Tuesday 7 December, 2004
Cheesy
Weather continues to be pretty awful, but I managed a trip to our local Safeway when it wasn't raining. What comes to supermarkets, this one was rather sweet - big and spacious, but in some regards I'm getting frustrated with lack of choice in Canadian shops.
For example, cheese spreads: there only seems to be one alternative, and that's Philadephia. Granted, it comes in about million different flavours include some really strange ones like rasberry or pineapple, but cream cheeses is all they have for cheese spreads. They seem to be lacking the Scandinavian style more cheesy than creamy spread, our favourite in England was Primula (blend of Cheddar and Gouda) sold in tubes.
Another one is meat - in our previous shop there was organic meat available although selection was small. In normal supermarkets the selection is pretty large, but I hesitate to buy anything as in Canada it's legal to use steroids and antibiotics on cattle which in Europe is mostly illegal. So far we've eaten this meat couple of times, but I'm really thinking we shouldn't, for both ethical and health reasons.
Need to put more energy into this.
Posted by kolibri at 7 December 21:35, 2004You should try to diversify where you go shopping.
For example, Granville Island has one of the nicest markets I've ever been in. Crystal mall in Burnaby (and others like it) tailor to Chinese immigrants and have very different brands.
T&T is a supermarket with a very oriental feel with other brands as well. Superstore is much bigger than safeways and has a bigger selection.
Hmm
Just walk around 4th in Kitz, lots of smaller places, each with their own stuff. Commercial drive is like a little Europe, and it has tons of other stuff.
Vancouver has a lot of selection, just (thankfully) it's not all in the 2 or 3 chains of major supermarkets. Small business is great!
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