Comfort food

There's a pretty heavy post coming your way soon, but in the meantime, here's something fun.  

On lucky days in Nairobi, at the Nakumatt grocery store, we can find little tastes of home.  Lately, I've been thrilled with the selection of Old El Paso cans of green chilies and enchilada sauces, and jars of hot sauce and salsa.  We can also get jars of Ragu pasta sauce.  All of these things and more come from the states.  The prices also reflect the long journey.  

Here are some other tastes of home... but surprisingly, they're not from home!  The prices on these items also reflect the fact they are rather uncommon pantry items in this part of the world.  So, we splurged a little to enjoy a taste of home over our holiday break.  Here's what we found:

Pringles from Belgium

Soup mix from South Africa

Ritz crackers from Ireland or England

Pop Tarts, from England

Canned peaches from South Africa

Oreos from Saudi Arabia

The back of the box.  Yep.  We're not in Kansas anymore.

Tic Tacs from... where else?  Ecuador.  

So there you go... our globetrotting pantry that doesn't look too much different from the grocery stores we left 5 months ago!