a delight-ful giveway
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the RuMe reusable, collapsible shopping bags I’ve grown accustomed to keeping in my bag over the last year in hopes to reduce the number of plastic bags I am personally responsible for adding to landfills. But I failed to mention their coolest feature, and the one that makes them so much better than other reusable totes in my mind, which is that they roll up into a packet the size of your change purse, so you never have an excuse to not have one on you.
However, the reasoning behind my obsession with using them isn’t entirely earnest. I actually love the bags because they’re much easier to carry around than shopping bags, and when you schlep stuff on foot as much as we do in New York City, every little bit counts. The handles are big enough to easily slip over your shoulder–with one hand, no less, as it should be–and they hold easily double the amount and weight of standard grocery store bags. The handles distribute weight a lot better than regular grocery bags, too, which makes it all the more comfortable to lug your goodies home. [Not Martha does a great review of the RuMe bags in this post.]
So why bring them up today? Well, the ladies at Delight.com saw that so many of you were excited by the bags, and asked if I wanted to do a giveaway. We’re going to give away three sets of the regular RuMe bags (each set has three 15.5â€x15.5â€x4†bags, a $28.50 value) and three sets of the mini RuMe bags (each set has three 11″x11″x4″ bags, a $25.50 value) this week. Delight.com only ships to the U.S., Canada, the UK and Germany, so you must live in one of these places to play. (New Zealand, my apologies, I’ve stiffed you again!)
How to enter: Leave a comment on this entry letting me know a) what your favorite market is in your city or town and b) what you are most excited to stuff these bags with (Please answer both!) before 9 a.m. EST on Friday, September 12.
Fine print: Winners will be chosen that morning after the contest closes by a cold and unfeeling random number generator. You don’t need to leave your real name, but you do need to leave a valid email address. (In the comment form, not in the actual comment box, thanks.) I’ll be the only one that sees it that way, and will contact you by email to get your shipping address if you have won. I will also ask you at that time if you have a preferred pattern or design you want, as each size comes in more than one. In the event that I haven’t heard back from a winner by 9 a.m. EST on Friday, September 19, I will choose another.
Don’t want to try your luck? Bummed you didn’t win? Fear not! Through Sept. 22, you can use the code “SmittenDelight” at checkout to get 15 percent off all orders over $35.
Where’s my new recipe?! We’ll be back tomorrow with a regularly-scheduled, infinitely delicious post.
I love to shop at the Austin Farmer’s Market downtown. It’s not very big, but it has some great stuff, particularly fruit, which is exactly what I want to put in these bags.
When I was living in San Francisco, my favorite place in the world was the Saturday Ferry Building Farmer’s Market. If I was there, I would stuff the bags full of Frog Hollow Farm jellies, jams, and conserves. I can’t get enough of their stuff!
What fun! And what great bags! There’s a great grocery store in my town called Russo’s–lots of local products, fantastic produce, a wonderful bakery (and cheese section, and epicerie, and floral department . . . )–I love to go there for fresh produce, in particular. And locally made ice cream. :)
1.) My favorite store to shop in could only be narrowed down to two: Bloom or Publix.
2.) I am most excited to stuff the bags with plenty of new items for the recipes I have seen on smitten kitchen and for my holiday cooking and party throwing endeavors!
I like shopping at Farmer’s Markets during the summer on the weekends (anywhere I can find them). Otherwise I usually shop at King Soopers, Safeway or Whole Foods because they’re close.
I would stuff the bags full of farmer’s market things. They also look like they’d be handy for yarn.
what a terrific giveaway! I actually shop delight.com often, and the idea of having a bag in my purse available for use any time . . . that would be so nice. Thanks for the chance to win one!
my favorite market in my town is our farmers market every sunday morning. right now, i’d use one bag for pears and one bag for apples grown in sebastapol. thanks!
I really like the La Mesa farmers market (near San Diego) but usually end up at Trader Joes supplemented with our CSA box.
Oooo, I love me some bags! :)
1. My favorite market is any one that is outside…aka: I have an obsession with Farmer’s Markets. I don’t live there anymore but the very best farmer’s market that I’ve ever been to is in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Its a community party every weekend!
2. I love to stuff a bag with tomatoes…lots and lots of tomatoes. I’m not sick of them yet and Oh, how I dream of them when they aren’t in season.
a) what your favorite market is in your city or town – Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods
b) what you are most excited to stuff these bags with – My CSA produce!
I love Calvert Woodley Wine in DC. Great wine, fantastic cheeses.
I would like to stuff these bags full of their delicious olives. They are marinated with…something. Magic? Perhaps.
The local farmer’s market, where I can get an omelet for lunch and veggies for Ratatouille for dinner. I would love to stuff it full of veggies, one can never have enough veggies.
I love Trader Joe’s (but usually shop boring Safeway!).
My favorite market is the farmers market in the Houston Heights.
I would love to stuff the bags full of every fruit I can get my hands on.
I like Safeway stores when I’m in Washington State. I’m bummed when I’m in Idaho where I can’t find a Safeway store because Albertson’s has a monoply. I also can’t find one in Yuma; at least not close by…
I would also stuff the bags full of groceries that will allow me to try all the recipes that I have copied from Smitten Kitchen and other blogs.
seattle is outlawing plastic bags starting in january, so i need to up the numbers of bags i have for my larger grocery runs! my favorite market in seattle is either madison market (a natural foods co-op in my neighborhood, http://www.madisonmarket.com/) or any one of the proliferation of farmers markets in the city, including the pike place public market downtown. i am most excited to stuff these bags full of fresh organic produce, spices from market spice at the public market, and some beautiful flowers from the public market!
I love shopping at Wickham’s Fruit Farm, especially during the summer when berries are plentiful.
Now that we’re heading into fall, I look forward to filling bags with bushels of apples for pies and tarts. Yum!
Ooo, love those bag designs!
One of my favorites is Jimbo’s, a local grocery chain here in San Diego County. They have natural and organic products and a great ready-to-eat section. I would use my RuMe bags for their produce and daily hot meal specials.
and I’d stuff them with chocolate and cheese!
I’m a total fruit addict so my favorite places to pick something up is the fruit stand near the subway station where I get off for work everyday. I love having fresh fruit while responding to the emails I ignored the previous night on my crackberry.
a) I like the “french markets” that they have on weekends near where I grew up. They’re like farmers markets but I guess the distinction is that there’s also stuff you can’t grow, like cute pastries made by french nuns, and fancy olive oil and stuff.
b) I’m excited to stuff the bag with rice and lentils. Pilaf time, baby!
ooh, my favorite place right now is the Mt. Lebanon farmers market that I frequent every Wednesday. My 18 month old even says “blueberries” and “peach!” when I say we are going to the farmers market. My favorite things to stuff in the bag? It’s been corn, tomatoes and zucchini for the most part, along with absolutely delectable peaches. I made the gingerbread marscapone tart from your site recently and used peaches instead of nectarines. so, so, good. We’re looking forward to fall squashes though!
I would take my new bag to the Green City Market here in Chicago, and fill it up with pumpkins!
We have one of the best farmer’s markets ever, but I’m most looking forward to hauling giant sacks of flour from the “real” grocery store properly!
I am actually getting up early tomorrow morning to go to our local Farmer’s Market on the East End.
I can’t wait to haul around a slew of fresh veggies so that I can store up awesome freshness for the winter–homemade tomato sauce and vegetable broth, maybe some Catalan spinach…mmm.
I’m a Publix girl, and I’m excited to stuff these bags with diapers and baby food. And dark chocolate. :)
Here in San Diego’s north county we have the Poway farmer’s market every Saturday. I don’t go very often, probably because I don’t have a great bag to carry everything home in. The home grown tomatoes beat the grocery store variety hands down.
1. Dekalb Farmer’s Market Decatur, GA
2. pomegranates
I work at a National Chain of Neighborhood Grocery Stores… that Claire in AZ also loves, but as I am not anonymous, I’m also not at liberty to mention. This would be great for my daily wine and cheese and milk purchases, but also for my CSA haul, or the stuff I get from our local Co-op, the wedge.
1. My favorite market is definitely the Portland Farmers Market! It is an amazing market where you can find just about any sort of fruit or veggie you can dream of (provided it’s in season of course)!
2. I would love to stuff these bags with beautiful red/purple onions, feathery dill, ears of corn, the possibilities just seem endless (and delicious)!
Green City Market in Chicago!! I also lug around lots of stuff when I run errands the Trader Joe’s and Lululemon shopping bags that I have used for the past year or so are starting to get worn out. Time for an upgrade!
My favorite place to shop is Wegman’s in Manalapan, NJ. I plan to use some of the bags for groceries and some for my many knitting projects.
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Favorite market: Farmer’s Market at the Ferry Building. Cliche, but true.
What am I excited to stuff it with: Lots of apples that are coming out right now. Can’t wait to do a fall crisp!
I like our local farmer’s market, because everything else we have around here is a chain. I miss it in the winter time!
I would love to stuff the bags with peaches! Mmmmm!
I really like Durham’s Farmer’s Market and Trader Joe’s. And I’m looking forward to using the bags to carry anything and everything–produce, milk, new shoes, old newspaper to recycle, treats for my kitty cats, you name it!
thanks!
My favorite is the Union Square Greenmarket, though I am also more-than-partial to Trader Joe’s. Sadly, I live in Brooklyn (and not the part of Brooklyn which is a hopskipjump to the city). I have had my bags break on the subway on more than one occasion. :(
I’m going to be real: if I had a resuable grocery bag, I would probably put cookies in it. Cookies and steak. Rhubarb and figs. Maybe some fancy cheese.
Major Market in Escondido CA is my favorite close-to-home market, they’ve got an awesome deli, bakery, meat market (with real butchers), produce section, imported stuffs…I’d fill the bags with as much as they would hold!
My favorite market in town is the SF Ferry Plaza farmer’s market (when I can afford it)!
I’m most excited to stuff these bags with produce from local corner market, which really gets more of my love and money!
My favorite store is a place called the “Fresh Market” it is a chain store, but they have the best baked goods and vegetables outside of a Farmer’s Market.
I would stuff my bags full of tasty treats and cereal. I really love cereal. From the picture above it looks like I could use these bags for lots of other things like my yarns and sweet little kittens.
I love to shop at Price Rite in Seekonk, MA, its one of those no frills places,kind of that warehouse look. The produce is always good quality and inexpensive. I always bring my bags with me, as they charge you .10 a bag here. Peppers are always a bargain here, I always stuff a bag with peppers. jane
Although the one nearest to me is always crowded (grr)…I like to shop at Whole Foods here in NYC. I can’t wait to fill these puppies up with some crisp apples and sweet snacks!
These bags look wonderful! I’ve just moved to a small city that hosts a farmer’s market 3 times a week, which is my favorite place to shop! It is even close enough that I can walk, so these bags would be extra handy for me. I’d love to stuff them full of the last of this years fresh eggplant, peppers, squash, and apples! Soon the farmer’s market will be closing for the year and I’ll be forced to go back to Aldi, which is my favorite grocery store. Now that it is within walking distance too, I’ll still be set to use the RuMe bags all year long. Thanks!
Headhouse Farmers Market in Philly!! I would stuff my RuMe bags with all sorts of local produce, whatever’s in season :) They’ve got some great local goats cheese and fudge to be found there, too…
a) My favorite market in my hometown is Labrioli’s – a family-owned Italian deli/bakery that has been around as long as I can remember. It’s small, has virtually no parking, and typically has a check out line that stretches from the front of the store, to the back, and down a couple of aisles. But boy do they pack that places with oodles of great authentic Italian goodies!
b) I would love to stuff the bag with lots of baguettes, wonderful cheese, and fresh fruit!
I love the Park Slope Food Coop. The prices are great, plus they emphasize and focus on organic and/or local food.
I’m most excited to stuff these bags with the last of summer produce… tear, summer is basically over
Also – Deb, did you disappear from twitter?? Why’d you do that?
My favourite market is the Black Creek Country Market. They are the perfect stop to pickup picnic food on the way to the beach, and they have a crazy-old double ride-on, coin-op horse that still only costs a quarter- my son loves it.
I’d like to fill my RuMe bags with coffee beans and bananas. The beans, because I’m absolutely hooked on Deb’s cold-brewed coffee, and the bananas, because we go through them like crazy in our house- making smoothies, feeding little people, dehydrating them, baking with them, putting them in pancakes- we’d be lost without them ;)
Farmer’s Market. I would fill them with yummy food, but also would use them to tote my library books… Thanks for the giveaway!
I recently (3 weeks now!) moved to a small Midwestern town from Washington D.C. where I, too, frequented Calvert Woodley Wine. Now I shop at a small roadside stand not far from my apartment complex. The people are fantastic, and they keep me in cherry tomatoes.
In Montreal everyone loves the Jean Talon market. From the crazy meat guy that dresses up in every fur imaginable in the winter, to the fruit stalls that offer a sample of every single thing they sell (including the slightly salted tomatoes YUM).
You must love the Jean-Talon.
a) my favorite market is the farmer’s market at ferry plaza in san francisco. plus, this delicious chocolate shop is just a few feet away :)
b) i’d fill those bags up with all the produce i can get my hands on at the farmer’s market–and maybe some ingredients for something sweet and delicious for dessert
I love to shop at Henry’s Marketplace. I love to stuff my bags with all of their fresh fruit and produce. Best of all brown rice in bulk!
I love the city’s public market to feed 5 children every day healthy foods on the cheap! I tend to use reuseable bags for everything associated with kid stuff – most commonly when we’re running out the door and I all of a sudden notice I have far too much to carry!
I love Portland’s New Seasons Market. (The friendliest store in town!–and they really are frightfully nice at these places–and they have all the local, gorgeous produce you can imagine, alongside not lovely organic things, like…a jar of marshmallow fluff). I shall pack these with my school supplies and probably my dirty gym clothes. And in all fairness, probably groceries too.
i’ll have to that my favorite place is the farmer’s market … though not much ever makes it home!
i have some (lame) reusable bags and i use them for everything. even just regular shopping, but what i’d love to stuff in one of those bags is tomatoes. lots and lots of tomatoes. ’tis the season!
I love the weekly farmer’s market around the Capitol square here in Madison. Fresh produce, bread, and specialty cheeses would go great in a new tote bag. Now I wish it was Saturday!
My favorite shop is the Mennonite market in my town. Virtually everything is homemade, and I’d fill the bag with delicious apple butter, white peaches, raw honey, old-fashioned candy, and fresh butter!
My favorite shopping is Trader Joes because my daughter eats all of her favorite things straight from the bag while shopping which makes for a leisurely and reasonably focused trip.
I would stuff my bags with those half eaten bags of: freeze dried salty beans, pink juice boxes, popcorn, cheese sticks, dried strawberries (mostly gone), and of course those green tea ice cream balls for me!
Market Street on the far south end of town is my favorite market here. Well Body is a close second, though. What do I love putting in it most? Yogurt and fruit for sure!
Where I go to college there isn’t much selection in terms of markets… but I love to go to the Lafayette Farmers’ Market when I’m visiting friends at Purdue! They have a fantastic little selection of perfectly in season produce as well as organic free range meats and yummy baked goods.
I can’t wait to stuff my bags at this market with autumn veggies to make great fall soups and stews. Current project: fresh veggie goulash.
