Van life WITHOUT fridge/ Grocery shopping, pantry tour and how to keep food fresh

All right good morning everyone. So I'm making just a cup of tea. I am right in front of the place where I'm gonna have my window fixed. I have a chip on my window if you didn't saw the previous video. That happened yesterday. Yes yes yesterday morning that happened. I was driving on the highway and someone passed me on... it was not supposed to pass me that's the frustrating part. It was just a place where people can turn. It was a lot of gravel and he just passed me there and of course you know the rock fly into the windows and now I have a little chip. So the best part in BC because I do have insurance on my like the car insurance covered that so should be free this morning. So yeah so that's what I'm gonna do this morning. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with the cat if she's gonna stay inside the van. If we're gonna stay at like a waiting room. I didn't ask them. I figured out when I'm gonna go talk to them. But yeah so I'm making just a cup of tea to wake up and it was so sunny that I had to put my curtain so you guys can see me. So it should be a beautiful day. I'm not sure what we're gonna do. I have so many places that I want to visit here around. I'm kind of like oh maybe I'm gonna go there maybe go there. So I think today it's gonna be um kind of like grocery and like prepping everything and tomorrow or tonight we're gonna leave the town and be a little bit more in the back country and exploring this area which is beautiful and supposed to be like so beautiful all week. So I'm super excited. So yeah making a cup of tea first. All right we are ready to go. I'm gonna show you. I'm just gonna move first and show you our trip. I don't see anything. That's cool. All right so I'm just parked in front of a Starbucks because I do have to upload a video for you guys and I was to film to show you like the work they did but we don't even see like I just know like where they put like probably like a suction cup or whatever like I can tell it's got a round circle where you know they repair it but I don't see anything so it's awesome. It cost me zero dollars because yeah again of the insurance that I have so that's awesome and she said that it's not supposed to obviously crack and all that and if that happened that I'm still covered and all that so just to come back. So I'm gonna upload a video for you. All right the video is finally done editing so we're gonna go have a good grocery and so we are ready to hit the road after that. So first thing I'm gonna go I'm gonna go at the bulk barn place. So it's been like such a long time I didn't go to that store. In British Connaught Bay we do have a lot of like grocery stores that have like a bulk section so I usually go there but yeah I think I'm gonna go there and I do have a reusable bag that my mom made. I don't know if they're gonna gonna gonna take it. I hope so. So we do have a couple things to buy. So this is usually my bulk section and I need to buy a couple. I don't know if they do have Fuji berry but I do need some. Probably more chia seed for my breakfast. What else I can show you. I have like my hemp seed. I really love it. Nutrition yeast. I don't think I'm gonna buy any. I don't use that. I'm gonna buy some little peanuts. I like to put that sometime in a salad or saute some vegetable. You put just a sauce and you put some peanuts. Buckwheat. We'll see if they have some. A mix of nuts and seeds. I'm good with this and I have some lentils split lentils which I'm good too and I do have some coconut flake en suite that I'm gonna try to buy too as well. So yeah this is what I'm gonna get to the bulk section and after that I think I'm gonna go at the old Walmart right across the street right there and get the rest of the grocery. All right so I got what I need. Unfortunately a lot of bags but don't worry I'm gonna reuse them. So I prefer reusing those plastic bags than having like bags that you know I cannot reuse. So yeah so I'm gonna put all this together and make a little less for what I need at Walmart on fruit and vegetable and we're gonna go there. And they even add the goji berry. A lot of people were asking me about them. I put them in my breakfast so I usually get them at the bulk section of my grocery store or here they had it. They are a little bit expensive but I do like them. And I also purchased dry sesame seed because I like to put them you know when you put like a saute and you just sprinkle them that's cute. So it's mainly because it's cute. I mean it's got I think a good calcium but yeah it's it's mainly because it's cute. All right this is all full to goodness. So this is done and we're gonna go to our regular grocery now. And don't worry about all those bags. I'm gonna keep them as garbage bag or reuse them in any way but yeah I don't throw those things away. Okay so I got everything. I purchased the spinach. I usually buy organic spinach but I didn't have any. So I buy some noodle to make pad thai. I already made one in my video. And today we're gonna have some quesadilla. So I buy some cheese and red bell pepper. And I already have a bunch of mushroom and things like this. So I'm gonna put everything together. And we're gonna go I think we're gonna park at the beach and just gonna make lunch. I'm hungry right now and I'm gonna show you everything that I got. So when I purchase some vegetable inside the van I do eat a lot. So I mean not a lot but compared to a lot of people yes. So I always try to get some vegetable that's super easy to keep like potatoes, onion, cabbage are quite good too. If I go to like red bell pepper or mushroom I know that I'm gonna eat. I do like them and I can put them in a lot of recipes. So this is why like I purchase them or purchase vegetable that I can eat raw or cook which awesome like it's easier to uh to eat. And um yeah I don't do grocery like especially sorry especially in the summer. I do grocery like a little bit more often um because I want fresh vegetable and and I only have a cooler which most of the time don't have ice. I do purchase ice when I know I want to keep something fresh and oh it's going to be really hot or things like this. But um I'm thinking about getting a cooler uh actual fridge I should say because I do have electrical and I do have a lot a lot of power. I have way too much power for what I need. So I think I'm I'm looking at it right now but um so that may be something that I'm gonna add. But yeah I get like a lot of like vegetable that easy to to keep um and that it's like you can enjoy like cook or raw or usually my trick to like eat a lot of vegetable and not losing them um and yeah in the grocery a little bit more often too. Unfortunately it's a trick to get some good vegetable. So I also like to get some cans. I do I don't eat that much canned food but I mean it's great to have like maybe like a can of soup or things like this uh that you can just you know take and you don't have to worry about it. Um I also get some I showed before but uh dry I don't know if you can see dry vegetable stock instead of like the liquid like anything that you can keep longer inside a van it's just that the go-to. So I'm gonna put the rest of the vegetable. I have some mushroom, red bell pepper and orange bell pepper. It's not because I wanted to have both colors just like when like one was done so I grabbed another one. And inside the van I find like you eat a lot of the same vegetable because you need to consume them before they get bad. So you need to kind of like find a recipe that you can like enjoy the same vegetable in a different way. Like even if you have like a proper fridge I'm I'm assuming will be the same thing because you don't have like a huge fridge like you know like at home you have like a small one so you are limited to the amount of vegetable that you can keep in the van. All right I'm gonna let that cook I'm gonna put at the end some spinach and we're gonna fold that and put some cheese and that'll be the vegetable quesadillas. So this is the cheese that I'm gonna have. I show this cheese quite often but very good. I put stuff everywhere. There you go one's done I'm gonna make another one. There you go guys looking good. All right let's try this. Always good. I put a little bit of chili flakes inside because I like the little kick of heat. Very good. So I'm gonna eat that and I think me and the cats gonna chill in the shade under a tree. I think that's the perfect type of day for this. Tomorrow I think we're gonna hit the road. I'm not quite sure where I'm going. I want to explore so many places in fact. When I went all the way here I saw some goat sheep, mountain sheep whatever and I really want to go back and try to take pictures but I couldn't stop. It was like on the road and the highway and like at the big truck behind me and all that so I couldn't stop and I saw that kind of last minute. So I want to go back in that area and see if I can just walk and try to get some picture of them. So I think that's where we're gonna go tomorrow but yeah we'll see but right now I'm gonna enjoy this and like I said enjoy a little bit of time with my cat outside. 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