Farmer's Market Frugality

Is that a word? Frugality? Anyway, nothing amazing here but I was proud of myself because I legitimately found a way to arrange errands so that I could get to the Farmer's Market (which is hardly ever on the way to anything for us). I not only found time to do all the driving but also to go to the bank like a grown up, do the shopping at the market, come home and clean and put away all the groceries, get to school JUST in time to take a mid-term which I'm pretty sure I aced, and ... well, I think that's it. But that's a lot! Really, it was. And the best part out of all of that? I filled a shopping cart at the market and it cost me all of $25.00 - true story. Want to see a picture?

I must have bought 7+ heads of lettuce! The eggplants were on "special" so they were BOGO which was awesome. And I decided to get one thing we've never tried before. After browsing for a bit I decided I'd really like to know what cactus pear tastes like so I bought two.  =)

When I got it all home I started washing and storing it all. If I don't do it the day I buy it I just don't do it period and then it goes to waste. We have a little black and tan dachshund that thinks he's a rabbit. He's always sharing their food and playing with them and he's young so he's about the same size as them. He will gladly and willingly eat lettuce. In fact, he gets upset if you try to take it away from him! I dropped a piece of chard while I was washing and he snuck off with it. Isn't he cute?

So that's about it for today. All the cool bloggers are doing this "Food Waste Friday" thing but I can't keep track of weekdays. I cleaned out the fridge today so I'll do my food waste Friday on a Wednesday. I'm happy to report that out of a well-stocked fridge, the only food waste we had was a few little key limes and 1/3 of the smallest bag of shredded cheese (which bf bought for tacos and couldn't finish). That's it.  =)  We're pretty good about keeping track of stuff and using it up. We're too tight on money NOT to keep track. -lol-