In article >,
Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

> I went to the market today to do as much do-ahead grocery shopping as
> I could in preparation for Christmas Day dinner. I'll do a Friday
> swoop-and-grab for perishables on Friday on the way home from work and
> if Friday's expedition is as unsuccessful as today's, I'd better plan
> a route home that includes multiple markets.

Some of your items I wouldn't have expected to find at my local chain
grocery store. Most I would find at Trader Joe's and for me that's the
store that would have the largest number of items from your problem list.

They wouldn't have had the wafer cookies though. For those, I'd have to
go to my local Safeway. They wouldn't be with the cookies though. At
my local store they are tucked on a shelf between the stockroom door and
the packaged deli meat (as in Oscar Mayer and company) section. It's a
shelf unit that is perpendicular to those deli refrigerator units. Hard
to spot unless you know what you are looking for. I find that stores
like to tuck those cookies in the oddest places. Did you ask?

marcella