Grocery store woes

The grocery store is so disappointing here. I can't find any of the weird food that I eat at home. I couldn't even find cream today! My selection was half & half or heavy whipping cream, with no in-between. Fresh herbs are a joke here, too. If a store has them, they're in small packages, really expensive, and they're wilted and browning. I'm trying to grow some dill and cilantro, but everyone knows how proficient I am at keeping plants alive. No fresh herbs for me this summer! Frenchy has a membership to costco, so I'll have to do some bulk buying to keep costs down. The only problem with that is that the majority of the food I like to eat is perishable. Everything would be bad before I had time to eat it all. At home the way I ate was to buy small amounts of fresh foods and just go to the grocery store on a regular basis. I'd usually buy one fresh herb and just use it all week. Here I don't have the luxury of just running down the street to the grocery store to grab a few things, I have to plan. Ha! Me? Planning? The nearest grocery store is about 10-12 miles away, but I think it's also the most expensive.

In a true spawn-of-lorrahn fashion, I did get some cracker barrel cheese to make baked mac'n'cheese with. They only had the orange kind for the extra sharp, though, which creeps me out. I just don't like orange cheese. I also pulled another lorrahn and got potatoes and lipton onion soup mix to make roasted potatoes with. Just blame all of my food buying habits on her.
I didn't buy any chocolate, though. Papa and Phyllis and Erica got me plenty of that before I left home! Amazingly I still have some left. Speaking of stuff people got me for the trip, I never got to mention anything to Leah about the WetOnes. I thought I wouldn't have much use for them in the beginning. I figured I'd use them once in a while. I used an entire container on the ride up. I was driving for such long periods that I just felt nasty so they came in handy.