I finally went to the new location. It is at least twice as big as it needs to be. They have a tough time filling out the space. So for example the yoghurt section is a comprehensive museum of yoghurt. There is so much choice that I couldn't find a standard product, maslanka (a buttermilk yoghurt which I use in preferance to sour cream), and had to ask for help.
Their cooking and prepared foods are a tough go for me even though I am Polish, and not for political reasons. The window of opportunity in this Russian style is not all that big although of course there is better and worse. I stopped buying from Yummy because it got to be too much. Too much cooked, too much oil, too much mayo, too, too, much salt. And of course the item begins sort of clumsy and unimaginitive. Particularly disappointing are the house made soups, which I am would like a lot but for the salt. Also as the years have gone by, they have made them with less good things in them and raised the prices significantly.
Look out for too much salt in anything that you buy there that is prepared. Except when the risk is too much sweet, as with the various white cheeses except feta which has salt. One feta I like, it is tart. Ask for samples.
The lower Dufferin St. store is large but much smaller and has a more pleasurable feel to it, for me anyway.
What I get there:
maslanka- MC or Western brands, reminiscent of old style sour cream but 3.2%. Western is 2.9% .Years ago I tried Elite brand and didn't like it. Maybe I'll try it again.
Frozen smoked salmon scraps. But buy only one bag the first time to try it.
hard cheese.
I gave up on the no pork they claim sausages for weight loss reasons but I liked them.
no pork liverwurst, ibid.
sunflower seed halvah, which I like so much that I buy it but give it away. Cheap, too.
poppy seed bun- looks like what used to be called a buffalo
apples selectively, not Pommela Lee types
teas
buckwheat honey
frozen morello cherry juice, the fluid from big cans of cherries
They have an excellent range of frozen berries and sometimes a range of dried mushrooms, at a good price
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