{"id":3621,"date":"2015-07-10T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2016-11-03T22:41:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:41:55","slug":"a-surprise-at-the-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-surprise-at-the-grocery-store\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise At the Grocery Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to say that the Assiniboia Co-Op grocery store has really<\/em> improved since last fall!!! I’m not just talking about the upcoming expansion, but about what they are stocking. They have a lot more international foods, a better deli section, fresher produce, and more. I just came out of there having spent $120 and I didn’t feel that I got robbed. That’s very high praise!<\/p>\n

When I got to the till, I asked to speak to a manager about having something brought in. A manager came by and I asked about the possibility of stocking Maseca, the only reason I was thinking of heading to Moose Jaw for a shop (and if that ain’t proof that our Co-Op is on an upward swing, I don’t know what is!). I had to explain what Maseca is and he said, “OH! Come with me!”<\/p>\n

He brought me to the ‘Mexican’ food aisle and pointed to something on the very bottom shelf. “We only JUST brought this in this week. We have a couple of Mexican customers who asked for it.”<\/p>\n

No, not Maseca, but one of their competitors:<\/p>\n

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I already knew that it’s kind of a Coke\/Pepsi thing, with strong sides in favour of one or the other, but essentially an equivalent product.<\/p>\n

He said that he could try to bring in Maseca for me, but it’d be a few weeks. I told him no, that I was pretty sure this would do. So he said, “Well, I’ll give you a discount for being so open minded.”<\/p>\n

I thought I might get 50 cents off or something. The bag was $7.99 and he rang it up at… $4.99!!! He made my day!<\/p>\n

So now, my deep freeze is absolutely loaded with good stuff after this shop. I managed to catch a two for one plus additional discount on the pork loin chops I love and they had these pre-sauced single portions of salmon for just $2.99 instead of $6.99 (and an equivalent portion of non-sauced salmon was about $5.99), so I loaded up on those. I also got enough frozen pizza (bought six for $2o) that I separated into portions to get me through till I leave. I also got ground beef (my first time since adolescence buying some) as well as ground pork to make burgers!<\/p>\n

I came home with another goodie from an unexpected source. I went to the Salvation Army to look for organizational stuff for my shed (struck out), but as I came out the clerk said to help myself to ask much bread as I wanted, pointing to a bin.<\/p>\n

They frequently have free food, so I wasn’t surprised to get an offer for some. I’ve come home from the Salvation Army with canned soups on more than one occasions. I think they’re leftovers from the food bank, which they run. Anyway, there were mountains — literally dozens — of still pillowy soft not even past date bread, all from the Co-Op! White, whole wheat, raisin, cheese, olive, quite a variety!<\/p>\n

Now, I’m avoiding bread (except, you know, the odd bit of pizza… *g*), but I thought a loaf of cheese bread would be really good for burgers, so I grabbed it. It was marked $5. I would never pay that for a loaf of bread!<\/p>\n

The clerk assured me that it would not be greedy of me to leave with a dozen loaves… Yeah. That’s the last thing I need, a freezer full of bread! I was very happy with the one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to say that the Assiniboia Co-Op grocery store has really improved since last fall!!! I’m not just talking about the upcoming expansion, but about what they are stocking. They have a lot more international foods, a better deli section, fresher produce, and more. I just came out of there having spent $120 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,632,4,6,635,807,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assiniboia","category-canada","category-haven","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-saskatchewan","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}