Best hummus & ethnic grocery stores

[shootingstar]

I'm always pleased to find several good ethnic grocery stores wherever I live because often the prices are just better for stuff used in the original country's cuisine and sometimes other stuff.

For instance, at a Mediterrean bakery, we bought a large tub of hummus (400 grams) that they made on-site that day. The good thing is this hummus is soft...and not too salty. Usually I've found other brands just too salty.

Also piled in 12 whole wheat pitas, 6 white small pita bread rounds, 8 little different pistachio and hazelnut pastries, flatbread with spices on top for snack. I had a light custard phyllo pastry with light syrup and orange flower water (I think) with pistachio. All of this and hummus was just $14.00.

Then we cycled over to a Chinese grocery supermarket where I loaded up on dried Chinese noodles, garlic soybean sauce, tub of tofu...etc.

And later ended up going to a different Mediterrean supermarket where a large hunk of fresh ginger root was only 84 cents. Then piled in a fresh large daikon, long Chinese eggplant, olive oil and box of 72 tea bags of South Asian chai masala tea.

The supermarket had stuff on sale to celebrate Ramadan.

I haven't used grocery coupons in decades. I haven't read any newspaper grocery specials in past 15 years. I just patronize several select ethnic grocery stores, farmers' markets and visit 1-2 local regular grocery chain stores. It works for me and I still save money.