It's official: I've only been here a few days and I already love the city. Any reservations I had back in April when we were considering moving here (heck, any reservations I had last week about moving here) are removed from my mind whenever we take our daily walks.
It's so much fun being here. The city is extremely bike friendly, with separate bike lanes on most major streets, and most car operators respectful of bikers.
We rode the metro out to marche jean-talon yesterday and had a great afternoon. This is definitely the place to go if you want high-quality produce on the cheap. We found a yummy Indian fast food place (as well as several other small, to-go style restaurants) inside the marketplace and ordered a bagful of samosas to share. Mmmmm, samosas. In the end, we managed to stock our kitchen and got so much food it was nearly impossible to make it home. All for about $25!
Potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, onions, green peppers, eggplant, asparagus, carrots, GIANT basil plant, garlic, 8lbs of apples...
Of course, that didn't give us any dried goods, so we went to the Metro (grocery store, not the subway...) and stocked up on pasta, rice, couscous, and some baking supplies. For as inexpensive as it is to shop at les marches, it is that much more expensive to purchase items from the supermarche.
I'll do a separate post on our progress on frugal eating in a few weeks, after I understand what I'm doing myself!
For now we've definitely got enough food for the next 10 days or so, with dry goods to last for a loooooong time.
And now I must go plant my basil!
It's so much fun being here. The city is extremely bike friendly, with separate bike lanes on most major streets, and most car operators respectful of bikers.
We rode the metro out to marche jean-talon yesterday and had a great afternoon. This is definitely the place to go if you want high-quality produce on the cheap. We found a yummy Indian fast food place (as well as several other small, to-go style restaurants) inside the marketplace and ordered a bagful of samosas to share. Mmmmm, samosas. In the end, we managed to stock our kitchen and got so much food it was nearly impossible to make it home. All for about $25!
Of course, that didn't give us any dried goods, so we went to the Metro (grocery store, not the subway...) and stocked up on pasta, rice, couscous, and some baking supplies. For as inexpensive as it is to shop at les marches, it is that much more expensive to purchase items from the supermarche.
I'll do a separate post on our progress on frugal eating in a few weeks, after I understand what I'm doing myself!
For now we've definitely got enough food for the next 10 days or so, with dry goods to last for a loooooong time.
And now I must go plant my basil!
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