Right now I am on a no grocery shopping challenge, which is not to save money or anything, I am just trying to use up what I've already got in my pantry. I don't know if anyone else does this, but I tend to do a thing where I buy things to try them, and they are okay but not my favorite, so instead of finishing them, I just go buy something else. And it ends up with a lot of stuff that just kind of accumulates and gets ignored. It's not bad enough to throw away, it's not really 'bad' at all, just not my favorite. So right now I am only shopping for perishables like milk and eggs, but when it comes to shelf-stable pantry items like cereal, chips, cookies, dry pasta, nuts, granola bars, etc, I am not buying anything like that until I really empty out my pantry. And like, if I want chips and there are no chips, I will make popcorn. If I want cookies and there are no cookies, I bake some (using up some nuts and chocolate in the process).
So I've been doing that for a couple of weeks but here are some things I bought before I started this challenge.
Icelandic Provisions Skyr- peach and cloudberry flavor
This is like a thick yogurt but has more protein than normal yogurt. it's really good. I had a Finnish friend who used to always rave about cloudberries, which are a rare type of berry from Scandinavia.
These are shortbread cookies covered in chocolate, but they also have a filling layer of fluffy chocolate similar to an Aero bar.
These are a nice sour cherry flavored peep with a coating of lime candy coating on the bottom. I LOVE lime flavored things and it is not a very common flavor, so these are my favorite of the limited edition 'dipped' Peeps. I once wrote a letter of complaint to Starburst when they replace lime starburst with strawberry, in the 80s. They wrote back and told me lime was the least popular flavor.
Lays Poppables in white cheddar flavor
These are new, they taste similar to Pringles, they are made with potato flour and remind me of like a giant chex cereal piece.Sort of a mesh pillow shape. It's very light and crunchy, because each one is filled with air. but that also means that even a big bag of them doesn't have that many servings. You can easily eat the whole bag if you aren't careful.
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