Do you go to the market to buy your vegetables and fruits?

Hi deepak, Since me and my hubby both are working, we do weekly purchase from supermarket.......I don't care about prices.....lol, but my hubby will first see the price and then make decision to buy, which irritates me a bit, but I keep quiet because I know he is right. But that does not mean he is always right....he just keeps eye on things that I choose and most of the time makes faces so I don't buy and then we fight .....Out of 100, at least 90 times we end up shopping in fighting....lol, yet next week we are again ready to go to super market together........how stupid na

Hi Dpk....I do not go to the market to but vegetables though it is a bit cheaper than what we get in other retail shops because our market is situated in a crowded and congested part and getting a car parking space in its close visinity is an impossible task.Infact only people with two wheelers can shop comfortably there and since we dont have one,that option is also ruled out.. So since I drive my own car,and am a house wife,I do all the shopping myself and buy vegetables and other things in shopping malls near my place where there is sufficient parking place ,since I have to carry all the things myself to the car............And when it comes to vegetables and fruits I do not care much about the price and buy good and fresh ones only.But I do keep an eye on the prices and if some off season veggies or fruits are priced highly,I avoid buying them,since they will be available cheaply when in season.....

Hahaha.....you caught me there Deepak! I hardly go shopping for groceries and vegetables. My mom does that and I do not like much to go around looking and choosing for vegetables and fruits. It's only when my parents are not around, I have to. On those occasions I enjoy it. Nothing like buying fresh green vegetables and cooking it fresh, The taste increases manifold! And I agree, those who go to market regularly, they have to and as in my mom's case, she really enjoys buying stuffs and keeps talking about the rising prices. I think, since I am not into it I am not that interested but once I get into it, I would love it as well. Happy new year to you also...

Hi Dpk hope u must be doing well well, i very rare go to market to buy vegetable or daily/monthly grocessry, and hence not much updated of prices too, and when after some times some prices are discussed, they are really shocking as they are always touching next higher side. U know still we have persons coming in streets on donkey carts, with fresh vegetable. and what ever is required, family bought it daily fruits, i am in touch as most of times its me who buy them when coming back to office, so i am aware of them. nowa days, oranges, kino, banana, guava and apples are in my list take care

For me the vegetable market is on the way home so it is not at all troublesome to do my marketing in the evenings. On Sundays I take my kids to the market so they can have their choice of vegetables and fruits. But when my hubby was there I would never go to the market. That was his department altogether.

Hello my friend dpk262006 Ji, Well, this is a job assigned to my hubby, but I do accompany him at Times, if i too have to buy at regular items of my need. But as we were always away from cities, we used to buy on weekly basis, and we will buy ourselves. my hubby is fond of going to vegetable/fruit markets alon, for the reasons known best to him. but i can understand liberty to choose, or if some one accomanies, it may be comulsion to buy out of his choice. Now-a-days, this job is done by DIL, who buys everything as per family needs and it goes on . life never comes to end. may god bless you and have a graet time.

Hi Deepak, I go to the market alone to buy my fruits and veggies. Its only the fish that my hubby buys as I don’t like visiting the fish stalls. But I enjoy buying my own supplies, I love haggling with the vendors and feeling the items myself before deciding on what to buy. I buy them once a week on Saturdays when I have some free time and can enjoy the shopping. I usually like to look around a bit, check out the prices, the freshness of items and also while buying, I plan the menu for the coming week too. Its really a very de-stressing experience.

Well you can say that my partner and I are amongst the lucky ones as we have a small organic farmlet and so grow our own fruit and vegetables. Well almost all of them but we still have to buy a few as our climate is nit suitable for a few things that we like. Yes we do know the prices or at least what we get paid for what we sell ourselves and what price we sell it to the locals, as distinct from those for the market or contracts. So you see my partner and I go go together msot of the time to get our fruit and vegetables .. from our own garden. During the season we will freeze and dehydrate some of ou fruit and vegetables so that we have them all year round and they are just as fresh as if we had picked them as we use them. Actually we do know the locals who buy directly from us and of course those who buy all the time get a little bonus when they purchase. It is our way of thanking them for their patronage and we know they will come back again if we look after them. With other things, what we buy locally whichever one of us is down the street where the shops ared will get it or I might pick up what we need when I am on my way home from a trip. With our major shopping trip is one that we do every couple of months and we do that together as it takes us several hours to go the the 4 different supermarkets.

Hi dpk, I am going myself for purchasing the vegetables and fruits. Actually when I return from office I am crossing through the market (from the bus stop to my home). Usually I am purchasing the necessary things on alternative days but it may varies on situation and since I am crossing the market everyday there is no tension to go to the market or finding out time etc. My hubby is ready to go to the market but usually I am refusing his service, you know why, then I have to make the list of necessary things and quantity of the same and his habit is buying the things in bulk quantity, even if I mentioned the quantity in list, he don't bother and sometime it will be a waste. So I am sending him only on unavoidable situations like continues holidays, younger son got ill etc. Passing through the market everyday I have an idea about the rate of the vegetables/fruits. What about you?

I rarely as work is toxic, DIL goes often. But when I go, I haggle with almost anything I buy... When I first did the marketing , I just paid without question, but hubby taught me how to haggle and I was mortified to learn later that I could buy them for half the price they were offering me and it was fun haggling. But of course when I see that they need the money, I just pay and not make it difficult form them to sell. happy mylotting.

hello dpk262006! I do buy our vegetables and fruits alone. I think my work would be straight if no one would tag along with me. It's a hassle free actually. I usually go to the market on a weekly basis to buy our needs for the week.

This is one job that is mone and mine alone. No one wants to do it. I do all the vegetable, fruit and grocery shopping myself, including buying fish, chicken and meat. I like shopping for vegetables and fruits and even other household stuff and have no complaints as such. I walk while going to the market because it is good excercise for me, so I go every other day to the market to buy the essentials , since i cant carry too much at a time.

me as an individual, i really don't want to go to the market all alone by myself... i'm a lazy person that's why.. hahaha... but if i'm with my friends i go to market.. yes i'm still updated with the prices coz we have a store here that's why even though i don't go to market i still know it.

once in a week ,me and my husband will go for vegetables and fruits buying. generally here in kuwait the rates of all vegetables will be same and so i remember the rates of them and we buy each variety 1 kg and keeps for one week. if one or the other is over u bring in the middle of the week also.

There are special fruits and veggie markets in Europe and probably in India, here in USA we have summer farmers markets only... Other than this, fruits and vegetables are available in regular grocery store only, but it is not the same...

I usually buy my fruits and vegetables at the grocery store in the wintertime because that is the only place they are available right now. I like to buy them from the market in the spring, fall and summer though.

I often go to the market to buy vegetables and fruits. I don't like going to the supermarket to buy them. As I think the vegetables and fruits are not fresh enough in the supermarket than the market. And their price is usually higher. This is why I don't buy them from the supermarket. I love China

Hello dpk. Sometimes my wife and I go to the market together and sometimes she goes alone there. But when I have my two long vacations, I usually go to the market alone to do shopping. Because I have more time during the vacation.

My partner always accompany me when ever possible while I am going to market to by vegetable or any other crockeries. I think this would be the better way to chose good and economic . When i go alone I pick something else which was not exactly required.

Well i do buy once a week and buy all the fruits and veggies when ever i go to market and the prices of the fruits and vegetables fluctuate so much that it is nearly impossible to keep in touch with prices all the time.