Now this is the blog content you came here for, right? Riveting stuff - what’s in our refrigerator and pantry! We have just about a week left in this teeny tiny temporary accommodation, and I am definitely ready to move out and have some extra space.

We haven’t done much in the way of cooking since we’ve been here. It just isn’t easy to meal plan when you can only buy as much as you can carry at the grocery store. When we get moved we’ll be able to do grocery delivery, which will make things much easier. But until then, here’s a look inside our temporary fridge and pantry.

This is the kitchen, which is part of a kitchen/dining/living room combo that is smaller than our bedroom in Austin. The refrigerator/freezer is behind the 2 doors on the far left, and the pantry is the cabinet underneath the oven on the far right.

First of all, PLEASE do not report me to the Grocery Store Photo Police. Most, if not all, of these products come from the grocery store chain that shall not be named. It is the nearest grocery store to us right now, and it is pretty small. We can get what we need, but the selection is pretty limited. For example, there is literally only 1 peanut butter available. Again, you can look up all of these products on their website, so hopefully they know it’s. a waste of time to prosecute photo takers.

Interesting observations:

• Condiments like mayo, mustard, etc. come in squeezable tubes like toothpaste.

• “Bio” means organic, and there are a lot of organic options

• I know the German words for some foods, like Zucker = sugar, but that doesn’t help when they tack on other words that I don’t know. Rohrohzucker = raw sugar. I used it once in a cup of tea, and I probably won’t use i t again!

• UHT milk is ultra high temp processing, and it is shelf stable.

• There’s the one and only peanut butter available at our grocery store. It is crunchy, which is not my favorite, but luckily the peanuts are chopped fine so it’s better than I expected.

• I really hope that Oreos come in larger packages in the larger stores!

Things that we have made in our mini kitchen: scrambled eggs, toast, crispy bacon, grilled cheese, polenta and eggs (which is the Swiss version of Cass’s grits-n-eggs), rice, frozen chicken nuggets.

I’ll probably share more food as we expand our food horizons here. I want to try to make Rösti at some point, and we will have to figure out a way to make tacos here because there is a distinct lack of Tex-Mex. Luckily we’ve already found a place that makes decent brisket, but I bet Cass will want to try to make his own.