My best bet here is Dillon’s (Kroger-brand), but how I miss Carfagna’s Italian butcher shop in Ohio.
I am most excited to stuff the bag into my purse, as I’m always forgetting my reusable bags in the car. But, what to put in the bag…currently, I’m loving corn tortillas, so how about that?
a) Trader Joe’s for year round shopping, and the farmer’s markets/baked goods markets/etc that randomly appear in front of the Daley Center and Dirksen Building in the summer.
b) Cupcakes from the bakery downstairs from my office to bring home and bribe people with, and sadly, my laptop for more variety in working environment.
Spokane, Washington isn’t the most diverse city in the world, so I’m a bit obsessive over our local organic market called Huckleberries, the seller of wonderful things that warm the heart and soul of stomachs all around.
I find myself a frequent buyer of fruits and vegetables since those are the healthiest and the most used food products by me. Just like in grocery store commercials with the celery sticking out and the receipt spilling out because you bought too much…
I’ll chime in with all the others saying I love my local farmer’s market, the Roadrunner market in Phoenix. It’s definitely pint-sized compared to the great ones mentioned in Portland, SF, etc, but the only place around to get any local anything. I would stuff these bags with my usual layers of goodies – the vendors always sort of smile at me bemusedly as I pack and repack my bag. Onions and potatoes at the bottom, eggs and soft fruits next, leafy greens on top!
1. I like to shop at the SF Ferry Building Market, but am excited at the brand spankin’ new Divisadero Sunday Market since it promises to be a nice market to catch up with the neighborhood.
2. Fall is almost here and I am looking forward to stuffing these lovelies with some pumpkins to make soup, pie, bread anything I can possibly use pumpkins for!
What a great idea, and those bags look fantastic! I love shopping at Whole Foods here in Toronto. I browse through the market the same way I browse through a bookstore. Can’t wait to put many jars of organic coconut butter, tofu, Sunspire chocolate chips, fresh greens and peaches, and some agave nectar in the bag!
My favorite place to grocery shop is Wegmans. I would stuff the bags with half moon cookies from their bakery.
I love the closed-in farmers market here in my hometown in NJ. We have such a mix of cultures here, and the market provides a big enough selection of items that my sister and I can take an around-the-world tour in just one meal!
And the cheese selection? OMG, the cheese selection…*LOL*
My favourite market of all has to be the local town market. Everything from fruit and veg, to freshly baked products and truly fantastic fish. Well worth going there, and it is open twice a week.
The bag is going to replace my perhaps-bag that I currently have, it is falling apart! It is great to have a bag for those little incidentals, since that is where most of my plastic bags seem to come from.
I love trader joes and the farmers market, but I will probably use the bag to bring stuff home from the garden. I somehow always remember my bags at stores, ut forget to bring them with me to the garden.
My favorite Market is Food Pyramid. I would love to fill the bags however with fresh fruit and home grown produce from our bi-weekly farmers markets and local growers. I reuse the grocers plastic bags until they tear apart, but these bags would be awesome!
Here in Kansas City you can find me at the City Farmer’s Market every Saturday morning bright and early. If I was to win these bags now I’d have to bring fall goods from the market home – butternut squash, apples, and pears!
My favorite market is the French Market on Saturdays here in Wheaton. It only runs through the summer and early fall because of our wintery weather. But, it makes it that much more anticipated!
I would stuff my bag with…wow… too much! But, it would always have to include my newly acquired iPhone! Can’t do with out it!
I’ll be posting a give-away this Wednesday on my food blog… so come on over this Wednesday and check it out!
a) I love my local farmers’ markets. At the moment that means the Prince George Farmers’ Market, but it doesn’t always.
b) I’m looking forward to grapes and new crop apples, and these bags would be a perfect way to carry them.
My favorite place to shop nearby is Trader Joe’s. Not only is it the cheapest place, but I find something new and delicious everytime I go. Tonight I had Jaipur vegetables and naan for dinner, and it was like having dinner at a great Indian restaurant. Of course I can’t make a trip to TJ’s without getting Alphabet Cookies or fresh blueberries and strawberries. (Or maybe chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches.)
I am fortunate enough to live within spitting distance of the Inwood Greenmarket in upper Manhattan, and I am there every Saturday morning stocking up on everything from apples to zucchini. I’ll use a few of the bags for my market trips, and I’d probably give some away to a couple of friends who still use plastic bags – then they’d have no excuse!
I love shopping for produce at Berkeley Bowl. They have the best selection of produce around and won’t bleed your savings dry. I would stuff the bags with what I usually buy there–roma tomatoes, jazz apples, zucchini, onions, potatoes, mushrooms, kale, chard, kohlrabi, couscous, orzo, goat cheese, cauliflower, blueberries, blackberries…
a) I love the Dane County farmers market in madison in the winter. I know summer is great with the markets but finding local good food and cheeses when it’s snowy outside is doubly fun.
b) potatoes, and cheese, and onions, and apples and… and… and…
I like to go to the Thousand Oaks Farmers Market. Right now it’s up on a mountain instead of in the parking lot of a big mall that’s being renovated. I love the view driving up and down. What I’d put in those colorful bags are new veggies or fruits that I’ve never tried before. I bought some European variety of beet and baked them with herbs. The whole family loved them. And I’ve always hated beets. Even the tops were interesting stir fried.
a) Austin Farmer’s Market at the Triangle or Wheatsville Co-op.
b) Ooooh…I would stuff them with fresh tomatoes, eggs, squash, kale, and yummy roasted rotisserie chicken.
Thanks for doing this, I <3 reusable bags!
Here in Chicago I like to shop at Hyde Park Produce, a great family-owned grocery store that happens to be 1 block from my apartment. I would stash my reusable bags in my purse and end up filling them with various impulse purchases, I’m sure. I have one big insulated Trader Joe’s bag right now that does pretty well, but spreading the weight out would be nicer on my shoulders!
a). I’ll call it the Mingde Market since it is on Mingde Road, where I live, in Taiwan. I like it because all the fruit and vegetables are seasonal and local so I am forced to try different things.
b). Since it is almost the Moon Festival I will be stuffing my bag with juicy pomelos.
I love the Chestnut Hill Farmers’ Market in Philadelphia (might be slightly biased, as I work there, but so much good food!) I’ll use these bags to tote stuff to and from my college dorm in a coupla weeks when I move in!
I love a good farmer’s market. I don’t have one in my town that I can make it to (they have it during the week during working hours) , but every so often I’m in dowtown Chicago on the right day and time to catch one of theirs. But over the weekend I was in Des Moines, and can I tell you? They have one fabulous and ginormous farmer’s market. It is several blocks long and includes a block each way on the cross streets. Love it.
As for what to put in the bag? Well, I’ve been eating peaches like crazy lately, but with fall coming on I’m gonna have to go with apples. Especially if I can talk my friend into giving me her DELICIOUS caramel apple crisp recipe.
Those bags are super cute!
A great local grocery store for me is Gagliano’s. Yummy bakery, great deli and cheese department. Did I mention the yummy bakery?!
As for what to carry in the bag? Ingredients for my latest kick—cantaloupe covered with vanilla yogurt and topped with homemade granola.
Vince and Joes is my favorite market – a small family owned local chain – two stores. And, if my family has a voice in the stuffins’, it would be the ingredients for your delicious peanut butter icing. It sometimes doesn’t even make it to the cake …
I can’t wait to stuff the bags full of tomatoes at the SF Ferry Building Farmer’s market. Then, the Pleasanton market. Then, the one in San Ramon!!!
Where I’ll use the bags: The outdoor farmer’s market arena is virtually non-existent during Arizona summers, so I split my shopping between Sprouts and Trader Joe’s. If I ever happen to be downtown, I love stopping by the Mexico-inspired Phoenix Ranch Market — it has an AMAZING produce and butcher section. (It’s so authentic, in fact, that the last time I was there, Kelly Ripa and hubby Mark Consuelos were there, along with his parents, buying food for a party. And NO ONE even seemed to recognize them.)
What I’ll stuff them with: Tons of fresh veggies and plenty of end-of-season — but still fabulous — peaches, plums and nectarines to make my fave SK “crumbling crisp convictions” dessert.
I’m a big fan of the Waveland Farmer’s Market for fresh produce. I’m hoping that I’ll still be able to get a few late peaches and some awesome green beans there this week. And what ever random thing the ladies there feel like introducing me to (persimmons! pattypans! scuppenirons!)
For a regular grocery, I like the Rouse’s that just opened up in my town. There I can get my Greek yogurt fix, and pick up some lovely macaroons.
As I have been moving across my lovely province lately, following both my heart and a job, I have yet to locate a favorite market in my new location. But alas, if I must choose, it would be the tiny farmers market; which I may add, can never make a dent in my IKEA sized tote bag. I would love to stuff the bags full of apples and carrots. I read somewhere that the average Canadian eats 86 apples a year (I eat at least 7 or 8 a week, plus 5-7 pounds of carrots!) Plus, the bags just look damn cool.
I live outside of Seattle, so Pike Place Market is an easy favorite. But really, I love taking my baby in her stroller to the farmstand by the blueberry farm down the street from my house. They have great, cheap produce and it’s a chance to buy locally. Using a reusable bag to tote the goods makes the environmental impact even greater. Depending on when I go, I like to load up on eggplant, Rainier cherries and blueberries, as well as some giant sunflowers.
I love the local farmer’s market on Sat morning. I’ve been going to the same one for nearly 4 years and have gotten to know the vendors and watched it grow. I love going there!
I would stuff my bag with my farmer’s market goodies…apples, fresh baked bread, chocolate, pears, anything else that caught my eye. Although, what I love about the idea of these bags is that I could keep them in my purse for when I find myself running errands without a bag handy so I don’t use a plastic bag.
My favorite grocery store is Macey’s in Northern UT. It’s recently updated and beautiful.
Wegmans is my favorite market! We actually moved to this town because there’s a Wegmans here. My bags will be filled with fresh produce, fresh bread, a double-chocolate raspberry tart (shhh…don’t tell the kids), peanut butter (staple here), ice cream (food group), coffee beans, and maybe a sub if everyone’s been good while we shop. And flowers, and maybe something cute from the seasonal clearance…these bags are strong, no? :)
What fun! I would look forward to stuffing my bag full of fall squashes and veggies from the Saturday morning farmstand near me in Fort Worth, TX. I’m itching for autumn to show up in earnest. Been wanting to pick up some more eco-friendly bags, too! Thanks for the constant enjoyment from your amazing site!
I shop at the Harris Teeter grocery store nearest to me, just because it is so convenient. I would love to do most of my shopping at a farmer’s market, but I haven’t gotten to that point yet. Right now it’s a treat to visit, not a regular shopping trip. If I won the bags, I would have to make it more of a habit!
My favorite market is Plum Market! I love this store. There are bike racks outside the entrance and they have friendly staff and great organic and local food.
Things I am looking forward to putting in this bag include: this too delicious yogurt called Liberte Mediterranee, raspberry Fruitabu, Kettle Corn (I am addicted!) from Popcorn, Indiana, nectarines, ginger, carrots, bananas, and Cote d’Or dark chocolate!
Living in Montreal, my favourite market to shop at is Marché Jean-Talon. I would stuff the bags with my delicious produce form my CSA share.
Hmm, my favorite place to shop is definitely a new one- I lconfess to schlepping all over town so I can explore a different one. That said, I love when there is the art/farmer’s market right behind my apartment (which is only once a month, boo!).
Lately, I have been pouncing on the peaches at the farmer’s markets because I’m finding the ones at Whole Foods, etc, are far past having the taste of summer, but I’m slowly facing that each delicious one could be my last for the year! Also, this market I go to has this lady that sells natural popsicles (my FAVORITE: avocado cream) and I always nab several of those before booking it home before they melt.
I confess I love delight and will probably buy some Rume’s anyways- I’m dying for some (but don’t let that discourage you from picking me, random number generator!).
a) Chelsea market, of course! right here in NYC. b) a few wonderful loaves of Amy’s bread and a few bottles of red from the Wine Vault.
Our new local food co-op is my favorite place to shop and I can’t wait to put all the local organic produce in it instead of lugging around the box.
I like to shop at Berkeley Bowl, which is a great market here in Berkeley that particularly specializes in lots and lots of amazing produce. As such, I’d like to put in my bag some angelcots and some donut nectarines!
a) i love shopping at wegman’s, they manage to have a ton of locally grown stuff and happen to be much closer than any farmer’s markets.
b) what to put in them? lately i’ve been craving some fresh mozzarella to go with the basil growing on my front porch, to try and pretend like summer isn’t almost over.
a) My favorite market is Trader Joe’s! They have only been in my area for about a year, but I have fallen hard :) Their commitment to wholesome food at reasonable prices is definitely enviable.
b) I’m really excited that it’s apple season, and look forward to bringing home some apples from nearby orchards. As for my trips to Trader Joe’s, my favorite finds are the Soy Orange-Vanilla bars and their fresh hot salsa. YUM!
I love Chelsea market and don’t get there anywhere near enough.
I’d like to say that I would like to fill my bags with my CSA produce (and in all liklihood that will be the case) but, quite honestly, I’d love to fill ‘em with cakes and cookies and all things sweet.
My favorite store to shop is Whole Foods! It is right down the block and always have a great stock of delicous fruits and veggies. I am looking forward to stuffing the bag with a ton of nectarines (I am pregnant and these are always a HUGE craving). Humm…how many nectarines could I fit in a bag?!?!? Hopefully I can find out!
I love, love, love shopping at local favorite, Sendiks. I plan to fill my bags with fresh produce, pumpkins, and wine :-)
OOh, I want to enter! Ok:
1) My favorite store locally to browse in is Whole Foods, and to actually shop in in a regular basis is Rouse’s, which is a local grocery chain.
2) As for the stuffing, well, I discovered today that I am out of chocolate chips, which is a sin, so I’ll need some of those, and I’m becoming obsessed with quinoa, so I’ll get some of that, and whatever produce looks nice–maybe some eggplant and some yams, and some oranges–I’d really love some clementines, but it is not the right time of year to find them. Of course, I wouldn’t put all of this together! Some cherries would be lovely, too.
a) My favorite market is our local farmer’s market and I’m always bummed when it closes down for the season.
b) I’m going to stuff my bags (I’m already possessive in hopes I can really win something!) with dark chocolate.
We’ve got a market called Cy’s by our house that’s pretty good. However, I’d want to fill it with lots of fresh bread!
Farmer’s market
Would love to stuff persimmons in those bags!
My favorite local grocery store in Orange County, CA is Trader Joes!!! Love their Hummus and Flat Bread!!!
I like to shop at the farmers’ market and I’m excited to tease my kitty by putting her in this bag.
Wohoo!
My fav market is Kensington Market in Toronto.
I love stuffing shopping bags full of fruit — especially blackberries. Mmmmm.
I recently moved to Atlanta and have discovered Harry’s Farmer’s Market. Apparently it was bought out by whole foods but still has that farmer’s market feel. I love it!
I would fill these bags with fresh fruit, baked bread, and of course anything made with chocolate!
I’ve been using reusable bags for about a year now…it would be nice to have one that folds up so small though!
Oooh, the Home Economist! It’s a natural foods store with lots of awesome local produce, a big bulk section and tons of healthy goodies with which to tempt my money out of my pocket.
