It's about time

I know, it's been a bit more than a week since my last blog. Trisa has been keeping up weekly and more.

I got busy last week doing a landscaping project that was way bigger than I'd thought it would be.

These keys are sticky.

Let's begin with the tallies of the farmers market grocery shopping for the last two weeks.

Week 2 - our first week shopping at farmers' markets we went to Pike Place.

We bought, cheese and mac and cheese from Beechers. Bread from La Panierre. Milk from the sanitary market dairy section. Veggies and fruits from the corner produce stand. The total for our groceries came to $46. The biggest expense was the processed food items - mac and cheese. But we can't walk away from Beechers without it. It is truly the universe's best mac and cheese.

Week 3 - we found ourselves on Mercer Island trying out a new market (new to us). The MI market prides itself on being a no-trinket, no gimmick, no resale market. There's JUST FOOD and beverages. We bought bread, cheese, fruit, smoked tuna and tuna jerky, two muffins, and a but load of apple ciders. We wanted to try out the cidery's wines and hard ciders so we spent $56 there.

The cheese monger has only 2 cheeses and 2 cheese spreads. I know for a fact I'd get tired of their cheese if we shopped exclusively at MI. The fish monger was great. She was knowledgable, friendly and wicked awesome at sales. Plus there were canned, fresh, smoked, kippered, and bagged varieties. We will be going back to the tuna girl. We bought some kippered tuna and tuna jerky.

All told we spent $108 on everything at the MI market. If you take out the $56 for all that cider and wine, then groceries for week 3 cost $52. I forgot, we also got some great pasta. There's a pasta maker there and he makes friggin awesome pasta.

So, for those of you that only read the bullet points:
Week 2 = $46
Week 3 = $52

There you have it. I'll blog again later.

Peace out,

Mike