I also got dried barberries
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Hopeful to find some of that magic Dubai chocolate based on this comment in the Dubai chocolate thread at Home Goods, we stopped by there today. No dice. Ditto at TJ Maxx.
But wouldn’t ya know it? We found some other tasty treats at both stores (and Dubai chocolate as well as DUBAI CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE at the new Turkish place in town).
Srsly for someone who doesn’t like sweet foods I sure went a lil crazy today 
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No real insights other than to say the Persian stores usually have an amazing variety of dried fruits.
I used some really big raisins and some dried cherries in a Waldorf salad last night
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I tried these last night. Not bad. 2 servings, with 2 bundles of noodles and 2 pouches of powder, which I appreciated, so I’ll make the other serving some other day. The soup is fairly salty, providing 83 percent of the DV for sodium if one eats all the Soup. I usually eat the noodles and toss most of the broth.
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Sodium. The curse of ramen. Sigh.
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This is my new favourite yogurt flavour. (But it’s a sugar bomb)
I made the SeaPack Calamari for lunch yesterday, heating in my countertop convection oven. They had OK texture, a bit on the chewy side, but very little flavor in the coating or in the seafood or in the sauce. I won’t buy again.
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Another happy cow
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Girl Guide cookies in Canada have traditionally been more limited than what’s available in the States. When I was growing up, each box has one row of vanilla sandwich cookies and one row of chocolate sandwich cookies. No mint cookies and no Samoas sold up here, so they were a novelty for Canadians visiting the States.
A Canadian cookie manufacturer is now selling these.
I bought a box for the Canadian team.
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I tried this canned cardamom rose coffee that is made with oat milk. It’s not bad, but I probably won’t buy it again.
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Tea, right?
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Nope, it’s a tiny cardamom rose oat milk latte.
I really really like cardamom lattes. Some Persian and some Egyptian restaurants sell them in Toronto, as well as a Swedish coffee shop and regular Canadian coffee shop
Why does it list black tea as an ingredient?
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Lol because I can’t read. LOL
I think Hatch sells coffee too and I presumed this was coffee 
Hatch really should call it a Tea Latte for people like me who don’t read the fine print.
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Funny. No wonder you were not that enthused if you thought it was coffee! 
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This frozen Khao Soi is quite good. $5.
It didn’t taste any saltier than what’s served at Toronto Thai restaurants like Pai.
The serving of 300 grams is roughly a 1 cup serving, and seemed to be about 1/4 as large as the serving is at Toronto restaurant’s Pai, Khao San Road or EatBKK. Maybe I should pull out a measuring cup next time I order take-out.
I’m guessing that means a restaurant serving of Khao Soi in Canada could be providing 2 times the daily amount of sodium. LOL
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No, frozen food generally has much more sodium even when it doesn’t taste that salty.
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I agree frozen food is high sodium. I didn’t realize that it could be higher sodium than restaurant equivalents, without tasting higher sodium.
Thai restaurant food in Toronto is also really salty. The high amount of sodium in a serving might partly due to the ridiculously huge portion sizes that have become normalized.
I can’t eat the Thai restaurant food very often, and I’ve been getting more stir frys than curries for take-out lately in an effort to cut down on the amount of sodium and calories at each meal.
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I was browsing in an Oxfam shop today and they were selling Medjool dates from the Palestinian brand Zaytoun, so I picked up a 500 gram box for £10.99. Medjool dates are pretty fancy in my opinion, so I thought it was an ok price. Later in the afternoon, doing the weekly grocery shop, I saw Morrisons supermarket had 500 gram boxes of Palestinian Medjool dates selling for £3.95 a box, discounted from £5.50!! I checked the best before dates, which were for 2026, so I snapped up all the boxes they had in stock (4) apart from one where the dates looked a bit sad and dry. We just tried opened a box of the cheaper ones and they are excellent - huge, soft with tiny pits.
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I typically don’t buy anything other than meat and vegetables, no branded stuff. But I will check out a new hot sauce from time to time. Just picked up Tabasco Scorpion sauce based on recs from the hot sauce reddit, not a big fan. Unless you’re a mega chili head, you probably won’t like it, it goes beyond what I consider enjoyable hot sauce levels. I am a big fan of the original tabasco, I think Tabasco ketchup is one of the greatest condiments in existence.
Having said that, one of my favorite hotter hot sauces is the Tabasco habanero, it might be my favorite habanero sauce, although in general all the habanero sauces tend to be excellent.
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