I am MOST excited about stuffing the bags with granola. No seriously. Lots of different kinds of delicious, delicious granola.
a) The Fresh Market in Destin
b) I’d stuff the bag full of their spinach lasagna (for the family), their Waldorf chicken salad (for me!), and their incredibly large malted milk balls (I know, not healthy, but my husband loves them!)
I just returned from a trip to Seattle, and I’m still a bit jealous that Baltimore has nothing to compare to Pike Place Market. Instead, I’ll content myself by carrying reusable bags to Trader Joes (and Wegmans when it arrives shortly!). As far as what to put in the bags…. without a doubt whatever fruit or vegetable is in season!
I like to shop at local farmer’s markets, and I would love to stuff the bags full of fresh, seasonal produce!
1: These bags look especially great for my Saturday Farmer’s Market trips. That’s my favorite place for fresh, local produce. For all the other stuff, I love Trader Joes.
2: Right now, I would fill a bag with just tomatoes. HEIRLOOM tomatoes.
Oh I have been telling customers that I wished someone made a bag like that one. Something you could slip into your pocket.
My favorite market is “CHANS” in Ocean Park. And I would fill the bag brimming with veggies. It has everything imaginable. Jen
We have a health ffod store that I love to visit – Sprouts. They have such great fresh fruit, and I’d defintely put those into my new bags!
a) I’m loving the City Market in my new adopted home of KCMO; previously I was a devotee of Chicago’s Green Green City Market (uh, yes, almost the same name… but how many things can you call a farmer’s market?)
b) I would stuff my bags with wine, blue cheese, crusty bread, figs and chocolate bars. Apparently I am greedy.
I love to shop at The Fresh Market. It has the best produce of any grocery store (still can’t beat a farmer’s market though), best meats and it was the first place I saw Greek yogurt. I would probably stuff those bags with produce, chicken, steaks, pastries, and wine. My husband will be so happy.
How Fun!! Here in our little community of Nevada City, CA we have Grower’s Markets. There is at least one almost every day of the week! I love seeing all the fresh fruits and veggies! If I can’t get there, we have a fabulous co-op, Briarpatch, where all the produce is organic. I always use my cloth bags. Every little bit helps!!
I would fill my new bag with…. fresh tomatoes, bunches of fresh basil, savory bread and olive oil from Davis, CA. Summer can’t be over yet!
favorite market: grand army greenmarket
what will fill my bag: summer is nearly over so it’s got to be tomatoes and corn
a) Henrys Market and Trader Joes in Orange County, CA
b) I’d stuff the bag full of strawberries, blueberries, and muffins – ingredients for a smoothie & snack.
I love the Hillcrest Farmers Market in San Diego. I would fillthe bag with whatever fruit is in season to throw together a cobbler or crisp.
I love that these bags can be stored nice and small in your purse! That way I won’t forget them like I do with my Trader Joe’s bags. I will likely use them at a wonderful local store called The Berkeley Bowl in Berkeley, California. I’ll fill them with lots of fresh fruits and veggies and all of the things that I need to make the latest tempting SmittenKitchen recipe!
I live in D.C. and my favorite market is the FreshFarm Market in Dupont Circle, which is held Sundays year-round. Local farmers bring their produce to town — and I always buy way too much to carry home without a few extra bags!
I’d stuff the bags with early apples and late corn and maybe a pumpkin or two for pie.Yum!
My favorite market is Bel-Air because it’s literally two minutes from my house. I would stuff the bags with boxes of cereal, because we go through cereal like crazy!
The Tuesday farmers market here in New Orleans is my favorite local market, however whenever my man and I travel we always seek out the local farmers markets. California wins out for best markets thus far, although I was delighted with my finds of fresh local goat cheese and goats’ milk caramel at a Houston farmers market.
I would stuff one bag full of locally grown okra, beans, peppers, heirloom tomatoes and lettuces. Another would be reserved for meat and seafood: bacon, gulf shrimp, alligator sausage, catfish fillets, and the beautiful eye of round I am always tempted by. The third bag would be filled with fresh breads and pastries, a pint of chocolate milk and a pint of cream.
I love Whole Foods, King Soopers, and more, but I use the bags for all sorts of things. We used our reusable shopping bags to help “organize” a bunch of my college son’s gear to stow in the car; you can only fit so many boxes and footlockers in a Sienna van, but the soft bags can be squeezed in elsewhere, and still keep it from being a loose pile of junk.
I like to shop at the Menlo Park farmers’ market, and this week, I’d be excited to fill them with the last of this summer’s stone fruit! (I know, I’m so spoiled to be in California…) :-)
Living in Northern California we are blessed being near fresh produce and orchard growers. Therefore my favorite place to shop is our local farmer’s markets. The one in Japantown in Downtown San Jose is held every Sunday morning, throughout the year. Yes even in the middle of winter we can get fresh seasonal fruits, vegetables, flowers, breads, and other organic items.
Right now I would love to stuff the RuMe bags with all the fresh ingredients to make gazpacho soup, a loaf of freshly baked sourdough bread, and perhaps some fresh peaches to make Smitten Kitchen’s wonderful hand held peach pies.
WOAH! I love these BAGS!!! LOVE!
Okay. My entry:
I love shopping at Central Market in Houston, Texas because they have the best quality food ANYWHERE! Also, there is wines to be adored, cheese to be tasted, bread to be craved. There is so much going on under one roof, I could be in there all day and not get enough of it. (Much to the chagrin of my hubby.) AND to top it off there are the WALLS of cheese (TWO!).
What would I want to put in these bags??? Everything! I’d take them to the grocers, the mall and to work. They are versatile, stylish and can hold a ton. (And, they are great for sweaty gym clothes…they don’t hold the smell.)
We don’t really have that many reasonable, traditional farmer’s markets but I absolutely love Publix as a grocery.And I’m a big fan of veggies..esp. ones in season now like tomatoes (fruit?), cucumbers, zucchini, etc. Yummm! I have a Publix across the street from my apt so I usually tote my reusable bag over there at shop just enough to walk back with.
a) Pittsburgh, PA – Farmers @ the Firehouse, Saturday morning farmer’s market and my co-op, The East End Food Co-op.
b) I’ll stuff the bags with all of my purchases from the Strip District! Mediterra bread, cheese and olives from Penn Mac, biscotti from Enrico’s, and lots of produce from my favorite farmers.
Sadly, we don’t have great markets here, just Wal Mart. However, I do order monthly from the Oklahoma Food Co-op. These bags would be perfect for my monthly order of locally raised veggies and beef.
1. My favorite market to shop is Ballard Market (which is an independently owned grocery store that focuses on natural and local foods when possible) or Whole Foods.
2. We have an awesome spice store and I need to go and stock up. You should check it out; they ship anywhere. It’s Alton Brown’s favorite spice store. http://www.worldspice.com/home/home.shtml
I love Trader Joe’s! I also shop at the Navy commissary and it has a surprisingly good selection of produce and exotic ingredients at very reasonable prices. :-)
I’d fill these bags with ingredients for stir-fries and homemade birthday cakes!
Ah, a surefire way to get the lurkers to speak up! Newbie here, already addicted to all the recipes and beautiful photos on here.
Not a lot of shopping options around here, so it’s usually going to be Publix with an occasional stop by Trader Joe’s. Hoping to start exploring some of the markets that are in the area since I’m transplant to my area. And of course I fill the bag with all the ingredients for the recipies on here (there’s no way to suck up to a random number generator…darn.) :) Tote bags are good for everything.
I am sort of in between places at the moment – crashing in coastal NC. But if/when I get to Chapel Hill, I look forward to hitting their fab farmers markets, and of course the Trader Joes. As for what to put in the bag — I have been dreaming of packing a picnic and checking out the fall foliage (I just spent nine years in Florida where there are no seasons other than hurricane and non-hurricane) and those bags look perfect to tote some tasty snacks on a winding drive through the Appalachians…
Hooray – these look great! My favorite market here in Boston is the Haymarket. There’s always something cheap and exciting if you’re willing to push through the crowds. And right now with summer ending, I’d be excited to stuff mine full of those last beautiful tomatoes, corn, and peaches.
I love to visit our local farmers markets when up and running (May to October), but otherwise a local produce and fresh grocery store called Quality Greens here in the Okanagan, BC Canada is my fave store to shop at. I hit the big chains for non perishables when needed. Though admittedly I will accept plastic bags when I am shopping for non grocery items (cause I forget my bags!), I do have a few cloth bags and plastic totes that are for groceries – haven’t used a plastic bag for food in at least a year. I would love to fill a new cloth bag with Bartlett pears and the last of the red haven peaches!
1) Alemany Farmers Market, SF. It’s not as pretentious as the ferry plaza farmers market, and the prices rock!
2) Cheese! Lots and lots of cheese. Oh, and wine. And cans, kefir, yogurt, herbs, greens, squash – my entire grocery shopping, since I don’t have a car or a bike.
While I don’t get to go very often, there’s a wonderful farmer’s market in New Orleans on Tuesday mornings, featuring a tent with local restaurants catering as well as a large selection of herb plants and lovely fresh produce. I’m hoping to get the last of this year’s creole tomatoes (local variety, always tastes like the best homegrown tomato ever) to stuff in my bag, along with whatever happens to be fresh (probably Alabama peaches right now).
The Kapiolani Community College Farmer’s market here in Honolulu on Saturday mornings is a lot of fun, as well as the markets in China Town (mangosteen, lychee, mangos…mmm). Those bags look great for hauling the produce home on my bike!
fun, fun, fun! my favorite is city market in nw portland because they sell lots of local & organic produce (and an amazing brie sandwich i will never stop thinking about). and i walk to do all of my shopping as well, so these bags would get used for a little of everything!
1) The weekly Farmer’s Market with all the fresh fruits and vegetables.
2) These bags would be great for hauling hom fresh corn-on-the-cob.
Favourite market is without a doubt City Market in Saint John, NB.
And I’m torn between whether I’ll use the bag for my laptop or my extra textbooks; I suppose it depends on whether it’s more ergonomically designed (a quality most shopping bags have of course) than my bookbag.
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PS Wonderful blog by the way. I absolutely love your style of writing. And cooking.
Aside from farmers market, my new favorite market is The Milk Pail in Mountain View, Ca near where I work. It’s a great place to get quality produce and other interesting finds when I can’t make it to farmers market over the weekend. Although I will be sad to see all the summer peaches and tomatoes retreat from the stands, I would look forward to filling my bag with sturdy butternut squashes and bundles of chard!
I shop at MacPherson’s Produce on Beacon Hill in Seattle. I am excited to stuff the bags with watermelon (while I still can) and winter squash. Heavy stuff that my other bags can’t handle as well.
My favorite shop? Well, I am not fancy– I like Vons (Safeway to all those non Southern Californians) I’d also probably use those bags at the farmers market.
And I would bring home lots of tea! I am in search of the perfect green tea with a hint of orange.
a) favorite market is the ferry market plaza in sf (not my wallet’s favorite place, though)
b) I like to spend the occasional day ambling about and adding to my bag all day–a bar of soap or something followed by a trip to the drugstore to pick up prescriptions, a bottle of wine, a video, etc. Likely though, any bag will get toilet paper and kitty litter before anything exciting.
Corvallis Oregon: I would use it a lot at Safeway because they always automatically put my groceries in plastic bags without asking whether I want paper or plastic. If I had my own bag I would always get my groceries in an environmentally friendly bag!
I will stuff the bag with tomatoes and garlic when the garden runs out of produce in the wintertime.
Trader Joe’s and the farmer’s market are my favorites. I plan to stuff these bags with great produce, especially the farm-fresh tomatoes right now. These bags will be great for insuring that I actually take my own bags with me!
neat! i have a ton of resuable bags from a few grocers. i <3 them. i shop at raley’s a lot…which i believe is pretty much a ca and nv grocer.
My favorite market nearby is the LA Farmer’s market. When I lived in SF, the Ferry Building was my favorite. Actually that still is my all time favorite. I could stuff these bags full of ingredients for baking! And Rancho Gordo beans, of course.
I moved from the North Shore of Chicago a couple of years ago to Los Angeles. When I am back “home” in Chicago, my very very favorite store is Sunset Foods in Highland Park–great service and great food. In L.A.(and in Chicago) I love Trader Joe’s. I haven’t found just one grocery store in L.A. that I love. I hit them all–from Ralphs to Bristol Farms.
I would love to stuff these bags with many goodies from Trader Joe’s! Thanks for offering this giveaway!
Will I be shunned if I say Costco?
My favorite stores are trader joes and T-a-r-g-e-t in LA…but I’m sadly missing the super walmart from living in bama
I’m a Trader Joe’s girl. I’ve made it my mission not to take a bag out of a store. Doing well so far, but these would help!
I live in Santa Cruz, CA, and my favorite place to shop for groceries is New Leaf Market, which sells organic, locally grown produce in addition to health food grocery store type items.
If I won these bags, I would use them to cart groceries home from New Leaf (I usually walk to the store), then make a delicious picnic spread out of the groceries, then pack the picnic items back into the bag and walk down to the beach with friends to enjoy the sunny California weather we enjoy here in the fall!
Ooh… I love a giveaway! My favorite places to shop are the local farmers’ market and Publix. Too bad the nearest Whole Foods is a 45 minute drive away. :(
I would fill my bags with tons of fruits and veggies (tomatoes! and corn! oh my!), plus all the health & beauty stuff I get dirt cheap at CVS and Walgreens (thanks to my wicked coupon kamikaze-ness) and then donate to the women’s shelter nearby.
I love the Saturday farmers market at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA, as well as Deluxe Foods, and there is a farm stand that I’ll visit many afternoons on my way home from work. I’ve been canning and jamming like crazy lately, so I’ve been filling my bags full of cucumbers, onions, green beans, jalapenos, etc. And tomatoes. Pounds and pounds of tomatoes. I would love these bags. I’ve somehow misplaced one of my chico bags.
I love the Ranch Market in Phoenix. It’s a traditional Mexican grocery store with EVERYTHING possible available. Dresses? yep. Shoes? yep. Also? Fresh and amazing homemade tortillas and pastries. Also, fresh vegetables and herbs in many varieties. Those, the things do and would stuff my new bags!
What a fun contest with the cutest bags ever!
I live in San Diego, and live-and-breathe for Henry’s Market (used to be a small business in SD, but recently got bought out by Wild Oats– they haven’t ruined it so far though). Especially on double-ad double-deal Wednesdays! (I am a poor grad student and take any deal I can get) I would definitely go there and fill my bag(s) with all of the fresh produce, fruits and veggies are my main purchase all of the time, and grains and other things (nuts, dried fruit, nutritional yeast ;)) from the bulk bins. On the must-get-every-time-I-am-there-because-it’s-in-season list are peaches and tomatoes.
Westside Market at 110th and Broadway! I’ve been so happy since they returned to my neighborhood a little over a year ago. I would fill my bag with my weekly Westside purchases.
Current favorite market – the Farmer’s! Here in central Wisconsin, we have a limited season for fresh, locally grown produce, so I happily load my bags with as many green beans, carrots, golden watermelons, super sweet corn on the cob and zucchini as I can get!
I would love to take these bags to CVS every week to stock up on the wonderful deals!! They’d also be great for grocery shopping as I always seem to forget to bring my reusable bags into the store. I love how these fit in your purse!!
