I'm making brownies

[sunflower]

And I stopped at 3 stores to try to get chocolate chips to put in them...no luck! Some kind of freakish run on chocolate chips in CT. What the french??

[Sisyphean Fan]

And I stopped at 3 stores to try to get chocolate chips to put in them...no luck! Some kind of freakish run on chocolate chips in CT. What the french??

What is Mecca coming to? First no Christie's Evenly Gorgeous, now no chocolate chips? Is lb going to have to go out to CT and kick some bahonka in that stockroom?

Wait a minute, you DID check at Mecca, right? You didn't? What the french????

BTW, I cannot find Greek yogurt anywhere. I recall you praising it to the skies and I promised you I'd try some. But no luck. Any suggestions?

[SportsFan68]

Using that fabu all-edges pan that I can't find one of!!!?????

[sunflower]

And I stopped at 3 stores to try to get chocolate chips to put in them...no luck! Some kind of freakish run on chocolate chips in CT. What the french??

What is Mecca coming to? First no Christie's Evenly Gorgeous, now no chocolate chips? Is lb going to have to go out to CT and kick some bahonka in that stockroom?

Wait a minute, you DID check at Mecca, right? You didn't? What the french????

BTW, I cannot find Greek yogurt anywhere. I recall you praising it to the skies and I promised you I'd try some. But no luck. Any suggestions?

Mecca was one of the stores, and a grocery store, and a Walgreens! And then I said the ingrates at work can be happy with brownies without chocolate chips for once! Or they can go without brownies altogether!!!

You can't find it?? Not at the grocery store?? My stop and shop has Chobani and Oikos. Chobani is way cheaper and quite good. Strawberry, blueberry, peach or vanilla. I've also seen it at Whole Foods, Oikos is their cheapest brand, and it's not cheap! Definitely have not seen it at Mecca, and I don't know about our other grocery stores. What are the grocery stores in your area?

[SportsFan68]

And I stopped at 3 stores to try to get chocolate chips to put in them...no luck! Some kind of freakish run on chocolate chips in CT. What the french??

What is Mecca coming to? First no Christie's Evenly Gorgeous, now no chocolate chips? Is lb going to have to go out to CT and kick some bahonka in that stockroom?

Wait a minute, you DID check at Mecca, right? You didn't? What the french????

BTW, I cannot find Greek yogurt anywhere. I recall you praising it to the skies and I promised you I'd try some. But no luck. Any suggestions?

Mecca was one of the stores, and a grocery store, and a Walgreens! And then I said the ingrates at work can be happy with brownies without chocolate chips for once! Or they can go without brownies altogether!!!

You can't find it?? Not at the grocery store?? My stop and shop has Chobani and Oikos. Chobani is way cheaper and quite good. Strawberry, blueberry, peach or vanilla. I've also seen it at Whole Foods, Oikos is their cheapest brand, and it's not cheap! Definitely have not seen it at Mecca, and I don't know about our other grocery stores. What are the grocery stores in your area?

Our Krogers doesn't carry it either.

They probably think we're a bunch of Luddites.

They're probably right.

[sunflower]

Using that fabu all-edges pan that I can't find one of!!!?????

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I also have not found one!!! And with LNT closing, if BB&B doesn't have it, what then??

But it's okay, the ingrates at the office like the middle pieces, except for one girl. She and I will pig out behind closed doors on all the edges!!!

I do think I'm going to make them in an 8 x 8 pan though, so they're thicker...I just better get them in the oven because that way, they take almost an hour to cook.

[Sisyphean Fan]

And I stopped at 3 stores to try to get chocolate chips to put in them...no luck! Some kind of freakish run on chocolate chips in CT. What the french??

What is Mecca coming to? First no Christie's Evenly Gorgeous, now no chocolate chips? Is lb going to have to go out to CT and kick some bahonka in that stockroom?

Wait a minute, you DID check at Mecca, right? You didn't? What the french????

