Day #5 - Food Shopping Has Never Been So Fun

I miss my family very much, my 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son would marvel at everything I am experiencing here in India.

So today I invited them along for masala tea and to come food shopping with me.

Thanks to What’s App and video calls on a reverse camera, they walked the streets with me, they asked what the funny cars were (3 wheelers) and I talked them through as I bought my groceries which I believe was entertaining for the shop keeper as well as my kids.

Milk comes in a bag, yogurt is scooped out of a big bowl and sold in a bag, there are more sweets than a child could dream of and I am sure it was torture for my son who has a sweet tooth like mine to see so much and not have any.  

I will make him gulab jamun when I get home.

The ripest, juiciest figs are 10 cents each, the carrots are the orangest orange you will ever see and so hairy.

I love a well-stocked kitchen when I am in India so that I don’t always have to eat at restaurants, which is the last thing you want to do after a class with Raya at 7.30pm.

So eggs, cucumbers, tomatoes, easy to fry vegies, fruits, sweets, banana chips, spiced buttermilk drink boxes, and paneer to fry like halloumi are some of the simple snacks I make for a quick dinner.

Having a fridge and basic cooking equipment is one of the benefits of an apartment instead of a hotel when you are here for a month.

P.S Class was with Raya, not Abhijata and I will tell you about that another day… I am still compiling my notes on the class there was so much in it, my arms aches from handwriting 7 pages of notes.