Trip to the store

Where is the sound of reasonable when shopping for groceries? How can vegetables cost so much money? Mom told me to go to the store and buy a healthy dinner. I went and got a couple of sweet potatoes which I figured would run about two or three dollars. However, when I went to look at the price of corn on the cob it was something like $3.49 for a plastic wrapped package of four little chunks of corn on the cob. If I had placed the four chunks of corn together, it would equal only two full ears of corn. What gets me is that over the summer, I was paying two dollars for eight ears of corn from the same store. I looked at the asparagus and absorbed in the price. I saw snow peas that was covered in mostly plastic. It seems to me that I was being suckered into paying mostly for the cost of plastic verses the cost of the item. Where are the days when you could really shop for groceries and get a value for the buck? The vegetables would look plentiful when they came home. I bought two pieces of fish from the back of the store. One was Ma hi and the other was tuna. I knew they would turn out good. The cost was about thirteen dollars for both fish. Next was mom's Glucerna which she likes to drink. The cost is about nine dollars. I barely came under the wire about fifty one cents when checking out of the store. Dinner did turn out pretty good this evening. I guess it was mission accomplished.