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Stocking up on food in Sri Lanka – good idea or bad idea?

July 12, 2009

Generally, bad idea.
Ants get into everything they can. Weevils and worms frequently are already inside the flour & grain & lentils & beans & so on bags, so you don’t want to keep a bag of flour for even three months and assume it’ll still be fine – it likely won’t be. Mung beans [...]

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Grocery shopping in Sri Lanka

July 9, 2009

Since probably most of you who are reading this have never been to Sri Lanka, I thought I’d tell y’all a bit about what it’s like here.
Fahim and I do most of our grocery shopping at Arpico, a department store with a grocery section and fixed prices.
Why is fixed prices important? Because [...]

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Running Out of Rice At the Beginning of Holiday Season…

April 8, 2009

Is a very very bad thing when you live in a rice & curry household. I live in such a household.
How did it happen? Well…
I’m pretty anal about things. As soon as I open a bag of rice (or a packet of red chilli pepper powder, or Maldive fish flakes, or laundry detergent, [...]

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It's All About the Cheese!

December 22, 2008

We normally do our grocery shopping at the Arpico in Nugegoda, but today, we opted to go to the Arpico in Battaramulla. The reason? Cheese.
Yep. It’s all about cheese.
See, cheese is only sold in a very few limited places [...]

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