Fun at the Grocery Store

This is for all my foodie friends! Shopping here is quite an adventure. Here are some shots from our grocery store across the street. If you see prices listed, we are on the Litas here. $1 in the U.S. is about 2.7 Litas here. Some things are about the same as in America. Other things you can buy here for dirt cheap. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

Milk - You can buy these 2 Litre plastic bottles, and then for much cheaper, you can purchase these plastic "refill" bags of milk to refill your bottles with.

Meats! This outstanding selection is particularly interesting. Why? See that block of white stuff on the right side of the case? Um... yep, that's BACON! Bacon here tends to contain a LOT of fat, and not much else. You can find bacon with the red in it, but not very much, let me tell you! We have yet to find a restaurant that serves crispy bacon. It's more of a soggy mass of this stuff, but the people here seem to love it! Marci - This bacon photo is for you. Especially since you love the extra crunchy. :)

A lovely selection of sausages and such. We try several of these a week. They are all pretty good so far!

The meat case. Notice the prosciutto hanging in the rear.

Here's a close-up of the prosciutto. Seeing this close up, you can see they are quite large. As an example of something you can get "cheap" here. Just one of these will run you about $10 US. Oh yeah!

Alright seafood lovers... you can pick straight from the tank or choose "on the rocks"!

Next up - some dairy! Here's the milk area. Note the tubs of "refill bag milk" down on the bottom. And my life would not be complete without CHEESE! It's not like my good 'ol Wisconsin cheese, but we are having fun sampling the many varieties. A cheese I picked up tonight was red in color and is called "Suris su prieskoniais" which I believe means Landana Red Pesto.

 

Fellow bread heads? Well... check this out! All of the breads, and I didn't even show all of it, is walk right up, open bins, all fresh, every day. These are some of the treats ranging from sweet breads like danishes to say cheesy type breads. There's also a huge assortment of loaves and other interesting things.

This case in the store is one of Rob's favorites. It's the hot dogs. Yes, I said hot dogs. There are loads of sizes, textures, flavors, etc. We had a hot dog night (some were like kielbasa) one night and tried about 6 different ones. I'm good on hot dogs for awhile now... LOL!

And the best for last.... Desserts! These are just a few things that grace the bakery area, and let me tell you, the selections are scintillating. Warning: You may gain a few pounds by looking at these photos. Mmm...

In this top photo, notice the yellow fruit (kinda looks like a cherry?) - well this fruit is called Physalis fruit - it's quite interesting. Funny story - we were at a fancy restaurant, and one of these little guys came on the side of our dessert plate. I asked what these berries were, and the server said Physalis fruit - and I said "Syphilis fruit?"   Hahhahaha! So, now this fun little yellow fruit will forever be known to me as the Syphilis fruit.