BTW, I cannot find Greek yogurt anywhere. I recall you praising it to the skies and I promised you I'd try some. But no luck. Any suggestions?

Mecca was one of the stores, and a grocery store, and a Walgreens! And then I said the ingrates at work can be happy with brownies without chocolate chips for once! Or they can go without brownies altogether!!!

You can't find it?? Not at the grocery store?? My stop and shop has Chobani and Oikos. Chobani is way cheaper and quite good. Strawberry, blueberry, peach or vanilla. I've also seen it at Whole Foods, Oikos is their cheapest brand, and it's not cheap! Definitely have not seen it at Mecca, and I don't know about our other grocery stores. What are the grocery stores in your area?

Wow, apparently the Stop and Shops are much tonier in CT than they are here (that's like a Loaf & Jug, right?). I have checked at Mecca, the local grocery store I frequent (it's a regional chain in the southwestern states but they're affiliated with Kroger) and Costco. I also couldn't find it at Wild Oats, which is the organic store I like. But I have not been there since they merged with Whole Paycheck, so maybe I'll check again.

Is it just in regular yogurt cups or some schmancy Zorba the Greek containers?

[Sisyphean Fan]

What is Mecca coming to? First no Christie's Evenly Gorgeous, now no chocolate chips? Is lb going to have to go out to CT and kick some bahonka in that stockroom?

Wait a minute, you DID check at Mecca, right? You didn't? What the french????

BTW, I cannot find Greek yogurt anywhere. I recall you praising it to the skies and I promised you I'd try some. But no luck. Any suggestions?

Mecca was one of the stores, and a grocery store, and a Walgreens! And then I said the ingrates at work can be happy with brownies without chocolate chips for once! Or they can go without brownies altogether!!!

You can't find it?? Not at the grocery store?? My stop and shop has Chobani and Oikos. Chobani is way cheaper and quite good. Strawberry, blueberry, peach or vanilla. I've also seen it at Whole Foods, Oikos is their cheapest brand, and it's not cheap! Definitely have not seen it at Mecca, and I don't know about our other grocery stores. What are the grocery stores in your area?

Our Krogers doesn't carry it either.

They probably think we're a bunch of Luddites.

They're probably right.

Is your Kroger actually a Kroger or a King Soopers?

[secondchance]

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[sunflower]

What is Mecca coming to? First no Christie's Evenly Gorgeous, now no chocolate chips? Is lb going to have to go out to CT and kick some bahonka in that stockroom?

Wait a minute, you DID check at Mecca, right? You didn't? What the french????

BTW, I cannot find Greek yogurt anywhere. I recall you praising it to the skies and I promised you I'd try some. But no luck. Any suggestions?

Mecca was one of the stores, and a grocery store, and a Walgreens! And then I said the ingrates at work can be happy with brownies without chocolate chips for once! Or they can go without brownies altogether!!!

You can't find it?? Not at the grocery store?? My stop and shop has Chobani and Oikos. Chobani is way cheaper and quite good. Strawberry, blueberry, peach or vanilla. I've also seen it at Whole Foods, Oikos is their cheapest brand, and it's not cheap! Definitely have not seen it at Mecca, and I don't know about our other grocery stores. What are the grocery stores in your area?

Wow, apparently the Stop and Shops are much tonier in CT than they are here (that's like a Loaf & Jug, right?). I have checked at Mecca, the local grocery store I frequent (it's a regional chain in the southwestern states but they're affiliated with Kroger) and Costco. I also couldn't find it at Wild Oats, which is the organic store I like. But I have not been there since they merged with Whole Paycheck, so maybe I'll check again.

Is it just in regular yogurt cups or some schmancy Zorba the Greek containers?

Yeah, our Wild Oats became Whole Foods, and now it's sucky. I mean, now it's like Whole Foods. I liked Wild Oats better. But they should have it, but they might only have Oikos. It's $2 a container here, for a 6 or 8 oz container. I tried it once when I had a $1 off coupon (if your store has the Mambo Sprouts newsletters in the front of the store, they are packed with coupons!!). But Chobani is only $1.25, or $1 on sale. When you eat it 7 days a week, it makes a difference especially when I'm used to Yoplait Light for 50 cents. They're shorter, wider schmancy containers but not the weird ones with the yogurt on one side and the fruit on the other...the fruit is on the bottom.

