El súpermercado

I have always loved grocery stores, we all know this. I used to go on dates to Hannaford in high school and college. Part of it has to do with my love of food and trying new things and making new and exciting recipes. The other part of it is has everything to do with being one of the cheapest people anyone has met. They tell me it's because I'm Scottish (which is a good correction to make when people throw me into the stereotype of "Jewish"), and I'm proud of it! If I ever become a millionaire it will be a result of the saving and bargain-hunting I've spent my whole life on.

A fun game I've created for myself emerged from this trait this week, one that may lose it's excitement soon, but by then I will already have all the skills under my belt. I go into every grocery store there is, because there are a lot of them - Carrefour, Carrefour Express, OpenCor, AhorraMás, Eroski, El corte inglés, Día, and a few others - and I scope out what their deals are. Carrefour Express (and presumably the big Carrefour, too) has great prices on lentils and rice. Eroski and Corte inglés have great cereal prices, AhorraMás has good yogurt prices (though I did get 8 little cups at Eroski yesterday for 75 cents!), Corte inglés has the best milk prices I've seen, etc. It's pretty fun, and I buy whatever I find there that seems to be the best deal! It keeps me on the lookout for things when I'm wandering aimlessly around this week without a job and it means I bring something home every day that's a little different. I bought 5 onions (1 kilo) for 60 cents yesterday, too.

I am also scoping out Nutella prices (the generic brand, of course) and have found that Eroski has the best deal. Since this an unnecessary expenditure and I'm not sure when the first paycheck will come through, I am waiting for the money to come in to spend those 2 euros.

And here is why I love Spain... I love cereal and they have cereals like this, granola with two kinds of chocolate in it!! 2 KINDS OF CHOCOLATE! IN GRANOLA!! Their SpecialK-type cereal with chocolate is also wonderful.