Alexa, lower the prices

I saw an article that Whole Foods is planning to lower prices starting Monday when the Amazon deal goes through. That's good for schoolpsychnerd and I, since we're the perfect demographic for the deal--a well-off, urban couple who shop primarily at Whole Foods and have an Amazon Prime account. They specifically mention slashed prices on salmon, and that's money that goes right back into our budget because every morning I have rice, miso soup, pickles, and salmon for breakfast.

We don't have any brand loyalty, though. We shop at Whole Foods because it's within walking distance and it replaced the Dominick's that used to be there. A few years ago, we did most of our shopping at True Nature, an independently-run organic food co-op, but when Whole Foods opened they packed up and moved a mile and a half north, too far away to make regular grocery runs to on foot. We did our meat shopping at the local butcher, Holtzkopf's, and just this week I learned that they were closing for business and not relocating. And the Asian grocery store a few blocks south that we used to get our rice and miso from went to weekends-only, and I think has since closed for good, forcing us to go down to walk about twice as far south down to Little Saigon to get them.

We're lucky that we still can shop within walking distance, but nearly everything around that originally led us to pick where we moved to has since closed.

schoolpsychnerd got a new crockpot for her birthday last month, replacing the old one that we got as a wedding gift ten years ago. The new one is easier to clean, less bulky, black (hey, #aesthetic), and makes wonderful food like this:

Curry chicken in coconut milk broth.

When I came home, it had been cooking for twelve hours. It was sublime. I could eat curry every meal for the rest of my life and I would die a happy man.

Tonight I get even more delicious food, since it's xoDrVenture's birthday and she elected to have her party at Fogo de Chão. I've never been, though I've heard stories of the delicious piles of meat and the servers coming around and loading one's plate to bursting, and I'm looking forward to a meal fit for Sovngarde. Giant mountains of meat with vegetables on the side would be my second-most-desired every meal right after curry.