[SportsFan68]

Is your Kroger actually a Kroger or a King Soopers?

It's actually a City Market.

[Sisyphean Fan]

Is your Kroger actually a Kroger or a King Soopers?

It's actually a City Market.

Okay, same thing then, the City Markets are just on a smaller scale than the King Soopers. The store in Canon City used to be a City Market and then they just changed over to the Kings name several years ago. I think they might have actually just be Kroger's now.

[Sisyphean Fan]

Wow, apparently the Stop and Shops are much tonier in CT than they are here (that's like a Loaf & Jug, right?). I have checked at Mecca, the local grocery store I frequent (it's a regional chain in the southwestern states but they're affiliated with Kroger) and Costco. I also couldn't find it at Wild Oats, which is the organic store I like. But I have not been there since they merged with Whole Paycheck, so maybe I'll check again.

Is it just in regular yogurt cups or some schmancy Zorba the Greek containers?

Yeah, our Wild Oats became Whole Foods, and now it's sucky. I mean, now it's like Whole Foods. I liked Wild Oats better. But they should have it, but they might only have Oikos. It's $2 a container here, for a 6 or 8 oz container. I tried it once when I had a $1 off coupon (if your store has the Mambo Sprouts newsletters in the front of the store, they are packed with coupons!!). But Chobani is only $1.25, or $1 on sale. When you eat it 7 days a week, it makes a difference especially when I'm used to Yoplait Light for 50 cents. They're shorter, wider schmancy containers but not the weird ones with the yogurt on one side and the fruit on the other...the fruit is on the bottom.

I used to get Wild Oats coupons in the mail all the time. But the Cheap Bastards haven't sent me anything since they changed over. Consequently, I haven't been there. Ha!

I might stop in tomorrow and check it out. They're real close by.

[sunflower]

Yeah definitely look for Mambo Sprouts, or ask at the front desk. They send me emails about it, so I think it's chain-wide.

If you have Facebook, there is a whole foods group and they send out coupons there from time to time. My whole foods has also been doing cool promotions, last month if you spent $100 on a Wednesday (Wellness Wednesdays) they gave a free month at Healthtrax, the snooty gym that is $75 a month. Not a bad deal!

Brownies are done...if I can tear myself away from here I can actually get some sleep.

[sunflower]

PS Whole Foods will give you a sample of ANYTHING in their store, just ask. My fave is what I like to call "happy hour buffet" where I try a few of the items at the prepared food counter. I always end up ordering stuff, of course. I just love trying stuff to see if it's actually something I like. But anything, from cheese to cereal, they'll open it and then just put the rest out as samples, if it's something packaged.

[littlebeast13]

I'm hoping the aroma of my Friday the 13th brownies will be waking me up tomorrow morning.....

lb13

[ghostjmf]

When you find the store in the Boston area that sells Ghirardelli powdered cocoa, not the presweetened cocoa mix, just the cocoa, please tell me. I can find Droste (sorry linguistic keyboard people, no linguistic markers on my keyboard) cocoa just fine, but of course it costs about 5 times as much. I can find some fair trade brand I bought which is very PC & made me feel good all over when I bought it, but not when I drank it; unfortunately it has too much cocoa butter & hardly any cocoa flavor. And after you've had Ghirardelli, you don't want to go back to just Hershey's. I don't anyway.

I would also like to find a store that sells fresh tomatillos, since places that used to sell the refrigerated fresh tomatillo salsa are no longer selling it, though they still sell the red salsa by the same brand. Not that I would put them in my brownies, but just saying.

