canadian foodie

when most people go on vacation, they sightsee.  when i go on vacation, i go in grocery stores and drug stores.  you can learn a lot about a country or location by what they sell in a grocery or drug store.

there was a drug store near our hotel.  i remember going in there on our honeymoon and wanted to visit it for old time sake.  i also wanted to buy a tin a penaten.  the kiddos are just about out of diapers and don't need diaper cream anymore but i wanted it becos it is a fabulous ointment.  

there is a cute little grocery store in niagara on the lake, and i found these goodies there.  i also got some cheese there.  don't the caramel coconut cookies look familiar?  i wanted viva puffs but they only had raspberry, and i wanted plain or caramel filled.  and i bought a dragon fruit - any ideas what to do with it? hubby bought the mulled apple juice (he didn't like it).  hubby likes to buy sodas when we go away.  he bought a dandelion and burdock soda from the english shop that tasted like ass.

there used to be a candy shop in NOTL called candy safari.  there was an art gallery where the shop used to be, and i couldn't find it relocated anywhere else in town. i got this sugar stash at sugar mountain.  i bought a ton of CurlyWurly candy bars.  remember Marathon bars?  these are their british cousins.  

i got the packs of raisins at reif's winery.  the ginger chews i got at the grocery store.  hubby picked up the cashews at greaves.

a big bottle and two little bottles of reif ice wine.  can't remember what the other bottle of wine was, i think it was a rose.  that small bottle is grape juice.

the toffee and hard candies i got at the duty free shop when we crossed the border.  the nibs came from the grocery store, and the rest of the candy i got at the drug store.

more duty free goodies

i got the black treacle and the toffee at a british/scottish shop in NOTL.  we love trying british food products.

dark chocolate caramels and hazelnut hedgehogs from rocky mountain chocolate; two ice wine chocolates from reif.

butter tart, maple tart and cornish pasty from a delightful bakeshop in NOTL.  

an assortment of mini jams and jellies from greaves jams.  i still have jars from our last trip (a decade ago!) in the other butter compartment in the fridge!  this time around i got a few jars of wine jellies.

ice wine and maple teas from greaves, plus candies.

we got these at a little cookshop in NOTL.  hubby picked the mushrooms, the mustard and honey butter;  i got the curds.

i got the kinder eggs at the drugstore.  also got a kinder kid at the duty free shop, where the cashier reminded me of the egg's status in the states.  duh dude.  these are for the big kid.  i think he knows better than to eat the toy.


if i had a million dollars, i'd buy kraft dinner cos we could eat more...


no trip to canada is complete without a visit to tim horton's.  we had breakfast there our second day (becos the hotel breakfast sucked) and before we left we stopped so i could get tim bits for the kids and more maple stuffed and glazed donuts for us.


bringing treats home from vacation is a great way to remember a good vacation.