A weeks worth of healthy fresh groceries for $20!!
I love the farmers markets on a Sunday! I live in the city and I'm able to literally get a whole week's worth of healthy fresh (and super yummy) groceries for only $20! I've got to be careful of my health, so I eat massive amounts of fruit and veggies, which can cost a pretty penny at the supermarket. I've had some horrendously big supermarket bills when I've been busy/tired and haven't done the farmers markets, so boy do I know how good the farmers markets are in comparison!
Today for $20, I got:
- 42 tomatoes ($4.50) - as you can tell I loooove tomatoes!
- 10 peaches ($1.50)
- 12 capsicums ($3)
- 9 courgettes ($4)
- 3 eggplants ($3)
- 5 onions ($1)
- 2 mangos ($2)
- 1 lettuce ($1)
This combined with some potatoes and pumpkin left over from last week (I always have leftovers from the week before's shop as I never get through eating them all) will make me a weeks worth of yummy meals in the crockpot like tomato soup, curry, rataullie, and vegetable stew. Then, I will chop up the remainder into healthy fresh snacks to go.
I'm close to vegan in my eating style because of health issues so, don't have to worry about dairy or meat. PS: this style of diet has helped me loose 35 kilo in the last 2 years :)
Now to be fully transparent, I do supplement this with bulk lentils, rice, beans, nuts, spices and the occasional $1.50 loaf of bread from Moore wilsons (NZ's equivalent to costco), so it's probably closer to $25 for the weeks food than $20 but still, I reckon that's pretty good for me! Especially when my November food bill was up to a guilty $170 per week last year.