Where is Peanut Butter?
Yes, Kiev has stumped me again. Where is the Peanut Butter in this city? At Costco, we buy two gargantuan jars of Skippy creamy or Chunky for $7.99. My kids eat peanut butter, and so do I. Pretty healthy stuff, and I'm starting to miss it. They have sliced bread, but nothing but butter to spread on it. There is also no evidence at all that Mac and Cheese has made it this far east. I don't want to impose on poor Jeanne Ritzman when she comes back from the states, but I might be willing to pay a king's ransom for some Mac and Cheese and a jar of Skippy.
We went to the farmers market, an indoor market in downtown Kiev. We saw no peanut butter. We saw something that looked like honey, and tasted it. They wanted 90 UAH a kilo. That is the equivalent of $5.00 a
pound of honey, that doesn't even look that good. At Costco, Nellie and I buy 5 pounds of honey, great looking stuff, for $10.64. So they want the equivalent of $25.00 for terrible looking honey? I said, Nyet to that one.
I do thank God they have McDonalds. I've eaten more Big Macs in the last 7 days then I've eaten, for real, in the last 7 years. No BK. No KFC. Not even a Rostiks in sight, which is the KFC of Russian. Nope, just a lot of sausage links and meat with a lot of fatty looking deposits in it. Well, at least they have Tuna and eggs.
I've been holding out going all in on Ukrainian food. It is getting tougher and tougher to pass up those cabbage stuffed rolls and pot stickers with who knows what is inside. But I found some great cookies today at the local Prod Market. And they have diet coke. So not all bad.
Now I'm complaining a little, but I really love Kiev. This place really feels like home. It would be a great place to live as an ex-pat, me thinks.
We went to the farmers market, an indoor market in downtown Kiev. We saw no peanut butter. We saw something that looked like honey, and tasted it. They wanted 90 UAH a kilo. That is the equivalent of $5.00 a
pound of honey, that doesn't even look that good. At Costco, Nellie and I buy 5 pounds of honey, great looking stuff, for $10.64. So they want the equivalent of $25.00 for terrible looking honey? I said, Nyet to that one.
I do thank God they have McDonalds. I've eaten more Big Macs in the last 7 days then I've eaten, for real, in the last 7 years. No BK. No KFC. Not even a Rostiks in sight, which is the KFC of Russian. Nope, just a lot of sausage links and meat with a lot of fatty looking deposits in it. Well, at least they have Tuna and eggs.
I've been holding out going all in on Ukrainian food. It is getting tougher and tougher to pass up those cabbage stuffed rolls and pot stickers with who knows what is inside. But I found some great cookies today at the local Prod Market. And they have diet coke. So not all bad.
Now I'm complaining a little, but I really love Kiev. This place really feels like home. It would be a great place to live as an ex-pat, me thinks.
We brought a jar of peanut butter with us as I have read that it cannot be found here. I did see Nutella in the first big grocery store that Sergei brought us to. As for mac n'cheese, that has been sustaining us every few days as we brought about 10 boxes with us! Those were ideas I had gotten from other families who have gone before us and I am thankful. Are you guys staying in Ukraine the whole time, or going home during the waiting period?
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