A few things before bed

[mousme]

I went shopping at Loblaws yesterday.

1- Food is becoming stupidly expensive. I categorically refuse to spend $6.00 on American broccoli. Broccoli is not worth $6.00. I am going to go to my local fruit & veggies store and see if theirs is cheaper (and hopefully locally-grown!).

I am looking at the food I eat lately, in terms of how far it's had to travel to get to me, and it makes the mind boggle. Does anyone out there know of a good book which can tell me what kind of fruits (apart from apples) are grown locally? What the hell did people do before oranges and lemons were consistently available in cold climates?

Anyway.

2- I brought my two eco-bags with me, and am pleased to report that all my shopping fit in them, apart from potatoes, cat litter and cat food, for which I didn't use bags at all. Normally that would have taken at least six or seven plastic bags (and if I'd put the big stuff in bags too, it'd be more like twenty bags!).

More on this later. I am working out a plan in my head to get my grocery shopping done entirely without the use of a gasoline-dependent machine. However, I'm not there yet.

3- People are, fundamentally, pretty okay. I was trying to get the cat litter off a high shelf, and since it was almost all gone, the containers were wedged way at the back of the shelf. I am not short (5'7" which is the national average for women my age), but my fingers didn't *quite* reach that far. So I asked a woman taller than I if she could bring down a container for me, and she complied, although she looked a bit bemused. It was nice. :)

4- I bought a pot roast. They were on sale for something like $1.99 a pound. Tomorrow I shall stick it in my slow-cooker, or something like that, and have a lovely meal. Several lovely meals, more like.

Now I am off to bed. I've been getting to sleep far too late, these days.

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[urban-homestead.livejournal.com]

I just remembered something that I thought I'd add. When I was in college I got a cast-iron pot with a lid that was basically a Le Creuset pot without the enamel - except that it cost $10 and I got it from a camping store for cooking in a campfire. I don't know if Montreal-area camping stores would also have such a thing (Manitoba is more of a huntin' and fishin' kinda place than Montreal, or so I assume), but if they do, I bet anything it would work perfectly well for this recipe. It might be worth a try.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're in Manitoba? Neat. :)

I shall check out the camping stores when I get the chance. We're not as huntin' and fishin' as out where you are, I shouldn't think, but we have some decent camping places. At least, so fearsclave tells me. ;)