[kayrharris]

When you find the store in the Boston area that sells Ghirardelli powdered cocoa, not the presweetened cocoa mix, just the cocoa, please tell me. I can find Droste (sorry linguistic keyboard people, no linguistic markers on my keyboard) cocoa just fine, but of course it costs about 5 times as much. I can find some fair trade brand I bought which is very PC & made me feel good all over when I bought it, but not when I drank it; unfortunately it has too much cocoa butter & hardly any cocoa flavor. And after you've had Ghirardelli, you don't want to go back to just Hershey's. I don't anyway.

I would also like to find a store that sells fresh tomatillos, since places that used to sell the refrigerated fresh tomatillo salsa are no longer selling it, though they still sell the red salsa by the same brand. Not that I would put them in my brownies, but just saying.

Do you have a World Market? I think they sell the chocolate. Whole Foods has it as well and would more than
likely have the fresh tomatillos. I'll be happy to get the chocolate and send it to you.

[minimetoo26]

I wish I had looked to see if there were chocolate chips when I went out shopping yesterday! Of course, I already have the 85 pound bag of Toll House, because I can't take a chance on running out ever...

I hit a Chicken-Free Zone last night. It was too late to cook when I got home, so I looked in the deli counter, but they were out of rotisserie chickens. There was a Boston Market in the shopping center, so I went in to discover THEY were also out of chicken, and would be for 1 hour and 58 minutes! Good luck offloading the batch they were cooking that would have been ready after 9:30 pm.........

[sunflower]

I wish I had looked to see if there were chocolate chips when I went out shopping yesterday! Of course, I already have the 85 pound bag of Toll House, because I can't take a chance on running out ever...

I hit a Chicken-Free Zone last night. It was too late to cook when I got home, so I looked in the deli counter, but they were out of rotisserie chickens. There was a Boston Market in the shopping center, so I went in to discover THEY were also out of chicken, and would be for 1 hour and 58 minutes! Good luck offloading the batch they were cooking that would have been ready after 9:30 pm.........

They'll just use them in sandwiches today, and no one will know...

[minimetoo26]

I wish I had looked to see if there were chocolate chips when I went out shopping yesterday! Of course, I already have the 85 pound bag of Toll House, because I can't take a chance on running out ever...

I hit a Chicken-Free Zone last night. It was too late to cook when I got home, so I looked in the deli counter, but they were out of rotisserie chickens. There was a Boston Market in the shopping center, so I went in to discover THEY were also out of chicken, and would be for 1 hour and 58 minutes! Good luck offloading the batch they were cooking that would have been ready after 9:30 pm.........

They'll just use them in sandwiches today, and no one will know...

That's what I was thinking! I should check to see if the sandwiches are half-price today, because I saw a LOT of chicken spinning in the oven...

[ShitSandwich]

I wish I had looked to see if there were chocolate chips when I went out shopping yesterday! Of course, I already have the 85 pound bag of Toll House, because I can't take a chance on running out ever...

I hit a Chicken-Free Zone last night. It was too late to cook when I got home, so I looked in the deli counter, but they were out of rotisserie chickens. There was a Boston Market in the shopping center, so I went in to discover THEY were also out of chicken, and would be for 1 hour and 58 minutes! Good luck offloading the batch they were cooking that would have been ready after 9:30 pm.........

They'll just use them in sandwiches today, and no one will know...

It tastes like chicken, trust me......

[sunflower]

I wish I had looked to see if there were chocolate chips when I went out shopping yesterday! Of course, I already have the 85 pound bag of Toll House, because I can't take a chance on running out ever...

I hit a Chicken-Free Zone last night. It was too late to cook when I got home, so I looked in the deli counter, but they were out of rotisserie chickens. There was a Boston Market in the shopping center, so I went in to discover THEY were also out of chicken, and would be for 1 hour and 58 minutes! Good luck offloading the batch they were cooking that would have been ready after 9:30 pm.........

They'll just use them in sandwiches today, and no one will know...

That's what I was thinking! I should check to see if the sandwiches are half-price today, because I saw a LOT of chicken spinning in the oven...

I'm surprised they would even make it after 7 or 8 pm. What time are they open until?

