{"id":1191,"date":"2014-11-12T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2016-09-07T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:25:33","slug":"caught-a-veggie-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/caught-a-veggie-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught A Veggie Guy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m homebound for the rest of the week because my internet installer is supposed to come by!!! My landlady said that if I miss him, I will likely never see him again!<\/p>\n

I’ve finally got lots of work, so being ‘stuck at home’ for a few days is fine. Dale is off to the big city and is supposed to come back with Oaxaca cheese, a cheese grater (for shredding veggies), and ear plugs for me, if she can find all that, and she’s available to get anything I need at the store.<\/p>\n

Since six this morning, I’ve been getting up at every chime and honk to see if I might catch one of the elusive veggie men. Moments ago, I did! I yelled, “\u00a1Verduras por favor!” and he heard me and stopped.<\/p>\n

This guy was younger than the last one and he had a lot more choice and better quality stuff, but I think that that is not a fair assessment in that I caught the other guy at the end of his day.<\/p>\n

I went a little nuts and got all this, resisting the urge to get a pineapple, too! All for 58 pesos! My word of the day is very important as it is my favourite veggie: ejotes (green beans)!<\/p>\n

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I believe that’s a (pauses to remember the English word because she’s been working in French all morning and she can apparently only handle two languages at once) grapefruit at the top. I didn’t check because I like surprises. \ud83d\ude42 There’s also a white onion, two avocados, a bunch of the best bananas I’ve seen in MX, two white potatoes, two carrots, two chayotes, four limes, two tomatoes, an apple, and two tangerines.<\/p>\n

The produce I get back home at the supermarket is so dismal that the veggies and fruits here are a real treat. It’s also hard to keep fresh fruits and veggies on hand because I don’t go to town that often during the summer.<\/p>\n

I’m eating an apple right now that is absolutely lovely, so I bought another of the same kind. The veggie man showed me that he had Red Delicious ones, too, but I don’t like them, finding them pasty. This apple is a bit pasty, but still has some crunch to it.<\/p>\n

If I can get a load like this every couple of days, I’ll be very healthy by the end of the winter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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