Food Glorious Food

Probably the biggest adjustment, next to trying to understand what people are saying, is the food. We haven't tasted anything that we didn't like except for the chicken hearts and that is a memory that we will remember. Steve will be forever grateful that I had him taste them too. In this blog I will show you some of the things that we have at home.

It impossible to buy a dozen eggs here as they only come in cartons of six or ten. They are brown and some even have some feathers on them. We hope that means that they are fresh!

They are also stamped with red letters which we don't know what they say. You are probably all pretty surprised at that!

We have a lot of juice, it ranges from kool aid type to some pretty good fruit juices. One brand makes us really happy. As you can see from the carton above, drink the cherry juice and it makes you smile.

These are three of the flavors we like, peach, the mixture and cherry. Don't you just want to smile?

We have been told by several elders that Master Crumble is the best and I would have to agree. Steve likes to make "the stick to you ribs oatmeal." We haven't found rolled so we eat the hard stuff.

We did find some honey puffs that are just like sugar crisps and Spar carries the Nestle brand of several American cereals. My old favorite used to be the chocolate granola. I always felt a little guilty eating something chocolate so early in the morning.

It wouldn't be breakfast for Steve without toast and butter. As you probably guessed vaj is butter. We found a really good and cheaper butter at Lidel, the German grocery store. We have tried several bakeries to get the very best bread. Sometimes really good and sometimes not so good

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One thing that Steve can't get use to is the sticker they stick right on the bread, no matter how many times he eats it it still tastes like a sticker.

There are lots of choices for milk but most are not in the refrigerated section of the store. Tej is milk and we have always got the milk that is cold but last week we found a really good kind that taste like the milk I grew up with.

We think this is a product of Germany because it has milch on it. Why couldn't Hungarian be so simple. The carton is really amazing. It is plastic and sits by itself no matter how empty it gets. It has a edge you just tear off and pour the milk. The Spar brand is like Western Family.

Yogurt  is our treat after lunch and the mixed berry is my favorite while Steve goes for peach. The other container is sour cream. They don't have lids that snap back on even though the yogurt one looks like it does but it is just a mean joke!

We eat lots of fresh fruit that we buy from a little fruit stand right across from the branch house. They are a little more money there but there product is always good.

Spar had a deal last week that you could buy a bucket with all the oranges you could get in it for 695 forinths which would be about  $3.50 plus we got a Spar bucket.

This is how we buy our sugar and flour. Two kgs. is the big bag! you can buy it in one kilogram too.

These are the way we get other baking things. This is a picture of bay leaves, paprika paste, baking soda, baking powder and yeast.

This is the deal of the month, sixteen kiwi's for $1.50. Too bad we don't like kiwi much. This is the vanilla extract. That is about two tablespoons and it is just like the imitation vanilla at home.

We can buys these buns for four cents at Lidels. Wow!

And we do love to  eat!