Shopping Adventures

Hello, dear blog readers! Yesterday Hubby got home a little early from work, so we decided to "risk" crabby kiddies and go to the store as a family outing. I think we may have discovered a new Friday Evening Fun Activity! We went to our local Wegmans and discovered that they do little tastings in each department throughout the store.

When I was growing up, we used to joke that we could go to Costco and get a free meal by wandering around and eating various samples. Last night was a similar experience, except that those little samples kept our kids sated and happy (for the most part) while we looked through the produce, meats, fish, and breads. We even got to sample some hand-massaged, grass-fed beef. Now I don't know about you, but if you're on a budget, getting to taste a little sample of that sort of meat is the next best thing to going to a very fancy restaurant or steakhouse. We shamelessly tried all sorts of meats, fruit, cheeses, and homemade salsas. I have to say I came away a little bit inspired to start looking for new recipes for our produce.

One of the most fun things we got to see was the lobster/fish department. Someone had live lobsters and crabs on ice. One of the lobsters on top of the pile had worked his way out of the ice and was trying desperately to get away. This provided at least 5 minutes of wonder for Lem, who couldn't decide if the creature was a threat or an interesting variety of spider.

I do have to add a disclaimer that we DID buy some great organic produce while we were there. We weren't at the store solely to get free snacks.

And then, since we were there way longer than we planned to be, we went and had a very UNhealthy, non-organic meal at one of my favorite sandwich shops. The kids were thrilled!