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We have access to the commissary, seeing as Lee is in the Navy, but we rarely shop there. It always seemed to us that a trip to the commissary cost about the same as a trip to Wal-Mart. Since gestational diabetes came along and with it the cost of insulin, needles, testing strips and lancets and not being able to eat those cheap pasta meals, we've had to take a close look at our budget. Hmmm, do we cut out the van payment or the toilet paper? (I use alot of toilet paper these days) So we decided to do a detailed comparison of the prices between Wal-Mart and the commissary. We made a spreadsheet of about 31 items that we commonly buy on a grocery trip and we took a trip to each store and wrote down the prices. Imagine our surprise to find that the commissary was $23 cheaper than Wal-Mart!! Wouldn't you be happy if someone told you that you could get about $20 bucks off your average trip to the grocery store?? I think we were somewhat prejudice against the commissary. You see, if you think Wal-Mart is a madhouse you should take a trip to the commissary. I guess with prices that low, everyone who can shops there. You often see people pulling two carts that are packed full. So, it takes us a while to catch on. Hopefully we can keep buying toilet paper now.