Mmmm ... summer. We seemed to bypass Spring in Vancouver, but Summer is here on the calendar at least!
Today was my first trip to the local Farmers Markets for the year - just on the corner of Comox and Thurlow in the West End. Last week Sean and I went to the Trout Lake markets - still the biggest that I know of, but reasonably busy, and very long queues to anybody selling berries! This time, I went early, and local. I love living downtown, I really do.
I managed to pick up:
2 lbs of organic cherries for $14
1 lb of sugar snap peas for $5
2 zucchini for $1.50
2 lbs of red and yellow peppers for $6
A small tray of Shitake mushrooms for $3
1 lb of organic cherry tomatoes for $4.90
An organic eggplant at $2.50 / lb
An organic bok choy for $2.23
A pound of organic baby spinach for $2.50
And a large container of kalamata olives for $6
Organic strawberries and organic raspberries, for $4 each box
I actually paid attention to the prices this time, as in the past I just spend whatever then come home and adjust my budget accordingly. Now, I am trying to be a bit more ... proactive ...
I had fun too using my change to make most of the purchases - loonies, toonies and quarters, and some small notes - it let me get rid of a lot of our change, and helped the sellers too.
Mental note: remember next time to take my own produce bags, as well as my big shopping bag to carry everything in.
Now - to deseed and freeze a lot of the cherries, for the fun of winter smoothies. Tonight, I think the shitakes and bok choy are going into the quinoa miso stew. I have already troughed a lot of the sugar snap peas - they are just SO GOOD.
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