One of the goals of The Student Kitchen Project is to share tips on how to shop on measly student budgets, and one of the best ways - not to mention a very eco-friendly one - is to shop in season and shop local.
We're not necessarily talking full-on 100-mile diet, but just consult one of the links below for what's in season in BC before you go grocery shopping next time, and then do a quick price-check. However, important to keep in mind is that what is said to be "in season" is sometimes contentious whatwith hothouse produce, e.g. one of the links has lettuce in season year-round in BC. So, we'd just have to recommend the use of intuition and personal comfort i.e. what are you comfortably willing to wait for?
On a final and personal note, we used to enjoy eating avocados and strawberries in winter before realising that not only were they the priciest things on our food bills, but that it was kind of weird to be eating guacamole and drinking strawberry daquiris in front of a roaring fireplace while wearing reindeer sweaters from our dear old aunties. Now, it's kind've nice to wait all year in anticipation for "strawcado season," when these things generally taste better, and the only thing burning is skin with no sunblock.
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