What does $100 worth of groceries look like in Norway?
Something like this:
This is a typical week of groceries for our family. All of
those milk cartons you see are less than 4 gallons of milk.
You’ll notice a few things are missing. Meat, cheese, butter, baking supplies, pasta, cereal,
diapers, cleaning supplies, etc. Those items come to us by way of Amazon, the
embassy commissary, or our quarterly bulk shipment from Ramstein Air Force Base
in Germany.
When I’m in the checkout each week, I always feel a little
smug about how wholesome my cart full of food looks. I just conveniently forget
about the Marshmallow Maties and Kraft Mac and Cheese back at home. That aside,
we do eat far less processed food than before coming here and if we do have
“junk” food, almost all of it is homemade.
