Time passes pretty fast here. Or actually, it works both ways. The 5 weeks I’ve spent here just flew by, yet it feels like I haven’t seen Sweden in ages. There is a lot of stuff I miss back home. First and foremost my girlfriend, and of course my friends and my family. And just the convenience of being able to being fully able to conversate with people without stuttering and brainfreezes, to know what everything in the stores is and what it means, etc.
But what I do not miss is grocery shopping in Stockholm. Neither making a daytrip via at least two-three means of public transportation to Willys only to suffer broken paper bags from the wet snow halfway home, nor paying insane overprices at ICA Alvikstorg för some crappy X-tra fishsticks. Grocery shopping here is first of all really cheap, but the best thing is the huge range and variety of food available. And even the most exotic (contextual… probably applies mostly to Swedes) organic stuff is really affordable. It’s such a relief to be able to walk into a grocery store and just pick whatever you want knowing that you don’t have to eat ramen noodles for the next week if you buy that cranberry/orange bread that just begs to be eaten.
Below is some of the cool stuff I bought from Trader Joe’s on our last run.
Mango/Passionfruit Müsli! Haven’t tried it yet though. And I managed to find Kefir at long last, it’s probably the closest I will get to “fil” ’round these parts.
$5 per pack!!! How awesome is that? I’m gonna get wicked intelligent after my stay in the US…
Dying from awesomeness overdose here. And look at the potatoes, they’re so small! Awesome!!!
I love these. They’re like mutated tomatoes or something.
Pear shaped tomatoes! It doesn’t get much better.
Well, actually it does. Transformers Band-aids!!! Optimus Prime!!!
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Awesomeness! I really miss the same things, but I never buy groceries here, I eat out all the time. The only thing I buy at convenience stores is water. I did buy lingonsylt at IKEA and what I thought was oatmeal… but it wasn’t oatmeal so no havregrynsgrot for me, and I continue eating out for 1-30 sek a meal. Yes, 1sek, a pao (huge steamed dumpling) is 1 sek each and I can never eat more than 1!
Magdalena added these words on
Mar 01 10 at
23:49