Taking advantage of seasonal food

Feb 21, 2009 by pearsonsprogress    1 Comment     Posted under: Blogroll, Grocery Challenge, recipes

Upon returning  home from Chicago, I found that there were several opportunities to buy fruit and vegetables at really good prices.

• a 5 kilo bag of carrots @,45 “euro cents” a kilo
• apples for ,69 cents a kilo
• plums for ,69 cents a kilo

I also brought back 2 ½ pounds of fresh jalapeños from Chicago. Our daughters, Jesseka and Jerusha have access to a wonderful ethnic market. They have great prices and foods from all over the world. I’ve not been able to find jalapeños in Spain. As I have mentioned before, Spaniards are not accustomed to eating hot or spicy food.

I’m so glad that our granddaughter, Abigail was here to join in on this fun activity. Here are some photos: (for a larger view, run your cursor over the photo and ‘click’).

We made:

• Applesauce
• Apple Maple Jam (really good stuff!)
• canned jalapeños
• pickled hot carrots & jalapeños
• plum jam
• canned carrots for soups and stews

We are adding good food, at excellent prices to our larder. I’m planning that after 1 full year of taking advantage of all the sales and seasonal food, I’ll have a little bit of everything, all the best prices, thereby stretching diminishing good dollars.