When we first arrived, we were pretty close to a panic attack when it came to the local grocery store; small, dingy, low ceilings, weird brands, and no organic anything. If you know AdverBarbie, we are kind of obsessed with living green and buying everything organic, so it was a pretty traumatic experience. You should have seen the email that I sent to my parents about the food situation! My mom had to FedEx a 26lb package from the States, ASAP.
Luckily, we found out why the grocery store had a pathetic excuse for a produce department. Every Sunday they set up VEGETABLE HEAVEN down the street. We’re talking the most luscious and abundant farmers market I have ever seen, and it happens only 3 blocks away from our apartment! Every fruit and veggie imaginable is lined up for a half a mile of pure vegetarian bliss. To make things even more delectable, the prices are obscenely cheap. We spent the equivalent of $20 USD on vegetables that would cost $100 USD at Whole Foods.
For dinner that night, Alicia concocted a gourmet vegetable succotash. The fresh vegetables and herbs were absolutely exploding with flavor. It’s incredible the difference in taste vegetables can have when they aren’t being genetically mutated and sprayed with pesticides. When we come back from Brazil, expect to see us glowing from all the wonderful produce we will be indulging in :D
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