The Real Shopping Cart 14/11/24

Image description: omelet in half moon shape on a brown plate with a light brown rim on a pink and purple cover.

Highlighted meal of the week

Smoked Salmon Omelet: Cost for two: $7.58 and for one, it’s $3.79. Ingredients: eggs, smoked salmon, capers, cilantro, yellow and green onions, feta cheese, extra virgin olive oil, soy sauce, butter and baby spinach. When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, weekend lunches were one of the meals we worried about. Before we knew I had diabetes, we had brunches of crepes, waffles or Dutch baby pancakes and later lunches of chicken nuggets, Chinese dumplings, perogies and other processed food. Things we could make fast that were most often processed.

Charles suggested he could make omelets and I hemmed and hawed a bit about that, finally confessing that I found his omelets on the hard side. He turned to YouTube and watched a bunch of videos on how to make omelets. The biggest surprise was that the way to make a light and fluffy omelet is not to leave it in the fry pan and not move the eggs, but rather to stir the eggs so that they have curds and when the eggs are looking close to cooked, add the filling, then flip. The eggs continue to cook after the flip. This results in the fluffiest, most delicious and lightest omelets we have ever had.

When we get smoked salmon on sale, we buy several packages, divide it into portions and freeze it ifor omelets. Charles also makes a Madras curry tuna omelet and a bacon calabrese omelet, all three are utterly scrumptious and keep my blood sugar levels from about 5.3 to 5.6. They take a little time to prepare compared to just popping frozen stuff from a box into the oven, but they are nutritious with lots of vegetables, affordable and satisfying.

This Week’s Cart

Stores considered this week were Metro.ca, Walmart, Massine’s, Isabella Loblaws, Kowloon and Farm Boy, which are within walking distance, and the Real Canadian Superstore, Metro Rideau and Food Basics, which are accessible to us by public transit.

If we could get the cheapest price at all the stores, the total amount would be $172.62.

By combining delivery from Walmart and the Real Canadian Superstore, plus a few strolls to local stores, Charles has obtained a price of $174.51 for this week’s shopping list, only one percent higher than the cheapest price if we could shop all the stores.

In this week’s chart each store on its own will cost a shopper anywhere from fifteen to twenty-six percent more or an extra $44.77. Any store that provided less than twenty-five of the twenty-eight items we were looking for was disqualified.

I wish you nutritious, delicious and affordable meals, lingering conversations with loved ones, joy and whimsy.

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