Today, whilst grocery shopping at the Sherwood Park (this is very important) Save-On-Foods, we were struck by the desire to pick up some in-store, ready-made, hot/fresh Chinese food. It is very important to remember that we were in the Sherwood Park Save-On-Foods because this is the ONLY Save-On-Foods left in the city (nay, the province) to offer this sublime convenience.
But we digress. We ordered the poorly named "Dinner for 2" for $19.99. We say poorly because after our family of 4 ate as heartily as humanly possible, there was still enough food for 2 or 3 hungry people. For our measly $20 we got 6, count 'em, 6 items (2 of which had to be starches): chow mein, fried rice, beef and broccoli, lemon chicken, sweet and sour pork, and szechuan beef - each individual container full to bursting.
Let's get real here, this is not the best Chinese food you will ever have. It's pretty good, don't get us wrong - when it comes to the meat and rice it's really fresh - but the cost to quantity ratio is really the main consideration here. That's what blew us away.
Summing it up: it was dirty, it was fast, it was cheap, and it was still hot when we got home. Perfect.
I guess I hardly ever go to SaveOn.I thought the Chinese food was still there. I had better go check.
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