Local grocery sales with a little web help

Since I now have this goal of cooking at least one recipe from one of the cookbooks in my stash, I’m going to need to plan. This semester is going to kick my rear both in body and pocket. One of the wonderful things about keeping an eye on what’s in season is usually [...]

Yorktown’s “Market Days at the River”

Checked out Yorktown’s “Farmers’” Market today. The quotes are because most of the vendors I saw were baked goods or other such things. There were a few meat vendors. I saw at least one flower vendor. There was a big flat cart of produce crates but by the time I got there most were empty.

Currently cheap eats at the local supermarkets

I started a price sheet a few weeks ago and have been taking note of sales at the local markets. On the way home from work, I can hit many supermarkets: Food Lion, Farm Fresh, Kroger, Games Market, Walmart, Super Kmart. I don’t usually shop at Walmart or SuperKmart but am rethinking the Walmart thing. [...]

To market we go!

Checked out Williamsburg Farmers Market this weekend. It’s only open about one Saturday a month still and had quite a few vendors that sold flowers. There were also sellers of fish, goat cheese, bison meat, and honey. I went there to buy some local honey. I enjoyed the multitude of dogs that were out [...]