Wow–what a neat giveaway!
My favorite market is Whole Foods–even though I don’t go there as often as I’d like due to the almighty dollar being what it is these days.
I do wish we had Trader Joe’s here in Denver!
Wow, you have so many comments already!
1) i love the all produce store near my house (I’m not sure what the name is). It’s close enough to walk, and I can usually find some really delicious fruits and veggies!
2) I would stuff my bag full of fruits, vegetables, and of course a little soy ice cream! (everything in moderation, you know … )
a) My favorite market is The Boise Co-op. It’s full of organic meats, produce and dairy, old hippies, imported products, cheeses, wines, pastries plus new and fun food items.
b) Something new and unusual – a new cheese, meat, imported pasta, organic chocolate, bottled sauce
What fun!
I live in northern Utah and love Sweet Peas, our little natural foods grocery store downtown Logan. They have such great stuff and will special order ANYTHING. As for what I will fill them up with? Definitely goods from the Gardener’s Market. Mmm-hmm.
It’s amazing how a contest can make the lurkers (like me) come out of the woodwork. :)
My fave local store is City Market (formerly Onion River Co-op) but I’m most excited to stuff these bags with goodies fromt he farmer’s market.
I love New Pioneer Co-op! I would load up on, in a very particular order: Cultural Revolution Yogurt (http://www.kalonaorganics.com), peanut butter, cheese, and apples
1. Favourite market: In the summer, it’s the Green Market at Grand Army Plaza. I love it there! And year-round I now shop at the Park Slope Food Coop. I swear it’s not as bad as everyone says. :-)
2. I plan to stuff these bags full of my purchases from my answers in #1! Also, I’ve found these bags make great gifts, and I suspect at least one or two would find itself as part of a housewarming gift.
Thanks for a great site!
Zabar’s….and I would be delighted to stuff these with fresh churned local European style butter for pastries, and coffee beans, and red wine.
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I love our local Farmer’s market in the summer, the local co-op when I can drive into the next town, and Safeway/Fred Meyer when I need something right away.
I can’t wait to fill the bags with loads of fresh produce and breads. I never want summer to end!
Trader Joe’s in my favorite place to shop and I would stuff my bag with all sorts of fresh produce and some of their frozen specialties!
Seattle has so many fabulous farmer’s markets, but my schedule doesn’t always allow me to patronize them. Even the Pike Place Market can close before I finish work.
Easily the best brick-and-mortar grocery within ten miles of my home is Central Market, Shoreline, Washington.
Though their produce department is of higher quality and greater variety than most produce stands, though their meat and seafood departments make one dizzy with the selection, though their bulk food area has fresh, excellent quality items in the greatest variety of anyplace in town, though the wine department is accessible to the neophyte and exciting to the oenophile- though all these fabulous foods will fill these bags again and again, what is most delightful to me is the way this store builds community.
Jo will tell me what’s good in the deli; Jennifer will let me try the new raw granola. Audi will share a pear with me, and Jim will suggest a pie. Lori will ring up my food, and Audrey will bag it for me. It’s these wonderful people who make Central Market fabulous.
The best place to shop here in town, in my opinion, is the little mom and pop store that has been locally owned for upwards of 20 years. They have some of the best and freshest meats around town and even though you pay more than Super WalMart they are friendly and willing to help you out in whatever ingredients you might need.
Honestly, I would LOVE to take these bags and go to our local produce stand and just stuff them full of fresh veggies and sweet cherries. YUM!
i love to shop at the northside/west park farmers market here in pittsburgh and i can not wait until fall is in full swing and i could fill my rume bags with all sorts of amazing pennsylvania apples to eat and dip in caramel, bake pies and my favorite, apple taitan. so good.
I love the farmers markets in Los Angeles. One of my favorite parts of living in Southern California is the amazing year-round produce. So, I would fill this bag with local peaches – available until Thanksgiving some years! Goodness!
Hmm, I absolutely adore the Korean Market at Beverly and Kingsley. I’d promptly stuff my new bags with tons of cheap veggies, glass noodles, a good sesame oil, and dried mushrooms. Yum!
I love the Farmer’s Market near y house. And whatever they don’t have, I can find at Central Market.
My dogs ate my last reusable bag, so I am SO excited that I might win this set. Which I will use for anythig that fits. And I will be delighted!
Hey Candace, have you tried brewing Tazo Wild Sweet Orange with Green Tea? I like mine iced, so I use three green teas to one orange one. If you were feeling adventurous, you could break them open and mix them together in a tea ball if you wanted hot tea.
much more stylish than my mec book bag..
a) my favourite local markets are i) the organic farmer’s market at dufferin grove park .. where i can find raw cacao beans, and vanilla pods. tasty. and venison. double tasty. ii) st lawrence market — everything i could ever want in my foodie dreams.. ostrich, AAA steaks, tuna, a million different unpasturized honey pots.. oh my.
b) there are some beautiful late harvest White Lady peaches calling out to me…
thanks for the great blog. i am inspired :)
1. Trader Joe’s.
2. Wine, Greek yogurt, wine, pirate’s booty (TJ brand), wine, Z bars, wine, naan, wine, hummus, wine. Oh, and wine.
Well, I’m pretty much a Publix shopper. And I would put basic groceries in these adorable bags – milk, bread, fruits and veggies, juice, etc. But they ARE cute!
My favorite market is the two-story Whole Foods in Pasadena – not exactly my neighborhood, since it’s a good 20 minutes away with no traffic, but well worth the drive.
I would love to stuff the bags with delicacies from their charcuterie and bakery. They also have a HUGE freezer section, which I raided to stock up on shortcuts for my kids’ school lunches.
In the Memphis area, my favorite stores are the farmer’s market downtown, and The Fresh Market. I would love to fill these bags with tons of fresh produce from the farmer’s market!
I love visiting Trader Joe’s to pick up the yummy items that are unique to their store. Chocolate soy milk, frozen penne arriabiatta, green tea mochi, yummy wines and par baked breads. I have one of their reusable bags, but just one is not enough to contain all of that goodness!!
I would stuff my RuMe full of farm fresh produce, eggs, and baked goods from our local sunday farmer’s market here in Sacramento!
My favorite market is the Wednesday Farmer’s Market in Santa Monica (CA), but I can’t get there often because I have to actually work. So in reality I settle for the Sunday Farmer’s Market in West L.A. If I win the bags, and I never win nuthin’ but I keep tryin’, I will go to TOWN on veggies and herbs at one of these markets!
A. I love to shop at Central Market in Dallas. I always find something new and exciting. (And, they have a large selection of butter. And, an olive bar. And, cheese, cheese, cheese.)
B. I would love to fill my RuMe bags with fresh produce, above mentioned butter, olives and cheese, and bottles of wine!
P.S. This is my first comment ever on any blog. I apparently reallywant these bags! I love your pictures, your witty commentary and the fact that your kitchen is perhaps as small as mine!
My favorite local market is called Zupan’s and I would love to stuff a RuMe bag full of local veggies, Stumptown coffee, Silk Creamer and beer from Ninkasi and yummy cheese (in particular Rogue’s blue).
We’ve been blessed with small ethnic grocery shops here in Dearborn, MI! Our friends and family enjoy the little Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian stores that are no farther than 10 minutes from our home.
However, since we’ve been having a Japanese kick, we love the One World Market grocery store in the Northville/Novi area. They carry fresh veggies, noodles, and sushi to order if you get a hankering while you’re there!
(1) My favorite produce place is The Milk Pail Market in Mountain View, CA near where I live. As a NYC transplant, it reminds me of the narrower than narrow isles of Westside Market and Fairway. They have incredibly fresh fruits & vegetables at bottom prices, especially in high-cost Silicon Valley. Every time I go there I can’t help but buy a tray of strawberries (that’s 6 of those green plastic boxes) for $6.99!! (2) And I’ll fill my sassy bags with ‘em produce too. Or beach towel and other chutchkies when we go to the pool.
Ooooooo . . . fun!! I do most of my shopping at the local WinCo. Exciting, huh? What will I fill my new bags with? Why, Chocolate Teddy Grahams, Of course!! Did I mention I have three little boys who enjoy eating off their tiny body parts? Pick Me!
a) My favorite grocery store currently is Giant Eagle. They have such a large variety of just about anything you can imagine.
b) I can’t wait to stuff the bags with all the goodies that I find next time I am in the store. Perhaps I will try a new cheese.
I often shop at Camas Produce. There I can fill the bag with apples, a Harvest Mill Breadmakers Cinnamon Log and a couple of pieces of Pop-a-Bak Baklava.
I’m embarrassed to say that I love shopping at Costco for fruit and veggies. They always seem so perfect. As for what I would stuff in these bags, hmmmm…. it would probably be produce and baked goods from our very nice local farmers’ market. I walk there but it’s all uphill on the way back, and these would definitely be better than plastic bags when I’m schlepping stuff home.
My favorite market is the Lane County Farmer’s Market in Eugene, OR (in constant operation since 1979). We are still getting peaches and corn, so I would fill the bag to the brim with either and freeze some for the winter. YUM!
My favorite shop is Magnolia where I can get candy bars and hand stitched quilts!
I’d love to fill the RuMe bags full of produce from the Sunday Farmer’s Market and a fresh baguette from Moulin!
I frequent the Alemany Farmer’s Market and the Rainbow Co-op here in SF. I can’t wait to stuff my new bags with all the fall produce about to come in season (squash, potatoes, apples, pears and celeriac), fresh cheeses, bread, and all the other essentials.
My favorite market is the Reading Terminal Market, where I in fact work. Because I work at such a great market, I always end up coming home with tons of stuff. I’d love to have one of these great bags to help me carry my load! I would stuff them with oodles of delicious local cheeses and fleur de sel caramels.
I love my neighborhood Trader Joe’s, they always have great new products to try at pretty reasonable prices. One of my favorite things to buy is the 0% Trader Joe’s brand Greek Yogurt. I would use these great environmentally friendly bags to stock up on yogurt since they always sell out fast!
Sunrise Asian Market in Eugene, OR – gotta stock up on rice noodles, soy sauce, sushi supplies, thai curry paste, and coconut milk.
My favorite local market is the Co-Op; it’s our local/organic source for all my favorite ingredients that can’t be found at big chain supermarkets. I would love to stuff a RuMe bag with sweet potatoes, blue cheese chunks, loads of fruits and veggies, Kashi cereal, and baking ingredients for all your lovely recipes!
OOhhh. What fun!
My favorite place to shop is Super Cao Nguyen, the Vietnamese/Asian/ethic supermarket. Such goodies to discover.
And if I could just fill up a bag, I’d go with cheeses, and possibly crackers to go along with all those cheeses.
I’m a Trader Joe’s girl, but I love Whole Foods too when I have the time to drive down to San Diego to go to one. The BEST though is Poway Farmer’s market for heirloom tomatoes from my friend “the tomato guy”. I would just love to fill up those cute bags with all my Saturday morning farmer’s market finds. Thanks for the giveaway chance!
My favorite market is Trader Joe’s because it’s economical and has great stuff. BUT if I had more money, I’d shop at the Madison Market. When I go in there I want to cook all kinds of yummy, fresh recipes (that would cost a fortune!).
Favorite place, oh probably TJ’s or a local farmers market. What I’m looking forward to putting in these, actually they would come in handy when I walk down the road to my neighbors to pick up peaches and pears from his trees
My favorite market is the Hollywood Farmer’s Market. Lots and lots of stands filled with fresh fruit, bread and other tasty items. These bags would come in handy, and would all get filled up very quickly.
I really like shopping at the Sandy Hook farmer’s market, but I am still looking around for a more comprehensive one in my area! I would love to stuff the bags full of apples and cider; I love fall and apple picking! Thanks for the chance at the awesome giveaway! :oD
Farmers’ Market – we love to fill our bags with swiss chard & tomatoes!
1) I am moving to Portland, Oregon in a week and CANNOT wait to shop at the market on the Portland State University campus, which is a 3 minute walk from my new house! Coming from a small town, the market overwhelms me with delicious-ness everytime I go.
2) I’ll stuff my bags with yummy gluten-free pastries and a loaf of bread, almost-ripe peaches, hard cheese, and locally made blackberry or marionberry jam. I’d probably sneak some chocolate in there too, of course.
A. TRADER JOES!
B. TRADER JOE’S JOE-JOE COOKIES! TRADER JOE’S SCONES! TRADER JOE’S PEACH SALSA! TRADER JOE’S ORGANIC FRENCH ROAST COFFEE! TRADER JOE’S ORGANIC SOUR CREAM! YUM! TRADER JOE’S VANANA YOGURT! DOUBLE YUM!
My favorites markets are ARC and Goodwill…plenty of recycled goods to stuff in these cool sacs. Then on the way back out of the house, I will fill them with all the paper recycling that seems to pile up at my house.
One can’t get food at the GW or Arc, so my favorite food market would have to be Community Foods in Manitou Springs. Good people, great prices.
I do most of my shopping at Publix. When the local farmer’s markets start up again in the fall, I plan to visit them as well.
I would love to stuff these bags with library books, fresh fruit, and a big sandwich for a picnic with the kiddos!
I would like to take a new shopping bag to Metropolitan Market in Tacoma’s Proctor district. Or Stadium Thriftway. Or Trader Joes. I hope to fill my bag with cheeses, olives, whatever veggies and meat look good, and hot smoked paprika since I’m out. And Boar’s Head bacon if I go to Stadium Thriftway.
I don’t live near any farmer’s markets so my next favorite places are Trader Joe’s and Mother’s Market.
I love mangoes and wish I could fill ALL six of those bags with yummy, luscious mangoes!
I grew up with two parents who worked in a grocery store. My dad was a produce manager and my mom was a bakery and deli extraordinaire. I spend too much time each week perusing Lunds, and I always keep reusable bags with me just in case I need to buy more delicious and intriguing food (cheeses, meats, fruits, and pastas are in my “top four”)!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I love Metropolitan Market here in Seattle. As for filling up the bags, I’m looking forward to fall produce…butternut squash, pumpkins and lots of apples.
My favorite market is a produce store down the road that usually has a good stock (but sometimes it’s a bit over-ripe), and the prices are always way below the local grocery stores!
I look forward to filling this bag with apples when we go to a fun apple picking farm in October! Fall can’t come soon enough for this southern CA girl!
I have to travel out-of-borough to get over to the Fairway in Brooklyn, NY, but it’s worth the trip from Staten Island. What would I bag? Wine. Cheese. Tofu. Soba noodles. Garlic and ginger. Lots of fresh veggies and fruits. And for my boyfriend, some organic steak and chocolate and peanut butter cup ice cream. :)
I would love to fill them up ever at the Franklin Farmer’s market in TN. I’d also use them when yarn shopping, grocery shoppong, everything!
I love shopping at the dufferin grove market (in Toronto)… you can find all sorts of local produce and interesting things (like fresh vanilla beans). This time of year I think I’d be most interested in getting some fresh peaches and kale (yay for locally grown food!)
I stuff my bags at Trader Joes or at Bel Air.
I would fill these new bags with farmers market goodies, yarn and art supplies for the art program at my kids’ school.
One of my favorite markets to go to is around the corner, Nugget. Not only is it stocked full of local fabulous Northern California grown produce, but it’s one of Fortune 100’s best places to work = happy employees helping you!
