Happy Sunday Everyone
By Thelma
@thelme55 (77081)
Germany
August 28, 2016 10:21am CST
It is my Sunday morning routine to go to my "farm". This so called farm of mine is the Sunday open air market in my home town. It was a joke of my brother telling my niece why I have a lot of fruits in the dining room. He said, "it's from her farm that's why she has a lot of fruits."
This time I only bought 1 kilo of Rambutan which costs only 30 pesos a kilo and 6 pieces of green ripe bananas for 10 Pesos. I wanted to bake banana cake but I changed my mind and instead made smoothies out of them. I have read that rambutan has loads of vitamin C and so I just ate them the way they were.
Besides the fruits that I have bought, I also bought different kinds of veggies and fresh fish from the market. Meat were still in the freezer for my father, my cousin and aunt. You see, I couldn't live without veggies. They are on my table every meal.
How about you? Do you go food shopping in an open air market? Well, this is also called farmers market in another country. What do you like to buy there?
Anyway, enjoy your last Sunday of August. Take care.
This time I only bought 1 kilo of Rambutan which costs only 30 pesos a kilo and 6 pieces of green ripe bananas for 10 Pesos. I wanted to bake banana cake but I changed my mind and instead made smoothies out of them. I have read that rambutan has loads of vitamin C and so I just ate them the way they were.
Besides the fruits that I have bought, I also bought different kinds of veggies and fresh fish from the market. Meat were still in the freezer for my father, my cousin and aunt. You see, I couldn't live without veggies. They are on my table every meal.
How about you? Do you go food shopping in an open air market? Well, this is also called farmers market in another country. What do you like to buy there?
Anyway, enjoy your last Sunday of August. Take care.22 people like this
23 responses
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
28 Aug 16
I know someone who managed to grow seedless rambutans. NO GMO happened, There is a method to make the trees unable to to produce seeds.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
28 Aug 16
When i was young, my younger brother and my boyhood friends would joke that we would get some fruits in our " hacienda ", actially it was a "duhat" tree of our neighbor that overlaps to our roof, so instead of the birds getting it first or rots our gutter, we harvest it
and there was a lot of ripe fruits
, so instead of the birds getting it first or rots our gutter, we harvest it and there was a lot of ripe fruits1 person likes this
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
29 Aug 16
@thelme55 too bad the hacienda is long gone when a new owner bought our back neighbor's house
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@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
30 Aug 16
@louievill were the new owner destroying the plants in the hacienda?
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@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
29 Aug 16
How handy to have fruits overlapping your roof from the neighbours. You are right. I would do the same as well @louievill
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
29 Aug 16
yes, we also have that on Fridays , Saturdays and Sundays on the mall we manage . on Fridays , after dismissal , I buy fruits because they are cheap. I always buy the Davao pomelo because it's just 17.50 pesos per kilo only . one will just be. 48 pesos. Yehey ! love that pomelo!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
29 Aug 16
i wish there 'twas such here. well, there kinda 's, jest open saturday morn from 8 to noon. i've not been'n some years. used to get watermelons 'n cantaloupe 's grew most the others myself. i'm a big fan 'f veggies myself :)
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
30 Aug 16
@thelme55 i dunno if'n they grow 'em there, hon? 'd be interestin' to find out though. the hubs picked some 'p the other day from a roadside stand. most tasty!
@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
29 Aug 16
I have not seen cantaloupe here in our town @crazyhorseladycx. I wonder if I can buy that here. It is so delicious and refreshing when cold.
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@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
30 Aug 16
Fruits are more cheaper in our place right now. Green ripe banana is only 6 pesos per kilo and rambutan is only 25 pesos here. Anyway, just enjoy your farm while you're in the Philippines.
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@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
30 Aug 16
Yes @macarrocel, I an enjoying it while I am in Pinas. I have to eat the fruits and vegetables which I could not eat in Germany.
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
28 Aug 16
It is flea market here, or "talipapa" in our native tongue. Yes, it is enjoyable to buy fruits and vegetables there. Rambutan is in season now and it is cheap.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
30 Aug 16
@thelme55 It is a Tagalog term, I am from CALABARZON. I wish I could go to Camiguin and pick the very sweet lanzones fruits; though I like tambutan than lanzones.
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@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
29 Aug 16
I have not heard that word Talipapa @acelawrites. What dialect is that? Soon is lanzones in season and there will be a Lanzones festival in Camiguin island.
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
29 Aug 16
I also enjoy going to markets over there buying fresh fruits and veggies..
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@jobelbojel (35646)
• Philippines
29 Aug 16
I like food shopping in an open air as well. And wow the banana is only 10 for 6 pcs.
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@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
30 Aug 16
Yes @jobelbojel those huge ripe but still green bananas I used for baking cakes if not eaten directly. I don't know the variety name of those bananas.
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
29 Aug 16
We have a farm stand close by and I go there. I love farmers markets but here they are one day a week and very crowded.
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@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
29 Aug 16
Here is also very crowded with lots of people from the farms who are selling their goods and the buyers. I tend to go early or late. That case, not crowded anymore @BellStarr
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@CinnamonGrl (7084)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
28 Aug 16
I do go with a friend to our local farmer's market sometimes. That's where I love to buy my fruit, and last time I also bought some corn. It's always so much nicer than what you find in the store, and for a decent price, too. That's funny you call the market "your farm." I should start that myself.
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@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
29 Aug 16
Yes, you can call it your farm, too. You only have to pay what you "harvest". You reminded dedicated me, I have not yet buy boiled corn yet from the farmers market. Thanks @CinnamonGrl
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@RasmaSandra (79932)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Aug 16
We have a very good Central market for fresh stuff @Thelme55 of course when we need to pick up something quickly we go to our closest supermarket but of course farm fresh is so much better. I too cannot live without veggies. Hope your having a great Sunday.
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@thelme55 (77081)
• Germany
29 Aug 16
I am having a great day @RasmaSandra. I hope you, too. I love strolling to the farmers market as I can see a lot of fruits and veggies which I have not eaten for ages. While I am here in my home town, I can eat the tropical fruits which I would never buy in Germany because they are so expensive for my taste.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
28 Aug 16
We do have a farmers market, all the lillte towns have them. I am lazy and don't make my own jams and jellies so I buy then there, have not been disappointed ever...The fruit and veggies and delightful too.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
30 Aug 16
oh no! i hope you still peeled the rambutan and not ate them 'as they were', right? just kidding po.
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
28 Aug 16
I have never seen this fruit.It is so beautiful
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