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Yea I know the nutritional value and high sodium etc and everything else about healthy foods and the marks against processed meats
Its not like I am making a sandwich daily. its a treat that I would enjoy every few weeks and make an awesome sub that I would chow down over the weekend or create a killer philly cheese steak or build an awesome club sandwich
Mostly my diet is far more healthy that most.
I just find it difficult to make a damn cocl cut sandwich and pay more for the cold cuts that a nice steak would cost from the butcher section of the same store
Well, if this is a twice a month or do treat, then go for it. Maybe it is expensive, but if this is quality meat, then you are paying about $8 for a high quality sandwich? I'm assuming about half a pound of meat, a roll, some vegetables. That's not so terrible.
I live alone and due to my work hours, carlessness and other factors, I tend to go to whole foods more than shop rite. But even at whole foods, I buy awesome bread, nice cold cuts and cheese, olives, etc and I can put together a sandwich at around $4-5 (bread, mustard or pesto, meat/cheese, vegetables).
I agree that it has gone up and is insane. I live in the midwest, so no $15 minimum wage here and grocery-store brand smoked turkey is $9/lb and Boars Head is $10. But my monopolistic grocery chain always seems to have a "sale" so realistically the grocery-brand sells for $7 and Boars Head for $9.
But that roast beef, raw, is about $6 a pound and loses about 30% of the weight when cooked. It's been handled, trimmed, brined, roasted, packaged by workers earning $15 an hour. Then it is shipped with a driver who gets $25 an hour and the government law says he must park his rig and take a 30 minute break every 4 hours, which he is still being paid for.
At the market, workers paid $15 an hour move the roast into the deli case and then slice weigh and package it for you. The market is paying for the electricity to keep the meat cold and for the lights so you can see it. They are also paying SS taxes, disability insurance, and health insurance for that $15 an hour employee.
I suspect you are buying it for very near cost.
In Seattle, you could try the deli counter at Winco. They might be cheaper and they sell good products. Costco sells good deli meats, but you have to buy a 2 pound package.
( I am sympathetic. Gritting my teeth to be paying almost $5 for a loaf of my favorite Seattle sour dough bread)
I sometimes fear a famine, so I don't mind being very slight overweight at 166 lbs. I heard N & S Dakota had a drought, and you know what happened to TX & FL... So maybe all those weather tragedies affected the food supply and prices.
Our Kroger supermarket here in Phoenix is the Fry's brand who carry the upscale Boar's Head brand of deli and it's great stuff but not cheap. By not cheap it's like $9.99 lb for their Ovengold Turkey and some of their hams. But I noticed yesterday that they had a special running on Boar's Head items where you could get a half-pound EACH of Ovengold Turkey, a ham, and a cheese for the flat fee of $9.99 Maybe they have such a deal in your area....
PS: I love sandwiches and know that it takes great bread to make a great sandwich. Along those lines I've stopped buying iceburg lettuce in favor of a new line of spouts carried by my Safeway. I hate dealing with lettuce and storing it and trying to use a whole head of the stuff before it goes bad. Lettuce is mostly water and has little flavor. This new line of sprouts come in a very small container in which they are grown and never touched by human hands. They have great taste, better nutrition, better crunch than lettuce and take up almost no space in our fridge. Do take a look at this link for Ra Nanoshoots. I put a handful of these on my sandwiches along with a good ripe tomato slice, mayo, etc. My preferred sandwich is Ovengold Turkey and Dill Havarti on a sturdy whole grain bread. Yumm.
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Being priced out and being unwilling to pay are 2 vastly different things.
If I am not willing to pay the asking price .... I am being 'priced out'
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