23 Mar, 2011
Shopping switcheroo
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Easy ways to make kids happy|Ottawa|Recipes and Food
My latest piece at the UsedEverywhere blog yesterday was about buying stuff… and needing translation help. So far no one has been able to help me out. :)
All kidding aside, this purchase was made over March Break at T&T Supermarket. I’ve written about them before. I figured I had grocery shopping to do anyway, and the girls like going there, so why not make a field trip out of it? Have you been? It’s fun. It’s the only time we stroll up and down EVERY aisle in the store. (This takes awhile.)
We bought So Much Stuff. This isn’t even half of it. (Note I didn’t bother taking photos of the fruit and veggies. Nothing exciting about those.)
We had no shopping plan whatsoever.
Sometimes all it took was a fun picture on the front:
The items we looked at almost always resulted in questions, for example, what does meowing have to do with shrimp chips?
This, by the way, is the Best Pocky Ever. Double chocolate:
And these are good with beer:
And this was an impulse buy. I thought I was buying small pieces of rock sugar (to use instead of sugar cubes) but the box was full of very large hunks that needed to be smashed with a hammer. Which was fun.
Drink boxes made a rare appearance in our grocery cart. Melon-flavoured soy milk is yummy:
… and we also bought some bubble tea. This was honeydew flavoured. Also yummy:
And we made square toast when we came home (which got slightly squashed en route):
If you go to T&T, don’t miss the live fish and crabs. It is totally worth it.
Who knew grocery shopping could be this interesting?
