I LOVE taking advantage of good deals at the local market. Last night, a friend updated her Facebook status to say that organic strawberries were on sale at the local market for 99 cents/pound. I hurriedly told Josh to throw on some shoes and head out but then realized is was three minutes to closing time, and our purchase would have to wait for the morning.
So, morning came. Jude woke up at 6:40am, and I rolled out of bed about an hour later. After assembling a train track and playing with the boy for a bit, I got dressed, and Jude and I headed to the market to see what we could find.
When we arrived, one of the stock boys was restocking the strawberries. We took our time and checked each package and finally settled on ten containers to purchase. Jude then picked out an orange for himself and a 76% dark chocolate bar for Papa.
I cut up one container of the strawberries for us to use today. The rest will be washed, cut, and frozen for use in our near daily consumption of green smoothies.* On a related note, I recently scored a bunch of organic bananas at the same market for 25 cents/pound. My freezer is overflowing.
Who wants a smoothie?
*Despite the shelving disaster of October 2nd that left me blender-less, and thanks to the generosity of our good friends Alan, Sara, and Baby Grace, we are able to continue feeding our smoothie addiction with the help of our brand new Oster blender. Thanks, guys!
