End of the grocery store challenge

April's challenge was to not go to the big grocery stores in town. Here are the highlights

Good:
Visited some new grocery stores
Only spent $100 for the month
Found a new brand of crushed red pepper that Brent really likes (burns his mouth off)
Forced to be creative
Tried some new recipes

Bad
I never found a good source of meat. Well, I found one butcher, but they were closed when I stopped by so I didn't really check them out. We get chicken from a farm, but nothing else.
Lack of convenience food. Well, we shouldn't be eating processed convenience food anyway, but there were at least two times when we were too tired to cook anything and we would have gone to the grocery store for a frozen pizza or something. Instead we went to Taco Bell. Much worse.
Not enough fresh fruits and vegetables. I missed these. In the summer it's a nonissue because of the farmer's market, but in the spring they're still scarce.
I also missed bananas very much.

Conclusion:
I probably could not do this forever, but perhaps I could avoid grocery stores during the summer, or only visit them once per month.