Yay shopping!

[sillygoosegirl]

We went out shopping this morning. We got a guest book pen... which isn't exactly what we wanted, but will be good enough if we don't find anything better. Then we did recycling and went to a mens formalwear outlet store looking for wedding shoes for Josh, but they didn't have any mens shoes in white, or cream, or champaign. Then we went to the Jewel-Osco that was on the way home for groceries. Normally we don't go to Jewel-Osco (aka Albersens) because Josh thinks it's more expensive, but it was on the way home so we decided to give them a try, and also we've been wanting decaf chai and the grocery stores we normally go to Dominick's (aka Vons, aka Safeway) and Food4Less don't carry decaf chai. Anyway, it turns out that Jewel-Osco had a far better selection of ethnic foods than the other grocery stores. We found decaf chai (of several varieties), baked brie, tikka masala curry paste (for making Indian Chicken Tikka Masala, which is my favorite--and Josh knows this paste stuff is good since the Indian grocery he used to live near had it and he got it a lot), Canadian vanila maple tea (which I love but am almost out of--I thought I was going to need to go back to Canada for it), and a nice selection of BLACK meditaranian olives (both pitted and non). So yay! Yummy, yummy food that we didn't know where to get before!

Comments

[zixi.livejournal.com]

Huh.
My family has always chosen Jewel over Dominicks. Not sure why. When we first moved to IL my mom tried em both and just decided she liked Jewel a lot better - and they always seemed the same price to me.

But then in CA I liked Albertsons better than Vons, Vons was just easier to get at.


Glad you found fun stuff! I love it when grocery stores actually have interesting things or stuff you're actually looking for.

[camlost.livejournal.com]

I think of the closest Dominicks and Jewel, the Jewel is much older and therefore smaller, and also farther away.

We normally go to the Food4Less (associated with Kroger), but they are lacking in the ethnic and exotic foods.