After quite a lengthy time wandering around the shop and examining any product that looked worthy of examination I finally came away with two purchases.
Yes, only two. Spelt pasta and cracked wheat.
The pasta, when I get around to using it, will be a new experience. There are no cooking instruction. It's my intention to use it when I find ingredients that might fit in with a tomato sauce that I often put over pasta in the summertime. I usually use tinned tomatoes, but it is difficult to find Australian tinned tomatoes and when I do they have additives which might come from who knows where. Eating by numbers again.
The cracked wheat will be used for tabbouli and I don't forsee any problems with ingredients as most of them will be fresh produce: tomatoes, mint, parsley and cucumber.
The woman behind the counter must have been pleased when I finally made my purchases and left the shop. She kept watching me like a hawk and maybe considered I was some poor old down and out who was about to stuff some goods under her jacket and run out the door.
Run out the door. A chance would be a fine thing.