Farmer's Market

Have you been to your local Farmer's Market lately?  Now is a great time to go and visit.  With an amazing variety of fruits and vegetables in season, you can eat fresh, seasonal, and local.  My wife and I just visited the San Luis Obispo Thursday night market earlier this week. While there you can have dinner from one of the street food vendors, be entertained by one of the music acts going on, and get your grocery shopping done.  Wherever you are living their is sure to be a Farmer's Market near you.  What is great is that they are all different.  Varying in size and what they offer.  But it is a great way to eat seasonally, healthier, support local business, and maybe even try some new fruits or vegetables.

Neither of us had ever had duck eggs before, so we decided to give them a try.

The berries are great for snacking on, but we bought some to be used in a berry pie my wife is going to bake.

Our collection from the Thursday night market.  

By the time we got home we ended up with duck eggs, kale, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, cilantro, cauliflower, plums, fresh squeezed blood orange juice, asparagus, broccoli, beets, carrots, celery, cabbage, lettuce, and avocados.  We usually don't come home with this much but our refrigerator was pretty bare when we left for the market.  We will use these foods for snacks, sides in dinner entrees, to bake a pie, and will juice a lot of these vegetables as well.  

You might read this and look at these pictures and think that we must be health nuts.  But the truth is that I am hooked on soda's, eat to much fast food, and am about 30 pounds overweight.  My wife eats much healthier than I do, but together we probably eat to much processed food.  Going to the local Farmer's market is a great way to start changing some eating habits, and to get excited about healthy food again.  Whatever your reason is for going to the Market, we hope you enjoy.