Food and Fun in My Flat

This picture shows 2 boxes of cereal. Erdbeer is strawberry, so this is strawberry-vanilla with yogurt flakes. The next box I bought was vitamin enriched, has fruit, and is in clusters. It's quite good, and notice that it's from Kellogg's!


This is my squeezable mayonnaise, fresh milk with 1.5% fat, orange juice, and margarine. Milk is sold exclusively in 1 liter cardboard-type cartons---no plastic gallons of milk! The theory in Vienna was that this happened because people have smaller refrigerators, shop more frequently, and walk rather than drive to grocery stores. I'm not sure about refrigerator size here, but I see a lot of people with small 2-wheeled carts for their grocery purchases, and/or getting onto bicycles. Another difference here, also true in Vienna, is that you must either bring plastic bags, mesh bags, or baskets from home unless you want to pay for a plastic bag. That certainly cuts down on plastic litter on the street. One thing that also intrigued me was that orange juice is sold in plastic bottles like this, not refrigerated. The word "saft" means juice. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find mango juice like I loved in Vienna. Juice is sold either in plastic bottles or in waxed cardboard cartons like the milk comes in.

Here's the bag from those "paprika" chips I was talking about earlier. Basically, these are then like barbecue chips, though not as heavily coated. The khacke-brot is basically wasa bread---thick crackers. Truthahnbrust is turkey breast, and hahnchenbrust is chicken breast. The meat is packaged similarly to our lunch meat---the package peels apart, not like a ziplock bag, but with the top layer peeling away from the bottom via one corner and then the sides.

I bought potato salad (mit eirn means with eggs). Lebkuchen is a cookie more frequently eaten at Christmas. It has a distinct taste which I can't describe; most children didn't like it but I did. My grandmother made them. Herzen means hearts---these are heart-shaped. The Studenten-futter is what we would call trail mix.

Yesterday Brandi and I came across a store literally labeled "Recycling". I bought these 6 children's books for 1, 20, or about $2. There is hope I can read them!! Das Kind in der Krippe is the Christmas nativity story. Now, I tell you, this is highly educational reading, don't you think?

HA!!! I am REALLY trying to learn German.