It was a week of $2.49 for a bag of chipotles that I thought cost fifty cents less, $4.18 for a half pound each of ground beef and pork, and another $4.31 for a pound of sweet Italian sausage. It was a week of $3.49 for peanut butter I haven’t dipped into yet, $1.81 for adzuki beans I haven’t yet soaked, and $2.89 for pumpernickel bread that I tore to pieces. I dined out on kielbasa and potato salad at the Bohemian Beer Garden, overpriced at $8 and $4, respectively, and went in on some credible basic-model pizza from Fascati.