Now I totally want Boston Market for lunch, even though I'm freaked out I'd be getting yesterday's chicken!!!

[ghostjmf]

kayharris says:

Do you have a World Market? I think they sell the chocolate. Whole Foods has it as well and would more than
likely have the fresh tomatillos. I'll be happy to get the chocolate and send it to you.

We do have Whole Foods. I will check there (Trader Joes I checked at long ago, of course, being in there all the time). Thanks for the send offer but I want to see if I can line up a local supply before I have to ask that. This is one of those "teaser" items that used to be stocked at at least one local chain (Star Market, now owned by Shaws) & then suddenly they dropped it. After they had me hooked. They still carry Ghirardelli's baking chocolate, & luscious chocolate chips, & that presweetened cocoa mix, but not the "plain" cocoa powder.

Fresh tomatillos are a bigger problem; I used to rely on that brand that supplies the fresh salsa mix (El Mexicano, I think) & suddenly the stores that stocked it stopped carrying it. I had read at the same time that due to expenses, a lot of people growing ingredients for Mexican food had stopped growing "the less popular" items. I wouldn't have thought tomatillos would be one of them, but apparently they are.

I have since run in to articles, one pasted in the window of a local Mexican restaurant, about this. The restaurants all seem to have their own private sources of tomatillos, though. A local farm was mentioned in one article, so I've been on the lookout for them at farmers' markets, but haven't seen them there. Every so often, a supermarket I don't like for other reasons (MarketBasket) will have them, so I have to stop in there every so often & check.

I was very surprised to see them stocked, with no fanfare, at a supermarket in my home town. I was going to take a bunch back on the plane, but the logistics didn't work out (meaning we didn't get to the store ahead of plane time). I wonder whether the airport security people consider them "solid food", now allowed in carry-on, or "too gooey", based on the seeds inside. They are not related to tomatoes despite the name, & are not gooey, but I guess I'd have to demo that for the TSA.

[sunflower]

kayharris says:

Do you have a World Market? I think they sell the chocolate. Whole Foods has it as well and would more than
likely have the fresh tomatillos. I'll be happy to get the chocolate and send it to you.

We do have Whole Foods. I will check there (Trader Joes I checked at long ago, of course, being in there all the time). Thanks for the send offer but I want to see if I can line up a local supply before I have to ask that. This is one of those "teaser" items that used to be stocked at at least one local chain (Star Market, now owned by Shaws) & then suddenly they dropped it. After they had me hooked. They still carry Ghirardelli's baking chocolate, & luscious chocolate chips, & that presweetened cocoa mix, but not the "plain" cocoa powder.

Fresh tomatillos are a bigger problem; I used to rely on that brand that supplies the fresh salsa mix (El Mexicano, I think) & suddenly the stores that stocked it stopped carrying it. I had read at the same time that due to expenses, a lot of people growing ingredients for Mexican food had stopped growing "the less popular" items. I wouldn't have thought tomatillos would be one of them, but apparently they are.

I have since run in to articles, one pasted in the window of a local Mexican restaurant, about this. The restaurants all seem to have their own private sources of tomatillos, though. A local farm was mentioned in one article, so I've been on the lookout for them at farmers' markets, but haven't seen them there. Every so often, a supermarket I don't like for other reasons (MarketBasket) will have them, so I have to stop in there every so often & check.

I was very surprised to see them stocked, with no fanfare, at a supermarket in my home town. I was going to take a bunch back on the plane, but the logistics didn't work out (meaning we didn't get to the store ahead of plane time). I wonder whether the airport security people consider them "solid food", now allowed in carry-on, or "too gooey", based on the seeds inside. They are not related to tomatoes despite the name, & are not gooey, but I guess I'd have to demo that for the TSA.

You don't have a Stew Leonard's up there do you? They might only be in CT?

They have the fresh tomatillos. Not sure about the cocoa, I can check stop and shop. Have you tried Big Y? I think Kay is right though, Whole Foods will probably have both.