Everyone surely agrees: if you don’t mind that there are only 3300 products from which to choose, and you don’t mind the no-frills display, there is no better place for grocery shopping than Trader Joes. Here in the City it is just as good as where you live.
But look at these prices…
2 hothouse cucs $1.
3 spinach bundles – a pound each @ $1.25 each
3 full bunches of green onions $1.
2 lovely big bunches of cilantro $1.
2 bags of enoki mushrooms – $1.25 each
2 pounds of carrots -$1.00
1 mixed bag for $1. which had 4 large tomatoes – yet to ripen, 1 red pepper, 4 brown rootie looking things, about the size of a duck egg .
[These when peeled, became slick on the outside, but the inside reminds me of a radish-turnip, sort of. In the soup, they became rather potato like and I wonder if they could be a thickener].
And my all time favorite: boxes of Trader Joes black and blue berries for $1. each.
How can you not shop in China town with prices like these!
[The 4 brown duck egg size rootie looking things turned out to be Chinese arrowroot. I kept thinking tapioca.]