Routines are nice for a little while. It felt familiar slipping back into a Saturday morning drive to the Coquitlam Superstore for groceries. When one shops weekly, price increases creep up over time. However, as we hadn't been in our supermarket for four and a half months, we noticed right away how dramatically food prices are rising in Canada.
As a humorous aside, Jay found drumsticks for sale.
It seemed funny as when we were at the house in Sri Lanka this winter, the Moringa oleifera trees were prolific. These are the seed pods of deciduous trees that can reach a height of 10–12 meters and can have trunk diameter of 45 cm. They cannot tolerate frost but that is not a problem in tropical places. Nazir brought a seeding branch to the Minuwangoda house a long time ago. Since then, new shoots of it were planted in several other places in the garden.
We surely ate a whole lot over the last couple of months!
There is particular way of eating the cooked or boiled sections. They are typically separated into several pieces by hand and each is rubbed seed-first across one's bottom teeth to extract the seeds and soft gel. The outside is fibrous and discarded. Jay loves them but I simply 'don't mind' eating them.
Oh, the funny part was the price. These were priced at CAD $1.99 EACH! He looked at them but, of course, didn't buy any. In recent weeks, we've each eaten dozens and dozens.
