Sticks and Stars

I just returned from a trip to the farmer’s market one neighborhood over and I must say that a) it’s a good thing I neglected to bring any cash, and b) it’s a good thing I also neglected to bring anything within which to transport as there were all too many vendors willing to accept plastic. As it was, I managed to drop almost $20 on a mixed half flat of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries, as well as two pounds of Rainier cherries. The $20 was courtesy of WIC, which, if you’re quick enough to get there before they’re gone, provides, in the form of checks to the farmer’s market, a once a year opportunity to add actual produce to the otherwise recommended diet of all dairy all the time. Our WIC office gives $20 per child, so I have $40 with which to treat myself (literally) to the fruits of summer. Oh…and I guess my boys can have some too.

Of course, the WIC checks only cover produce (and herbs I think), which is why it was good that I didn’t bring cash because, my god, the artisanal cheeses! The smoked salmon! The fresh handmade pastas! The honeys! And don’t even get me started on the baked goods. As it was, I only limited myself to the berries and cherries because that was all I could balance atop my little one’s umbrella stroller. I could have happily added baby potatoes and mesclun and sweet onions and…well, you get the point.

I was not tempted by the beets, however. Does anyone actually eat those things?

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