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.
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?
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'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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.