Posts Tagged ‘grocery’
Dumbest thing I saw at the grocery store, this morning
About the only item I see on a more regular basis – selling into stupid fads based more on hype than substance – is “No Fat Half-and-half”.
How the frack can they call these things “Saltines” if there’s no salt on them?
Grocery shopping, this morning
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Nice, natural geometry of stacked and arranged veggies.
What are the funniest words of middle-class food woe you ever heard?
Only breadsticks can save us, now!
Like many food-obsessed people, I collect things. In my case, I collect mostly useless things. For example, I have a drawer full of plastic chopsticks from my local Vietnamese takeaway that I am convinced will come in handy should I decide to make noodles for 40 surprise dinner guests or if I plan to fashion a representation of The Gherkin on a rainy Sunday afternoon when Bolton Wanderers v West Bromwich is the only football on the box.
I have a library of takeaway menus stretching back at least 18 years and most of which, I am sure, refer to places that have rightly long since closed. I also have a dusty pile of well over 2,000 business cards from restaurants all over the world, which I pick up as a matter of habit and almost never look at again.
However, my favourite collection of all is a rapidly growing list of overheard middle-class foodie lamentations – railings against the general unfairness of life and how it can come between a person and the eating happiness they deserve.
The catalogue was already quite a lengthy one and is growing all the time and the current incumbent at the top of the pile is my brother-in-law, Matt. He is a good northern lad and a long time supporter of Sheffield Wednesday who would definitely mark himself down as being credible on a street level, even if said street was a leafy avenue with nice detached houses. However, during a family holiday in Devon, while scouring the aisles of a sparsely stocked budget supermarket with my nephew and niece in tow he was heard to wail to my sister:
“The children are getting upset. Quick, where are the grissini?”
Fracking hilarious article if you’re a foodie. And I am. I hear remarks like these every Saturday morning on our weekly grocery shopping run.
Cooked Sushi. WTF?
Saw this while grocery shopping, this morning.
Grocery stores that are good for you
Daylife/AP Photo by John Reynolds
Let’s face it: Your weekly (or daily!) run to the grocery store is the foundation for your good health. So it’s thrilling news that the supermarket industry is on a health kick — these days you’ll most likely find organic produce and “natural” packaged foods at almost any store you go to.
Which chains are outdoing themselves to deliver the freshest and healthiest foods to you? And which ones provide the best tools to help you make smart choices? We asked six prominent health experts to help us pick the top 10 healthiest grocery stores out of the nation’s largest chains.
Click here for the list of the true standouts.
We do our weekly grocery shopping at two of these ten. Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s.
I must admit it’s one of the fun adventures in my life as hermit. My honey and I plan the week’s menu on the fly. Centered on basics; but, the dynamic is governed by what looks good, what’s affordable and, always, what’s new?
