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how to buy vegetables.
2014-09-04 @ 6:29 p.m.
this is totally random, but i guess it's pretty important if you're poor and/or interested in your nutrition. so like, we were invited to a thing this weekend, and it was a "bring whatever you want" invite, so i'm going with my two standards. these are vegetable dishes, and both of them require baby bella (aka cremini) mushrooms. (i actually did add a third dish while talking to my brother, but no shrooms required - he was very unhappy to hear that i was not making this pasta salad i do for BBQs, so due to his disappointment i guess now i'm making it!) anyway. where i live, you walk into an acme, shoprite, wegman's if you really want to waste money, and try to buy a pound of them and they're going to be like $7-8 per pound. for mushrooms! that's crazy, right? and for this party, i needed a combined total of 7-8 POUNDS of these mushrooms between the two dishes. so around where i live, there are also huge communities of not only migrant workers (garden state, yo), but also crazy amounts of small ethnic groups. this means for us that there is always delicious food around, and there is always awesome, cheaper produce. instead of going to the bullshit grocery store, we went around the corner to the wholesale produce market and bought 7 lbs of creminis for $13. the guy saw how much poundage we had loaded up in the cart, found out the pallet discount price for us, and hooked it up. all said and done, we spent $45 for everything we needed for both the party and our own home for a week! the moral of this story is: seek out small ethnic groceries, wholesale markets, co-ops, "discount" produce markets (where the stuff is often completely fine, just aesthetically inappropriate for big chain stores), and roadside stands for good fruit and veg whenever you can! one of the hardest things about eating healthier and organically and all of that stuff that everyone says everyone should be buying is that it's EXPENSIVE to shop that way! i can't garden here, so i take what i can get. and it's always so fun to see and try some of the different things at ethnic markets! do it sometime! in other news, little A is back in school, so my fantastic childfree vacation is now officially over. sigh. that is all i am going to say about that. |