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adrian_turtle's house, enjoying doing not very much. I left early today, and decided to see if I could sensibly go to the Arlington Heights Trader Joe's at a quarter after nine on a random Tuesday.
I took a bus up there, which had one other passenger, which wouldn't have been surprising even pre-pandemic, and there weren't many people in the store either. I bought lots of dried fruit (mostly cherries); frozen latkes, sockeye salmon fillets, and tuna steaks; salsa; a box of sweet potato soup; chocolate; and tangerine juice.
I called a Lyft for the trip home, which was probably lower risk as well as faster than taking the 77 and 73 buses. (Ten minutes or so by Lyft, with all the car windows wide open.)
The items that motivated the Trader Joe's trip were the fish, the latkes, and the salsa. I'm hoping Trader Joe's own-brand mild salsa is still actually mild, Newman's Own having increased the heat level on theirs slightly without noting this on the package. (As far as I can tell from reading the ingredients, the TJ's salsa should still be good.) We also have a jar of Market Basket mild salsa to try
I very much like Trader Joe's own-brand dried cherries, but we already had a couple of packages. This is pandemic shopping, filling the pantry with things that have a long shelf life; also pandemic shopping is having to think about whether there was room in the freezer for frozen berries (no), given the four meals' worth of homemade pasta sauce, a couple of microwavable frozen meals, peas, chopped onions, bell pepper strips, and several kinds of ice cream.
adrian_turtle's house, enjoying doing not very much. I left early today, and decided to see if I could sensibly go to the Arlington Heights Trader Joe's at a quarter after nine on a random Tuesday.I took a bus up there, which had one other passenger, which wouldn't have been surprising even pre-pandemic, and there weren't many people in the store either. I bought lots of dried fruit (mostly cherries); frozen latkes, sockeye salmon fillets, and tuna steaks; salsa; a box of sweet potato soup; chocolate; and tangerine juice.
I called a Lyft for the trip home, which was probably lower risk as well as faster than taking the 77 and 73 buses. (Ten minutes or so by Lyft, with all the car windows wide open.)
The items that motivated the Trader Joe's trip were the fish, the latkes, and the salsa. I'm hoping Trader Joe's own-brand mild salsa is still actually mild, Newman's Own having increased the heat level on theirs slightly without noting this on the package. (As far as I can tell from reading the ingredients, the TJ's salsa should still be good.) We also have a jar of Market Basket mild salsa to try
I very much like Trader Joe's own-brand dried cherries, but we already had a couple of packages. This is pandemic shopping, filling the pantry with things that have a long shelf life; also pandemic shopping is having to think about whether there was room in the freezer for frozen berries (no), given the four meals' worth of homemade pasta sauce, a couple of microwavable frozen meals, peas, chopped onions, bell pepper strips, and several kinds of ice cream.
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