Eileen, you may well be right about the nursing home and Medicare and Medicaid. I should have written that I live in a small town, the home in question is county-owned, and relies a lot on volunteers and donations. People bring in excess garden produce, as do the commercial fruit growers. What works here would probably not fly in a big city. Thanks for making that point.

Doreen, the reason I had 20 unopened cases was that some dietition thought that was what I would need. I tried to keep them from being delivered, to no avail. The insurance paid for it all. No wonder the rates are so high.