Thread: How do you get the most bang for your fruit & vege buck?
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Old 17-02-2007, 02:55 AM posted to misc.consumers.frugal-living,rec.food.cooking,rec.gardens.edible
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Default How do you get the most bang for your fruit & vege buck?
Gregory Morrow wrote:

...decent big red bell peppers for $1.49/lb...the local stupormarkets
have squashed PITIFUL specimens of these for around three bux per
pound. Where do Tai Nam and these other Asian grocers get theirs, I
wonder...is it a Big SeKKKret or something...???

Same place the supers go (Los Angeles Central Market, here), but the small
markets can buy the smaller quantities of stuff that the growers would
rather sell cheap than take back home or throw away at the end of the day.

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