I had come here a couple times almost exactly a year ago with a couple other ALTs in my town, but haven't come since then, and so everything now was a newfound SHOCK!
Maybe it's because when I first came here, it was no more than a month that I had been in Japan, so I wasn't used to the products they have here. Or maybe they really did change everything around in the past year and got new things (I could swear I don't ever remember seeing THAT here.... and look at the size of those ribs!! And how cheap is this peanut butter?!?!)
Yes... it was indeed like walking through a keto-lovers dream...
Because while of course it was filled with its aisles upon aisles of sugary and carb loaded treats like candies and cereals, they also had THIS....
And this....
And let's not forget this..
Oh, how my ketogenic little heart was just thumping for joy at the sight of all this beautiful MEAT!!
BUT...
Let us not forget the next important staple in any keto fanatic's life....
BIG ASS PACK OF SLICED CHEESE.
YES.
Hold up lemme just translate that for you:
108 slices.
BOOM.
Some other beautiful things I found there, not necessarily all keto related:
(There are 3 in this picture... ;)
PEANUT BUTTER AND NUTELLA AS BIG AS YOUR FACE!!
(And a handsome man behind them!) :D
GIANT (5 lbs or so) bags of frozen fruits and veggies!!
(How many smoothies could I make with that amount of blueberries????)
2 bottles of agave syrup, both the size of my face.
Big ass bag of QUINOA! (I didn't even know they had that in Japan!!)
And what the heck?? I never heard of these before... they're like tiny little kiwis!!! :D
Unfortunately, we didn't buy very much, as we had come by train, and coming here was honestly a spur of the moment thing.
We originally were headed for IKEA to buy some Swedish food, and remembered about the Costco and decided to just join and check it out while we were already in the area.
But this place was just WOW. I was so happy to find a place where I could get all the bacon I want for about half the price Ive been paying for it all along at the regular Japanese market.
We already decided that next time, we gotta come here by car, because there is no possible way to buy everything we wanted to buy today and carry it all home by train. (And I know they have delivery option, but lets face it, 1) its too much extra $$$, and 2) I WANNA EAT ALL MY BACON RIGHT AWAY, DAMMIT!!
Anyway, we did eventually end up in the place we had originally intended to go -
Shin-Misato IKEA:
Just YES. Swedish meatballs.... mmmmm...
and KANELBULLE!!
I would come all the way out here any time just for some delicious Swedish food...
After replenishing our bodies from our little Costco adventure with delicious meatballs, we headed over to the food section of Ikea to do our Swedish food shopping, only to find...
They had added a section with traditional Swedish candies!!
Now I didn't know most of these except for the Swedish fish lol and the sour strawberries (which I honestly had no idea were Swedish, as I've eaten them in America before), so we got a little bag with a few of some of our (his) favourite, and the ones he recommended to me (I don't know Swedish candies).
Nowhere near keto, or any kind of diet at all, I know lol.
But I did help myself to a couple of them to taste..! ^_^;;
Anyway, we will definitely be making another trip out here shortly...
I need to get my Ikea table!! D: