Grocery Store Moments

I love grocery shopping in other countries. Normally, I detest food shopping…it always makes me far too aware of being single. I can cook, but I’m lazy, and there’s nothing worse than unloading the basket at the check out with tv dinners and pizzas…evidence of my bachelorette status. Every couple of weeks (or more realistically once a month), I actually buy things I can put together to make a decent meal with. Today I make chicken and brown rice baked in cream of mushroom soup. The soup was too watery, I cooked it too long, and it turned out awful. But, the veg on the side (you can buy these lovely little bags of stuff like broccoli, carrots and brussels sprouts…enough for 2 servings) and a spinach salad with pine nuts, sesame sead oil and rice vinegar….yum. Embarressed to admit it, but as I totally dig the desserts they sell in the bakery here (to die for!), I came home with 2 choc eclairs (filled with fresh cream), a cadbury dairy milk bar (the cadbury at home is shite compared to what they have here) and this little rocky road confection…I have eaten them all in the last 3 hours or so! Perhaps it is getting over this cold, or eating nothing but soup the last few days, but my appetite has gone off the charts the past day or so. I am a horrendous grocery shopper, financially, but I’m getting better. Ooh, you know what else they sell here…pieces of meat for one (hmmm, that doesn’t sound appetizing…could even sound rude haha!)…like one chicken breast, etc, which you can even get seasoned. Also, picked up a couple of cans of tuna. This should be interesting…one was tuna in mayonnaise with peppers and sweetcorn and the other, tuna with mayonnaise and sun dried tomatoes. And….that is to-may-toes, not to-mah-toes. Crazy Brits…bastardizing the American language;)