Bought 20 lbs of Basmati at Bjs...It'll last a loooooog time.
I'm 78 too.
Here's where I take the dogs every morning for my exercise. That first picture is a cotton crop looking outside the park. The farmer rotates cotton, corn and peanuts.
My closest grocery store is 15 miles away.
In another lifetime, I had three teen boys to feed, myself, my ex and his brother who was ALWAYS there for meals, 99% of the time. (It was cool; I liked him.)
Aldi, my garden and my flock of laying hens were the Saving Grace at the time to keep us all fed.
And, the boys KNEW not to TOUCH the ‘Aldi Quarter’ I kept in the car ashtray, no matter HOW tempting it was for arcade video games back then, LOL!