Exhibit 5.1

                   [Letterhead of Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP]


May 22, 1998

Nash-Finch Company
7600 France Avenue South
P.O. Box 355
Minneapolis, MN 55440-0355

     Re:  Registration Statement On Form S-4

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     We have acted as counsel to Nash-Finch Company, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), in connection with the preparation of a Registration Statement on
Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") filed by the Company with the Securities
and Exchange Commission with respect to up to $165,000,000 aggregate principal
amount of the Company's 8 1/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008, Series B (the
"Exchange Notes") and the related guarantees (the "Guarantees") of certain of
the Company's subsidiaries named in the Registration Statement (the
"Guarantors").  The Exchange Notes and the Guarantees will be offered in
exchange for the Company's issued and outstanding 8 1/2% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2008, Series A (the "Series A Notes") and related guarantees, all as
described in the Registration Statement.

     The Exchange Notes are to be issued in exchange for Series A Notes pursuant
to an indenture (the "Indenture") dated as of April 24, 1998 between the
Company, the Guarantors and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee
(the "Trustee") and the related Registration Rights Agreement among the Company,
the Guarantors, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Nesbitt
Burns Securities Inc. and Piper Jaffray Inc. (the "Registration Rights
Agreement").

     In so acting, we have examined and relied upon such records, documents and
other instruments as in our judgment are necessary or appropriate in order to
express the opinion hereinafter set forth and have assumed the genuineness of
all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals,
and the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as
certified or photostatic copies.

     Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the
Exchange Notes and the Guarantees, when duly executed and authenticated in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture, and delivered in exchange for Series
A Notes and related guarantees in accordance with the terms of the Indenture,
will have been validly issued and will be legally binding obligations of the
Company and the Guarantors, respectively, subject to (a) the effect of
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium, fraudulent
conveyance, fraudulent transfer and other similar laws relating to or affecting
the rights of creditors generally and (b) general principles of equity
(including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good
faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance,
injunctive relief or other equitable remedies), regardless of whether considered
in a proceeding at law or in equity.



     We express no opinion herein other than as to the laws of the State of
Minnesota, the federal laws of the United States and the Delaware General
Corporation Law.

     We hereby consent to the reference to our law firm in the Registration
Statement under the caption "Legal Matters" and to the use of this opinion as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement.

Sincerely,


/s/ Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP