You asked for it :) Food Prices in Gjoa!

I walked down to the Northern today with Catherine.  She just arrived and needed some help bringing the necessities back up the hill so I offered my pack mule services. I also used this opportunity to snipe some pics of the prices up here...enjoy!

 Bananas have actually come down in price from $8/kg to $6.39/kg and the oranges are a better value in the mesh bag for $15.  Apples seem outrageously prices to me but that could be because I usually don't buy Gala.  I'm more of a Granny Smith girl - which they don't seem to carry.
 

I grabbed this picture of Nutella because I usually guffaw down south if it costs more than $7...and I figured mom would appreciate it ;)

I don't actually drink Red Bull because I think it tastes like ass but for all you fun loving folks who do, I wanted to keep you up to date on currently prices here in Gjoa.  You can't see it here but the 710ml actually costs $8.

I think my biggest beef right now is the cost of flour since, in my mind, I've always been under the impression that the staples are subsidized.  For example, milk, eggs and cheese are all regular (southern) prices.  However, this "sale price" for a bag of flour almost made me choke today... the stuff beneath it was closer to $30 because it wasn't almost   expired...err...on sale. 

  Now a picture for all you pop drinkers out there.  I have been assured that the price of pop will go down once the barge comes in September....and by go down I mean it will be about $1/can again.

And last but not least, I was thinking about all you combat juice drinkers out there currently sitting on a dock at the cottage, drinking beers with breakfast. Combat Juices simply isn't the same without a health dose of Sunny D(isgusting).  Yes, that orange crap that you wouldn't feed a child and you often second guess ingesting yourself if it didn't mask the flavour of the swill you mix into it costs a grand total of $25.89... gross on so many levels!

I'm fighting with the blog formatting right now so bear with me if it seems that parts of sentences are missing - I have republished the damn thing 3 times now.