on the cost of some stuff and why you need to do your math...

Our local grocery here on St Croix has a sale on water this week and on the face of it, as things go, it looks like a good deal...

At first glance.

The subject of the deal is on a cheap no brand water in 16.9 oz bottles that normally gets sold in the store for fifty cents a bottle. The actual deal is three 24 bottle cases for $10.99.

Now, considering the cost of buying 72-bottles at fifty cents a pop would add up to $36 that really is a considerable savings over the normal retail price... Hell, they're almost giving it away!

Fact is I was tempted...

On the boardwalk here in St Croix good quality water (not like the ugly brown horrible industrial sludge they sell you at the local marina/gas dock) is available for ten cents a gallon. So, how does that compare to the cheap, almost giving it away sale, for the bottled stuff?

Seventy-two 16.9 oz bottles adds up to a kiss more than nineteen gallons of water and nineteen goes into $10.99...

Let's call it fifty-seven cents a gallon which is, admittedly, cheap for bottled water but compared to the water on the boardwalk at ten cents a gallon the truth is it comes out as quite expensive.

Anyway, it's just something to keep in mind...

A pretty cool Mahi recipe...

Jason Hill from CookingSessions.Com shows us how...

We all knew it was just a matter of time...

Guess what just came off the menu on So It Goes...

Lionfish are now testing positive for ciguatoxins in some places (including my backyard so to speak) so should now be considered to carry a risk of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP).

You can read more about it here.

Worth watching...

Wow...

Too good not to share...

A quick dose...

Of reality.

Galley costs...

I can't help but notice that every time I go shopping these days that prices on one thing or another has gone up... a lot!

Yesterday it happened to be propane. We've been paying between $20-$22 for twenty pounds of propane but yesterday it was $27... Quite a jump and it certainly got my attention.

That said, since 20-pounds of propane lasts us right around three months (and we cook/bake a lot), it's not the sort of budget buster grocery staple price hikes can be but, a penny here, a penny there does add up.

For instance, ground turkey used to be a regular part of our shopping list at $1.99 a pound but when it went up by 33% overnight to $2.99 that extra dollar a week has a lot more impact on the quarterly budget than the propane does at $0.42 a week.