I've never had such interest in my grocery shopping habits before. Oddly enough one of the most common questions I've been asked on this trip -- "So what food are you bringing back to Switzerland?" So without further ado, my shopping list:
100% Fruit Roll-Ups
Beef Jerky (impulse buy at Costco)
Instant Oatmeal
Cream of Mushroom/Cream of Chicken Soup
Pam
Crisco
Brown Sugar
Enchilada Sauce packets
Sloppy Joe mix packets
Taco Bell Taco Sauce
Maple Syrup
Pancake Mix
Trader Joe's cookies - chocolate chip dippers and animal crackers
Chocolate chips
After I pack tomorrow night and assess the available luggage space, I may add:
Granola Bars
Raisin Bran
Chex Cereals
I would normally also buy baking soda and baking powder, but a friend gave me some when she got Costco sized deliveries from the US.
I have extra luggage space this time. Not only does summer make for lighter packing, but a friend taught me a great trick. I packed all small and/or stained clothes for the kids so that I could leave them behind for recycling/Goodwill and gain all that luggage space for the return trip!
4 comments:
Don't you love shopping in the good ol' US of A!!! Have fun bringing all that stuff home!
TSA is going to love your bags -- especially the Crisco.
Have a safe trip home. Sorry I didn't make it out to CA to see you guys. Loved the VM the other night!
Chocolate Chips? For crying out loud...you're in Swtizerland and they don't have chocolate chips?
Chocolate chip cookies and chocolate chips (morsels) are very American.
Chocolate chips are a required ingredient in chocolate chip cookies, which were invented in 1933 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. The cookies were a huge success, and Wakefield reached an agreement with Nestlé to add her recipe to the chocolate bar's packaging in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate. Initially, Nestlé included a small chopping tool with the chocolate bars, but in 1939 they started selling the chocolate in chip (or "morsel") form. The Nestlé brand Toll House cookies is named for the inn.
Chocolate chips are unique because they hold their shape well when they are baked or melted. This is because they don't have as much cocoa butter as chocolate in bars. This also makes it easier for chocolate chip producers to make them, too, because they come out of the little nozzles and onto the belt easier, forming them into the shape we all know and love.
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