grocery shopping, January 6th
As I said last week, the best laid meal planning can be derailed by your farmer’s market, so it’s best to be a little flexible. This week, the beef farmer wasn’t out (we’re going to call next Friday to see if they’ll be out next Saturday, before we plan our meals) so we had to adjust a bit (adjustments are reflected in the meal planning post). This week was also a short list because we already had quite a bit of food in the house and planned some easy meals for my first week back in school.
From our farmer’s market visit this morning, we ended up with
- 2.5 dozen mixed medium and large free range eggs: $3
- 1 pound extra sage pork sausage: $3
- 0.98 pounds tomatoes: $1.70
- 3 pounds of potatoes: $2.10
- 1 pound Italian sausage: $6 (and worth every penny of it; it’s the best Italian sausage we’ve ever eaten)
- 2 blocks of marble cheese and 1 block vintage: $9.05
Total: $24.85
We’re headed out to Deep Roots tomorrow afternoon instead of today. We normally try to combine our trips to save gas, but we have plans this evening and didn’t want to take up the whole afternoon with errands.
Jasmine said,
January 6, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
It is interesting to see the prices at your farmers’ market — while I know that those in the DC area are very high priced because the market will bear the cost, it is interesting to have a point of comparison. Tomatoes were $2.99 this morning, eggs $3.50/dozen, I didn’t price sausage or potatoes but I am sure they are also significantly higher. I guess that is the price we pay for living in such an urban area (the two markets I have visited in the past two weeks require the vendors to be within 125 and 150 miles of the market location but that 90 mile drive likely tacks on to the prices).
Joyce said,
January 7, 2007 @ 9:05 am
Wow, that’s crazy. I post about how much things cost so that people can get an idea that local/organic isn’t that much more expensive and sometimes cheaper than regular groceries, but I tend to forget that grocery prices can be region specific; we’re fortunate to live in an area with a decent cost of living. How do the prices at your market compare to grocery stores in DC?