Shopping List Week 6

1.       Bananas

2.       Oranges

3.       Apple (just one, because I ate one of the ones for the relish and needed to replace it)

4.       Nectarines (kind of overdid it on the fruit, but I was excited)

5.       Bread

6.       Corn thins

7.       Spinach

8.       Carrots

9.       Chick peas

10.   Yoghurt

11.   Scotch fingers

12.   Rum/raisin dark chocolate (on sale and tasty)

13.   Onions

14.   Pasta sauce (it was a lot sweeter than I wanted, but I had lots of parmesan cheese to use up)

15.   Trail mix
16.  Crumpets! (had them for breakfast until the Saturday the 90 degree temperatures killed them and I had to throw them out - sadness)

Acquired

1.       Pasta (I now have 3 different varieties and probably should stop taking it from the free shelf)

2.       4 eggs (I hardboiled them to make sure they wouldn’t get lost/broken again)

3.       Dijon mustard!

4.       Cranberry/blueberry jam (already had jam, but it sounded so good)

5.       2 different jars of peanut butter (adding up to 3 different types total, each jar only about a third full. I think I’m kind of addicted, but it’s just so good with everything…I can’t help feeling that some ground squirrel DNA made it into my system from the summer, nom nom peanut butter)

6.       Teeny can of tuna

I used up the remains of the celery, carrots, leeks, and potatoes to make a vat of vegetable soup that barely fit into my 3 tupperware containers but is nice on my throat in between call centre shifts (my voice does get sore from sounding so nice and happy all the time, and the epic amounts of tea and coffee available in the break room don’t always help enough).

I was super excited when I found the Dijon mustard because I was trying to decide what to do with the eggs before I lost them or they expired, and then I realized I could make deviled eggs and eat them for lunch/dinner for a few days (I lurrrrrve deviled eggs and they were really good, although I forgot the trick for peeling hard-boiled eggs and spent a long time peeling all four of them).

I bought chick peas to go with the tuna and some acquired rice, which was a staple meal that we ate in Mexico when it was just me, another student, and the PhD candidate cooking our own food in a house. After studying ant/plant interactions in the forest all day, we didn’t have a whole lot of energy for cooking, but tuna/chick pea/rice actually tastes pretty good (especially with lots of pepper).