Off into the hills...
We're packing up this morning and heading off to Nakiska...
We've hired a bus/van that'll take us there that we will be catching with two girls we met on the way into Calgary (also aussies) and another girl who the resort put us in touch with...
I'm not feeling so great cos I think it's all starting to dawn on me...we went shopping last night and it was horrendous...not only could you only get things in huge sizes but we were looking at things going, that's an hours work, that's 2 hours work...it's pretty shit...and not only that, there health food section is about 1/20 of the size of the safeway/coles in australia...I think yr all gonna have to send me over my necessities...oh and you can forget about buying organic...the tins of kidney beans in aus, $1.25 here? Equates to AU$3.15...yep, almost 1/2hrs work for one tin of beans...
The other thing we noticed is that for the amount you pay in the supermarket for ingredients for a healthy dinner, you could much more easily go and buy a 'meal' at one of the many fast food outlets. 99c burgers, 25c wing dings...all meat of course...but there is so much less of an incentive to cook at home and eat healthily...and don't talk to me about Alberta beef!
I'm dying to find a health food shop now...not that I could afford anything in there...We're trying not to dip into our savings for everyday living stuff...if we find that we have to on a regular basis, I think we're going to ship out and head to Vancouver...I like Vancouver...it was a lot like Melbourne in the way it felt...get a 'real' job there for a while and head up to Whistler every weekend.
But, big breath in, I'm gonna try giving this a go for at least a month or so...
We've hired a bus/van that'll take us there that we will be catching with two girls we met on the way into Calgary (also aussies) and another girl who the resort put us in touch with...
I'm not feeling so great cos I think it's all starting to dawn on me...we went shopping last night and it was horrendous...not only could you only get things in huge sizes but we were looking at things going, that's an hours work, that's 2 hours work...it's pretty shit...and not only that, there health food section is about 1/20 of the size of the safeway/coles in australia...I think yr all gonna have to send me over my necessities...oh and you can forget about buying organic...the tins of kidney beans in aus, $1.25 here? Equates to AU$3.15...yep, almost 1/2hrs work for one tin of beans...
The other thing we noticed is that for the amount you pay in the supermarket for ingredients for a healthy dinner, you could much more easily go and buy a 'meal' at one of the many fast food outlets. 99c burgers, 25c wing dings...all meat of course...but there is so much less of an incentive to cook at home and eat healthily...and don't talk to me about Alberta beef!
I'm dying to find a health food shop now...not that I could afford anything in there...We're trying not to dip into our savings for everyday living stuff...if we find that we have to on a regular basis, I think we're going to ship out and head to Vancouver...I like Vancouver...it was a lot like Melbourne in the way it felt...get a 'real' job there for a while and head up to Whistler every weekend.
But, big breath in, I'm gonna try giving this a go for at least a month or so...
posted by mazspazz at
9:00 AM
2 Comments:
hang in there guys...maybe i could put a block of tofu in the mail for you...its not like its proper food so it wont go off or anything (just kidding...)
Surely chicken doesn't count as meat, does it?
Kirst was a meat eater when she was there last, so, sorry we don't have any tips.
Snow is edible, isn't it? You can live on snow for 10-20 minutes.
KC
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