What a cornucopia of good food shopping of late.
While the Sauganash Whole Foods and the new Trader Joe's, Park Ridge, are not excactly in my neighborhood, they're close enough for comfort.
Today at lunch I picked up a sourdough baguette, fresh lobster ravioli, jarred picatta sauce, a cobb salad with chicken and bacon, frozen cod sticks (hopefully grown up fish sticks), and some peanut butter filled pretzels all for under $20.
The baguette is quite excellent, good crust and a nice chew. The pretzels are decent and will be good for late night snacking. I ate the salad for lunch and I guess it was OK but I needed more protein. Perhaps I'll post on the other items as they are used.
Aside from its location, there's nothing different about this Trader Joe's, as opposed to the Sauganash Whole Foods. It's great to have these two grocers within reasonable distance of my home and something I've been wishing for for a long time.
Suck that Jewels and Dominick.
-ramon