What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today? (2018-2022)

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epicuric said:
My local deli told me I would be unlikely to get better anchovies in the UK than these, whilst gently extracting a £5 note from my fingers. The will appear on toast at some point over Christmas. Anyone tried them?
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I have some too (this brand/tin). The tin has sort of bloated so I'm not sure if that is OK. Maybe we can hold hands and go together into the anchovy unknown?
 
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What a day today.
I went to the international market to top off my groceries for Christmas Day. I had a list, and did my shopping, and I was particularly pleased with the rib roast I got - exactly the right size and perfectly marbled.

Got to the home stretch, heading for the cash registers, and I set the cart to the side to take a quick ramble through their extensive candy section. I've been trying to find MrsT's annual allotment of Brach's Maple Nut Goodies and for whatever reason, no one is carrying them in-store this year.

Popped back out to the main aisle, and some dingleberry had walked off with my cart! I madly dashed around, then over to the registers, then to customer service, but no luck. Some dumb dipsh!t took my damn cart with all my stuff, and since I was done shopping, I'd pitched my list.

I had to start over, pizz-poor memory and all, and do my shopping entirely over again, and settle for a less-than-perfect rib roast and a less-than-perfect cauliflower. It's probably just as well I didn't find the culprit, because it was probably a 127 year-old absent-minded person, and I was so angry, I wouldn't have cared. Christmas or no Christmas, I would have ripped them a new one.
 
Yorky said:
Question for rascal : Our Western food supplier now stocks these beanz (amongst other Watties products). They look the spit and image of Heinz. Have you tried any?

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Exactly like we get here, but we get same tin, but with small sausages in them, really good, you need to try them? .watties was started by james wattie, later sir james wattie, and sold out to Heinz but watties is a house hold name so they retain the name. Huge employer in Hastings and here in Chch. I have friends who have small holdings and contract grow for them. I still love watties tomato sauce yet I make home made sauce, my wife and kids say I'm mad, they reckon my sauce is better. Yet I prefer my childhood fave sauce.

Russ
 
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Well, it was a toss up for a while whether I would go grocery shopping again before the end of the year, but last minute needs for ingredients for my last two Turmeric Recipe Challenge Entries forced a decision to go this weekend.

Here's what I'll be looking for ...

Agar
Bacon
Baking Cocoa
Bananas
Breakfast Croissants or Biscuits by Jimmy Dean
Brown Sugar
Cheese, Swiss and Pepper Jack, maybe Camembert too.
Coffee Creamer
Cream Cheese
Gelatin
Half N Half
Pastas (Penne and Lasagna)
Pasta, Stuffed Tortellini
Raspberries, Strawberries
Soppressata (preferably as a sausage, uncut)
Whipped Cream (Spray Can)
Yogurt (Plain or Vanilla)

That should carry me into early January.
 
TastyReuben said:
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What a day today.
I went to the international market to top off my groceries for Christmas Day. I had a list, and did my shopping, and I was particularly pleased with the rib roast I got - exactly the right size and perfectly marbled.

Got to the home stretch, heading for the cash registers, and I set the cart to the side to take a quick ramble through their extensive candy section. I've been trying to find MrsT's annual allotment of Brach's Maple Nut Goodies and for whatever reason, no one is carrying them in-store this year.

Popped back out to the main aisle, and some dingleberry had walked off with my cart! I madly dashed around, then over to the registers, then to customer service, but no luck. Some dumb dipsh!t took my damn cart with all my stuff, and since I was done shopping, I'd pitched my list.

I had to start over, pizz-poor memory and all, and do my shopping entirely over again, and settle for a less-than-perfect rib roast and a less-than-perfect cauliflower. It's probably just as well I didn't find the culprit, because it was probably a 127 year-old absent-minded person, and I was so angry, I wouldn't have cared. Christmas or no Christmas, I would have ripped them a new one.
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TastyReuben said:
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What a day today.
I went to the international market to top off my groceries for Christmas Day. I had a list, and did my shopping, and I was particularly pleased with the rib roast I got - exactly the right size and perfectly marbled.

Got to the home stretch, heading for the cash registers, and I set the cart to the side to take a quick ramble through their extensive candy section. I've been trying to find MrsT's annual allotment of Brach's Maple Nut Goodies and for whatever reason, no one is carrying them in-store this year.

Popped back out to the main aisle, and some dingleberry had walked off with my cart! I madly dashed around, then over to the registers, then to customer service, but no luck. Some dumb dipsh!t took my damn cart with all my stuff, and since I was done shopping, I'd pitched my list.

I had to start over, pizz-poor memory and all, and do my shopping entirely over again, and settle for a less-than-perfect rib roast and a less-than-perfect cauliflower. It's probably just as well I didn't find the culprit, because it was probably a 127 year-old absent-minded person, and I was so angry, I wouldn't have cared. Christmas or no Christmas, I would have ripped them a new one.
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Same thing happened to me in Central Market, an upscale Yuppie supermarket. I was in the meat department, parked my cart, walked ten feet over to the sausages counter to ask if they had fresh andouille sausage. Two minutes later, my cart was gone. Seriously? I looked all over the store, then gave up and walked out, because I figured some store employee saw an abandoned cart and whisked it off.

CD
 
epicuric said:
I spotted this today, and thought it worth a try. Their clotted cream is ledgendary.
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I remember back in the days when I could have small amounts of dairy and we were in Sweden 🇸🇪 , my hubby came back from the supermarket really happy with himself that he had found some butter for me that was half salt (I hate salt). What he had actually bought was "havssalt" which I instantly understood as "sea salt". He however does not speak anything other than English which is debatable at the best of times. The butter ended up relegated to cooking only due to the large crystals of sea salt in it. I distinctly remember telling him that butter was not meant to be crunchy!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I remember back in the days when I could have small amounts of dairy and we were in Sweden 🇸🇪 , my hubby came back from the supermarket really happy with himself that he had found some butter for me that was half salt (I hate salt). What he had actually bought was "havssalt" which I instantly understood as "sea salt". He however does not speak anything other than English which is debatable at the best of times. The butter ended up relegated to cooking only due to the large crystals of sea salt in it. I distinctly remember telling him that butter was not meant to be crunchy!
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I go out of my way to find butter with a good sea salt crunch to it.
 
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TastyReuben said:
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What a day today.
I went to the international market to top off my groceries for Christmas Day. I had a list, and did my shopping, and I was particularly pleased with the rib roast I got - exactly the right size and perfectly marbled.

Got to the home stretch, heading for the cash registers, and I set the cart to the side to take a quick ramble through their extensive candy section. I've been trying to find MrsT's annual allotment of Brach's Maple Nut Goodies and for whatever reason, no one is carrying them in-store this year.

Popped back out to the main aisle, and some dingleberry had walked off with my cart! I madly dashed around, then over to the registers, then to customer service, but no luck. Some dumb dipsh!t took my damn cart with all my stuff, and since I was done shopping, I'd pitched my list.

I had to start over, pizz-poor memory and all, and do my shopping entirely over again, and settle for a less-than-perfect rib roast and a less-than-perfect cauliflower. It's probably just as well I didn't find the culprit, because it was probably a 127 year-old absent-minded person, and I was so angry, I wouldn't have cared. Christmas or no Christmas, I would have ripped them a new one.
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Brilliant! Don't get me started on supermarket pranks - they bring out my inner child 😂
 
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