AUSSIE grocery post!

Get excited, y'all!  

True to my word, here she is! My official grocery post in OZ!  Now, Clark was embarrassed to be seen with me taking photos of various items in the grocery store, drawing attention to ourselves and whatnot, so my friend Joanne kindly accompanied on my photo quest.  Joanne has no shame.  She is awesome and I can always count on her.  I did, however, use our point and shoot in my small effort to be discreet.  So I apologize for the flash dots in many of the pictures.  May the Gods of cameras shine upon us in the future and grant us a new point and shoot.  Or maybe Clark will just give in and let us replace his mission point and shoot (yes, it's that old) with a much more advanced one in the near future.  They are so handy to have when you want to, say, take a photo of something at the grocery store.

The cost of bananas is OUTRAGEOUS!  I haven't had one since we left the states in February.  The floods in Queensland damaged much of the banana crops, hence the steep price.  To make it easy on you--since the price of bananas is in kilograms-- a pound of bananas would cost roughly $6.50-$7.00 a pound.  I can't believe people still buy them, but thankfully they do.  At least there are people out there who like bananas enough to support the farmers who had a lousy year.  

Proof that eggs don't need to be refrigerated.  We now leave ours out, too.

Kangaroo steak.  I know I mentioned in previous posts how excited I was to try kangaroo. But after seeing them and petting them, I am now hesitant to eat them.  They are such cute marsupials!  But we must. I know we must.  Our Australian adventure would not be complete without trying some kangaroo steak.  This week...

Cordials are super popular here.  In case you don't know, cordials are drink mixes, simple as that.  Lemon Lime and Bitters is outstanding, by the way.  America needs to learn.

Also known as Sun chips.  Australia needs to learn.

Ginger beer.  AMAZING.  America needs to learn this also.  Has America learned this?  I've never seen it before in the states, but then again, I never even knew it existed.  Love us some Ginger beer.

I would be so cool rockin' a 40 oz bottle of some Ginger Beer.  Totally in with the barely 21 college crowd still.  Totally.

Long neck or stubby, it's all good.  Yum yum yum yum yum.

Tim Tams, our chocolate cookie of choice.  I wish we could show some fellow Americans the Tim Tam Slam.  But no one came to visit us.  I'm not bitter at all.  Ok, just a little.   American friends and family of ours, you totally missed out.  

Our other cookie of choice?  Orange Slices.  I do believe that Americans have a very different acquired taste than Australians.  We haven't met any Aussies who like these.  Whenever someone brings an assortment pack of Arnott's cookies in to work, Orange Slice cookies are always the last ones left.  I'm always the one to finish them off.  And I am more than happy to do so. 

Anzac cookies, aka oatmeal cookies.  Aussie patriotic cookie of choice.

Weet-Bix, an Australian staple for sure.  The cheapest cereal by far.  Load on the sugar, they have no taste.  We happen to fancy Weet-Bix and it keeps us regular.  Just sayin'.

Sultana Bran, aka raisin Bran.  Apparently the Aussie version is made with white grapes while the American version is made with red grapes. 

Chocolate bar of choice.

Muesli bars, aka granola bars.  Muesli is just too hard to say.  Granola may have more syllables, but it is easier to pronounce.

Vegemite.  Tastes like bouillon.  Definitely an Australian acquired taste.  

Teach 'em while they're young.
The children in our Sunbeam class at church bring snacks each week.  Two of the children always bring Vegemite sandwiches.

Ice cream is sort of expensive. Two boxes for $13??  But they do have the awesome Magnum bars that are all over Europe! Yesssssssssssssss!

Cute Cadbury chocolates with Australian animals.

Don't worry, the alcohol has been removed (fine print at the bottom of the label).  Australia has not driven me to drink.  I just couldn't help but try this.    

  I really wanted to take some pictures of the Confectionary sign in the candy aisle.  But I chickened out as a few employees were restocking shelves.  And capsicums.  Green/red/yellow peppers = capsicums.  The sign was too small to see with our antiquated camera.

I hope you feel as if you were strolling the grocery aisles with me, looking at foreign foods with strange names.

Thanks for joining me.