The stew: the price of living after you retire.

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As I said in another post, the meat from Argentina is the best there is. Usually it is also the most expensive so I buy Chilean meat or meat from Uruguay or Brazil. But the meat I bought was both from Argentina and very cheap. Could it have to do with the problems that Argentina is having? I don´t know everything about politics. But I can spot an insane person when I see one and the president of Argentina does not look mentally sane. When he was om his campaign, he dared say that the Pope (who is also from Argentina) was evil. He very soon had to say that he did not mean those words. Even Argentiniens who aren´t religios love their Pope just because he is "their own". The economic things that he is doing are weird, to say the least. And I won´t talk about his going against Spain now. But what I wonder is, has all of this, and more have to do with the meat at an incredibly low price? I don´t buy much red meat, not because I have problems with eating it. I have problems with BUYING it. I´m retired so my proteins come mostly from eggs and chicken. I also eat canned tuna but it is not the same. Pork is a bit of buxury for me. But a steak is not something I can eat every day. Until yesterday´s delicious and inexpensive stew. Does money have to do with the way you eat? It certainly has to do with the way I do. Money has got into my habits, sometimes for bad and sometimes for good. I used to be a heavy smoker until I became a widow. And my husband had been the mayor provider. So I did my math. And discovered that I was spending more in ciggies than in groceries in a month. And that if I added what I spent in ciggies in a year it was equivalent to the air fare to Aruba. So I said STOP!!! And I did. Maybe I should not add and substract so much. But I pay in full my credit card every month.