It seems like years ago that "bulk shopping" was such a big part of our life with at least one weekly trip to Costco. Our refrigerator and pantry were always stocked for at least a week or month. However, that is a past time because we just don't have room in our refrigerator or pantry here in Germany for any "bulk". I also haven't noticed 'bulk shopping' to be a big trend here in Germany with the exception of liquids.
I guess I am adjusting to German living and don't even notice (at times) how much my life has changed in the past year. I was loading up my car to take all of our empties back to
der Getränkemarkt (beverage shop), because you pay a deposit on the bottle (pfand), which is refunded once you return all the empites, when it hit me that I am starting to live in Germany as a local. My first clue... It doesn't even cross my mind to throw an empty bottle in the trash can. The next clue...I can carry at least 4 empty cases to the car at once. I may just get all of this German living down pat in the next few years...if I can just figure out how to pronounce "
Getränkemarkt".
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| Returning the empties... |
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| Including one I better not bring home to J |
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| Every kind of fruit juice I've never heard of ... |
A very popular drink here in Germany is coke mixed with orange soda.
You can find many brands of this mix (our kids plus this = too much noise). One popular drink that IS allowed in our house is Apfel Schorle (carbonated mineral water with Apple juice)
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| Every type of bubbly and non bubbly water... |
And of course
just a little bit of German Beer (which does seem like a big trend here) and wine.
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just a little beer..
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| lots of German, Spanish, and Italian wines... |
It seems like years ago that "bulk shopping" was such a big part of our life with at least one weekly trip to Costco. Our refrigerator and pantry were always stocked for at least a week or month. However, that is a past time because we just don't have room in our refrigerator or pantry here in Germany for any "bulk". I also haven't noticed 'bulk shopping' to be a big trend here in Germany with the exception of liquids. 
A very popular drink here in Germany is coke mixed with orange soda. 
You can find many brands of this mix (our kids plus this = too much noise). One popular drink that IS allowed in our house is Apfel Schorle (carbonated mineral water with Apple juice) 
And of course just a little bit of German Beer (which does seem like a big trend here) and wine. 
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