We just returned from our typical Saturday afternoon grocery shopping outing. It's amazing to walk through Sam's Club, which opened up over here just a few months ago, and see all of the things that we recognize. Of course, then you head over to the meat area and see the VERY fresh fish and seafood...some still swimming in the tanks, others chilling out on ice.
Here are pictures of a few common items in the Koke house. See how many you can recognize:
salt comes in a bag...
Oreo cookie sticks...
Hershey bars...
fruit snacks...these are grape, but they have strawberry, peach, and orange too...
Skippy peanut butter...
Mt. Dew...
skim milk...The most interesting thing to get used to is the milk. It comes in a one liter box, and we buy stuff imported from either Germany or New Zealand. It isn't kept in refrigerated cases when you buy it...it's on the shelves right next to baby food! We typically keep 4-5 boxes in the pantry and just pop one in the fridge to get cold a bit before we want to use it. We definitely don't drink as much of it as we did back in Michigan, but it's good for cereal and the occasional glass with cookies.
The other thing to get used to is washing the fruits and veggies. You use special "fruit and veggie" wash to clean your items before you use them...strawberries, apples, potatoes, pears, carrots, celery...anything without a peel (like a banana or orange). We can buy fresh fruit right outside our apartment complex. A nice man has a truck with the back loaded with fresh fruit...VERY tasty and cheap! We're quickly becoming regulars to his "truck stand".
More to come later...
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