My first vist to a halal grocery store.

I had no intentions on grocery shopping today. I got off work early and went to my favorite Koren restaurant. I have eaten at this restaurant a million times. It is also next to a jewelry and a shoe store that I frequent and across the street from Gamestop and the nail salon. It was surreal. I walked out of the restaurant and noticed that were several ladies in hijab going in and out of the building next to me. I am in this little area all the time and have never noticed that there was a halal grocery store right in the middle! I decide to go in and take a look. The store is spotless clean and my lungs and eyes had to adjust to the smell of spices. It was like spices was being pumped out of the air conditioner. I went to the meat counter and was greeted with "Salaam sister" and I almost started to cry........not at the welcoming greeting...but the fact that they sell 1lb of lamb meat for $7.99 and I've been paying $11 just for 3 little pieces from the restaurant. :exhausted

^ MashaAllah, that made me smile

It certainly makes life easier to have halaal restuarants and food stores in our vicinty. Alhamdulillah.

Hope you enjoy shopping there in shaa Allah : )

a halal grocery store in Birmingham?? That's good to know

Subhanallah what is the ruling on eating halal foods

Not only would it be cheaper, it will also be healthier if it was slaughtered the correct way.

But yes, even when I was in the US, I found this obscure halaal grocery when I have been going to some really bad ones prior. This one had such high quality meat and yet it remained so much cheaper than other places, so I was very impressed with that. And of course one can always pick up all their favorite spices from there too.