PHOTOS: How Families Eat In The Arctic: From An $18 Box Of Cookies To Polar Bear Stew
In the Canadian Arctic, food that's shipped in can be costly. People still hunt as their ancestors did — for seal, polar bear and narwhal.
In the most northerly Canadian territory of Nunavut, grocery shopping is expensive.
Like, really expensive.
So much so that residents regularly post in a Facebook group called Feeding My Family to share photos of high prices at their local stores.
A package of vanilla creme cookies: $18.29. A bunch of grapes: $28.58. A container of baby formula: $26.99.
Leesee Papatsie, founder of the Facebook group, says she spends at least $500 a week on food for her family of five — and that's just for basics in the capital of Iqaluit, a city of some 7,000 residents.
Because it costs a lot to fly goods into communities in remote regions of the Arctic Archipelago, there's not much that can be done to drastically
