodness so I don’t mind at all how he consumes them. When they’re affordable, like now, I buy a couple of punnets at a time, every time I go shopping. But when they reach $5 or $6, blueberry season is over for me. Same goes for raspberries. Frozen simply don’t compare but will do in a pinch, but when they get beyond $5 a punnet, not doing it.
I’ve started buying much better quality meats lately but when an organic whole chicken is $30 or more at a butcher shop, I can’t cop that. I bought an organic chicken from Coles yesterday for $16 and it was good.