So today started like any day thus far, bundled up for the walk to work, travelling under the gaze of the ravens, as they sit in their Hitchcock-ian fashion upon every telephone pole, roof, and railing in sight. But there was a fantastic surprise when I came home from work - THE FOOD ORDER WAS HERE!!!
It's very common here to order food from down south. Food is expensive here, the selection is not great and the quality can be a little sad. Most people sealift hundreds of pounds of non-perishables during the summer (for example, toilet paper is ridiculously expensive here). The family I live with did this and also order perishable goods from an organic grocer in Quebec. Including shipping the prices probably work out to be the same as what's available here, but it's organic and wonderful quality. The list of Specials are e-mailed out on Tuesday, and if you place the order by noon, you get it the next day! Ordering groceries online is dangerously fun. Partly because you order things you probably don't need (like fruit & nut bread and tofu & veggie pie). But for me the greatest danger is having no sense of weights and measures (as demonstrated by the huge pile of garlic I ordered). Here's a list of what I bought, and the prices (not including shipping), which seemed reasonable after one trip to the grocery store here, believe me!:
Bread with fruit and nuts: $2.95
Tofu & vegetables pie: $7.65
Apple, Fuji - 3 lbs bag: $4.55
Clementine - 5 lbs box: $9.95 (to stave-off scurvy, naturally)
Pear, DÁnjou - 3 lbs bag: $4.75
Pineapple: $1.95 each
Orange juice - 1.89 L: $5.25 (Treehugger Brand, classic)
Carrot, baby - 1 lbs bag: $1.85 (mmm babies)
Cucumber: $3.85 ea.
Garlic - 1 lbs bag: $3.85 (please feel free to post recipes that include garlic, seriously)
Lettuce, green leaf: $2.50 ea.
Tomato, cherry - pint: $3.45
To give the local shopping establishments some credit I did find a pair of rather sassy p.j. pants for only $4.99. I bought them at Northmart. Northmart is a grocery/"department" store, which plays classic rock over the speaker system. Who doesn't love selecting bananas to the strains of Pink Floyd? The other main shopping destination is Arctic Ventures. Their claim to fame is the music played at the front entrance, designed to keep teenagers from congregating, because everyone knows marching music is the natural enemy of teens. They spontaneously combust upon hearing it, so be warned any teens who are contemplating watching this video.
5 comments:
i have obviously been shopping at over-priced places like planet organic way too long because those prices don't seem that crazy to me! they must be...but alas, as i have moved to the northwest and become vegan over the last 5 years i have stopped looking at food prices because they are too depressing! cool PJ pants, btw....
Garlic Roasted Potatoes ingredients list:
4 medium Roasting potatoes.
4 x Cloves garlic.
2 tablespoons of Oil.
Salt to taste.
Instructions for Garlic Roasted Potatoes:
1. Preheat the oven to 425 F.
2. Wash the potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise. Cut each half into 3 slices.
3. Peel the garlic cloves.
4. Mix the oil, potato slices, garlic cloves and salt in a bowl until evenly coated.
5. Put the potatoes and garlic in a baking pan and bake for 30-40 minutes.
next time flights get cancelled for days you can sell your garlic - black market veggies!
Sure is quiet around here...
Hot pants! You should just roast the garlic bulbs whole. Leave them in their skins, slather them in oil, wrap them in tinfoil (and make sure the tinfoil is only open at the top so the hot oil won't leak out), then bake them at 350 for about 45 mins (roughly). Then you can just squeeze the gooey garlicky goodness out of the skins. You're going to smell terrible, but at least the vampires won't get you.
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