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President's Choice "Free From" Pork, and Memories Of sauces

Submitted by bushidoka on Sun, 2009-05-24 14:11
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My dear sweet wife went into the Superstore on Friday and redeemed the two coupons she had for pork and chicken, so this morning I prepared the pork to grill for lunch. We had a jar of the President's Choice Memories of Dad's Grill sauce in their popular "Memories Of" line, and we ended up really liking it a lot and in fact had gone out and bought a fresh bottle of it within hours of using the freebie we'd gotten :-) My oldest son's first comment was that it tasted like pancake syrup, and sure enough there is maple syrup in this sauce - and very noticably so!!! I plan to to use it as an inspiration in my own home made sauces, in fact!

Frugal Shopping - Pork Neck

Submitted by bushidoka on Tue, 2009-03-24 14:33
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Today I decided to take a walk down to the Asian supermarket - the 168 Market here in Ottawa. It is just outside of Chinatown and not very far at all from my house. Wow, what an incredible experience! I hadn't been there in about 7 or 8 years, but after this visit I decided I will most certainly make regular visits from now on. It is like taking a vacation in the Far East because it is a pretty large supermarket, and there are virtually no products at all that are recognizable to a westerner like me! Mystery and excitement in every aisle!!! Even better is the fact that the prices are so reasonable.

I was especially impressed with the butchery and fish counter. I eyed some pork neck that was being sold in large chunks for 99 cents a pound, and after spending a half hour or so going through the whole store to check out every shelf, I came back and got a chunk. The butcher cut it up into several smaller chunks, and weighed it at 1.815 lb or 824g, which came to $1.80. I'm all about being frugal, and that seemed like a really good deal. So I was excited to get it home for a little experiment!

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