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Feb. 7th, 2005 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickMonday night grocery post. Old budget: $1824.53. Food purchases: $15.44. New budget: $1809.09.
So I grocery shopped. Had a list, too, I did. Good for me. I got light bulbs so I'm not sitting here in the spooky light of my laptop screen like I would have been if the grocery store hadn't had lightbulbs. The grocery store *had* lightbulbs. It has quite a lot of non-food items in it. My problem with the grocery isn't with their non-food selection.
Neither the kale nor the collards really called to me, but I got kale anyway. Since it's crinkly, it looks less sad when it's wilty. I hate how the grocery store pours misty water over the fucking greens. Don't they realize that greens are sold by weight? Do they have any idea how much water weighs? I shake my greens out well before I bag 'em. Not buying water, damn it, at least not water outside the cells of the greens. Stupid grocery.
Mangoes were two for a buck, which is a good deal on mangoes. However, they were green and hard like something very green and very hard. They did not look, smell, or feel like mangoes. I did not buy them. I bought some not-quite-mealy Rome apples instead. Pink grapefruits are still out of reach of normal humans. Stupid Florida weather
The cauliflower... there was ONE HEAD of cauliflower. It was four dollars. It looked like hell. NO. I did not buy it. Has there been a run on cauliflower that I've simply failed to notice before now? Why can't I buy good, cheap cauliflower like last year? It's so tasty with soy, sesame, garlic, and ginger. Yum!
The grocery did not have loose fresh, whole garlic heads. WTF? I thought these were a staple item. I had to buy the ones in the little cardboard boxes, two cloves per. Who the hell can get through a week of cooking with two measly cloves of garlic? Enquiring minds want to know.
The grocery did not have Kikkoman soy sauce in any salinity at all. Fuck that. It's a staple condiment. Not having any fucking Kikkoman soy sauce is like not having any fucking Heinz ketchup or not having any Grey Poupon mustard. What is WRONG with these people? They did have rice wine vinegar, which is a new item, and I was quite tempted to buy some on spec, since I do use it in sushi rice, but I was pissed about the Kikkoman thing so I didn't buy anything in the teeny asian-food section. (They did have La Choy, which tastes like it's burned. I don't LIKE La Choy soy sauce and I won't eat it. I have some in my fridge as emergency backup desperation soy sauce and I still won't eat it. La Choy is a very dwarf bread soy sauce for me.)
In the near-meat department, I got milk, cheese, and eggie-weggs. The mushrooms also looked nice and I was angry about the cauliflower/garlic/soy problem so I got a container of cocktail peanuts. I stopped eating them before I ate half the can, which is good. I may use them in a hot-peanut-vaguely-asian sauce thing here tomorrow. I've got some nice noodles and some lovely kale and the last of the soy sauce... It could work. I don't have a recipe or anything, but I have faith. With red pepper, all things are possible.
I just... no garlic? No soy sauce? ONE UGLY HEAD of cauliflower? I said it before, and no doubt I will say it again. Sux0rs.
Stupid grocery.
So I grocery shopped. Had a list, too, I did. Good for me. I got light bulbs so I'm not sitting here in the spooky light of my laptop screen like I would have been if the grocery store hadn't had lightbulbs. The grocery store *had* lightbulbs. It has quite a lot of non-food items in it. My problem with the grocery isn't with their non-food selection.
Neither the kale nor the collards really called to me, but I got kale anyway. Since it's crinkly, it looks less sad when it's wilty. I hate how the grocery store pours misty water over the fucking greens. Don't they realize that greens are sold by weight? Do they have any idea how much water weighs? I shake my greens out well before I bag 'em. Not buying water, damn it, at least not water outside the cells of the greens. Stupid grocery.
Mangoes were two for a buck, which is a good deal on mangoes. However, they were green and hard like something very green and very hard. They did not look, smell, or feel like mangoes. I did not buy them. I bought some not-quite-mealy Rome apples instead. Pink grapefruits are still out of reach of normal humans. Stupid Florida weather
The cauliflower... there was ONE HEAD of cauliflower. It was four dollars. It looked like hell. NO. I did not buy it. Has there been a run on cauliflower that I've simply failed to notice before now? Why can't I buy good, cheap cauliflower like last year? It's so tasty with soy, sesame, garlic, and ginger. Yum!
The grocery did not have loose fresh, whole garlic heads. WTF? I thought these were a staple item. I had to buy the ones in the little cardboard boxes, two cloves per. Who the hell can get through a week of cooking with two measly cloves of garlic? Enquiring minds want to know.
The grocery did not have Kikkoman soy sauce in any salinity at all. Fuck that. It's a staple condiment. Not having any fucking Kikkoman soy sauce is like not having any fucking Heinz ketchup or not having any Grey Poupon mustard. What is WRONG with these people? They did have rice wine vinegar, which is a new item, and I was quite tempted to buy some on spec, since I do use it in sushi rice, but I was pissed about the Kikkoman thing so I didn't buy anything in the teeny asian-food section. (They did have La Choy, which tastes like it's burned. I don't LIKE La Choy soy sauce and I won't eat it. I have some in my fridge as emergency backup desperation soy sauce and I still won't eat it. La Choy is a very dwarf bread soy sauce for me.)
In the near-meat department, I got milk, cheese, and eggie-weggs. The mushrooms also looked nice and I was angry about the cauliflower/garlic/soy problem so I got a container of cocktail peanuts. I stopped eating them before I ate half the can, which is good. I may use them in a hot-peanut-vaguely-asian sauce thing here tomorrow. I've got some nice noodles and some lovely kale and the last of the soy sauce... It could work. I don't have a recipe or anything, but I have faith. With red pepper, all things are possible.
I just... no garlic? No soy sauce? ONE UGLY HEAD of cauliflower? I said it before, and no doubt I will say it again. Sux0rs.
Stupid grocery.
