And not spend a lot of money at the same time? Not at all.
The example I take today for this is: cherries.
There are times when we want some fruit or vegetable during the year when it is not in season.
With growing in greenhouses, more and more fruits and vegetables became available in every season, all year round.
Even if it is not available in the climate where you live, it is possible to import it from all over the world.
Then its price is not small, but it is not excessively astronomical either, it is at most twice...
And that's why I buy out-of-season fruit or vegetables only on rare occasions, when I really care about having that more expensive fruit or vegetable (when the time is right) on my table.
And you know when fruits and vegetables are the tastiest and most beautiful.
When it is in season in the region where it is grown and when it is abundant.
Then it is possible to buy a whole watermelon for the price of a kilogram of imported watermelon before the start of the season.
When housewives cook tomato juice, it is the sweetest, tastiest and cheapest.
Apples, peaches, apricots are the tastiest when eaten directly from the branch, and strawberries are the most fragrant when eaten as soon as they are picked.
All that fruit is delicious even when bought in the market in season (because not all of us have the opportunity to eat freshly picked fruit), because it was certainly not picked green and did not undergo a violent ripening process.
And so, every season I wait to enjoy the fruits that are around us.
Last year, at the end of April, like every previous year, I set my sights on cherries, but due to bad weather and a prolonged frost that cut down the fruit trees in bloom, not even those who have them in their yard could eat cherries.
I can imagine the sadness of a householder who has trees of this fruit and who did not have a single cherry to sweeten himself with.
That host, like me, could have bought imported cherries... But at a price of up to 15€ per kilogram.
As soon as I saw that price, I knew that until next season, I wouldn't eat a single one...
And I didn't.
And so, month by month, March, April, May passed... The weather conditions served the fruit growers and the frost did not destroy the crop.
Proof of this is the branches that bend under the amount of fruits, even on public areas.
The same as with the hosts who have fruit trees in their households.
I knew that this year would not be like the previous one, at least when it comes to cherries, when a colleague brought me a bag full of freshly picked cherries in the office.
We shared them with other colleagues, and he invited me to his house to collect a new round, which I can take home.
And when are cherries the sweetest? When you climb a tree, you find a comfortable position on some food, so that there is a branch with many fruits within your reach and when you pick half in a bag and half eat :-)
I somehow filled the bag and brought the cherries home. I cooled them and washed them and enjoyed their taste, until I ate so many of them that I felt sick.
In just one day, I fulfilled every wish I had for cherries from last year, and that for free.
I asked my colleague to pay him (because I know he commented that he was sorry he didn't have so many cherries last year when the price was 7 or 8 times higher), but he didn't want to take the money.
He told me that he knows that I didn't eat a single cherry last year either and that now I can freely eat them "as much as my soul wants" (and as much as my stomach can take).
But I won't exaggerate, because no matter how many there are this year (and they're not expensive), I can't eat enough of them to satisfy myself for maybe a few years to come. I could just overeat them and make myself really sick, which I don't want to do with something I love.
