Marketastic

Our Flemington Markets who art near Homebush
Hallowed be thy stalls

Yes I have found my new favourite market. For years my friend H and I have been visiting the Food Growers Market and the Orange Grove Market and spending ALL our hard earned money on lovely gourmet foods. There is nothing nicer then coming home with armfuls of lovely breads, cheeses, oils and the like. Well at least I thought there was nothing nicer until I visited Flemington Markets last weekend. Flemington Market is nothing like those other gourmet markets. This is a real market, with rows of people selling fresh fruit and vegetables. I was in my element. Everywhere you looked there was quality produce at an incredibly cheap price. To be honest I’m not the best at remembering how much things cost but even I know that $1.50 for a kilo of avocados is very good value.










We got very carried away with our bargains and by the time we were ready to go home we could barely move the trolley there were so many boxes of lemons, apples, potatoes, avocadoes and tomatoes. We had a cunning plan to share all the purchases but even at that, we both came home with a car load of fruit and veg and all for next to nothing. I am determined that I am not going to end up throwing out any of the food just because I bought too much and it went bad. Already, I have made jam (a first for me) with half a box of strawberries because those little babies tend to go off very quickly. I am winning the ongoing battle to get through the bananas before they go brown and squishy. We were smart enough to make sure that half the bananas we bought were still green. These days I’ve been having bananas in my bran flakes and lots of lovely banana milkshakes. The purchase that I love the most is the kilo of avocadoes. They are small little tasty avocadoes that are delicious in a salad or a sandwich (and have been added to every salad and sandwich I have made since I got them). I love the fact that they are so small because often I won’t use an avocado because there is too much in one big one and I don’t want the other half to go brown. These little green beauties are just the perfect size.

There is also a flower market beside the fruit and vegetable market and the prices for all the beautiful flowers were incredibly cheap. Apparently, this market starts at dawn, so when we arrived at 9:00AM it was just closing up. Where the selection was probably not as good at the end of the market we did get some amazing bargains because the sellers were eager to get rid of the last of the merchandise. I got a bucket of wild poppies (one of my favourite flowers) for $10. I reckon that to buy them in the flower shop would, in fact, be 5 times that. God I love a bargain. H had here little one year old baby in the pram and by the time we left the flower market you could hardly see her buried underneath all our purchases we had placed on the pram.






This market is wonderful and I will definitely be going back again. I think it would be great fun to go with a bunch of friends and share all the massive bags/boxes of goodies.

Sydney Fresh Food Market
Sydney Markets Building D
Austin Avenue, Flemington, Sydney
Open 6:00 – 14:00