Culver City Farmer's Market - Score!

I didn't want to wait until Wednesday before getting enough food to last the gf and I the rest of the week. So I decided to check out the Culver City Farmer's Market, which on Main Street Tuesdays from 2-7pm. It's a small and narrow farmer's market, but it did have plenty of produce stands, something seriously lacking in the farmer's market we went to this past Sunday.

I think in the future the gf and I will make the Sunday Santa Monica farmer's market. I prefer going to the market with the gf, instead of by myself.

Switching to organic and eating on budget is a work in progress. And I went a little over budget this week.

Culver City farmer's market haul:
1. 6 Roma tomatoes, a stalk of celery, bundle of red radishes, a bag of brocoli and a 3-pack of strawberries - $11
2. 2lbs of potatoes - $4
3. basket of mushrooms - $3
4. bundle of carrots, cauliflower ball - $3
Total - $21

I also stopped at Trader Joes:
1. A can of Organic tomato sauce - $1.39
2. 2 Trader Joe's brand organic chocolate bars - $1.38
Total - $2.77

Went over budget for the week by about $14. But since we'll be going to the Santa Monica farmer's market on Sunday we probably won't have time to eat everything I picked up in Culver City. So I'm hoping since we'll have less to buy we'll spend less and offset my overture.

One thing I noticed that might help you save some money. Going towards the end of the farmer's market will have vendors offering you more food for less money. They don't want the left-over food to go in the trash, so if they can even a little money for it, they'll usually take it. They're much more amiable to negotiating the prices.