We have a Whole Foods opening next month. I’m excited to go inside and fill my bags with all the goodness the Hollywood stars seem to find in there!
I used to love Pike Place Market and the Central Market in Seattle, but since I’ve moved to San Diego I mainly get my veggies and groceries from Trader Joe’s and Henry’s. We have friends in Cardiff and we also like the Seaside Market there. Aside from groceries, I’d love to stuff these bags with the goodies I get at the fabric store. Great giveaway!
Hello Deb!
I absolutely love your website – just discovered in in May of this year. But I’ve browsed your archives all the way back to the beginning.
I shop at our local farmer’s market here in Santa Barbara, CA – it’s absolutely fantastic. And I carry my own shopping bag, but would love to have the RuMe bags as well since cramming everything (fruit, veg AND herbs) into one bulky bag can be awkward and things usually end up a big smooshed.
This Saturday I’m trying the bourbon hand pies for a party – can’t WAIT to see how they turn out.
Terry
I love the Union Square Greenmarket for produce and flowers. Being from Los Angeles, I adore Bristol Farms…but now that I live in New York, Whole Foods/the Food Emporium will have to do for everything else. The Chelsea Market (especially the Manhattan Fruit Exchange – already squeezed lemon/lime juice!) is also a favorite.
I’d definitely put some raspberries and peaches from the Greenmarket into an end-of-summer pie or crumble!
I would so take these everywhere but I think my weekly farmer’s market would be the ticket. Pluots, Chinese broccoli, strawberries and tons of kettle corn…and lots of library books.
how cool! i usually bring my own bags everywhere (or just carry the stuff in my hands) but we often forget when we’re out and about so it’d be great to have one for unplanned purchases.
my favorite market in town (bozeman, mt) is Joe’s parkway. It’s 2 blocks from my house and has a smattering of yummy gourmet items. i would love to stuff the bag with fresh produce, gourmet candy bars, pumpkin gnocchi and mozzarella.
I love our (Portland) New Season’s market……… somewhere between the seasonal organic produce, the coke, the house baked organic bread, and the garlic pork sausages I fell in love.
Hillcrest Farmers market in San diego! I will fill mine to the brim with tomatoes.
Being from California, Trader Joe’s is my first love. But now that I live in New York I like the Fairway. I’d love to stuff these bags with fresh fruits and veggies while they are still available!
I love to stuff my bags at the local farmer’s markets and the local produce stands. the abundance of delicious goodness that abounds is wonderful!
but when traditional shopping is required i load em up at either Trader Joe’s, WinCo or Safeway!
Trader Joe’s baby! Something about that store, I always remember to bring my bags in. I also like to shop at the farmer’s market. In my bag I want melons, beets, potatoes,seet potatoes, peaches, berries, beer, cheese, flour for baking, and curry. I keep trying to remember to bring bags into shoe stores or clothes shopping. Maybe I will more often when i have these cute bags! Thanks!
1) I enjoy my local El Cerrito farmers market… it’s just the right size, not overwhelming, and not too crowded.
2) I’d stuff these bags with lots of linguine from the pasta guy and fresh scallops and tuna from Husdon Fish Co, topped off by various random fruits and veggies to complement what I get in my CSA box (which is much heavier on veggies than fruit).
I prefer Eastern Market in DC, and would lately prefer to efer to fill the bags with swiss cheese.
My fave market is Campbell Farmer’s Market (CA). I would fill it to the brim with juicy, ripe, and amazing fruit, as I am a closet fruitaholic. Not sure if you’re familiar with Envirosax: another great bag that folds up very small and comes in fabulous colors and patterns.
My favorite market here is PCC (Seattle, WA) – I always find something that looks great there!
I’d love to stuff my bag with heirloom tomatoes – hard to find here with this year’s not-quite-hot-enough summer, but the most amazing things ever! Sprinkle with a little salt and voila! they taste like sunshine.
Easy! The Old Oakland Farmer’s Market. This time of year, I’d stuff them with heirloom tomatoes, greens, the last of the summer squash, and the first crop of fresh figs.
What a lovely giveaway idea. Thanks for holding it!
I’m in Tempe, AZ. I usually like to head to Sprouts farmer market, Whole Foods, or the downtown local farmer’s market in Phoenix.
I would love to fill my bag with nectarines from Sprouts, it’s nearly nothing for a pound, finger potatoes from the downtown farmer market and bottled tea from whole foods. Then, fill it with books for grad school.
Holy cow, that’s a lot of comments! Well, I’ll throw my favorite market into the ring, too. It’s the Old South Pearl Farmers Market in Denver, held every Sunday from June through October. I always walk there, and always take my own bag along to tote that wonderful produce home.
Thanks for the contest!
Trader Joe’s is my fave in LA.
I’m excited to put some french bread, manchego, and prosciutto in them!
I just moved to Seattle, and do almost all of my shopping at the Ballard Market. I’d fill the bag with huge flats of blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, pomegranates, figs…and probably some pie crust ingredients!
My favorite store is Whole Foods. It’s pretty close to me, and I love the produce. We try to buy everything organic, if we can, and Whole Foods really helps with that.
What do I want to stuff into my bags if I win? Produce of course. And maybe some fresh flowers!
Okay, so it’s not in my city–but in my general metroplex. I love shopping at Central Market. I generally only go there when errands put me in the area, but I still love it. These bags are excellent for carrying around large cans of canned tomatoes–y’know, when fresh are out of season.
a) Santa Monica Farmer’s Market — so many plums for dimply plum cake!
b) These bags will be stuffed with kale, thyme, and other wonderful green things.
i enjoy the flourtown farmers market, which is a 5min walk from my house! woo no driving!!
and i am looking forward to stuffing those classy bags with delish veggies, muffins, and greek foods (omg so good), as well as my gym stuff (this would be awesome) and i’ll probably schlep one to work, cause they look big enough to hold my sketchbook.
if i don’t win, at least christmas isn’t too far away!
a) Love to shop at the Fresh Market (a mostly-in-the-Southeast chain of stores with fabulous produce and terrific fresh seafood).
b) Artichokes. Lots and lots of artichokes!
While the Pike Place Market in Seattle is wonderful, I prefer size of the Ballard Farmer’s Market… not as many tourists. I would stuff my bags full of lots and lots of beets. I cant get enough of them!
a) Sprouts in Phoenix. Shockingly not that many go and it’s fairly empty.
b) Fresh fruit and chocolate covered pretzels. :)
Wow, I never win these things when there are less than 20 entrants, and there are already over 200! Now that I’ve established there’s no way I’m winning, I would LOVE a set of these bags!
Ok, my favorite market is probably the local farmer’s market, though I haven’t actually checked it out yet (next weekend baby!). The local one in my town is more of a craft fair than a market for farmers, so I have to go a ways to find a real one. Otherwise it’s just the big chain stores in my city, of which Whole Food is by far my favorite!
I’m looking forward to stuffing it with foods to try Smitten Kitchen recipes! Mostly fruits and vegetables are this point, though I’m really looking forward to trying those buttermilk and chive biscuits!
The Bellevue (WA) Farmer’s Market held each Thursday at the Presbyterian Church.
Just walking through the market makes me remember what is wonderful about life. I will put a bouquet of flowers from the mother and son team, some perfect peaches, some BoxCarWillie heirloom tomatoes, some mozzarella cheese, blackberries, and some Yukon Golds in the bag. Once they are safely tucked inside, I will sling the bag over my shoulder so I can carry our oven fired Tuscan pizza home for supper.
A. Trader Joes – my hubbie goes “nuts” for their cashew butter. Yum!
B. I think it would be fun to go up and down the aisles of TJs and just push everything into my bag. Yup! Thats what I’d do if I won. ;)
/Clara
In seattle, I love Ballard Market. Would love a bag full of cucumbers to make my first batch of pickles.
I love the Downtown Phoenix Public Market, even though it definitely can’t compare to farmer’s markets in cities like San Francisco. I love it because even here in the desert, there are people trying to ensure that there are local, fresh products available every week. I would stuff my shopping bag with freshly made goat cheese, desert flower honey, and herbs and vegetables locally grown through the loving labors of area farmers.
Not a big commenter, but your site is my “go to” for perfect recipes. My husband calls you site “That one with the GOOD recipes.”
I’ve forwarded your perfect blondie recipe (and made it at my home) more times than I can count. Your Madeline recipe is so perfect that when my eleven year old daughter accidentally used whole wheat flour instead of regular, the cakes were still perfect. In fact, they were a lovely change from the regular. Heartier and more earthy.
Anyhoo, thanks for the contest. Best to you.
a) The best market in Chattanooga, TN is the Publix, which has just come to town (but I was familiar with them from visiting my mother-in-law in Florida). b) I am most excited about filling the bags with the two things that I can only get at the Publix: 1) The yummy greek olives from the Publix antipasto bar; and 2) the Boar’s Head pickle spears, which are, hands down, the best dill pickles in the world.
(I would fill out my bags with the amazing Publix produce and cool cheeses of the world!)
My favorite market is King Soopers. It’s right by my house, has lots of local produce, hand rolled sushi (that is usually a good cost compromise) and many ethnic items all in one spot.
i dont know if shipping to FPO AP is possible but if it is i’d like to enter (its technically a PO BOX address with a Cali zip code)
The USMC has stationed my husband and i in Okinawa, Japan, My favorite place to shop is the little Japanese market down the street, the produce is amazing, and very well priced. and even though i speak only enough Japanese to order beer and tell a taxi driver to turn left (havnt learned right yet) the people who work there are amazingly nice and helpful. if i am looking for something they do their best to understand my english and help me find it.
i would love to stuff my bags with Japanese foods and goods. ramen bowels, cute japanese soda, the wonderful candy they sell here! oh and fresh fish, so fresh you can be sure it was caught within the last 24 hours.
Everyone out here has their own shopping bags, it seems like second only to Hello Kitty, neatly designed shopping bags are the accessory of the season!
Fruits and veggies from Sue’s Produce in Philly, just off Rittenhouse Square…and then up the block to diBruno’s for some imported Nutella [makes kissy-face gesture to her fingertips] and some snappy patter with a flock of cheesemongers.
I love to shop at the Eugene Farmers Market for my fresh food, and PC Market of Choice for everything else. At the market I eat whatever is in season that I can get my hands on. I love fresh food! At PC they have a huge bulk section, great fresh fish and local meats, plenty of cheap conventional food, and amazing varieties of imported goodies. And the walls are decorated in funny food quotes, like “Red beans and ricely yours,” Louis Armstrong.
I live in Beijing, and my favorite place to shop is from bicycle carts filled with seasonal fruits along the side of the street. Peaches are still in season! Bags will be used to schlep aforementioned fruits back to tiny apartment kitchen.
I know that everyone raves about Borough market here in London, but my favourite is actually the little farmer’s market on Sunday mornings in Queen’s Park, up the Bakerloo line. Not too crowded, and full of dogs and kids and hung-over locals buying lamb burgers. Easily the most pleasant place to do the shopping needed to supplement our vegetable box, which leads me on to the next question – I would probably be carrying home chunks of mutton, pork sausages, and the wonderful traditional British cheeses that they sell at the market, including my all-time favourite, Ticklemore, which makes a wonderful lunch with a couple of warm newly-roasted beetroot and some crusty bread. Perhaps with this season’s pears to follow!
My favorite market is Mitsuwa Marketplace in Costa Mesa, CA. I am most excited to stuff these full of yummy fresh sushi ingredients…mmmm….
Curse living in the middle of nowhere (also known as New Zealand)! Those bags look snaz-zy. I will content myself with being jealous of anybody who wins them :p.
Oh, we have fabulous markets here…but I do indulge at the Markthalle (a year round indoor market). Plus, it’s Germany, so you are expected to bring your own bags! I could just see myself stuffing the bags with German brown bread and some great cheeses…
My favorite market here in park Slope has to be Union Market — fun, interesting produce and other good items everywhere! That said, I can also be seen at Eagle Provisions on 5th ave hunting down fresh meats and good beers — both things that would definitely make it in the bag, as well.
I’m most excited to stuff these bags with Baguettes, Cheese, and growlers of Six Point from Bierkraft or Grab!
Ha, who cares about New Zealand… Its not even a real country ;) What about Australia… we have markets, we need bags, our Prime Minister is going to charge us 10c each soon for plastic bags… I feel ignored… its okay, I’m over it.
I would use these bags to fill items from the Ferry Building shops in San Francisco! Also every Tuesdays during lunch the Ferry Building hosts a wonderful mini-Farmers Market allowing me to buy yummy snacks for the office!
1) Central Market, Houston, Texas. I love their bakery and portabella mushroom sandwiches!
2) Bikram yoga paraphernalia!
I love to shop at Trader Joe’s downtown Riverside, Ca.. Organic and unique describes this place. I just can’t wait to stuff my shopping bags with a bouquet of fresh cut mums, some cool, juicy organic strawberries and red grapes, some fresh crusty bread, a variety of fine organic cheeses, an artichoke dip and a crisp, cold bottle or two of Sparkling French Lemonade and go on a picnic with my hunny. Oh, and some fine german chocolate to top it off.
I usually avoid the see and be seen Ferry Building farmers market where I live in San Francisco and go for the lesser known and less expensive Fillmore farmers market on Saturday mornings. Cold vietnamese spring rolls, three baskets of berries for $5 and live jazz music. I need durable bags for winter, now that SF has banned plastic bags, the paper ones just don’t hold up in the rain.
My sister recently found an awesome, local corner shop. It has the most random and freshest produce in santa fe. I’d fill that bag with as much fresh roasted green chilies as it could hold- there’s only 2 months of green chili season left.
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The best market ever is Le marché de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France (although Jean Talon market in Montreal, Quebec, Canada came close)… so much fresh, local fruit and vegetable…
Problem is, my basket always ends up full before midway through it. That’s where the RuMe comes into play: no room left? Tadaaaam! A whole lot of new shopping perspectives appear together with the RuMe bag…
Union Square, of course, is my favorite greenmarket in NYC and fresh herbs and flowers are my favorite things to buy.
My favorite market is the Carrollton Farmer’s Market (only local produce for me). I love talking to the farmer’s and it’s so encourageing to shop with people that are trying to make a difference locally and environmentally.
I’m excited to stuff these bags with: hormone-free naturally raised pork sausage, fresh juicy watermelons, apples galore for homemade apple butter, heirloom tomatoes, a colorful mix of peppers and perhaps a plant or two. (I try to buy at least one thing from every vendor to show my support).
I love Trader Joe’s! Can’t get enough of them. I would definitely stuff the bags with their salsas and tiramisu!
Arizona has a great local chain market, Sunflower (although the expanding California chain Fresh and Easy is fun, too.) My weekly regulars are fruit, veggies, tofu, cheese, yogurt, chips, and tortillas.
I’m in Cali, so naturally, my favorite place is Trader Joe’s. And I can’t wait to stuff the bags with their garlic aioli and marinated mushrooms! Yum.
My small town doesn’t have much. I usually shop at the Commissary (military grocery store). But when able I drive the one hour to TRADER JOE’S!!! I’d fill my bag with rice milk! Those puppies get heavy and sometimes even the great TJ bag’s handles break. :)
My favorite store is Ballard Market in Seattle and I’d fill the bad with lots of veggies and ingredients for indian food.
