That would actually be the perfect thing to ask me
Fr I’m here for low-stakes bickering over foodstuffs
No kidding. If someone asks me about H Mart, we could talk all night.
I lived by a Chinese supermarket and loved the unusual produce. 2 foot green beans? I had no idea. They had tons of spinach-like greens I’d never seen too, plus about 60 feet of soy sauce and an entire aisle of nothing but noodles on both sides.
The noodle aisle is my weakness. I love noodles and there are so many options! I don't know if all H Marts are like this, but mine carries a ton of Mexican ingredients too, so it's just a great time for me.
So damn many noodles. I can't eat wheat noodles so the Chinese and Vietnamese rice noodles are awesome. My favorite are these ones from Taiwan, "Famous Buddha Noodle" which are vermicelli sized. Seems like there's 20 different kinds of vermicelli though.
At H-Mart, probably my single favorite thing is the tray with a ton of hot Thai chiles.
Any groceries you've been into lately?
I’ve been digging this cherry bomb peppers. They have a perfect sweet-tart flavor and are fairly hot. I also recently discovered purple and yellow cauliflower, which look pretty good. Plus this one lemon-beet hummus! How’s your shopping been lately?
Trying to budget while still enjoying the little things, I have a particular brand of chocolate milk(not expensive, not cheapest) that I try to keep in the fridge to decompress on at the end of the day. I can't believe how much potatoes are, avocado are somehow cheaper per unit than potatoes?? It's to the point that I've questioned if making my own fries are worth it compared to buying frozen, but they do taste so much better home made. I've stopped buying all meat and most cheeses from anywhere but Costco, when did pork become 9$ per pound minimum?? That's insane to my 90s brain.
Still love my canned chick peas for hummus making! I love that they sell guacamole and hummus right next to the ingredients which are cheaper.
Also sumo's are back in season, if you're at all a fan of citrus, try the best citrus to ever grace your stores floor. Is it expensive? Yes, is it worth it? Absolutely.
My mom is pretty into chocolate milk on cereal and she will only go with one brand... it's just whatever they have at Kroger, but nothing else will do.
I was buying all of my produce at Costco for a while and thought it was great. They're good for potatoes! Last I checked, anyway... I moved and the nearest Costco is 50 miles away which isn't much fun. I miss the cheap tofu and the big bags of Power Greens, also that things like potatoes cost 25% less.
I'll have to check out the sumos... also find my citrus juicer! We've been getting some weird oranges that are pink inside... not blood oranges, just pink. Also some good mangoes lately.
Any groceries you’ve been into lately?
Just some warm apple pie
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You joke but my friends and I will send each other pictures when we discover new good groceries
Oats. Get organic oats though. Consumer reports found high levels of phthalates in General Mills products like Cheerios for instance.
Did someone say phthalates?!?!
Yo man, I've been feeling root vegetables hard lately. Just like, roasting the fuck out of them, you dig?
I'll never forget - about a decade ago I was drinking at a small town dive bar around Christmas and a woman walked in with a basket full of turnips. She gleefully handed them out to all the patrons, but no one wanted them, so I ended up going home with about a dozen home grown turnips. I sliced them thin and made turnip chips, and they were amazing! I served them to friends at my Christmas party and they were a huge hit. Since then I always make turnip chips around Christmas.
Man, turnips get such a bad rap. Just comes from them being fairly hard, so cooking them right can be tricky. But once you nail that? Earthy, slightly sweet, and so dang rich in flavor.
I have been eating the fuck out of yams recently
They're just so damn good!!
French onion soup mix. Drop it in some sour cream, air fry some tortillas, you've got yourself a snack of a snack.
I've been doing French onion soup mix with light sour cream and sliced cucumbers instead of chips. It saves me a bunch of calories but is still a super snack. But onion dip is one of my favorite foods ever. I'll eat that shit with a spoon.
You can dump it onto pot roasts and chicken too. It's one of the ways my mom pulled off making food every day for so many years.
Definitely giving this one a try! Sounds amazing
These comments could not be better proof that the average Lemming has joint pain.
I've seen things for root vegetables, mushrooms, a singular comment about French onion soup where are these joint pain foods, I need the itis
Safe bet to upvote this before even reading comments
Oh man I am not looking forward to that but I guess it’s a rite of passage?
If you don't have one, adopt a light cardio and calisthenics program and you can push joint pain back by decades. I guarantee all the millennials complaining about joint pain either lift too much or don't excercise at all.
I dunno, I stuck my dick in a melon once, but not recently 😔.
“If this is gonna be that kind of party imma stick my dick in the…wait…what kind of party is this?”
No you're right, it's a mashed potatoes party! 🥳
Like really? Or just joking? Because you gotta share what it was like of it was for real.
Haha, I’m just joking.
Oh. I must have misinterpreted the question. I thought they're asking if you've literally gone into any grocery stores lately? like have you tried out those Amazon fresh stores where you can just walk in and walk out with whatever groceries you want and the store automatically takes money out of your bank account?
I’m on the hunt for kimchi these days. Someone recommend me a brand.
It's easier to make than you would think, maangchi on YouTube has some good videos. Make a bunch kimchi for a month and it'll taste way better than store bought
Seconding maagnchi, her recipes fucking slap.
Ive never cooked a had recipe from her, try the fried and breaded cabbage. So fuckin good.
ND makes some good stuff
I'm in a mushroom arms race with my wife and kids. The more I buy the more they eat.
Just found some new flavors of gum by my favorite brand, actually.
Whole pineapples. I've always been intimidated by them, but they've been on sale for $2-$3 at my local grocery stores for the past few months. It's much cheaper than any other fruit option I've found, takes less than 5 minutes to cut into chunks, and lasts me the whole week.
I always take a salad and fruit for lunch to work, and fresh pineapple has been such a great treat! Likewise when I'm watching Netflix at night I love munching on pineapple. I used to snack on grapes but they've gotten ridiculously expensive in the past few months, probably due to the season.
Screamin Sicilian strombolis.
Dan-O's seasoning, particularly the Crunchy. It was worth ordering it on their website after trying the smaller bottles, plus good discounts, and their customer service was wonderfully sweet and human when an order got lost in the mail. It's maybe a little sage heavy for some, and their different varieties aren't big variations on the original flavor, but I love it with basically everything. Crunchy goes very quickly in this house. And a separate grocery love, cookie butter Nutpods creamer. Mixing the two is not recommended.
I've been trying to make deep fried cassava, but finding ones that aren't bad is quite a task. Then you gotta soak them for like a week because cyanide. That's a lot of effort for a side dish.
I’d get cassava chips from the market, less hassle I think
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