I know better than to go grocery shopping hungry, but today it couldn’t really be helped. I didn’t have any milk, therefore couldn’t have any coffee or have an english muffin with peanut butter (which has been my breakfast trend this week, and something topped with peanut butter and only orange juice to wash it down? no thanks) so a trip to the store was required. Decided to roll a bunch of errands into one trip and stopped by the Williamsburg farmer’s market where one of the Williamsburg Winery chefs was doing a demo and offering a “fall salad” and oyster stew. I was really excited about the stew but they didn’t have any prepared while I was there so never got to taste it, oh well, now I kind of want to make some though, my mom makes a really good version, lots of cream and butter, how can you go wrong? Stopped by Bloom to get coffee filters and dishwashing sponges (one thing Trader Joe’s lacks, home cleaning stuff, although I did notice today they had one variety of paper towels and toilet paper) then headed to my friendly neighborhood Trader Joe’s, initially just for milk and soymilk, or so I thought.

I ended up with 5 bottles of wine (all under $5 each!), frozen gnocchi, 2 bags of frozen vegetables, a bag of frozen chicken, torteliini, Trader Joe’s version of Cherrios, blood orange italian soda (excited to try this), soy milk, soy creamer (wanted to see if it was any good since it lasts longer in the fridge I may be able to avoid my no-milk-no-coffee issue), milk, a strawberry-rubarb pie (so excited for this! I was watching Pushing Daisies last night and was totally craving pie afterwards, and according to one of the Trader Joe’s employees the strawberry-rubarb is very hard to come by if you’re not there really early in the day, yay!), and a spinach and mushroom mini quiche which I just finished for brunch with my coffee and soy creamer (conclusion on the soy creamer, not as good as milk-based creamers, thinner and tangy-er). So thus the danger of shopping hungry, be warned! 😉