food expiration dates and easy peasey

Ocean salt crystals taste better than chemicalized table salt. Once you go to real, chem-free salt, it would be hard to go back. Himalayan salt is expensive at Whole Foods and always when sold in jars but I buy it in bulk at the most amazing grocery store I have yet seen. It is in SF, is owned by a worker collective and it has the largest bulk food section I have ever seen. And everytime I go there, which is not often for it is a long trek, the bulk section is bigger. Bulk teas, bulk pastas, all spices in bulk, bulk kimchi and multiple flavors of kimchee, bulk dried fruits, blik endless flowuers (grown rice flour, quinoa flour, wheat flour, almond flower, coconut flour and on and on. Bulk candies, bulk nuts. And the packaged foods are so interesting. There are always totally new products that I never heard of until I saw them at Rainbow Foods in SF, the collective. I don't buy any packaged foods for they are priced SF high for all the rich techies, I guess. But the bulk foods have decent prices plus if you want dried persimmons, they seem to be the only game in the Bay Area for them.

My first pink Himalayan salt buy came after I had bought some salt crystals from the Irish sea. It was okay salt but pink Himalayan salt really does taste better. And it has some minerals in it that one doesn't get in many foods.

Taste real, unchemicalized salt (I think the chemicals make the salt avoid clumping and make the salt shake smothly) and you won't go back.

My first foray with Himalayan salt was a four ounce jar of pink crystals that cost $20 at Whole Paycheck. But it took me over two years to use it up. Then I decided, what the heck, I should use up my Irish sea salt crystals. But I bought a stash of bulk Hiamlayan salt at Rainbow, gosh, maybe two years ago.

I've been waiting to use that yummy Himalayan salt again and I did so tonight: thick slices of heirloom tomatoes, pink salt ground on the tomatoes, thin slices of fresh mozzarella.

My approach to food I eat at home, and I pretty much only eat at home, grows increasingly minimalist. And my favorite meal just now is tomatoes, salt, fresh mozzarella and, if I am feeling energized and I remember I have some fresh basil, I chop some basil finely and put some on my mozarella covered tomatoes. A cold easy lazy delicious and almost carb-free meal. Easy peasy.