Today Ron, Gina and I went down to Arthur to the Amish Produce Auction. We came away with lots of bargains and had lots of fun. The first place we went to was the auction. There were several hundred 25 # boxes of home grown tomatoes of various sizes. They also had various other home grown produce and some went very cheap and some things were a little out of my price range. I brought home 2 pints of jalapeno peppers for $1.10 ea, 2 bags of Candy Onions (12 # ea) for $5 a bag, 2 boxes of very beautiful heirloom peppers of various colors for $4 a box, 1 huge cantaloupe and 17 boxes (25 # ea) of tomatoes. These tomatoes are beautiful, various sizes and all are in perfect condition and were $3.00 a box, that is 12 cents a pound, yes a whole 12 cents a pound.
The first thing we will do with the tomatoes will be to make chili sauce. Next will be some quarts of chopped tomatoes and then I'm not sure. Ron has already cleaned the peppers and I have several dozen jars washed. We will cut the peppers up first thing tomorrow and then go from there.
While in Arthur we went to the bulk food store and also a salvage store. I picked up bacon for $1.34 a pound and got 2 cases (24 #s each case). Our son wanted some so that is why we bought a lot. I will can most of mine. We eat bacon and eggs for supper a lot, use it in quiche and make potato soup with it; so for $1.34 that is a cheap meal.
We also stopped in an Amish shop that had ground Black Angus Beef, 81/19 for $2.19 #. It came in 10 # rolls and you had to buy 4 rolls for that price. We will be going down to the auction one last time this season sometime in September and will stop by and see about getting some of the beef then.
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| Amish Produce Auction, Arthur IL |
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| Thank goodness we took the truck. |
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| Ron looking over the stuff. |
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| Back seat of the truck, Gina had just enough room to sit. |
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| My bargains. |
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| Some of the beautiful peppers. |
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| The beautiful colors in these peppers were amazing. |
Nice looking tomato's and peppers. Those were so great prices. Looks like you will be busy for the next few days
ReplyDeleteWow, you did great on that haul. I cant wait to see your canning totals next week.
ReplyDeleteYou might need to convert the whole garage into a pantry!
ReplyDeleteIf food prices go up like the farmers say it will then that might not be a bad idea.
DeleteWhat a great deal! Here the tomatoes are $2/lb at the farmers markets. I get a few to eat fresh, but that's all.
ReplyDelete~~Lori
$2 a pound is pretty high. I've seen them around here for $1.25 lb and I thought that was horrible. I drive past gardens all the time and see stuff just going to waste, makes me sick.
Deletelike your blog....i am from cental ill also...around bloomington....used to LOVE to go to amish country but can't now as i am fighting stage 4 breast cancer. my hubby planted a big garden and canned this yr...i did what i could to help.
ReplyDeleteThanks and may you win your fight. Our big town by us is Peoria.
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