Gas

Prices for regular unleaded gas as of May 18:

Edgartown

Airport Mobil $2.939

Depot Corner $2.899

Edgartown Mobil $2.999

Oak Bluffs

deBettencourt’s $2.929

Jim’s $2.999

Vineyard Haven

Citgo $2.939

Tisbury Shell $2.939

West Tisbury

Up-Island Automotive $2.889

Menemsha

Menemsha Texaco $2.779

Massachusetts state average (source: AAA) $2.275

Grocery Basket

Time to fire up the grill, in part to keep your hands warm. On May 19 we shopped for:

Oscar Mayer beef franks (1 lb.)

ground beef (1 lb.)

Cain’s hamburger relish (10 oz.)

Grey Poupon Dijon mustard (10 oz.)

Vlasic bread and butter pickles (16 oz.)

Heinz ketchup (40 oz.)

Lay’s potato chips (11 oz.)

A-1 steak sauce (5 oz.)

Hot dog rolls (8)

Vanity Fair paper napkins (40 dinner size)

Coke (2 liter)

Kingsford charcoal (7.2 lb.)

Kingsford lighter fluid (1 qt.)

Ice (5 lb.)

The total cost* before tax for each order was:

$38.37 at Reliable,

$43.96 at Stop & Shop,

$47.66 at Cronig’s without Our Island Club card, or

$42.89 at Cronig’s with the card.

* Stop & Shop had ketchup on sale with their free frequent shopper card; sales run from Friday to Thursday. Cronig’s gives a 10 per cent discount to Our Island Club cardholders, which charges an annual fee. Reliable had ketchup and potato chips on sale; sales run Friday to the following Saturday. These prices represent a snapshot in time only; on any date prices may vary.