We have been buying bulk food lately. For some items, it seems insane to not buy bulk. By way of example, at Smart and Final, we bought 25 pounds of salt for five dollars; we have kosher salt, and gourmet salt (a friend gave me some of her homemade, Hawaiian salt), but simple, plain old salt serves the majority of purposes. The issue for us, is how to store the food. We are trying to get away from plastic storage- while I admit that this is a goal whose success will be limited for the foreseeable future, it cannot hurt.

I am no idiot, and I have been using the internet for a bloody long time. One might think that the internet would be a great ‘place’ to find glass food storage containers. I spent a half an hour. I was directed to sites, high on the list, under glass food storage, that had little to do with glass food storage. Perhaps because today is 9/11, I found plenty of items to stock my underground bunker.

I (finally) found a site called freundcontainer.com; the bastards let me crawl through their entire site, choose the containers I wanted, and ‘proceed to checkout’; at ‘pay’, I was informed that orders for less than $75 have a $15 processing fee. Our $20 case jumped to $35. I had not even added the shipping yet.

Do I actually miss the flea market? I know that I regularly hate the god forsaken internet.