Vedi's Fruteira

This is the store where I have bought almost all of our fruit and vegetables while we have lived in Horizontina. The produce is really good here, and the owners are so friendly.

The produce in Brazil is incredible. While it normally does not look as pretty as the fruit in Hy-Vee, it tastes so much better. The other thing that is cool is the large number of of varieties they have. Throughout the year I have seen 4 different types of avocados and all sizes and types of pineapples. The tiny bananas they have here are amazing, and so sweet. We are going to miss the bananas.

Owen is always my helper at Vedi's. He loves to push the mini shopping cart. I come here about once a week, maybe a little more often. We get a huge full cart and we eat it all. Before living here, most of the vegetables that I prepared were made in Steamer bags from the freezer section. I missed those a lot at first, but now I know how to prepare beets, radishes, eggplant, pumpkin and zucchini from the fresh real deal.

This is the mom and daughter of the family that owns the store. There is also a father and son. The mom is always so sweet to me. At first when I did not know much Portuguese, we communicated with smiles. It has been cool to learn the language, and start having conversations with people. She tells me what things are that I do not recognize, and how to prepare things. She always asks about the boys, and gives whoever is with me a sucker (of course).

One quick Ethan story...when I grabbed my camera for our trip to Vedi's, Ethan said, "We'll, okay, but don't start crying or anything." I have not even cried at all yet about leaving, so I am not sure where that came from, but it cracked me up. For the record, I did not cry.

 

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