The Price of Happiness

You don't believe money can buy happiness? You're wrong! So wrong!
Here is how much it costs to buy several days of happiness in Panajachel, Guatemala.
Q40.25. 
What? So cheap??
Yeah, it's the price of a 1-pound jar of peanut butter!  😁

But not so cheap compared to back home. Here's the price comparison:
1 lb Jif peanut butter in Panajachel = Q40.25 = US$5.49 = CAN$6.84
1 lb Jif peanut butter from Walmart.com = US$3.88
500g Kraft peanut butter from Walmart.ca = CAN$3.47

Mmmmmmm, Butter of the Peanuts!

I've blogged about this before. Yes, you can buy pretty much any "gringo" or "first-world" or "American" thing here in Pana, but you're gonna pay for it. Chalo's has some imported foods, and Sandra's has even more. If you go to the nearest cities -- Xela or Antigua -- you can go to Walmart and other branded stores and find even more stuff at a little bit better prices.

But what do you do when you're stuck in Pana and you're craving PB? You either buy the local stuff that's not so great, or you fork out your Q for the real stuff. (But it comes with a volcano view!)

Luckily for me, NJP's tenants left some peanut butter behind when they moved out, so now I've got a bit of a treat for the next few days for free! I'm a happy camper. 😋

LATE ADDITION:
I snapped a picture of the peanut butter in Chalo's. There a few American brands, the B&B local brand up top, plus homemade natural peanut butter from enterprising folks around the Lake.

Peanut butter at Chalo's, in Spanish -- mantequilla de maní.