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"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I'm not sure it's a trend, but one local chain opened a smaller 
>>>>>> version
> of
>>>>>> their regular supermarket downtown, so it's in walking distance of a 
>>>>>> lot
> of
>>>>>> people.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is commonplace in the UK. Large supermarket chains opening 
>>>>> "corner
>>>>> stores"
>>>>
>>>> Tesco (the largest supermarket chain in the UK) set up a chain of
>>>> small stores a decade ago in the western US called Fresh & Easy.  It
>>>> was a total flop, lost them £2 billion, went bankrupt in 2013 and they
>>>> sold them to Yucaipa, a private equity company that happens to own a
>>>> large share of what's left of A&P.
>>>>
>>>> When I looked at Fresh & Easy stores, they seemed entirely reasonable
>>>> little groceries.  Dunno why Americans don't like them.  The year I
>>>> lived in England I certainly bought a lot of stuff from the small
>>>> Tesco, Sainsbury, M&S, and Co-op stores when I didn't want to schlep
>>>> out to the big ones.
>>>
>>> I don't know where in the "western US", but it's very hard to get
>>> Californians out of their cars.  This sort of thing only works in urban
>>> areas where the store is in easy walking distance and the customers are
>>> middle-class or so.  This limits the market, although such areas are
>>> increasing.
>>
>> I don't have much interest in going to half a dozen small stores to get
>> food to make tonight's dinner.  Yeah, I should be better about planning
>> meals far enough in advance that I'm not going to the store every day or
>> so....  but I'm not.  My wife and I have tried, and we just don't think
>> that way.

> I make one supper and eat it for n days.

I don’t do that for n consecutive days, too boring.

With some stuff like currys I do make a decent sized batch, eat
the first one freshly made and put the rest into meal sized small
plastic lidded containers in the freezer. Cook just enough rice
for a single meal and do one of those each time one of the
containers is used from the freezer.

> A whole chicken will last for more than a week.

Doesn’t last that long for me, but I don’t eat them very often.

Leg of lamb is much more common and that does provide
something like 6-8 meals, the first one straight from the
oven and the rest cold sliced meat with a roast potato
done in one of those glass bowel convection ovens
after dipping the potato in olive oil, with peas, corn
capsicum and relish with just the slices of meat cold
on a hot plate.

> A crock pot of something will also last a week.

Still haven't gotten around to using the crockpots/slow cookers
I got at garage sales, mainly because it’s a mostly winter meal for
me. Must get off my arse, just one month more of winter left.

>> There have been a couple of butchers and fruit/vegetable stores through
>> the years that have been enough better than Albertson's to get me to
>> change my habits, but apparently they didn't get enough other people to
>> do the same to stay in business.
>
> There are butchers here.  One place makes great breakfast sausages.
> Another place has the best pork chops.  It took a while to discover
> these features.
 

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