cornmeal

It's polenta!
They have it in every supermarket i have ever been in... not just health food stores.  It's with the pasta, normally.

(god why am i bothering to post on a 5+ year old thread?!?!)

(god why am i bothering to post on a 5+ year old thread?!?!)

 

It's polenta!
They have it in every supermarket i have ever been in... not just health food stores.  It's with the pasta, normally.

(god why am i bothering to post on a 5+ year old thread?!?!)

Not prepared log-style polenta it ain't!  (Which is all they stock at my supermarket).  You need the dry meal, which isn't so easy to find, unless you live in a big town or city.  Us provincials have issues!   

Not prepared log-style polenta it ain't!  (Which is all they stock at my supermarket).  You need the dry meal, which isn't so easy to find, unless you live in a big town or city.  Us provincials have issues!   

They stock both where i shop... small town Scotland.   

Yeah, I reckon she gave up & moved back to the US for want of cornmeal.

She did actually move back to the states years ago.   They were here for work.

She did actually move back to the states years ago.   They were here for work.

I know.

FWIW, when I first moved here - I only found 'Gourmet Polenta' at Sainsburys, but now even my local Morrisons stocks it.

yes!  that's the stuff i see pretty much everywhere.

I think that a lot of people (foreigners?) just bypass it cos they dont realise that polenta and 'corn meal' are the same thing.  That's why forums like this are so useful!

I know.

FWIW, when I first moved here - I only found 'Gourmet Polenta' at Sainsburys, but now even my local Morrisons stocks it.

I was about to say the same - it's in my local Morrisons and labelled

Cornmeal (Polenta)

It's the coarse one as well.

It was with the ethnic ingredients, mainly Indian but also Jamaican foods

I see it in the Carribean Food section in Tesco.

Not prepared log-style polenta it ain't!  (Which is all they stock at my supermarket). 

All I've found in my local is the log-style stuff - but I have to admit I haven't really looked, as I brought a couple of bags of my favorite stuff with me when I moved and am still using that!

All I've found in my local is the log-style stuff - but I have to admit I haven't really looked, as I brought a couple of bags of my favorite stuff with me when I moved and am still using that!

I think Tesco's and Morrison's stock it, but Sainsbury's (at least mine) does not.  I just grab it when I see it.  Tesco's had the best deal, a giant bag in the ethnic section.  What stores have you got, Meg?

Sainsbury is where we find most of what we need - we have a Tesco and a Morrison's as well, but they're both pretty ghetto.

We've got polenta/cornmeal at our Tesco- in the Caribbean Food section like Mort said.  Good thing too, because it means I can make cornbread to my hearts content! (Not too fond of the actual "polenta" dish...tastes rubbery to me.)