One of the many questions

The Man and I get a lot of questions about life on the island. 'Is food more expensive?' is a popular one, and the answer is yes - everything is flown in from Miami, and that hikes the price. There are a few places to do your grocery shopping here: FoodCenter (your basic grocery store), Cost-U-Less (price club), Pueblo (ghetto supermarket) and the Gourmet Gallery (wicked expensive, located at one of the yacht harbors).

Cost-U-Less is where we shop the most, we don't mind bulk and the prices are reasonable. However it's not a place we can just run out to if we need something; it's about 25 mins away so when we go it's a planned trip.

Yesterday we ran out of CoffeeMate (and yes, it's tragic, we NEED it) and we also needed parmesan cheese. Additionally the Man was out of Diet Coke (tragic again), so I decided I would go up the hill and gather these things and fill the tank at the same time. There's a place called Friendly's, it's a gas station/small grocey store. The food is the biggest ripoff ever, so we only use this place in extreme emergencies (which apparently include soda and creamer).

I went into the store and picked out the items that we needed, the whole time trying to forget how awesome the bang for my buck would be at Cost-U-Less. The photos today detail just how much of a ripoff Friendly's can be - and you have to laugh about it.

I purchased two of these tiny little parmesan cheese tubes (it's the only size they carry):







Here's the size:








...and the price:


If I've done my math correctly that's $1.33 per ounce of precious parmesan cheese. Makes you want to cry a little right?

So yes, food is more expensive here but you have to know where to go to avoid that kind of ridiculous cost. Our lesson today? Only buy gas at Friendly's.

The answer to your next question? Yep, gas is more expensive here. But more on that later.

Any Island Life questions? My camera is ready :)