I have been thinking I may need to wear gloves when I grocery shop though, as nuts are everywhere I shop. I'm also allergic to crab but not likely to find that at an Indo-Pak grocer. I don't know, is crab Halal? Considering what crabs eat likely not.
Anyway they have a "Hamburger helper" type aisle, one side is massive bags of rice and the other side are little boxes of spice kits for dinner. You take a cup of this, a scoop of that, half a diced onion and a couple tablespoons of the spice mix and there's dinner. It's just spices. I think that's cool and totally in line with my affinity for minimally processed foods.
I got the Urad Dal (black Lentils), I also got some split dried chick peas to make Chana Masala (a bean curry basically). I also got a jar of minced ginger you can just put a spoonful in a wok or whatever and there's dinner. I hate mincing things.
Travel back in time with me for a minute. In some ways, I struggled a lot in school and they did a lot of testing. They found my fine motor coordination is not great. So mincing things can be hard for me. If I had someone in the kitchen with me I'd put 'em to work chopping things for me. Ron bought me a mandolin slicer but we both, on different occasions, cut ourselves on it so I got rid of it.
My gross motor coordination was so bad I was in special Ed for PE. Yes, they had such a thing. They would have me walk around a track or something while the other kids played sports.
The store had tons of ginger/garlic paste which sounded awesome and what I would use if I weren't allergic to garlic and cooking for someone who loved it. Such a person is not in my life, so I just got the ginger paste, the Chana Masala spice mix, the lentils, and the chickpeas. I also got some Tandoori spice mix I can use later - it's a pantry item not a meal prep one.
They had tons of ghee as well and it looked great but it was rico (expensive) so I figured I could just use regular butter. I have questions about me and coconut oil. I know coconut itself is a huge migraine trigger for me. The oil can't be beneficial, it can't.
I have some EVOO but that does have a distinctive taste. I need to have a look at our baking aisle at work and see what kind of healthy (not seed) oils we have.
I now had a bag of unprocessed foods and spices. Well the chickpeas were split in half I don't know if that counts as processed.
I went to my primary grocery store (I had my purchases in a reusable tote bag which I tied shut). I got some canned diced tomatoes (always good to have on hand) some chicken broth, small cans of seasoned and unseasoned tomato sauce, etc.
I had a look at the meat. Every now and then the store has "the ham" seems to be mainly around the holidays. It is a nice slice of cooked ham for about $2 a pound, I got about a pound. That will be nice in a stir fry, in a pot of beans, or both. I got a pound of that.
I had a look at the chicken (normally I don't) and they had a nice little tray of chicken leg quarters for $3. I liked it wasn't the "big" 10 pound sack. I have a hard time eating all that. This was just a few of them, good for a curry or a soup. So I got that (that's why I got the stock).
I got a 5 pound sack of frozen mixed vegetables because I love them, they're healthy, unprocessed, and I will eat them. I forgot to get the plain lentils but I can do that another day. I got butter (real butter).
Personally I think the FDA should ban the sale of margarine. That stuff is artery paste.
I checked out and saw my friend again. The bus driver to go home (a woman) was very friendly as well. Then I had to walk home with 27 pounds of groceries because I didn't bring my hand cart. I could do it though and I only needed to stop once. I was curious how heavy it was so I actually went through everything and calculated the weight.
I'm going to take a nap! That's it for now!
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