Thursday 17 January 2008

Groenteman (Vegetable seller)

Every Monday and Thursday we get vegetables delivered to the door.


Augustine is the boss, and he comes with one or two bearers with fruit and veg. I leave a shopping list and Clarisse gets it and haggles about quality and price, and if I'm home I go and take a look in case he has anything interesting like red peppers or rhubarb.



On Fridays, he comes with flowers, eggs and special orders from Thursday, and its also possible to put in an order for Mondays.

Clarisse then takes all the fresh produce in, and washes it with bicarbonate of soda to kill off any nasties, spins the lettuce etc, and all gets put in the fridge in tupperware containers ready to use.

The only downside is that the veg comes in family size quantities, which means we don't need to buy that much - or we go to the supermarket to buy 6 chillies instead of a kilo!

1 comment:

The Toes said...

Clarisse is beautiful
Will help you eating that lovely fruit and veg:)