A good deal?

As I've mentioned before, groceries are quite expensive here.  We spend roughly 3-4 times as much on food here than we did back home.

But one surprising thing is that produce is a little bit on the cheaper side because almost all of it is grown locally.  If you can find a little produce shop in your neighborhood, it's even cheaper than buying it at a regular grocery store.  

Shortly after we arrived here we discovered a little hole-in-the-wall corner shop that we could find things that we didn't see anywhere else (like BBQ sauce, or refried beans, etc.).  Then after we had been here for around a year or so, a friend of Tom's told us that said hole-in-the-wall has a huge produce sale every Monday, where they put every kind of produce imaginable out front, and it's all half price!

Today I walked the kids down to this little shop and bought our produce for the week.  It never ceases to amaze me how much I can get for so little there.  I bought:

A bag of tomatoes

4 bell peppers, red and yellow

2 oranges

3 cucumbers

2 containers of strawberries

A bag of apples

2 yams

1 artichoke

1 large zucchini

4 carrots

5 onions

A bag of basil

9 avocados

I never could have taken a picture of the whole lot, but I wanted to show some of them in the picture above.  I love pretty produce.

Do you want to know how much it was?  I know my sisters are reading this, yelling in their heads, "Yes!", so I'll tell you.

Approximately $15.00.

I can barely get 2 gallons of milk for that price.