Wiley, 2,000 dh's a month is pretty much the going rate I would say. I think if your wife tells you she is spending 6,000 dirhams a month on groceries, she's having a lend of you. Maybe she is including a few midday margharitas each day in the monthly grocery bill. Or a few pairs of shoes.
Ok ratpoison first off I use Amigos corn chips for nachos etc, and I find them to be better than Doritos for that, cos they are just corn chips without all the crap coating.
As far as local chicken. The local chicken breasts, especially the recent ones from Oman, are really good. They are only small, unlike the monster steroid filled ones from back home. They are not always pure white, cos they haven\'t been bleached like the ones back home, but they are great. To be honest I didn\'t even know there was an alternative to local chicken as I\'ve never needed to find an alternative.
I do buy New Zealand or Aussie beef and lamb only. But at Carrefour that is at least 25% cheaper than the same thing at Spinneys. Similairly, except for a few locally grown fruit and veg items I will buy imported stuff (eg. Holland tomatoes as local ones are nasty). Again the fruit and veg in Carrefour is at least 25 % cheaper than Spinneys for exactly the same thing.