Dear Queenie,
I would like to comment about your column about the thrifty husband.
I also have a husband who won’t spend much on groceries because he says they finish too fast.
Imagine – we have a daughter who just started high school and he prefers to buy her a sandwich instead of buying groceries so she can make sandwiches.
When I shop he doesn’t complain, but when he has to shop it’s a different story.—Fed up
Dear Fed up,
Does your daughter waste a lot of food when she makes a sandwich? Unless she does, it costs your husband more to buy a ready-made sandwich than the food your daughter would have used would have cost him. After all, when you buy ready-made food you have to pay for the labour that went into making it and the profit the maker wants to get, in addition to the cost of the ingredients.
Has your husband really considered the comparative costs?
And when he does the shopping does he buy enough food to feed his family adequately, or do you also have to do some shoppipng to make up the difference?
