Tag: grocery shopping

• March 18, 2020Uncategorized

  Difference in stores

  While we were in Budapest, we visited 3 or 4 grocery stores just to see if they had some fun items to bring back. Everything was well stocked – quite […]

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  #38 Cinnamon Buns the Size of Your Head

  Today we chat with Nicole, from Massachusetts, about the terror of grocery shopping in another language, tricks for not having to speak, recycling and Cinnamon Bun day!

• April 10, 2019Uncategorized

  Too friendly?

  For the first time ever, I read about an expat to Sweden who thinks Swedes are “too friendly!” In our local paper’s letter section, a person identifying themselves as having […]

• November 19, 2012Uncategorized

  Balsam does not mean Shampoo

  Many of us foreigners who move to Sweden like to tell stories of the horrible mistakes we’ve made in the grocery store.  Two of my friends made a cake with […]

• November 5, 2012Uncategorized

  Advantages to grocery shopping in Sweden

  In the months of November through April, I don’t have to rush home with the ice cream.

• January 22, 2010Uncategorized

  Butternut squash

  I was at the grocery store this morning when I noticed a new display with butternut squash.  After years of seeing so many American recipes using butternut squash, it was […]