A New Location & Flaky Cereal

Hello Friends.

I am back, and ready to explore the world of Sobey's Urban Fresh once again.  I have been inspired by the opening of the new location near the university campus, and also my good friend A.M. Stein's discovery of another Edmonton food-lovers blog (A.M., I've lost the link, so could you please post it?  Thanks love).

I visited the new location about a week ago, to meet a friend for coffee (and to give her keys back, because I was babysitting her kitty).  The area to sit and have coffee is casual, and I imagine that if I were a student I might go there to study.  Obviously, it is no "large, open, kitchen-feel", and has no sense of "a community coming together to share food" that we have all missed dearly.  I am trying to simply ignore that this Sobey's has destroyed the beautiful energy of the organic store before it.  I can't go there right now.

After coffee, I did a bit of grocery shopping.  I bought a red pepper, some kicking horse coffee because it was on sale for ten dollars, some grainy crackers, a jar of red pepper jelly, a jar of pre-made curry, a block of cheese, half of a dozen of organic eggs, and some bagels.  I was disappointed to find out that they don't carry the selection of chocolate that the downtown location does, so I didn't get any chocolate.  I did check out the 'salt bar', which seems to be an assortment of salts that can be purchased in bulk.  The salt is from a variety of regions around the world, and there are descriptions of the healing properties and recipe suggestions for each salt.  I think I will try some soon, because I'm all over any type of salt-healing-crystal-magic.  

I need to head to the downtown sobey's today, for yogurt and granola.  If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend Dorset Cereal.  I first bought this at a London Drugs about a year ago (side note: london drugs usually carries a lot of organic groceries at a really reasonable price.  I am not sure why, but it does).  This flaky granola is way above all others, and sobey's has the best selection I've found.  It is expensive, about eight dollars a box I believe, but it is worth it.  In fact, last Christmas I bought a box of this cereal for my dad and wrapped it up with his present!  The slogan on the box is "honest, tasty, and real" which I think is pretty adorable, and they even have a neat website.  I wish I could find the rest of the products they make because I am pretty sure this could be a new addiction for me.    

See?  Aren't the boxes so cute?  I promise you'll love it. 

Love grocery crush