trip report: january 14, 2013

I bought some things yesterday:

• Friendly Farms 2% milk (1/2 gal)
• Brookdale Beef Stew x 2
• SimplyNature Instant Soup Cups (Chipotle Black Bean, Spicy Thai)
• SimplyNature Sesame Lo Mein x 2
• Happy Farms spreadable cheese wedges (1 Blue, 1 Green, I forget what the distinction is)
• SimplyNature Uncured Pepperoni Thin & Crispy Crust Pizza
• Clancy's garden vegetable straws
• Clancy's guacamole-flavored tortilla chips
• SimplyNature Sweet Potato Corn Tortilla Chips
• Savoritz sea salt pita crackers x 2
• Clementine oranges (3 lbs)
• Navel oranges (4 lbs) x 2
• Friendly Farms All-Natural Honey Greek Yogurt x 5
• Large Eggs

My cashier was Nancy.

Notes:

• The clementine oranges were marked down from US$2.99 to US$1.99 at the store that I visited, because the oranges were overripe. I tried finding a bag with the least amount of burst oranges and still managed to get a bag with about five compost candidates. It's still not a bad deal, and clementines are fun to pack into lunches. I encountered the opposite problem with the navel oranges, many still looking a little green.
• I went a little wild with the SimplyNature products. I'm most excited to try the instant soup cups, but I'm prepared for disappointment. Countless woeful meals of Cup Noodle and its imitators have left me justifiably wary.
• Are Friendly Farms and Happy Farms really two distinct farms?

My recommendation for the day is the Savoritz sea salt pita crackers. The crackers are crisp but don't have the hard crunch of Clancy's pita chips (which is a plus in my book). Also unlike the pita chips, the crackers are lightly salted. They're good on their own or paired with cheese or dip.