I have tried to shop at different food stores while in Washington, D.C. in order to compare prices and the variety of goods available. I must admit I enjoy more eating out than shopping for food or preparing it. As you can probably guess I like to eat what other people cook. I must confess that I am not a good cook. I do love to visit the supermarket’s fruit and vegetable sections. I have been to two different supermarkets and I noticed how expensive some of my favorite fruits are when compared to home. When I go shopping for fruits at home I love to look at their colors and smells. When I buy them I love their texture, the juice and their consistency in my mouth. Some of my favorite tropical fruits are pineapples, mangos and guavas. In D.C., I have seen lots of bananas, all of the same kind. I also saw some pineapples and mangos in the supermarkets I visited, but there were no guavas. What attracts me most about guavas is their smell. I just love it. The kind of bananas that I like from Puerto Rico I did not see here in the supermarkets, they are smaller in size, wider and taste different, like a mix of apples and bananas at the same time. In Puerto Rico we call them “manzanos”.
Sunday I reminded myself that I had to go food shopping. As convenient as CVS is, that does not constitute food shopping, I needed to go to a supermarket. So I went to “Trader Joe’s” where I found some reasonable prices and a certain variety of fruits and vegetables. Granted some things were way over-priced, there were not as many tropical fruits as I can find at home, but some bananas and mangos looked nice. Their prices were too expensive and I decided to wait until I go back home again to have them again. Nonetheless, I was able to find reasonably priced popcorn, peanut butter, cereal bars and some different brands of cereal. I was able to get a bit of breakfast food for a good price and I actually do not have to cook what I bought. Great!
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