December 22-- Advent at ADAFT 2015!

Danish grocery stores close for various holidays, both major and minor (like Store Bededag and Second Easter day). This leads to what we call "food droughts", which requires careful planning, especially since our kitchen has enough storage space for about 2 cans of beans. So, for us, Danish holidays are always preceded by frantic list-making and hauling home a bunch of groceries from various stores.

Before we learned about some of the more obscure holidays (and in those days, stores were usually closed on Sunday), we'd often find ourselves cobbling together a day's food out of rice cakes, half a jar of peanut butter and some leftover broccoli. There was a Thai place by our first apartment that was usually open during food droughts, and they also saved our Pad Thai a few times.