Special Edition: Food

No date specificity here, just food experiences.  

Chocolate.  The kids and I spied a 350 gram bar of chocolate for 17Kn, which is about $3.50.  It had 6550 kilo joules of energy.  We needed this bar.  It was made in Sarajevo which was a new sweets origin for us.  Yikes, pretty marginal stuff.  Tara and I basically quit after the first few tries, but Riley seems to have taken to it.  Now she has about 300g of chocolate all to herself.  By contrast, this bar cost less then half of what the fine Swiss bars were selling for right next to it.  For the same amount of Kn we could have gotten half as much that tasted twice as good.  We upgraded with a 100g Swiss bar yesterday and that was the winner.  Update - while in the car today we happened upon a market with a big Swiss bar (250g) and cashed in a few favors to acquire it.  We bought a few other things, fruit and nuts, but that was by far the most expensive item in the cart.  Talk about priorities.

Beer for Wifi.  My measly connection the other day came at the cost of a beer, not a bad trade as the local brew, Ozujsko, is actually pretty tasty.  I don't drink much, but this was pretty good, I wonder if they export it?  I will have to check out the Croation section and the local suds mart back home.

Breakfast has been a hodgepodge of what we have laying around that we have acquired along the way.  Yesterday we bought some cereal based on the picture on the box.  It looked healthy, like a musli type product, and it tasted do good the kids were eating it like candy.  Well, upon further inspection the cereal has only 10% fewer kilo joules of energy then the nice Swiss chocolate bar.  Sounds like a good reason just to eat candy for breakfast.

The kids had some hot chocolate in Pula, and it was nice and thick, reportedly the best the kids had ever had.  They opted in for cream on the top.  When the bill came it was line itemed out as 'slag'.  I suppose if they were offered hot chocolate with 'slag' on top they would have declined.

Fanta.  Europe loves Fanta, we love Fanta.  I never drink this orange poison back home, but the girls and I try to get our RDA as often as possible,

Margaritas.  The kids have have margaritas about every third day here.  A tequila concoction is not what I am talking about, but rather pizza.  Pizza Margarita is just the plain old pizza, the cheapest, and they love it.  We have eaten most of our meals in or made sandwiches on the go.  When we do get out we are unlikely to drop big € on a fancy sit down dinner.  Rather we grab it to go and try to find some place interesting to sit, or not.  Sometimes, like this day in Bled we found a great place, with seats, for a very reasonable price.  We need to get the kids into some local fare and that will happen starting in Ljubljana as we will no longer have a kitchen to cook in.  Let's say they are just a little excited.

Chow Ciao!