One of the few choices in the frozen foods section in Amsterdam

My fiance and I are on a two-week holiday in Amsterdam. We are house-sitting for my fiance’s sister, so we feel less like tourists and more like short-term residents. This is my first time in the Netherlands so I’ve been amazed at the city’s seriously inspiring biking habit and the ubiquity of kebab houses (which are amazing!).

Since we have a full kitchen, my fiance decided he had to get his hands dirty so we ventured out to the grocery store for some goodies. We entered the store next to the massive produce section, grabbed a few vegetables and some bananas and moved onto the deli section. The deli was chock full of fresh meats and aged cheeses–the Dutch really seem to love their cheese! We found bread next to the deli, not bagged bread that had been mass-produced and shipped to the store, but freshly baked bread that was bagged by the bakers in-house. We wanted some yogurt and decided on a raspberry drinkable kind. Even though the ingredients labels were in Dutch, the list was so much shorter than our American yogurt–there were just three or four ingredients! Continue reading →