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Brothers Produce in the Paterson Farmers' Market has some of the lowest prices around, but quality isn't always guaranteed.
I bought four, small champagne mangoes at two for $1 last week, and when my wife peeled them, she found many brown spots. She showed me the plate with what was left, and it looked like I brought home only two.
On Tuesday, I found a box of 16 champagne mangoes at H Mart in Little Ferry for $8.99, or about 56 cents each. The green mangoes are ripening on my kitchen counter.
At Brothers on Tuesday, I bought six ounces of blackberries for $1.99 (though I thought the sign said $1.79), but found 18 ounces of the same Mexican blackberries for $3.99 at Costco Wholesale today, a better buy.
Costco prices fall
Some Costco tomato prices are falling.
The Sunset-brand Campari tomato -- small, round and delicious -- were $4.49 for 2 pounds today, $1 less than before.
The gourmet beefsteaks from Sunset still are $5.99 for 5 pounds, but that works out to $1.20 a pound, compared with $2.25 a pound for the smaller tomato.
I watched a man handling the beefsteak tomatoes, examining a few and switching them from box to box before I told him I didn't want him touching the tomatoes.
He was unmoved, showing me one that was split in a few places. At checkout, the Costco cashier counted my beefsteaks in the open box, explaining that people try to get away with a few extra.
Three large, gourmet cucumbers were $3.29. They reached a peak of $3.79 not long ago.
H Mart prices ease
H Mart prices also are falling. I picked up two heads of red-leaf lettuce for $1, compared to a high of $1.79 for a single head.
Some beautiful baby bokchoy were $1.49 a pound, and a few bunches made a nice, bright-green addition to homemade cheese-tortellini soup Tuesday night.
Watermelon watch
Seedless watermelon are on sale at ShopRite for $3.99 each through Memorial Day -- a savings of $3 and the lowest price I've seen this season.
Live lobster also is on sale for $5.99 a pound through the holiday.
Wasted trip
Garden State Market in Englewood is described as "gourmet" in another food blog, but when I visited today, I found a small market with large prices, and nothing really remarkable that I wanted to buy.
It shares a building with a dry cleaners on busy South Dean Street, just up the street from Balthazar Bakery's retail shop and a half-mile or so from Jerry's Gourmet & More.
My advice: Don't brake as you pass Garden State Market on the way to those outstanding places.
I used to be a weekly customer at Brothers but now go there once a month. During peak hours Saturday the lines are too long for me to bother with.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Saturdays are impossible. Even Tuesday was busy, but I got a space in the lot out back and there were only two other people on my checkout line.
ReplyDeleteI was at Brothers this past saturday at about 9AM on the dot and each and every check out line had overflown into the aisles.
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