But it will still be possible to buy flowers on Thursday, right before the holidays, so I go to the place where all kinds of goods grown and prepared by farmers are sold. You could see traders from Biržai, Kupiškis, even Latvia. They say they are regular traders of Rokiškis market. One Latvian still sold forest mushrooms. They asked 4 euros for a small jar of macaws. I went to the forest that day after the market and picked up half a bag of the same mushrooms for nothing. If someone had bought it at the market price, I would have earned about 20 euros, but I’d rather eat it myself.
There were also plenty of cranberries from the forest, an irreplaceable source of vitamin C and an additive for sauerkraut. At the beginning of the market, they asked 4 euros for a jar, but the berries were small. If you went further, you could buy a kilo of prettier and bigger ones for 2-2.5 euros. They say they are from the Šimonii forest. All I had to do was believe and buy these pleasantly sour berries. Snowberries cost the same. A lesson for the future: if you see something good when you enter the market, don’t rush to pull out your wallet, at least take a look around. Bargaining is now rarely popular in our markets, but if you hesitate and doubt you can also get a better price offer.
A kilogram of this year’s honey cost about 5 euros.
Potatoes in the market may be a bit more expensive than in some stores, 30-50, in some places even 70 cents per kilogram, but here they are more beautiful and bigger. Smaller and larger tomatoes also cost a bit more than in supermarkets. A considerable supply of apples. You could buy them for 20 to 70 cents a kilo, but there were more expensive ones. A jar of quince cost 2.5-3 euros. There were also fresh cucumbers from Kupiškis for 3 euros each. You could buy a kilogram of carrots and onions for one euro.
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2024-10-28 13:00:00