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Check for a store that sells international supplies and you will find cumin, coriander and cardamon there. If you still can't find any, let me know and I will send some to you. I can find all of those in our local grocery stores since we have a large Indian population in the Atlanta area that those spices are pretty readily available. We actually love to make cardamom coffee so I am going to have to buy some more cardamom pods soon myself (we grind the cardamom pods and cloves in with the coffee beans and then let drip through - wonderful!)

I found frozen pastry shells today at the Commissary at Ft. Gillam - first time I have found them here. I haven't found frozen pastry dough anywhere either so I just use the frozen pie shells if I don't want to make my own.

Never used or heard of Cardamon before, but the other two Coriander and Cumin is in every grocery store I imagine. They are here and we don't have an Indian population. The Cumin is big in Mexican food though so that might be why it's readily avaliable...

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they do have a brand of ketchup chips here called Herr's.. I haven't tried them though

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blech.. tried these, wouldn't buy a bag again :(

We bought the Herrs and I thought they were ok - then again ketchup chips are very rarely my chip of choice :lol:

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I saw Pears soap not long ago in a CVS I think it was. On their Dollar shelf.

Ohh okay thanks. Maybe it is kind of a hit or miss thing. Sprailenes, my I used Pears as a kid too. I said something the other day at work about Pears soap, in reference to childhood smells you never forget, and no one knew what I meant. I still use it occassionally if my skin is being rebellious...

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they do have a brand of ketchup chips here called Herr's.. I haven't tried them though

Herrs-K.jpg

blech.. tried these, wouldn't buy a bag again :(

We bought the Herrs and I thought they were ok - then again ketchup chips are very rarely my chip of choice :lol:

Oh i'm definitely a ketchup chip snob :):star:

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Clover leaf tuna. I miss it soo much.

I hate hate hate all the brands of tuna I have found so far.

oh man.. that is the TRUTH! great addition!

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Yea.. I just bought two cans of chicken of the sea, and one was bad and the other one just doesn't taste the same as cloverleaf did. :(

I just want white tuna, I don't like albacore because its fishier but I am finding it impossible to find.

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Yeah, what is with the tuna here?! It's so strange. Also, isn't albacore the one that has the higher amounts of mercury? Why can't I find regular old tuna? And why, when I do find it does it taste so weird? Man...I guess I really miss tuna! :P

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I don't know but I have tried several different brands and none of them are like the ones back home.

I plan on buying 24 cans of cloverleaf tuna when I visit over Christmas. :D

Donne moi une poptart!

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I miss the Eatmore bars!

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I miss the Eatmore bars!

:bonk: are you serious? :lol:

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I don't know but I have tried several different brands and none of them are like the ones back home.

I plan on buying 24 cans of cloverleaf tuna when I visit over Christmas. :D

Yeah tuna here is weird. Plus, the cans are about half the size of a Canadian can of tuna. Chicken of the sea is just horrible!

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I don't know but I have tried several different brands and none of them are like the ones back home.

I plan on buying 24 cans of cloverleaf tuna when I visit over Christmas. :D

Yeah tuna here is weird. Plus, the cans are about half the size of a Canadian can of tuna. Chicken of the sea is just horrible!

Yea you should have seen what I found in a can of it today! It was RANK! More like ####### of the sea.

The colouring of the tuna was all off and it was kind of had a rainbow glaze on it, it was really weird! It stunk REAL bad too and it was best before January 2009. I opened the next can and it looked okay but again tasted odd and I couldn't get what the previous can looked like out of my head.

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Donne moi une poptart!

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Yea you should have seen what I found in a can of it today! It was RANK! More like ####### of the sea.

:rofl: oh man I'm going to wake up hubby I'm laughing so hard!

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