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[nora_knickers]

Something interesting I have noticed since beginning to cook vegan and making my own...well, everything practically (not tofu or tempeh, yet)...and shopping at the not-prissy/yuppy farmers market is that my grocery bills have gone way down

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[en_ki]

Where's the non-yuppie farmer's market around here?

[nora_knickers]

If you're still in Mountain View...it's aways away. I'd go with a CSA box from these guys: High Ground Organics. I think there's one more round of veggies. They go (or went when I had a subscription) until early November, and they're very very reasonable.

I go to the Civic Center farmers market. Not at all fancy, and they go to 5 pm Sundays, but you want to get there early if you want anything worth taking home.

[en_ki]

We're working in Palo Alto and Mountain View and commuting from Santa Clara, probably about to move to one of {Palo Alto,Mountain View,San Mateo,San Jose}. Sadly, the city doesn't seem to be in the cards: apartments that don't make me want to gouge my eyes out seem to start in the $3000s there, which is out of our range. (Apparently Californians like to live in dark tiny holes with paper-thin walls? It's not what I would have expected.)

[nora_knickers]

Yeah, the City is expensive - getting more so since I moved there about 2 years ago. Even old, old, old (and tiny) places like mine are damned price-y (although it was more "reasonable" when I moved in), and the new places are for millionaires. Thanks, "tech boom."

It's one reason the Bay Area has gotten so spread out - people don't really like to live like that, so they move further and further away looking for something "affordable".