I was at a grocery store that I don't visit every week-on the usual hunt for cereal and though I did NOT find any cereal to make my family happy I hit the jackpot in other ways.
I found for the first time EVER in Manila-Jello lemon flavored pudding! I bought 15 boxes and would have bought more if I could have reached them-they were on the very top shelf and I reached as far back as I could. I also briefly considered putting Ashley on my shoulders to see if she could reach more, but decided not to make that much of a spectacle of us.
I saw refried beans-now I wouldn't touch those with a 10 foot pole but my friend who came here from Texas missed them terribly so I called her to see if she wanted me to buy her any.
Then I also bought myself a can of enchilada sauce which I had not seen here-though I now have a recipe to make my own.
Another day, I visited 3 different grocery stores looking for Honey Nut Cheerios and did not find ANY! Some days I really miss Wal-Mart and Target.
I was buying a tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream recently and wrote a list of other available ice cream flavors: Macapuno-which I read online is a variety of coconut, Ube delight-ube is a purple yam, avocado, cheese, golden langka or jackfruit-which I read tastes like a tart banana, bubble gum mallows-kids would probably love that one but it didn't sound very good to me Interesting things to make ice cream out of!
Do you feel like you are going on a scavenger hunt every time you go out to the grocery store? I am very blessed to be able to get as many "normal" things as I do at the store, but we do still joke that expats can make a full time occupation out of grocery shopping here.
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