Pizza! Pizza!

Enough about our sleep depravity, what you really want to know is: What's the food like? Right? As the title suggests the cuisine here is simple: Ukrainian or pizza. So far we've liked both, but we definitely ate pizza more in the first four days than we have in the past six months. It's been a constant adventure going to the supermarket to find food. The first milk we bought was buttermilk, the second went bad the day after it was opened (apparently not pasteurized), and now we use boxed milk that tastes alright on cereal, but not plain. We found "Danone" (Dannon) brand mini drinkable yogurts that are probably loaded with corn syrup (sorry dad, you taught me better) but they're hopefully giving us the good enzymes we need. Some Canadians from northern BC are looking for yogurt culture so that we can make our own. As for the produce, it's plentiful for now and we buy it from the market because they do radiation checks on everything that they sell (I'm not joking!) Spaghetti sauce is similar to ketchup, but luckily someone gave us the heads up and we found a decent brand. We just bought some spices and garlic yesterday which helped a lot (I'm not sure if our co-workers will agree). Back to the dairy products, cheese is still a far cry from anything that we're accustomed to and we're a little nervous about what's pasteurized and what's not (for the pregnancy) but our friends the Skousens (also from Caldwell) discovered a great tasting cheese that we tried yesterday and are looking forward to purchasing the next time we go shopping. And as you'll see from the corny picture--I've finally tried cabbage rolls and love them, I think that we can find them frozen in the bulk section...