Not necessarily my favorite, but I visit Trader Joe’s weekly for groceries — walking distance from our house! Love Portland farmers market and People’s Co-Op.
westminster maryland’s farmer’s market – the producer’s only 1.
a vendor there has “rarer” apple varieties including nothren spies.
which are the absolute best to baske w/. and not to forget the
pups – my dogs love their dog biscuits.
Here in Houston, we have a really cool market named Central Market. I love to shop there. Their produce, seafood and wine selection always has me drooling, so does the cheese selection and also the olive bar. I would stuff my bags with some yummy cheese and red wine. :)
I live in Toronto and my favourite market is the St. Lawrence Market. I’m most excited to stuff these delightful bags with lettuce, cucumbers, bell peppers; any fresh produce will do!
These would stay in my handbag at ALL TIMES in case of emergency, but really I’d walk down Mission St in San Francisco and just get more and more fruit from every vendor lining the street. Today I had a peach that almost made me cry it was so good. Mm.
Living in the Bay Area, I really cannot get enough of the local farmers markets. My favorite is the Tuesday market on Derby Street in Berkeley.
In the bags, I will stuff: lamb chops from Highland Hills Ranch, shelling beans from Full Belly Farm and dry-farmed earl girl tomatoes from Dirty Girl Produce.
What a great giveaway!
I love to go to the Farmer’s market in Hollywood. It’s huge, and there is great produce to be had! I imagine I would fill the bags with hummus, garlic habanero pistachios, blue gouda, fresh spinach, and shitaki mushrooms – among other things. I’m getting hungry!
I love shopping at the farmer’s market on Fillmore in San Francisco. I try to walk over every Saturday to stock up on produce.
OOh, I would love a set of these! I love the downtown Farmer’s Market in SLC, which I recently discovered – now I never miss a week. I would stuff those bags full of whatever fresh, organic produce is in season, and I’d probably buy more of it just to have an excuse to use more cute bags.
My favorite market is called Russo’s and it’s in Watertown, MA. It is more of a produce market than anything else, although it has a wonderful bakery, an excellent cheese selection, and good organic meats. I love it because Julia Childs did all her produce shopping there, and if it’s good enough for Julia, it’s certainly good enough for me!
My favorite market is the SF Ferry Building, and also Berkeley Bowl in Berkeley. I’d fill these with baking goods for my next baking project, plus lots of fresh fruit!
I love the Big Barn Market – amazing variety of produce and these would make it so much easier to get things home. I have other re-usable grocery bags but these would always be with me instead of sitting at home after I unpack them (blush).
PIck me! Pick me! rofl
Most of the time, I shop at Trader Joe’s, or an independent store (a tiny, family-owned chain!) called Cosentino’s, here in San Jose (Campbell, actually). My grocery bag is usually filled with assorted cheeses – brie, apricot stilton, gouda, parmesan – as well as the usual staples. Sometimes I make it to one of the three farmer’s markets near me, but not as often as I would like.
monterey market in berkeley! and i’d put loaves and loaves of fresh baked bread in the bags (some for me and some for sharing, of course)!
I always end up carrying mini-buckets of plain yogurt, lemons, and Theo chocolate bars home from New Seasons in Portland, OR- truly the “friendliest grocery store” (with the best looking produce year-round)!
My current favourite market is the Farmer’s Market in Kihei, Maui (where we are vacationing), but normally it’s my little grocer at home on Roncy in Toronto. I love filling it with Ontario peaches and corn!
I’m going to Pike Place Market in Seattle in 45 hours. That’s my favorite market. I want to get a grilled cheese at Beecher’s, some flowers, a giant macaroon, a piroshsky and fresh fruits.
When I get back home, I want to stuff these bags with tomatoes, squash, and basil. I will use them for work (lugging files back and forth) and play (a good beach bag?).
Thanks!
Hollywood Farmers Market in Portland, OR. Right now I would fill it with as many peaches as I could. I am completely obsessed with peaches right now. They are about to go out of season. Oh, the humanity.
Here in the Bay Area, I have a choice of about 5 farmer’s markets within 10 miles and several fruit stands. But I would also use the bags for library books…fresh fruit and books, doesn’t get much better that that!!
The Moss Street Markey here in Victoria, B.C. is by far my favorite. I would fill up these bags with anything and everything from that market. I carry a crochet bag in my purse, because like these it is small when folded up but can stretch to hold so much.
I love Trader Joe’s. I was there today and came home with the best corn and KerryGold butter to go on it. It’s from Ireland where cows apparently get to eat that green, green grass. Also Bellweather Farms creme fraiche — another item in the “Thank God for Trader Joe’s”
mantra. For my corn chips and salsa con queso (am I the only one who eats junk food?) and toilet paper and contact lens cleaner — it’s Lucky’s. (I loath Lucky’s.)
Thanks Deb for the delightful contest and the chance to peek into your reader’s shopping bags. Their mothers
would be proud. Everyone is eating their vegatables!
There aren’t too many good places to shop around here, except for TJ’s and Whole Foods. However, we do have an excellent farmer’s market twice a week where I love to shop for my produce and fruit. I usually stuff my bag with tons of fruit (especially summer fruits!), Brown Cow yogurts, and leafy greens!
Favorite market is the Piazza di Nardi and I love filling up my sacs with meat. Filet, tenderloin, poultry, fish… meat meat meat and more meat.
And maybe a little veg too.
I’ve been wanting one of these bags since you first wrote about them. They are quite cute and practical. Awesome giveaway!
I live in Apex, NC, and I’m obsessed with Whole Foods and the Raleigh Farmer’s Market. Whole Foods is great about using paper bags and containers, but all summer I collect plastic bags from the fresh fruits and veggies I buy at the Farmer’s Market. I sure could use a super cute bag I could pile all those yummy goodies at the Farmer’s Market into instead! Yum.
The market I love most is the Greenmarket in Grand Army Plaza. I want to fill this bag up with so many tomatoes that the people working the scales at the Maxwell’s and Evolutionary Organics stands Become Suspicious.
Market: Harmon’s Grocery
Stuff to stuff in the bag: Mmmmmm, yummy cheese and bread
I love Trader Joes and Whole Foods. Trader Joes has awesome dairy products, a big variety of nuts, cheeses, wines, meat, chicken… I just wish they had more produce. I would love to make Trader Joes my one stop shop but I can’t. SMITTEN KITCHEN rocks and you are very kind and thoughtful to have such a fun giveaway. I will check out that website. Thanks!
I agree with Elissa, Sara, and Mala – Berkeley Bowl is definitely where it’s at. Great selection (their bulk section is amazing), reasonable prices, and a lot of the food is local (as is the store itself!)
If I won, I’d fill the bags with the last of the great summer produce (tomatoes, grapes, corn), and all the fixins I’d need to make one final, tasty, grilled pizza. Nomnomnom.
Portland Farmer’s Market!
If I’m not stuffing it with farmer’s market goodies, I’ll stuff it with three gallons of milk–whole for the kid, 2% for the husband, skim for me. (It can handle all that, right?)
I know someone already mentioned this, but the SF Ferry Building Farmer’s Market! Lots of fruit, and really good pecan brittle, and exotic squash, oh and whatever else looks pretty in the Saturday morning sunshine!
Old Strathcona Farmer’s Market in Edmonton just off Whyte Ave. Oh if I had my choice, that’d be yarn, honey, fresh produce, bagels and cream cheese. Obviously I’d put the yarn in separate bag. ;)
My favourite market in Montreal is the Jean Talon market. Blueberries will be done soon (the best wild blueberries in the world are grown in Lac St-Jean, I haven’t done a systematic comparison but I still know this to be true), so I’d have to use the bags to haul some fall produce, like big, heavy buttercup squash.
Favorite store: Taylors Market in Sacramento. Best butcher shop and freshest local produce. Cant wait to fill bag with CSA from Full Belly Farms. We are SO lucky here in the Central Valley.
I’m really excited about this! These bags are so pretty!
I’ll be using them (if I win) to shop at Metropolitan Market in West Seattle or at a local farmers market. I’ll be filling them with fresh produce – like peaches! Yum. Or ingredients to make one of my favorite SK recipes, like the buttermilk caramel cake!
I would like to be politically correct and say the Farmer’s Market here in SF. It is beautiful and I do love it.
However, I live in the Mission, and am more likely to wake up early on a Saturday, stroll over to Tartine, grab a half-dozen morning buns and some brownies and perhaps a few tartlets and bring the loot to a friend’s house for desert. You’d be surprised how many table open up to you when you can bribe folks with Tartine’s award winning ans decadently gorgeous pastries!
~Mollena
While I love the farmer’s markets, my favorite grocery store here (Bozeman, MT) is a small local store called Town and Country. They carry quite a bit of local produce, and even local herbs and spices. I can usually find the specialty ingredients I’m looking for there, too, which is nice!
I love these bags – I had seen them a while ago on Delight and have thought about getting some ever since. I’ve tried making my own, but they just don’t fold up that small! I would love to stuff these bags full of carrots and cream cheese to make my husband a birthday cake!
my favorite market is my backyard. i live outside of a rural town in the pacific northwest, and my property is large (about 5 sq. miles). i can spend all day walking for miles to find the perfect food. i would use the bag mainly to collect mushrooms; i have found morels, golden chanterelles, lobsters, chicken of the woods, just to name a few. in addition to mushrooms & the vegetables in my garden, i would use the bag to collect dandelions, daylilies, and other edible flowers in my garden that i have not yet discovered (and non-edible flowers to use to decorate my table :) ).
I’m a rainbow grocery or alemeny farmers market over the sf ferry building. I’d fill my bags up with gala apples, brown cow cream top yogurt, stone fruits and pears.
a) my favorite locat store to shop at is The Fresh Market. It’s new, and cool, and has stuff that our regular grocery store does not carry.
b) I am really craving some apples to stuff down in my bags (should I win) and some peanut butter.
I love Alemany farmer’s market in San Francisco. These bags would be great for carrying produce!
They look so nice!
Our favorite “supermarket”: probably T&T. As for a farm market, it’s Richmond Country Farms. Probably not very exciting, but 4L jugs of milk would be handy in these bags! (Especially since normal bags can’t seem to handle them.) Of course, just loading up when we go to said markets… sometimes our purchases can be quite A LOT and heavy!
Farmer’s market, and I plan on stuffing the bags full of all things yummy!
I love Trader Joe’s (but don’t have one) and drool immediately upon entering Whole Foods, despite the fact that I cannot shop there as often as I would like. I would try to fill one of these bags with the last of summer produce, probably a watermelon or two if only to test the weight capacity of the bag!
1) The Palo Alto Farmer’s Market. It’s only open Aug-Dec, but it’s a quick bike from my university and always filled with friendly faces. :)
2) I’d fill the bags with nectarines and freshly baked bread. Delicious~
I really enjoy shopping at all the farmer’s markets in san francisco. especially the Alemany one. I also like Trader Joes! I will stuff these bags with fresh tasty in season produce.
My favorite is the Burke farmer’s market, but more importantly the happy cheese man stall. In two years, I’ve never seen that guy not genuinely enthused to be there, but then again when your job is to make cheese, I suppose it’s not really a challenge to enjoy your work.
As for what I’d put in there – anything I can get my grubby little hands on. It’s coming into apple season now, so let’s say apples, apples, and more apples!
My favorite markets are Whole Foods, New Seasons, and Trader Joe’s. Trader Joe’s usually gets more of my $$ because the price is right.
If were were shopping at Trader Joe’s, the gorgeous bags would most definitely be filled with their Creamline Yogurt, Joe’s Os (which my children think are much better than Cheerios) and if I am needing a dark chocolate fix, I will grab a container of dark chocolate covered almonds and dipped in sea salt. I have a love/hate relationship with those things!
Those are very cool bags, btw!
We have limited choices here in interior Alaska…WalMart, Safeway, and Fred Meyer. Safeway has a bakery, nut bar and a starbucks and we have a growing farmer’s market so those are probably my favorite. I would use those cool bags for anyting and everything…!
bag love! :-)
I love shopping at Central Market in Shoreline, WA. I’m excited to stuff it with peaches and mascarpone and gingerbread cookies to make another tartlett. OMG that was good! I’m also excited for a bag I can put milk in so I’m not freezing my fingers off when I carry it home… :-)
My favorite market is the University District Farmers’ Market in Seattle, which is one of the few in the area open year-round. I would use the bags to stock up on tomatoes to slow-roast, pastured eggs and raw milk, and local salmon.
I love to shop at our local farmers market during the summer and early fall, but other than that, my choices are limited, as I live on a small island off the west coast of Canada — we just have a little “Tru Valu” grocery that we all shop at. For specialty items, we have to go off island to Victoria or Vancouver.
I look forward to using these bags for all of my groceries!
Gotta go for the New Seasons in Portland, OR (we’ve got a couple, I’m a fan of the Sellwood store). I would fill it with wine, clams, and some fresh vegetables.
I just moved to LA and am loving my new local market, in Brentwood. My husband carries all of the heavy stuff in a big backpack, but I could use the bags to carry tomatoes and eggs and things that shouldn’t be squished.
My favorite local place is Madison Market and I am most excited to carry big vegetables like squash in the bags.
I love to shop at the Farmer’s market in Ballard (in Seattle). I LOVE the fact that these fold down into a small compact size. I would carry a bag with me so that I have something with me when I have an impromptu stop at the store on the way home from work. Also, it will be great for toting home library books!
My favorite market here is called Don Quixote (for real!). It’s a Japanese chain and they have all the Asian foods we love as well as all the American and local Hawaiian brands. When I win the bags I will fill them with the local produce for making our favorite Filipino dishes.
How exciting! I just moved to a new city, forgot my tote bags, and have been in the market for tote bags that my husband wouldn’t be embarrassed to be seen carrying! To the questions…
a) I just moved to Vancouver two weeks ago (from New Jersey), so my market experience might be a touch lacking, but I love-love-love two: one, the Granville Public Market, which reminds me of Reading Terminal (in Philadelphia, where I lived last year), and the other, a farmer’s market at 30th and Ontario, which is about 30 blocks from my door and which I feel the need to walk to nonetheless (one more reason a tote bag would help!)
b) Blueberries! and Coronation grapes! I’m eating the latter right now. There are so many blueberries up here and I want to get around to making those blueberry bars already. Also fresh pasta–they have it in the farmer’s markets here, and having lived a block from the Italian Market last year, I’m seriously jonesing for some just-cut linguine.
1. Edgewater Produce or farmer’s markets
2. fresh fruits, especially mango.
I justify waking up early on Sundays to go to the Menlo Park farmers market. It’s small and mostly predictable, but it’s nearby and in a nice town. Also, right next to Trader Joe’s, so I can stock up on pasta and loss-leader eggs and dairy.
However, it’s 2km to walk or bus, so I’m excited by the prospect of having a mighty bag to ease my journey.
Right now, I’d have to say that my favorite market is the vegetable and fruit treg (Albanian for market) on the Lana Road, not far from my house, in Tirana, Albania. My favorite store is the little dyqan (Albanian for store) just near my house, which is run by the nicest family in the world. Before we moved to Albania, my favorite market was the farmer’s market in Takoma Park, MD.
And I would look forward to having a great bag to fill with just about anything and everything, since Albania is, quite literally, littered with plastic bags. If I buy even one banana, they give me a plastic bag for it. If I buy several different fruits, they give me a different bag for each kind of fruit and then put all of the bags into one larger plastic bag. And they insist, even when I say that I don’t need/want them!!
