FOODbasket
published: Thursday | July 8, 2004

BEEF STEW

An economical meat-cut that is being offered in supermarkets and meatshops as well as retail market butcher -stalls is Beef Stew. If you are shopping for the meat in the rural meatshops the asking-price for a pound (454.55g) will be $70. That same price will hold good for a number of downtown Kingston meat outlets.

Retail market butcher stalls will ask $60 for a pound of the meat. The per-pound price for beef stew in the fancy uptown Kingston plazas will of course, be much higher.

NEGRO YAM

Fair supplies of negro yam are on offer this week in a number of retail markets and vegetable shops over the island.

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market is quoting $40 for a pound (454.55g) of negro yam at this time, while most rural retail markets are asking $30 to $35 per-pound.

Downtown Kingston's less-expensive selling-spots are asking $30 to $35 per-pound, too, for negro yam this week.

GEDDY'S FISH 'N MEAT SAUCE

A spicy sauce for those stews that you can pick up in a number of groceries and supermarkets is Geddy's Fish 'N Meat Sauce. The 166 -gram bottle will lessen your spending-money by $45.

Water, ripe bananas, salt, onion, garlic, cane vinegar, modified starch, spices, sugar and sodium benzoate make up the exotic treat.`Carrots

Vegetable favourite carrot will not be over-plentiful this week in any retail market or vegetable shops.Most rural retail markets will ask $60 to $70 for a pound (454.55g) of the golden-fleshed vegetable this week, and so will less-costly downtown Kingston outlets. Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will ask $60 to $80 for a pound of carrots this week.

ROMA COCOA

Want to try a delightful cocoa product? How about some Roma Cocoa? The 115-gram tin on offer in groceries and supermarkets will cost you $85.

Cocoa powder processed with alkali, salt, ethyl vanillin and artificial flavouring make up the taste-treat.

Cocoa powder comes in the Grace and Lasco brands as well, but price and contents will vary with label.

IRISH POTATO

Popular tuber Irish potato is not hard to come by this week in most retail markets and vegetable shops.

Most rural retail markets are asking $25 to $30 for the imported product, while the locally-grown tuber will got at $40. Those same prices hold good for less-costly downtown Kingston selling-spots.

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will ask $40 for the local product and $50 per-pound (454.55g) for the imported tuber this week.