Grocery Shopping Fun!
What is it like shopping here? Well, yesterday I made a list of things I needed for the next 5 days. I had a list of meats, list of market foods, and a list of grocery store foods. First I went to the corner where our butcher has a shop and got 2 kilos of ground beef and 2 kilos of chicken breasts. (She ground the meat while I waited, flies swarming around the piles of steak in front of me.) I always get nervous when I have a large meat order, because usually while she’s in the back grinding, and old lady will come up beside me and impatiently yell, “Venda me!” (Sell to me!) Fortunately today, although an old lady was waiting after me, it didn’t get to that point. And my order was relatively small for us. (Most people just stop by for the meat they need that day.) We love our butcher, Lucy! Then I walked next door to the bread store and got 5 b’s of bread (10 rolls, kind of like hamburger buns). She went to the back and got me the freshest ones she had,