Oh boy is the Farmer’s Market expensive in this neck of the woods. I suppose it was just as expensive at the old neighborhood’s market too, but this stung for my first trip to our local market.
$2.50 for baguette (Panera sells it for about $2.35)
$7.00 for ground pork meat and hot Italian sausage (about 1.5lb of meat)
$4.00 for purple potatoes
$3.00 for 6 ears of corn
$2.00 for leeks
I did get a free reusable bag from one of the grocers because I didn’t want the damp leeks to get the bread wet.
For dinner I made a corn soup with thawed out chicken broth and leeks. A shot of lemon juice to zest it up was excellent. I cut a few rounds of baguette. The other dish I made for dinner was a savory bread pudding with sausage. (I had to run out and get some milk though. $2)
Boyfriend liked both of the dishes so I’m really glad. They’re both keepers on my list. I’m getting much better at bread puddings now that I know the secret is the ratio of 2 eggs per 1 cup of milk. The convection oven he bought really makes a nice brown crust on it. It’s great.
As much as it’s nice to walk to the market on Sundays, there isn’t that much appeal buying produce there because it’s so expensive.
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Wow – I’m suprised the prices aren’t better. The farmers markets here are great – I’m lucky though because I have family who have a garden I regularly raid.
By the way the savory bread pudding sounds fabulous. Feel free to share the recipe!
The food you are buying is more expensive because, unlike the food at the grocery store, it has not been subsidized with your tax dollars, which are handed out in lovely pork-barrel subsidies to the same mega-agribusinesses that poison the air and soil and water with chemicals, expend billions of barrels of gasoline flying out- of-season strawberries in from the other side of the planet, and successfully suing small farmers whose crops become accidentally pollinated (via the wind) with their trademark-protected genetically modified hybrid strains.
i feel the same way. that’s why i grow my own
BREAD PUDDING sounds SO good. Hey, at least you got a free reusable bag out of it. And $4 for purple tomatoes? Gotta agree with anon, growing tomatoes at home for instance is always in season, easy – but not purple : (
Greener Markets – PO-tay-toes. We skipped the tomatoes.