Trader Joe's

Up until recently I've done the majority (OK, all) of my grocery shopping at Safeway. While this is somewhat cheap and easy to get to, the produce is terrible, the lines are outrageous, and, well, it's kind of suburban. (Let's face it: when you are living in the city there's no place for suburban.) ;) So I have branched out to shopping to Trader Joe's.



For dirt-cheap prices you can get great ethnic food and essentially any basic item that you need (pasta, cheese, meat, frozen pizzas -- Margherita is the best at $4.00 -). It's kind of amazing to come home after a long day and simply throw a piece of Naan bread into the oven and boil a packet of Jaipur Vegetables (which also happens to be my dinner tonight, the inspiration for this post).

My Trader Joe's "can't-live-withouts":

Dried Snappeas
Marinated Artichokes
Margherita Pizza
Indian Fare entrees
Naan bread
and the occasional Ritter Sport hazelnut and chocolate bar