Yesterday Jackie (Insp Lady) and I went to the local fruit and vegetable market and filled the boot of our taxi with fresh goodies. Taxi driver Victor picked us up at the marina, took us to the market and then drove us around the market collecting our goodies. The market is aimed at restaurants and hotels buying in bulk and we were buying in bulk today. My shopping list included 15lbs of top quality onions, 10 lbs of the best potatoes, pineapples, melons, tomatoes, a complete stem of bananas and a sack of oranges. I'd read a book on provisioning for long trips which showed the estimated life of produce and calculated how many of each we would eat within the time frame. Perhaps too mathematical and too planned, but better than too little or too much and throwing out rotten carrots.
What I found was all locally grown and a fraction of the supermarket price. It was also better quality having been less handled and unrefrigerated. For example the bunch of 70 bananas was £2, 50 oranges £1.50, sweet grapefruit under 10p.
When we'd finished Victor delivered us back to the dinghy dock and David collected us. We just got everything in. back on baord i spent another hour wrapping each orange, melon, pinepapple, tomato in newspaper and storing in baskets in the forward cabin. Boy there was a lot of vitamin C and fibre to munch our way through.
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