My Top Canadian Foodies... Sunday, August 30

The way to my heart used to be coffee apparently when I was in Korea but it is most definitely food these days.  Well, food and coffee but coffee is so dang cheap here and food is a lot more expensive so I've been drinking more coffee and eating not as much food as perhaps I should, would and could be.  

Grocery shopping here in Canada is awesome though I must admit the grocery store poses as a pure and totally complete sensory overload for me.  I feel like I've been a deprived child when I walk into a Canadian grocery store -- the overdose of veggie selection, the exaggerated bright colours of the fruit, and don't even get me started on the deli.  Korean grocery stores lack a deli where you can get sandwich meat because they just don't really eat sandwiches.  And Korean bread sections, well, they're simply nonexistant.  I mean, there's maybe a few shelves of dessert-like pastries and maybe a few small loaves of bread that are but only a few slices in size.  But here in Canada, woozers, the whole corner at the store I go to here is packed to the max with bread.  There is no telling whomever I'm with to simply "grab a loaf of bread" because it's like which loaf out of the zillion to choose from do you want.

I feel so spoiled walking into a grocery store here and it's as if I instantly become a kid in a candy store.  I discover new foods every time as well as rediscover former "loves" of mine, like spinach.  Apparently you can buy spinach in the frozen food section now.  Not too sure what the heck they did with it but it comes like in a frozen cube.  Ya, it's true.  Discovered that the other week and upon asking about it I instantly because the laughing stock in isle three, or whatever heck that isle was.  Don't know, don't care, but I still care to figure out what the heck is with frozen cubed spinach!

My Top Foodies found here in the Great White North grocery stores but not in Korea...

1.  Precut and prewashed spinach

2.  Whole wheat, multi-grain, spinach, you-name-it-they've-got-it tortillas.  Actually the whole entire bread isle... ISLES...are deserving of a shout-out here.

3.  Any and all fresh cut deli meats

4.  Celery that is actually green.  Actually, ANY and all veggies that are actually green as oppose to a sad should-be-but-not-really green, like asparagus, celery and brussel sprouts.

5.  Precut and prewashed baby carrots

6.  Cottage cheese

7.  MacIntosh and Granny Smith apples

8.  Harvest Crunch and any other legit granola cereal that doesn't cost an arm and a leg or is drowned in sugar.

9.  Edamames

10. Whole wheat pasta

And my honourable foodies that aren't actually food but instead are "accessories" to it would have to be the following...

1.  Pam Pan Spray

2.  Flavoured coffee creamer

3.  Mrs. Dash's spices and the entire spice isle of premixed spices.  Mixing various spices to make a specific blend is so yesterday...so Korean, well that is if you can find the spices you need in Korea.