If you have a local butcher you may have a better selection but you can often find a surprising variety of
meats in your local grocery store even if some of them are frozen.
I'm happy to say I mostly succeeded but the onion definetly burnt during this process and I couldn't find the pepper stuff
in my local grocery store so I improvised and used chili poweder.
The
stuff in your local grocery store might be dirt cheap, but it also comes with its fare share of contaminants — byproducts of modern, non-organic farming that uses pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers etc..
I love that when we went to Big Island on vacation, I found Morton & Bassett spices
in a local grocery store as a familiar and safe option.