(and p.s., I do have an American mailing address, so no worries on the shipping!)
My seasonal spot is the Tanana Valley Farmer’s Market in Fairbanks, Alaska.
A) The Bellevue Farmer’s Market in Washington – fresh produce, delicious meats, super-friendly folks, and crepes with Nutella! (plus convenient, free parking).
B) This weekend I took my two boys (3yo and 1yo) to our favorite organic farm, and we picked tomatoes, cucumbers, summer squash, and green beans… But we didn’t have a good bag for toting our goodies home! This would do the trick.
My favorite market would have to be Whole Paycheck—, er . . . I mean, Whole Foods, although I don’t often shop there for obvious reasons ($25+ per lb. for fresh salmon? I don’t think so). I most often shop at my local market – Scotts Valley Market. We branch out to Nob Hill Market (Raley’s) in Scotts Valley and Trader Joe’s and New Leaf Market in Santa Cruz. Once in a great while, I visit the farmer’s market where I can pick up great stuff like purple carrots, breads, and wonderful dark chocolate cookies for DH. (I love the differently colored veggies.)
As for what I’d be excited to stuff these bags with, I honestly think it’d be easier to think of what I wouldn’t stuff in these bags. However, since you asked for the former, not the latter, we’ll go with the obvious: groceries, makeup, dog toys/treats/leashes (for our fur-kid), clothing, books, and various spur-of-the-moment purchases.
I have 2 of those icky green fabric bags with “Scotts Valley Market†emblazoned across them and I use them all the time for groceries. However, when DH and I buzz down to Santa Cruz, we like to wander around downtown, take our time looking in the bookstore, Chef Works, and Lulu’s or Peet’s for coffee/snacks, etc. By the time we make it to TJ’s or the New Leaf, I’m tired of dragging those green bags around under my arm, that is, if I even remembered to bring them from the car. RuMe bags would fit quite nicely in my “black hole of Calcutta†purse/backpack where things go in but often never see the light of day again. ;)
Thank you for hosting this giveaway, Deb. I discovered your blog by happy accident just recently and I’ve been blathering about it to any/everyone I meet. DH is thrilled to finally have fluffy pancakes, thanks for your Pancake 101. He also pilfered (stop, thief!) my cold-brewed iced coffee – didn’t even leave me a drop. He’s a serious dark chocolate fiend and his friends in Germany send him pounds of the stuff for Christmas every year. He stores it in an extra refrigerator in the garage and God forbid I try to snitch any. :) I think it’s about time I put some of that chocolate to good use in your recipes, don’t you?
Thanks again! (And sorry for the long post.)
The Falls Church farmers market in Northern VA. I worked there for a lady who sold peaches when I was a kid. It’s fantastic. Peach season is winding down, but apple season is about to begin! hooray!
a) Granville Island market in Vancouver. Very touristy, but really the best.
b) wine, cheese, bread. mostly wine.
1. Trader Joes, but now that I’m no longer in New York and in Northern Colorado, I guess it’s more like Safeway or Vitamin Cottage.
2. I can’t wait to stuff beer into them! Because where I am happens to be a craft brews kinda town.
My favourite market in Vancouver is definitely the Granville Island Public Market – fabulous fresh fish and produce and pasta and other yummy Italian goodies from a place called Duso’s.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’m most looking forward to stuffing my bag full of handmade raviolis and pesto sauces and jars of Italian olives from Duso’s.
Holy bags, look at all the comments! Well, I’m an American living in Germany and my favorite market just happens to be our city’s Wednesday/Saturday market near the city hall, die rathaus (sounds like where Mickey lives. Isn’t.). Should I be among the fortunate, I’ll be stuffing these bags with the fleetingly in-season figs I’m obsessed with at the moment. And that’s a lot of figs.
a pan of spiced brownies are cooling in my kitchen as i type…
my favorite seattle market is the u-district farmers market, a 20 minute walk from my house. i’d lug all manner of produce back home in these bags. they’d be a very nice change of pace from our very stained and ripped canvas bags.
I love shopping at the Santa Monica Farmers Market, and the Culver City Farmers Market.
I especially like to buy produce that I haven’t tried before with recipes from the growers as to how to prepare the new foods.
My favorite local grocery store is Trader Joe’s….And my boyfriend will enjoy filling these reusable bags with his grocery “needs” (typical bachelor goods – dare I mention them, Mt. Dew, Oreos, milk and canned spaghetti sauce), meeting me with the cart on whatever aisle I happen to be on, dumping his finds in the cart, and then restocking his bag. This has been his favorite game of late – divide and conquer with a twist.
My favorite market is definitely a chain in Socal called Superior. They make their own tortilla and tortilla chips and sell Mexican baked goods. Their conchas are to die for and baked freshly every morning. I would stuff those bags with library books, the sharp edges always tear through plastic bags. I need something sturdy and cute!
My favourite market is near Green Street in east London. It’s a south asian market, full of spices, fresh vegetables, and halal meat. It’s under threat of closeure now – the council want to build a supermarket there instread.
I am a big devotee of the Berkeley Bowl. Nothing like it anywhere!
random number generators typically do not share the love with me, but i’ll give it a shot. :)
my FAVORITE store in san francisco is not a grocery store, it’s 826 valencia, which is a pirate supply store, but while they do stock things like glass eyes, lard, and beard trimmings, those do not dinner make.
practically speaking, i need bags i can stuff in my backpack so that i can stop at safeway on my way off the train from work to home and grab dinner fixins. my backpack, with camera, laptop, etc, is big enough for about $20 worth of items, so light and portable shopping bags would be a great item to stow in it for those afternoon shopping trips.
Santa Monica Farmers Market. I would fill the bag with avocados, of course.
a) While visiting my cousin in New York, I ate at this insanely good restaurant called Kumma Inn (I think that’s the name, anyway). Three of us polished off 11 courses of delicious…I don’t even know what it was actually. I’ve never cooked filipino thai fusion food before and thus have no idea what was in all of those incredible sauces. It’s all a long story for saying that my new favorite market will be: My local asian food market. Here’s to hoping there’s one in Santa Cruz, CA.
b) Ingredients to make filipino thai fusion food. But I cross the line at shrimp paste!
The best market we have herein Landstuhl, Germany is the Kaufland Grocery Store. It has great produce and lots of good German stuff.
I am excited to stuff the bags full of fresh vegetables, mouth watering fruit, fresh cheese and meats. Germans shop daily for the most part so their foods are always very fresh.
These bags look great. I think this is a great way to help our world.
Here in Cork, we have the English Market, which is a great place for all your vegetable, fish and meat (if you’re not a veg like me) needs. I will stuff the bag with delights from said market, including tofu, smelly cheeses and a few bottles of red wine. I would also take this bag on my travels, including to Pike Place Market when I go to Seattle to visit my parents.
Love Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods in the city of Brotherly Love….Philadephia. Would be stuffing those bags to the max with items to cook my favorite recipes from the Smitten Kitchen!
I love the local farmer’s markets, while they run, and if not those, there is a local family owned grocery chain here called Harmon’s- they encourage locally grown or produced stuff and have THE friendliest staff- their motto is, “We’re not normal, we’re Harmon’s” they have a cheese section, a bakery, a fresh meat case and of course, all the normal stuff.
Personally, fresh veggies and fruit would be my cargo of choice, but since I keep reuseable bags in my trunk. inevitably, this bag would eventually hold toys/sippy cups that need to go in the house, poopy diapers that need to be thrown away, and a myriad of other kid stuff…
I live in LA and do almost all of my grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s. The bags would also be very useful at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market…I’d fill them with the last of the summer’s delicious fresh vegetables.
My favorite place for delicious goodies in Seattle (my hometown) would be the local Trader Joes. I would stuff the bag with bagettes, tons of cheeses (hello Cambozola), some blood orange soda, some nice Viogner, and lots of dark chocolate.
Perfect for a picnic!
Hello from London, England. I do love Borough Market – it’s amazing – every type of fresh food you can think of from veg to meat and lots of yummy bakery items. I’ll probably be carrying chocolate fudge cake in my bag! Maybe 3 bags of it -and some belly pork to roast with some fresh apples to make my own applesauce….oo it’s making my mouth water just thinking about it!
Ohhooo, pick mee! I have a couple of places that I shop where they are trying to do away with the plastic bags. One place charges you a nickle for each one you require. I shop at a privately owned grocery called Cosentino’s. It’s sort of like a Whole foods, except they carry some brand name canned goods as well that aren’t organic. But they have also a wonderful bakery, deli counter, butcher, produce, cheese and wine area and also carry all the high end and boutique type condiments, dairy and baking supplies that aren’t carried at WF. We also have a couple of farmers mkt’s close by on different days of the week that I go to. Plus there are other stores too and the library. Those bags would be so handy to have.
I like to shop at my natural foods co-op. I’d probably use the smaller bags for knitting projects and library check-outs.
When I’m not at the local commisary I am at the market in Bury St. Edmunds. But if I get tired of that one there is a ton of markets in the many villages where we live. Also every town has a market day so in theory I could shop at a different market several times a week!
These bags are perfect for carrying all the goodies home from a day at the markets. They also could come in handy for schlepping kid stuff…of which there is always an abundance!
i love to shop at berkeley bowl, which is this amazing indie grocer in (you guessed it..) berkeley, ca. ohmygoodness so many types of tomatoes <3 and also they had meyer lemons when you had that recipe way back when. i would stuff my bag full of yummy fruits fom the market or if i was schlepping around town, gym clothes, research papers, and books. yeah. i’m boring :b
Trader Joe’s and Korean Market =)
And for picnic stuffs…
My favorite market is a little family run business – McCaffreys. I can’t wait to fill these bages with some of their produce and baked goods.
My favourite market is the only one we have, which is the monthly farmers’ market. My husband and i try to buy all our meat and veg for the month there, as well as treats if we are buying presents, because the food tastes better than stuff from the supermarket, and this way we are contributing to our community.
I’m from Ayrshire, although I now live in Paisley. What i look forward to is getting a big bag of Ayrshire new potatoes(they are famous in Scotland for being good), and having them with chopped spring onions and butter. Because I live far away now, i will probably only get to have them twice this year. Also some raspberry ripple fudge from the local farm sweetshop!
My favorite market in St Louis is the Maplewood Farmers Market. Although small, it’s pretty comprehensive, close to my home, and definitely manageable on a weekday afternoon. Close second is Local Harvest Grocery, a neighborhood market focusing on as many local products as possible.
If I win those bags, I’ll stuff them with corn on the cob, some cherry sungold tomatoes, a bag of locally-roasted coffee, some sunchokes, and possibly some squash blossoms.
Wow! These look great! My favourite market is the European market that comes here to Coleraine (..and sadly, probably Northern Ireland!) once an month. Wonderful confections, spicy condiments, and fresh crepes…. I’d stuff one of these (i’ve never seen ‘em before…so clever) bags with the great dried fruits they sell! Just in time for an alcoholic Christmas cake :). Thanks for an inspirational site! x
My favorite uses for a bag like this are probably a toss-up between the Super 88, Bazaar European Gourmet, and Clearflour Bakery. Two of them are places to get really interesting and good things cheaply, and the third is a very good local business that isn’t particularly cheap but definitely has good breads.
Please count me in! I live in Brussels, Belgium but have a US address you can ship to. (Why does Delight ship to the UK and Germany but not the rest of Europe??)
(a) Favourite market is the weekly Wednesday market in the Place du Châtelain.
(b) I could easily fill those bags with autumn produce — at the moment, tomatoes in all sizes and colours, plums, zucchini and squashes, wedges of cheese, freshly made galettes, and a big bunch of whatever flowers are cheapest!
I like the farmers market at Riley Park during the summer. I usually get lettuce or fruit there. I also love going to Cioffi’s. It is a great Italian market that is jam packed with all kinds of stuff. I usually get pasta, canned tomatoes, pancetta, and veal shank for osso buco. The butchers really know their stuff. I haven’t been in a while, I need to go and stock up.
This is great! My favorite market – right now – is actually the small Asian supermarket in my temporary hometown of New Haven, CT. I would fill these bags with wonderfully sweet end-of-summer corn and use it to make corn and bean salads. :)
honestly, it will be publix, albertson’s, or sweetbay–no convenient farm market for all the fruits and veggies and baking supplies. love checking into your site, by the way!
My favourite market in my city is the Saturday’s farmers’ market right downtown. All farmers’ markets are outdoor here (I live in Germany), this one is surrounded by beautiful old buildings and I have come to know it quite well by now. If I was heading to the market with one of those bags this week, I’d love to stuff it with apples, apples and even more apples, top it off with some cherry tomatoes and corn on the cob.
It’s probably boring, but I really like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Great for an aspiring vegan lke me. Can’t wait to fill the bag with vegan goodies (and pretty clothing…)
I love to shop at a local fresh produce market called 320 Market (320 being the street address) Great seasonal produce and some grown in surrounding Midwest communities. A trip there always inspires the desire to cook something healthy!
The grapes at Christmastime are big purple seedless sweet and mind bending good!
The owner wears bib overalls and is always willing to give an opinion on what is best to buy!
Hi Deb! this is a fab giveaway. I load up on organic apples and carrots for my 6 month old daughters at Chicago’s Green City Market and these bags would be great for getting something fun for mommy too.
Those bags are great. In the Syracuse area it’s Wegman’s for the best selection of just about everything. (And the RuMe shopping bags are something they would likely stock too) When I’m there I stock up of Scharffen Berger chocolate. Wouldn’t it be awesome to buy 3 bags full and carry it all home in those charming totes!
Were I not halfway across the world, you would find me at the Market at the Square every week, as early as I can manage. And man, when I get back, there will be nothing standing between me and bagful after bagful of ripe heirloom tomatoes (except maybe the change in season…).
I really love the farmer’s market that is held every weekend in a parking lot next to UC Irvine in Southern California. I would love to carry a bit of all the different fresh, organic fruits and veggies that are available there, especially all the cool asian fruits and veggies Ive never seen or heard of before! I reckon these bags would hold all the fruits and veggies I could eat/afford in a week. One of my favorite childhood memories is of going to the huge farmer’s market in (I think) Chula Vista, CA (near San Diego) with my mom, sister and grandparents. My mom has always been a forward thinker, even back in the early 90s, so she’s always brought her own canvas bags with her. The best part of the morning was if my sister and I had been good, we were bought frozen apple cider on a stick to eat on the way out!
As I live in Munich, Germany, my favorite market is the (sometimes over-hyped, but still lovely) Viktualienmarkt. And, as this is the land of bring-your-own bag, I am excited to use this EVERYWHERE, instead of raiding my office for bags when I realize I need to pick up groceries on the way home.
Living in London, Borough Market has got to be my favourite. I am excited to fill these bags with all kinds of things, including tasty tasty cheeses and autumnal (is it that time already!) root vegetables
I love shopping in the Mill Road area of Cambridge, here in the UK. It’s the sort of place that’s pretty rare these days – a street of individual shops selling different sorts of groceries. There’s a butcher, a series of ethnic supermarkets (Indian and Chinese next door to one another), interesting health food type shops, selling deli items and fresh bread, little cafes and obscure charity shops. A wonderful way of spending a Saturday afternoon, sadly under threat from a big superstore they want to build down there which will probably put all the small traders out of business.
