Food, glorious food!

      A little of what we have noticed about the food here~~~~  It is not as inexpensive as I had hoped, but I am used to Aldi prices.  (For those unfamiliar with it, an inexpensive store near our home.)  On Wednesday afternoon you can buy produce at La Sirena (the sort of Walmart) for 35% off, but when we got there, it was quite picked over.  Another day we got this beautiful pineapple that is pictured.  Sweet and delicious!  Several different types of  bananas or plantains are available as well as some fruits we had never seen.  Now, about this carrot--THIS is a carrot!  It is shown on a dinner plate.  We have eaten four meals so far with this carrot.  Coins from it are larger than silver dollars.  It is good all the way through, not pithy like many large carrots at home.  Milk comes in a box--one liter.  Not refrigerated when you buy it, it is much better cold.  We bought a whole case at PriceSmart.  You have to wash all the produce in water with bleach in it--or, I learned the other day, with vinegar water.  I quite liked the romaine lettuce that I had washed in the vinegar water.  Yesterday Earl made chocolate chip cookies.  Dominican flour is also a little different, but they tasted good.  We were just glad to be able to get chocolate chips here, because you can't in Peru and some other countries.  We can also get brown sugar here.  I am amazed at the different American brands available here--Shurfine, Hellman's, Kraft, Revlon, Dawn, Knott's (jam), Oreos.  The Oreos are a little different--but since I always buy the house brand at home, it didn't really bother me.  Now, for the pictures:

I have discovered that positioning pictures is not totally under my control, so what it is, it is.