hot (boring) date
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jacquez45:
bomberqueen17:
Last time I was out of town, Dude got bored. See, when I’m not around, he doesn’t really cook. He tends to just eat take-out. But I’m not around kind of a lot. So eventually he decided he can’t live like that.
Instead of just pulling up his big boy pants and going to the grocery store, he started experimenting with the local grocery options. I know, I know, I– don’t know. Anyway.
He joined the local organic foods co-op, which is $80 for a lifetime membership, so, not a ton. Anyway.
He went once, and bought some weird stuff, and that was that.
But I’m going to be in town for a whole two weeks now, and we need groceries, so I said, ok, take me to this co-op. I know it’s just a grocery store but we can make it a date.
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ahaha I’ve been a member of my local co-op for years. It used to be just, like, bulk foods and vegetables and weird hippie stuff but they expanded I want to say like 10 years ago, and the bulk section that used to be half the store stayed the same size, the produce section more than doubled, they do local prepared foods and have a coffee & smoothie bar and a hot bar and a pretty good cheese counter. They have so much good stuff, the only problem really is that the meat selection is pretty terrible, which when your house contains two meat-snarfing maniacs is a serious issue.
last summer i went there and they were selling peaches for canning — that is, peaches kind of overripe that you needed to cook up asap — i got so many peaches i couldn’t process them all and ended up composting a bunch — my fault but in my defense I only paid $10 for more peaches than I could deal with in my canning rig in a day, which is a LOT of peaches let me tell you.
You know, I didn’t even really check out their meat section, because I work on a meat farm. And I was thinking about that, about how part of how my sister’s grocery store situation works well for her largely because she is a farmer and grows all her own vegetables and most of her own meat! I don’t get paid for the work I do but I get as much chicken, pork, and traded-for beef as I can carry. (One of the other farmers at the market raises both pigs and cattle but doesn’t breed pigs, so they trade her piglets for personal-use beef. Every meat farmer ends up with unsellable, for-personal-use-only meat because of how NYS law works, and the farm’s freezers are full of the stuff.)
I bought vegetables but wasn’t delighted with the selection.
The humorous irony is that on the same day as Dude was buying the membership to the co-op, Farmsister was having a whole conversation with me about how great Wegmans is, and in the areas where it exists it has done so much to work with local farms and locally source everything it can etc. (It’s not in the market area where the farm exists, so this is all secondhand info from other farmers she knows, and podcasts and such.) So… we still have to go to Wegmans later this week, they have the kind of cat food our cat likes.
It’s just nice to have options.
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jacquez45:
bomberqueen17:
Last time I was out of town, Dude got bored. See, when I’m not around, he doesn’t really cook. He tends to just eat take-out. But I’m not around kind of a lot. So eventually he decided he can’t live like that.
Instead of just pulling up his big boy pants and going to the grocery store, he started experimenting with the local grocery options. I know, I know, I– don’t know. Anyway.
He joined the local organic foods co-op, which is $80 for a lifetime membership, so, not a ton. Anyway.
He went once, and bought some weird stuff, and that was that.
But I’m going to be in town for a whole two weeks now, and we need groceries, so I said, ok, take me to this co-op. I know it’s just a grocery store but we can make it a date.
Keep reading
ahaha I’ve been a member of my local co-op for years. It used to be just, like, bulk foods and vegetables and weird hippie stuff but they expanded I want to say like 10 years ago, and the bulk section that used to be half the store stayed the same size, the produce section more than doubled, they do local prepared foods and have a coffee & smoothie bar and a hot bar and a pretty good cheese counter. They have so much good stuff, the only problem really is that the meat selection is pretty terrible, which when your house contains two meat-snarfing maniacs is a serious issue.
last summer i went there and they were selling peaches for canning — that is, peaches kind of overripe that you needed to cook up asap — i got so many peaches i couldn’t process them all and ended up composting a bunch — my fault but in my defense I only paid $10 for more peaches than I could deal with in my canning rig in a day, which is a LOT of peaches let me tell you.
You know, I didn’t even really check out their meat section, because I work on a meat farm. And I was thinking about that, about how part of how my sister’s grocery store situation works well for her largely because she is a farmer and grows all her own vegetables and most of her own meat! I don’t get paid for the work I do but I get as much chicken, pork, and traded-for beef as I can carry. (One of the other farmers at the market raises both pigs and cattle but doesn’t breed pigs, so they trade her piglets for personal-use beef. Every meat farmer ends up with unsellable, for-personal-use-only meat because of how NYS law works, and the farm’s freezers are full of the stuff.)
I bought vegetables but wasn’t delighted with the selection.
The humorous irony is that on the same day as Dude was buying the membership to the co-op, Farmsister was having a whole conversation with me about how great Wegmans is, and in the areas where it exists it has done so much to work with local farms and locally source everything it can etc. (It’s not in the market area where the farm exists, so this is all secondhand info from other farmers she knows, and podcasts and such.) So… we still have to go to Wegmans later this week, they have the kind of cat food our cat likes.
It’s just nice to have options.
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