It's been about a month since the teachers seminar that I was required to go to. That was also my first trip to E-mart Traders which is a buy-in-bulk warehouse of a store, like Costco or Sam's Club. Generally those places sell at wholesale prices, a little cheaper, but I did the math on most items and they were the same price per unit. But the selection was greater especially for western foods (cheese!) and I could buy things that'd last a month--like one kilo of peanut butter.
I spread it using a fork because my butter knife broke. When I was in the UK and buying my own groceries, I'd go through five jars every two weeks. They were smaller jars, maybe half the size. They were the staple of my diet after I got neurotic about running into my flatmates in the kitchen where I'd be cooking a pizza and they'd expect me to talk and I wouldn't and it'd be awkwardly quiet till they asked me about myself and I'd mumble a short answer and they'd have to ask "What?" So eventually I stuck to peanut butter sandwiches, apples, and "Walkers crisps" and only cooking the rare pizza at 7 am when I was sure no one else would be in there.
But this jar has lasted me over a month. I think my cuisine has come a long way since those wet Welsh days. And it's been over a month since I've bought ramen or pancakes too. I just ran out of ramen and I have pancake mix in the cabinet, but I haven't lived off them.
I'm starting to cook more like an adult. Or I'm starving and this is a delusion.
I spread it using a fork because my butter knife broke. When I was in the UK and buying my own groceries, I'd go through five jars every two weeks. They were smaller jars, maybe half the size. They were the staple of my diet after I got neurotic about running into my flatmates in the kitchen where I'd be cooking a pizza and they'd expect me to talk and I wouldn't and it'd be awkwardly quiet till they asked me about myself and I'd mumble a short answer and they'd have to ask "What?" So eventually I stuck to peanut butter sandwiches, apples, and "Walkers crisps" and only cooking the rare pizza at 7 am when I was sure no one else would be in there.
But this jar has lasted me over a month. I think my cuisine has come a long way since those wet Welsh days. And it's been over a month since I've bought ramen or pancakes too. I just ran out of ramen and I have pancake mix in the cabinet, but I haven't lived off them.
I'm starting to cook more like an adult. Or I'm starving and this is a delusion.
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