After 2 years, I still can't get over the prices!

Tom and I went shopping yesterday! OUCH! We haven't been shopping in a few weeks as we have been trying to avoid the high priced due to the road closure. We out of our stockpile of milk we kept in the freezer and were forced to pay $8.99 for 2 litres a week ago. We decided to forgo the milk this week and use the can of Carnation milk we rationed for coffee emergencies.

Here are example of some of the prices:

The most inexpensive paper towels (package of 6): $7.81
2KG package of frozen Sole Fillets: $27.13
1 KG package of frozen, mixed vegetables (peas, carrots, corn): $4.47
3 LBs McIntosh Apples: $5.50
5 LBs Yellow Flesh Potatoes (for latkes): $5.79
Yellow Onion (1 for latkes): $0.90
750g block of Marble Cheddar Cheese: $16.64

There were some decent prices as well, but the ones that really got me were the squash and sweet potatoes I bought. Tom has been wanting me to make Spaghetti Squash for quite some time, but they are always so big. Today I found a small one so I decided to buy it. I also bought a Butternut Squash (my favourite).

Let's play a game! It's called "Guess the price of the squash and sweet potatoes". I will post 2 photographs I took this morning. I am holding the squash in the first picture. In the second picture I am holding all 3 sweet potatoes (the third potato is balancing on my middle finger).



Your job is to guess the price of the contents in each picture. Leave your guess in the comments section for your chance to win an official Inuvik souvenir.

Yesterday Tom went out to complete his Christmukah shopping. When he came home he brought me something he ordered months ago through the fire department. They were selling Poinsettias. Being Jewish, I have never had Poinsettias before in my home before because I though of them soley as a "Christmas Flower". I never realized that this plant will live year-round (although I'm sure I will manage to kill it). There is some interesting information on Poinsettias at the following site - http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/poinsettia/.
The legend of the Poinsettia can be found here - http://www.ecke.com/html/h_corp/corp_legend.html.

This was a beautiful gesture by my loving husband to bring some colour into our apartment (and our lives) at a very dark time of the year. It was also his way to bring me fresh flowers (which are rarely found in Inuvik).