Shopping Adventures

It has been awhile since I shared my shopping adventures here. Yesterday, the mister and I went grocery shopping at Target. Because I love their generic brand toilet paper, and because we are running out of it, we had to go farther away from our nearest grocery store. There, I saw for the very first time in my 40+ years existence the first green Coca Cola.

Wait!

What?

Yes! No kidding! It's green. Have you ever seen Coca Cola in a different color other than red?



We seldom drink cola anymore. I guess the last time I bought a couple of 2-liter bottles was last Christmas Day when some of our closest friends came over. Occassionally, we drink ginger ale and that's about it. At home, it's coffee, tea, juice and water most of the time. By the way, I am one year Coke clean. I haven't had Coca Cola for a year already. Yey! The other Saturday, I tried a sip from my son's glass of Coke, and I really found it too sweet. So no more Coke for us in the house since I do the grocery shopping, and the rest of the people in the house have no say about that choice.

I guess this company had to change the color of their packaging to stress a point---that they're using stevia and cane sugar as sweeteners, and it has 35% calories less than the regular one.


I guess Cecile of Chuvaness will love this. Read about her love affair of Coca Cola in her latest blog post--> here.

Last year, I saw the cappucino flavored potato chips from Lay's. This one. I didn't think it was good. Last night, there were three different flavors---wasabi ginger, bacon mac & cheese, and the pickle dill. I have no idea if these are new because I only buy the original kind, but sometimes I buy the salt and vinegar potato chips since the young lady loves them.


I do not see these three flavors in the nearest supermarket except at Target. The only variety of Lay's potato chips I like is the cheap version of the Royce' brand. Sadly, it was a limited edition and I haven't seen it around since January.


At Giant Eagle weeks ago, a pointy pear was seen at the organic aisle.


I haven't seen a real black garlic except on this cooking show on TV called Chopped on Food Network. I haven't met a recipe that needed one though.


Ginger roots sold at Giant Eagle are from China, and surprisingly for the first time in my 17 years of shopping adventures in America, they're skinny and small. I had to look twice since at first glanced, I thought they were turmeric.


Moving on to Walmart. I was a shopping buddy for the mother of our close friend, Josh. She was going back to the Philippines, and she had to finish shopping for things she's bringing back home. There, I bumped into Elvis and Batpig.


When I was a child, I remembered how most children I knew had piggy banks or just empty baby-powder-canister-turned banks. Do children still save coins and bills at this present time? My kids had banks in their toddler to tween years until I opened a bank account for them. Yna had a Disney Castle bank that was a gift from our friend, Nits and Jason had the coin-counting money jar. The boy still keeps one in his room for loose coins, but it's not a pig. It's a vintage die-cast truck bank.

I'll make time to share my thrifting adventures from last week. Until next time. I heart you for stopping by.