Foraging

With my move into my apartment (though not the unpacking) completed, I'm now beginning my first summer away from family. Since the school cafeteria is no longer open, and I have nobody here to prepare/give food for/to me, I came upon a somewhat startling realization. If I don't go buy food (and not just meal by meal fast food, but real food, to eat here) I will starve to death. These were the heavy stakes I had in mind as I went grocery shopping, for the first time ever buy (get it? "buy!") myself, today. The results of the shopping extravaganza at a local (but very large) grocer are detailed below.

Ssps Strawberry Banana Nectars drink, $1.89- I swear, this is like drinking an fruit smoothie. It's so, so, so good. Perhaps a new favorite of mine.
16oz of Strawberries, $2.69- I seriously haven't had fruit in a really, really long time. An old favorite makes an appearance, and it won't be the first time on this shopping list (technically, it's already the second).
Gatorade Fruit Punch, $2.99- for a whole really big bottle too. I was actually surprised how cheap all of this was.
Baker's Dipping Milk Chocolate, $2.69- Personal treat for myself. I now have microwavable chocolate in a small container to dip my strawberries in. Success!
Kellogg's Frosted Cherry Poptarts, $2.89- For in the morning when I don't have time to pick up a bagel. Again, cherry.
Freeds Mini Golden Cupcakes (a dozen), $3.19- Personal treat for myself. Will probably be gone by Tuesday. Little mini cupcakes!
Best Beef Regular Franks (ten?), $4.89- I now have hotdogs. Hot dog!
Sweet Apple Chicken Sausages (four), $5.29- Splurged a little bit on these. They're chicken sausages, which I've never had before, but looked pretty appealing. I passed up turkey sausages, beef sausages, mixed sausages, and probably some other types of sausage to pick these. Hopefully they'll live up to the hype.
Soft White Bread, $3.99- It's soft, white, and bread. Exactly what I was looking for.
Dozen rainbow rolls (sushi), $9.95- The most expensive thing on this list, and dinner tonight. This will be my first out-of-springfield Sushi eating experience. Can't say I'm not stoked.
Squeezable Concord Grape Jam, $2.49- It's jelly, for the bread. Don't even need a knife to spread.
Banquet Popcorn Chicken Meal (12 oz), $3.59- One of those frozen but microwavable dinner things. Popcorn chicken is always a pretty decent option, and one night when I'm exhausted I'll just eat this.
Pure Argentine Honey, $6.49- This was some freaking expensive honey. I don't even know what I'm going to do with it, really (honey and peanut butter sandwiches?). But hey, I've got a jar of top of the line honey. You only live once, right?
Better'n Peanut Butter (it's peanut butter, basically), $5.99- So remember that peanut butter and honey sandwich I was talking about earlier? The bread's going to be the cheapest part by over $2.00.
Hot Dog Buns (8), $2.89- Your standard hot dog buns. You'll note that hot dogs come in packs of... well we've all heard that one before.

Total cost, with tax: $62.51

Recap: Not a bad experience. Store's freaking huge, and not a big box retailer (which is why I bought the freaking expensive honey/peanut butter. I couldn't find a cheaper version). Definitely going to go for the push cart rather than held basket next time. There's more random "what the heck is that" stuff there than I could possibly ever enjoy. This is going to be a fun summer, grocery store shopping wise. They even play pop songs as you're walking around, and I saw about 18 different free sample stations. How cool is that?

Now off to pick up dry cleaning.