Hyperventilation | leinehed.com » Trader Joe’s http://blog.leinehed.com Hello and welcome to the blog of graphic designer and former Hyper Island student Sebastian Leinehed. Hyperventilation is my online journal where I post thing that I find interesting, amusing and inspiring. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:49:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Trader Joes for the Win http://blog.leinehed.com/2010/03/trader-joes-for-the-win/ http://blog.leinehed.com/2010/03/trader-joes-for-the-win/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:36:28 +0000 leinehed http://blog.leinehed.com/?p=335 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.

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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!!!

]]> http://blog.leinehed.com/2010/03/trader-joes-for-the-win/feed/ 1 One of the perks of being in the States http://blog.leinehed.com/2010/02/one-of-the-perks-of-being-in-the-state/ http://blog.leinehed.com/2010/02/one-of-the-perks-of-being-in-the-state/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:03:13 +0000 leinehed http://blog.leinehed.com/?p=265 One of the big perks of being here is that almost everyday I get to try something that I’ve never done or had before. Yesterday at lunch Kirsten and Matt took me and Sean to a sausage place down in the Art District. As usual, from the outside it just looked like yet another shabby industry building, but well inside it looked more like a updated german beerhall. They had all sort of sausages, and I had to go for the strangest one I could find. So my choice fell on the rattlesnake/rabbit sausage. And I can honestly say it was pretty damn tasty, I could easily order it again.

Today Kirsten took us to a couple of thrift stores to see if we could find any furniture, unfortunately we just found crap and didn’t buy anything. Well, I bought a weird cubic box without a bottom that was split diagonally by a wall. I figured I could put magazines of whatever in it, but in retrospect I guess my old box fetish clouded my judgement once again…

When we were done with the thrift stores we went to Trader Joe’s, an awesome grocery store with only organic and locally grown stuff, and it was probably one of the best grocery stores I’ve ever been to. As soon as we get a car, I might just do most of my grocery shopping there.

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