Local markets every day. I am fortunate enough to have been to several markets in Morocco and would shop there before any supermarket. Getting everything I want takes more time, and sometimes meant visiting more than one market. Worth it
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I'm not particularly enthusiastic about grocery shopping. I go to LIDL because it's the cheapest.
My twin works at a grocery store, so we shop there because employee discount.
We sometimes go to farmers markets though for fresh produce or produce the grocery doesn't sell. Like winesap apples for canning apple butter.
I'm now imagining you going to the grocery store, pretending to be your twin, to get the employee discount. ๐
I buy stuff from all sorts of places. I'm pretty serious about food and cooking, and I run through a pretty wide variety of cultures and regional variation in making my food. So for me, this is how I buy:
Fresh produce in season: street markets
Fresh produce out of season (greenhouse grown or shipped in from another latitude): Whole Foods
Mainstream American prepackaged foods: nearest big box corporate supermarket.
Day to day meat, dairy, and seafood (chicken, beef, pork, shrimp): Whole Foods
Specialty meat (aged stuff, unusual cuts): local specialty butcher, ethnic grocery stores
Specialty seafood (live seafood, less common items): specialty seafood shop
Fancy cheeses: cheese store in my neighborhood, occasionally Whole Foods
Various ethnic specialities (Kim chi, tortillas, paneer, certain types of Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese vegetables, Mexican/Indian spices) that are perishable: ethnic grocery stores
Unusual or imported prepackaged or shelf stable foods/spices: ethnic grocery stores, Amazon, other online stores depending on the item.
Local supermarkets, local brands. I would like to buy more directly from the source, though.
Don't have any local markets. In the south you can pick up some groceries straight from the farmer but I live too far north for farming.
What all Produce and other wares are in that image?
Would love to know, too. To my European eyes, it looks like onions, potatoes, apples and tomatoes, but surely they have some different produce there. Whatever is in the bottom-left does look unfamiliar, at least...
You have nailed almost everything ๐ . To the bottom right are a few sweet potatoes. The bottom middle has unripe tomatoes. These are at times sold to ripen later on. Locals do prefer buying most commodities ripe.
Anywhere that offers the most mass-produced, packaged, and making me feel far removed from the source, and me feeling anonymous walking through the store, where I can compare shelf tag prices with ounces, I feel most comfortable.
It's a chore to get over with. Enthusiasm isn't a factor. I go to the closest one, which, gladly, I can walk to.
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