Shop Smart at Asian Markets

Eat Healthy by Avoiding Supermarket Chains and Buying Local

American corporate supermarkets are a trap. One must fight through aisles of processed junk food to get to any essential and or healthy items.

If you need laundry detergent or a gallon of milk you’re gonna be forced to go to Kroger or Safeway. If you just need to pop in somewhere and grab items for dinner try going to one of your local Asian markets. Their customers always demand the best produce.

Vietnamese places in Seattle always have a great inexpensive selection of quality pig products if not every part of that animal imaginable. I do avoid buying seafood at these stores.

Spent $20 at Seattle’s Mekong Rainier ( a Thai place) recently and got enough food to make two meals for four people.

Broccoli, watercress, ramen noodles, ground pork, pork butt, dill, green onion, cilantro and white onion.

Didn’t end up cooking Asian dishes with this stuff. Used the ground pork for spicy taco meat and the pork butt for an Eastern European style stew with mushrooms, sour cream and dill.

—Alex