Hello plant based foodies, wherever you are in the world!

Today we are back, for a new edition of this weekly vegan challenge YOUR VEGGIE SHOPPING, an activity that we have created, to learn more about the shopping experience that all of you, dear users, have when supplying food your pantry, either in the markets, in the different commercial establishments or directly in the field, with the producers.

In the previous edition, dedicated to the purchase of RICE, we had a total of 9 entries, both very interesting and wonderful. Here we present them:

You can see the previous Edition, here

THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE WEEK 15

We have decided that on this occasion, each participant receives prizes of: 20 @ecency points, 50 foodie tokens and additionally, each entry receive 1 additional hive as a gift.

THE WINNERS ARE… ALL!

Weekly shopping : looking for cheap onions with good quality | by @maytom

In this interesting post, @maytom tells us about how she does her groceries and food purchases in general, because depending on the product, she goes to specific places. In this case, he takes us shopping at a traditional Indonesian market, located in his city Kota bInjai, where there are more offers. The prices she found range from $1.5 to $2.00. There she compares prices and chooses the ones she likes the most, something she cannot do in supermarkets, where the onions are already packaged. He makes this purchase every two weeks, since he keeps the onions outdoors and it is a food that is kept in good condition in this way.

Tu Veggie Shopping (Onions)| Variety of Onions to choose | by @aurodivys

If someone enjoys buying fruits and vegetables it's @aurodivys; and for this he goes to a supermarket called Fruver, which is located in Bogotá, where the offer of products is very wide. She tells us about the particular way in which onions are called in Colombia, since they are generally called stubborn onions, and chives are called long onion. There they are also surprised because they categorize onions as dirty and washed. He bought white onion, purple onion and chives, at very cheap prices, since the kilo of onion ranges between $0.35 and $1.00.

Veggie Shopping Onions🧅 | by @denissemata

To participate in the community contest, @denissemata went to the Rio supermarket, which is close to her house. There he saw two types of onions for sale: the white onion and the purple one, with notably different prices from each other. While the white onion is priced at $1.08 per kilo, the purple one reaches a value of $2.17 per kilo. She opted to buy both, and she also shared some great suggestions for cooking them.

Your Veggie Shopping. Let's go shopping for Onions! | by @marlyncabrera

If anyone made a great vegan contest entry, it was @marlyncabrera. She made a great post, where she told us about how she learned from her family about the flavors, textures, uses, and properties of this vegetable. She also took us to her garden, where she introduced us to her beautiful parrot Paco, and her beautiful ciboullete plant, a delicate variety of onion that is also known as garlic chives, and which she uses a lot in her recipes.

She also took us to two places to shop for onions. The first place we visited with her was a Vegetable Fair (Los Gochos), where she was able to buy small yellow onions, at $0.72 per kilo, she also bought red or purple onions, at $1.6 per kilo. We also took a look at the chives there, but she didn't buy it because she already had it at home. She even showed us the truck where these merchants transport the merchandise from places far away from their city.

Then we continued shopping at another establishment, in this case a supermarket (New Market), where she bought larger yellow onions, at $0.90 per kilo.

When she got home, one of the people in charge of the quality control of the purchases, Ms. Horacia, who is one of her cats (the other person in charge is Ms. Canela), approved 100% of the purchase of onions from @marlyncabrera

Likewise, she offered us excellent tips for its conservation and storage.

For the great post that @marlyncabrera has made, she deserves to be the super winner of this week's vegan challenge, for which the Plant Power Vegan community gives her a gift of 500 @ecency points. A super winning post!

🌺Participating in the weekly onion shopping contest at Aceh's traditional market🌺 | by @yulia-hive

After her absence without posting in the community, @yulia-hive has returned to the vegan community, and although she already shared great recipes with us the week before, she decided to participate in the vegan challenge, for which she made a nice post, in the one who takes us shopping at a traditional market, which is held on Saturdays in his Aceh town. There she bought onions and garlic, and found good prices, since the kilo of onions is $1.11. She also gave us very good tips to store these vegetables outside the fridge, so that they last a long time.

[ENG|ESP] New challenge week 15 BUY ONLY ONIONS🧅🧅 | by @dlizara

To participate in the vegan challenge, @delizara went to two commercial establishments: A supermarket (Deliplaza) and a greengrocer (Las Mercedes), where she was able to buy white onions, purple onions, and chives. The average price she found was $1.60 per kilo. She also offered us excellent advice on how to choose this vegetable, to make a great purchase and one that lasts a long time in good condition.

Your Veggie Shopping || Onion. [Esp-Eng] | by @theresa16

Although @theresa16 does her vegetable shopping on Saturdays, she went last Sunday to do her shopping, but she did not go, as is her custom, to the Municipal Market, due to the dangerousness of the site, she would not have been able to take photos there; so she decided to go to a supermarket ("Tesco Center Sucre, C.A"), where she could buy white onions and chives. The prices he found range from $0.88 to $2.37 per kilo. He also offered us valuable suggestions for the use of this vegetable, how to buy it and how to store it.

My Veggie Shopping ! ONIONS | by @mergusa88

@mergusa88's first post in the Plant Power (Vegan) community, was her entry into the vegan challenge, for which she made a good post. To do this, she visited three commercial establishments (Rattan Plaza, Family Market and Supermercado Río), where she reviewed the prices and availability of onions (white, red and chives), finding the best prices in the last establishment (Río). There she saw that the kilo of white onions was at 1.08; although she also told us that previously, she bought from some street vendors who were in a truck on one of the streets of her city, for which she paid $0.28 per kilo of small white onions.

My vegan shopping // Onions (Eng-Esp) | by @parauri

On this occasion, @parauri takes us to a small store located near her apartment, where she went to buy onions. She was curious about the name that in Colombia they call white onions, which in that country are called egg onions. Purple onions in that country are called purple onions. She also really liked that she can get both white and purple onions on offer, because it is a vegetable that she consumes a lot at home, both for food and to make natural medicine, and even insect repellent. The price she found is $1.08 per kilo.

Below are the transfers of the prizes to the participants

NOW LET'S GO WITH THE NEW “YOUR VEGGIE SHOPPING”

Life without peppers would be sad, because its smell, its color and its flavor are unique, exquisite. Whether in savory or sweet recipes, this vegetable is so delicious that it is part of the diet of many peoples and cultures. So for this new challenge, corresponding to week 16, we want to go shopping with you, but ONLY TO BUY PEPPERS. In this post you will not include any other type of food, only PEPPERS, and we also want you to give us advice on buying and preserving this food.

CONDITIONS

Only one post per participant will be accepted.
Post must be published in this Plant Power (Vegan) community.
Please be original - no old content and nothing plagiarized – no AI (The post that incurs in plagiarized will be disqualified).

You must appear in at least two (2) photos making your veggie shopping of peppers.
The post must have a minimum length of 300 words in English, (it can be a bilingual post too)
You will tell us about PEPPERS, as we indicated in the paragraph before this section.

You must show your purchases.

Use the tags: #vegan #foodie #plant in the first five places.
Engage with others!
Drop your link below - no link, no entry!

This contest ends on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 23:59 hours

PRIZES

In this occasion, we have the sponsor of @sagarkothari88, who has offert @ecency points for the winners. The support of the sponsor is so important, then, if you can say thanks to the sponsor, you can visit his blog.
We also have the sponsorship of the @ecency platform, with points for the participants.
We have foodie token to participants.

The winners will be announced in the next post.

We look forward to your participation!

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