I spent a grand total of $25 on (food) shopping this week. I wish stuff was this cheap in Australia. There's a few interesting differences between products here and back home:

1) Milk. Milk here is kind of fail. Tastes like powdered milk, mixed with water, put in a carton and chilled. I have a pretty strong inkling that this might be the exact case. I shall sample other brands of milk, but sources cause me to speculate that this is par for the course in Asian countries, so I shouldn't get my hopes up.
2) Bread. Bread here owns. It's better than the bread I'd get in Australia and is roughly the same price (12000 rupiah or something, around $1.50).
3) Candy. Candy rocks and is quite inexpensive as long as you go for the locally produced variety. I bought a few packets of a brand called "Tango" and it's really good. The easiest way I can think of to explain it is that it's like those soothers that have the liquid center, but not all minty and stuff. Tasty stuff.
4) Noodles. The mi goreng selection here is phenomenal. As soon as either a) I get my camera working or b) I give up on my camera and use my camera phone, I'm going to take a picture of the mi goreng aisle. Yes. The aisle. There's an entire aisle for mi goreng.
5) Water. Bottled water here is kind of a necessity if you don't own a water dispenser thing like this one, so it's pretty cheap, setting you back anywhere from 30c to $2.50 for a 1.5L bottle, depending on how pretty you want the bottle to be.

I seem to have broken out of my productivity slump and am now resuming work on Jishaku.