Grocery Shopping.

I believe if you want to cook the right meals, you have to go to the right place to get the best products at the best prices.  You might be pleasantly surprised to find out that the Far East, Spanish or Middle Eastern Grocer will go out of his or her way to help you in trying to find the products you are looking for and even help you with products that you did not know you were needed.

Once you move away from purchase at corporate owned big box stores and move back to doing some of your shopping from locally owned, and in many cases operated by the store owners, you will find helpful courteous people that are more than happy to help and welcome you to their culture.

You will find the best prices, and the best products for cooking needs.  An example of this is Pita Bread.  Do you think that Middle Eastern cooks go to a big box store to pay $1.00 a piece for a 6" Pita Bread.  Find your closest Middle Eastern store and you can get a pack of 10, the size of a dinner plate for about 3 or 4 dollars.

I will go more into many aspects of grocery shopping later, but for now I have found one thing to be true when it comes to shopping for foreign groceries, "The Fewer the Words in English, the Better."  Unless of course you are looking for Clotted Cream or the items needed to make Scones.

"Live to Eat, Don't Eat to Live"