Food and such.

[cactuswatcher]

This morning the cashier at the grocery store accidentally let a TV dinner I was buying fall on the floor. She immediately suggested I go get a replacement. It took a couple times to convince her I thought it was all right as is. If it had been eggs, yes, I would have wanted a replacement. If it had been a bag of sugar and it split open on the floor, of course, I'd want a different one. But this was frozen chicken and rice, and the box didn't look damaged let alone come open. I'm sure a lot of people would have insisted on a replacement, but this really was no big deal.

Speaking of eggs I happened to glance at the ad from a grocery store I never go to this week. They seem to cater to large families (maybe small orphanages or small national armies, I don't know). They were having a sale on 5-dozen-count cartons of eggs. Now I probably haven't bought five dozen eggs in five years, so I wasn't interested in rushing over for the deal. Then I noticed in the fine print there was a limit of 2 cartons per customer. I wonder just how many folks out there in my neighborhood are grumbling because they had to pay regular price for a third carton? Another special was actually very attractive unless you think too hard about the upper limits. Five avocados for $.99. Granted these are probably very small, but avocados are only good for about a day in between the time they are rock hard and the time they are disgusting brown mush. One avocado is about my limit, though it's still a great deal for anyone throwing a party this weekend, assuming all the avocados ripen the same day. How about eight heads of lettuce at one shopping trip? The limit on another special. A great way to start your compost pile if you can't eat it all. I saw a lady buying about ten pounds of strawberries at once the other day. But you can make jam or pie out of strawberries. Lettuce jelly somehow doesn't seem that appealing.

In honor of the beginning of hot weather here, I bought a cucumber and made some simple sliced pickles with vinegar and onions. Not exciting, but they remind me of when I was little.

The newspaper had a review of a new restaurant in my immediate neighborhood yesterday. It's a Vietnamese restaurant blending into whatever East Asian. There is already a very similar restaurant almost exactly one mile north of the new one. This new one makes at least 11 East Asian/Chinese restaurants within a mile and a half of my house. From an economic standpoint I think we have about enough.

Comments

[ann1962]

I purchase the 18 pack of eggs, because a dozen isn't usually enough for the week, and two 12 packs is usually too much. I look at the slab packs that have several dozen and wonder about those families.

And I'm the only one that eats avocados here, except once in a while Viper will, so I usually just buy one or two at a time.

My dad always liked his cucumbers in vinegar too, so that is how Mom always served them.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I just buy six eggs at a time and not very often, usually when I want to make something that requires eggs.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

I have learned that if I buy too much, especially things like broccoli or lettuce that don't last, I end up kicking myself as I toss the sorry remains into the compost. It's a bit of a challenge to shop for one person at times.
I buy eggs a dozen at a time, but then I do like eggs and eat them often.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

It's a bit of a challenge to shop for one person at times.

It really is.