Market Trip

Well, yesterday my friend and I had a conversation about how we're not going to like boxed food when we come back to America! We ate some instant pasta alfredo, along with some chicken we cooked and threw in. It was good...but it didn't quite measure up.... We pretty much cook everything ourselves with fresh vegetables unless we go out to eat. A couple of days ago we made delicious pot pie again, with made-from-scratch pie crust. In America, we won't have the money to buy fresh vegetables and fruit, but then of course, there are drive-thrus. Amazing little things. Here, it is just as expensive to cook for yourself as it is to go out (depending on what you buy). The other day, we were travelling in from some visiting, and realized we needed to go to the market to buy groceries for making chicken pot-pie and hummingbird cake. We checked and had very little money, in fact, only about 17 kuai, which is about $2.50. So, we decided to be adventurous and find out how much we could get for it. Interesting and fun experiment. . . We ended up with: 1/2 lb potatoes, 3 carrots, 1 small celery bush, 1/4 lb. of corn off the cob, 1/4 lb peas already shelled, 6 eggs, 3 bananas, 2 small pinneaples (very small here), 2 snacks (half pinneaple on a stick, fried potatoes on a stick), 2 bus rides home, and one popsicle. Yep, true story. Go figure!