Those colourful bags bags deserve to filled with colourful fruit and veg – peppers, sweetcorn, squash, long spicy chorizo sausages made from free range acorn-fed spanish pork (my favourite!). Maybe I’d throw in some calasparra rice and some squid and make a bright yellow, spicy, fishy, heap of paella…
Aren’t these bags the best? I could really use a couple!
Like so many of you– my favorite place to shop is my faorite farmers market in Washington, DC– the Freshfarm market in Dupont Circle. My farmer friends at Eastern Market are frequent friends, too!
What will go in these delicious bags? It’s autumn people- what won’t! The season I really kick into serious cooking gear– apples, any kind of squash, “micro” greens,homemade mozzarella cheese, a great loaf of bread and as I always fall for them, sunflowers.
For me it’s my local farmer’s market, I made a pledge in early spring to “buy locally”, this is going to be hard with with the change of seasons. I also shop at our local Co-op.
a) Toss-up between Berkeley Bowl Marketplace and 99 Ranch Market
b) Ingredients for baking (my third-year-of-law-school goal is to bake as much as I possibly can!)
I’m in England too, where, when not at the commissary, I can go to a butcher shop, a bakery, or the weekly market. But I love the organic vegetable box delivered to my home each week!
Cynthia #373 – I’m with you at Bury St. Edmunds although I will make a special trip to Cambridge market whenever I can!
What goes in the bag? Anything I need that day – vegetables, bread, cheese (I can get yummy Portuguese cheese locally!) and plenty of ingredients for Indian recipes!
Deb – thanks for the contest. I miss my Ithaca (NY) Farmers Market and reading all these comments bring back a flood of memories of markets visited around the world!
I love the Roath Farmers’ Market here in Cardiff. I’d stuff one of these bags to bursting with locally-grown apples this Autumn!
When we moved into our ‘up and coming’ neighbourhood in the west end of Toronto, within a year TWO organic grocery stores opened. One of them is called The Sweet Potato. I would most definitely take my bag there and stuff it full of home made pie, Green&Black chocolate, Kicking Horse coffee beans and probably some local veggies and fruit, just so I don’t look like I’m going to get scurvy.
a. the local trader joe’s or whole foods, but we’re looking to join a CSA soon!
b. i absolutely can’t wait to stuff those bags full of fresh produce!
how fun!!! i live in israel, so my favorite place to shop would be the Mahane Yehuda market- spices, fresh vegetables and fruits galore! i live within walking distance, so yes, i would definitely be taking these bags along and filling them with fresh produce! so much more stylish than the little cart thing i use now! (dont worry about my not living in the USA- my brother can ship me the bags from LA! ;) )
a) Kowalski’s and the farmers’ markets
b) I can’t wait to fill my bag with fresh produce and Kashi cereal!
a) I love a few markets in the area, but I’d have to say my favorite it Idylwilde Farm in Acton, MA. They’ve gotten quite big over the years, and in addition to all the amazing produce, they have a bakery, deli, and an impressive assortment of gourmet items.
b) I try to bring my own bags with me whether I’m at the grocery store or a local farm stand, but those bags get kind of cumbersome and sometimes I forget to grab them from the trunk of my car before I start shopping. If I had some that fit in my purse they’d always be available to fill with beautiful produce, baked goods, and more!
Favorite market is the Alexandria City Farmers Market and I look forward to stuffing yummy fall produce into my bags.
In Iowa we have a small chain of grocery stores called Fareway. I think there might even be a sprinkling of them in nearby states also. They have good produce and meat. They have a bunch of handsome meat men behind a real meat counter ready to take your order. I refuse to buy meat anywhere else. So I would fill up my bags with meat and produce.
I love going to the Union Square Greenmarket and I always get way more food than I can carry home in my normal bags! I would love to fill these bags with all of the bounty of the upcoming fall harvest, particular some delicious fresh apples.
My favourite market is Camden Market in London, with its welter of sights, sounds and smells, and a dizzying array of weird tat – from jewellery and soaps to gothic clothing and embroidered, sequinned bedspreads. These bags would be perfect for weird supplies like blocks of clay, bolts of fabric and sacks of sushi rice I pick up whilst wandering home across the city.
The Takoma Park farmer’s market rocks. They have great veggies, as well as meat, rainbow eggs and baked goods! With these bags, maybe I could buy enough tomatoes to do some canning this fall!
I love to shop in the farmer’s market in my town in NJ..it runs from May to October, and is full of fresh produce, bakery goods (yummy), soaps, and more! One of these bags would be great for that..or hiding things I’ve bought at garage sales…!
Here in New Hampshire’s Upper Valley the leaves are just beginning to show their “true colors”. While at the Lebanon COOP this weekend I spied the butternut squash just in from a local farm. I would use my new bags to carry home the ingredients for the squash soup in the Oct/Nov Cook’s Country.
My favourite market is the Kleinmarkthalle in Frankfurt, where there are exotic stalls with all kinds of foreign delicacies right next to local, organic producers. I would use those bags to fill up on dark pumpernickel, italian antipasti and a big container of fresh sauerkraut. They would also be invaluable in lugging up the upcoming squash from my garden!
I live in a small town northwest of Boston, so my favorite place to shop is our local farmer’s market. Secondly I love those bags adn can’t wait to stuff them with all sorts of things, yarn, books from the library adn groceries, of course.
I absolutely adore Borough Market on Friday afternoons for the food, glorious glorious food! Then there’s Spitalfields markets on Sundays for the clothes and knick knacks.
What would these bags be stuffed with, well that would have to be some yummy cheeses, lots of different hams & salamis, a pot of olives, a book or two, a bottle of red wine and some freshly baked bread. Mmmm … making me hungry just thinking about it!
My favorite place to shop these days is the Portsmouth Farmer’s Market in New Hampshire. My bags would definitely be filled with squashes, apples, honey and some of those incredibly tempting baked goods I try to pass each weekend!
Another one here for Borough Market! I’ve still got some gooseberries from there in the freezer just waiting for some flan pastry!
I’d stuff my bag with lovely apples and cheese and brownies and ostrich meat and real free range eggs and bread and bread and …..
*dribble*
I really love our Amish farmer’s market, but when it’s closed for the season, I shop at Ingle’s. Not a lot of choices in my small town! Pretty soon, it will be time to start buying some really great apples. I’d fill my bags with apples for an apple crostata. Yum!
I currently live in Dublin, Ireland (I know the company doesn’t ship here, but I’m sure my folks who live in Maryland would be happy to get these awesome bags!), and one of the things I love about living here is that -everybody- uses cloth shopping bags. Part of the reason for this is that there’s a law requiring all grocery stores to charge a fee for plastic bags, but it’s still wonderful to see the cloth bags catch on on such a large scale. At any rate, if I had one of these bags, I’d probably fill it the best way: shopping “like a European” (stopping by the crazy/chaotic Moore Street veg market, hitting up the butcher for some free-range beef, then ducking into the bakery for some fresh brown bread).
I live in Indianapolis, IN and I really love the Traders Point Cremery Farm Store/Farmer’s Market. TPC is a local creamery that makes “creamline milk” (unhomogenized) which is organically produced from grassfed cows. Anyway, they sell amazing milk, chocolate milk, yogurts, cheeses, and best of all – ice cream. And I’m just about in love with anything containing dairy. These bags are amazing, stylish, and seem so much nicer than the 99cent ones from Trader Joe’s. I would love to stuff them with produce from Farmer’s Markets in the Summer – especially blueberries, peaches, and corn (which I’m starting to mourn the loss of). But maybe this Fall I could stuff them with some apples….I need to get used to the thought of that instead! Thanks for everything you share with us Deb!
I love all of our farmer’s markets, but my favorite one is the Friday market near Faneuil Hall. On Saturdays I like to walk to my library, get some books, then walk to my local market and back home again, so this bag would be perfect!
My favorite market is my local farmers’ market on Saturday morning, and I plan to stuff my bags with lots of perennial plants and fresh produce!
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My favorite place to shop for food here in Baltimore is Whole Foods. I cannot, cannot make it through their produce section without buying way too much fruit and veg! So those bag swould be stuffed with fragrant herbs, tiny baby potatoes, jewel-like beets, peppers, green beans, and –right now — figs. I am so happy fig season is getting underway. Deb, I’d ask you to tell me how to cook figs, but I just love to eat ‘em raw.
Well, it’s not in my town anymore, but I LOVE and miss Wegman’s. My favorite things to shop for?: yummy food made by the Wegman’s kitchens and bakers…it’s my favorite way to “eat out.”
What an awesome giveaway!!
I love my local Rouse’s store. They carry local foods, have a wonderful meat and deli section with so many choices (and I know the meat is fresh), have a great bakery…ahh so many great things!
This bag would definitely carry the more healthy things they carry though, as I am on my diet. It would be wonderful to have these bags, since they fold small…they would fit in my purse and I would NEVER forget to bring them in the store!!
Hello! I live at WEGMAN’S! They have everything possible there under the sun … since I walk to the store these bags would be awesome for me! I would fill to the brim with veggies, fruits, different flours and yeasts to bake with, nuts, dried fruits, pasta, canned tomatoes for homemade sauce, lentils, spices from India…I could go on and on :)
My favourite market is St. Lawrence here in Toronto – I would fill the bags with one specialty item from each shop in the market!
How exciting! My favourite market is Broadway Market in East London. Always a good show of interesting people and fabulous artisanal goods and produce. I am most eager to fill the bags with the new large (I mean huge) size jar of pesto from the lovely Italian goods stand and olives from the Borough olives stand!
Here in Bountiful Buffalo, my vote goes to Guercio’s. It’s a family run (into its third generation of Guercinis) old fashioned grocery store, where, weather permitting, produce is piled outside on the sidewalk. I would fill my bag with plump eggplants, cagudza (a long,twisty green summer squash),vine-ripened plum tomatoes, fava beans, garlic bulbs, and a big hunk of parmesean reggiano. Mmmmmmm…….
This is great fun! I shop at Fresh Market and would love to stuff those bags with organic produce, some yummy cheeses and atisan breads. Thanks!
Okay, I just have to try :-)
I like to shop at this farmers market that is right around the corner. It is not a big market but more a shop where one family sells its own produce. They are really nice people.
I wouldn’t want to fill the bag with food just know because I really need new shoes so that might be something I could carry im my new RuMes.
Wow! These are such a great idea. I’ve recently discovered a local farmer’s market, tucked away behind a school in North London. It’s only small, but has the most wonderful selections of fruit and vegetables. I think these would be perfect for filling with the very last of the British summer fruits to carry back home and make jam with!
While I’m here, I made the blueberry crumb bars last week. Ohmygod! They’re so amazing. Now I know exactly how I’m going to end up using my store of frozen berries on this winter. Next up, the raspberry breakfast bars…
I live in the Washington DC area and am lucky enough to have several farmer’s markets to choose from. The closest to my home is the Kingstowne Farmer’s Market, though I prefer the one at Burke Center. I hope to head downtown to Eastern Market someday, though that one might be a little more difficult with my toddler in tow.
I am ashamed to say that my summer has been so busy I haven’t made it to the farmer’s market in weeks. It’s so bad that I don’t even really know what’s there…but since Fall is around the corner I imagine I’ll be picking up some beautiful apples, a few pumpkins, and glorious, glorious squash (can’t wait to make stuffed acorn squash….yum!).
Thanks for the blog, Deb. It is beautiful and so, so inspiring.
1. My favorite market is the West Side Market in Cleveland.
2. I would use these for everything, including food, books, and other shopping.
How fun! :)
Hot diggity, Smitten is gonna get on the COOL FOLKS list! And nice 15% promo for your debut, too.
I would (do) use the bags at the local Shop Rite where I would purchase the usual suspects that have made it to the weekly circular. Split chic breast, $1.49 /lb; Red & Green grapes, $0.99/lb; Melittta coffee, $2.99 (with price club card); and any bread or cheese that is on special this week. T-bone is $4.99/lb on sale AND club card, but I dunno, then we would need wine and mushrooms and green beans and oh shoot, what about dessert?
What great bags! I always forget to bring my green bags with me on little errands – these would be perfect. Just throw one in my purse and I’d be good to go. I get all my high end ingredients at Northville Market and I can’t wait to stuff mt bag fuill of baking ingredients ( and fresh apples, since it’s almost picking time!).
a) Russo’s, although I miss dearly the tiny open-air market, the Milk Pail, in Mountain View, CA, where you could find every fresh fruit, vegetable, and cheese your heart desired, with astoundingly high quality and low prices to boot.
b) a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter. :)
Now I am living in London I shop at the Queen’s Park Farmers Market on Sundays. We get all the trimmings for a Sunday roast there, plus sweets – cheesecake brownie is a favourite.
When I was living in Midlura, Australia I shopped at the Inland Botanic Garden Farmers Market, which was quite small but all the locals from the farming district went and you could catch up on gossip too.
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A. Most Saturday mornings I get up early and walk to the “Strip District” in Pittsburgh. They have a local farmer’s market plus a whole bunch of specialty grocers and people selling home made clothes and the like. I usually walk there which takes about an hour then bus back. These pretty little bags would be quite helpful in bussing my goods home with me.
B. I would be carting vegetables, fruit and probably some random home made jewelry that I can’t stop myself from purchasing.
Thanks very much for having the giveaway!
We have a great local farmer’s market, and an Amish market. I also use to love bags like these for carrying stuff to work (I’m a teacher) so I can’t wait to have something better than my plastic Walmart bag to lug stuff around in.
My favorite store is Keller’s IGA in Cincinnati, Ohio. I’ve always been a big supporter of IGA’s and I”m glad they still exist. I would fill my bag with flour, sugar, brown sugar, almond flour, Scharffenberger baking chocolate, eggs, milk…lot’s of baking needs, in other words. Baking ingredients are always so heavy to transport and these bags seem perfect for that!
My favorite market is going to be the new Trader Joes that opens up in about 10 days. And I will stuff my bags with their granola, olive oil, wine, and cheese!
My fav market is Trader Joes…they just put one in 2 miles away from me (which means trouble!!). I would use this bag for store purchases and for the days where I need to carry around more stuff than would fit in my purse or as a simple beach bag/pool bag.
I live in Philadelphia, and my favorite market of course is the Reading Terminal Market. I also love the Italian market, but it’s a little harder to get to. I would stuff these bags with the groceries I get from the Reading terminal market! I’m a student and I take public transportation, so it would be fantastic to have something more sturdy than plastic bags!
a)My favorite market is Le Marché du Vieux-Port in Québec City.
b)I can’t wait to fill these up with fresh, local fruits and veggies!
Tendercrop Farm in Newbury, MA. I’ll be stuffing them full of Tendercrop’s locally raised beef and chicken, some of their house-cured bacon, several heads of beautiful lettuce and a big bouquet of flowers!
Those look so cool.
I don’t, as yet, have a favorite market in the Cleveland suburbs, but when I do get the chance to go, I enjoy the Westside Market. I haven’t found that One Special Store that makes me happy and also suits my needs. I haven’t given up, though.
I love to shop at Whole Foods market…except it is 7 hours away! So i would fill my bags with non perishables and CHEESE!
City Farmers Market in Steubenvile On Thursday mornings!
Great produce and lots of friends.
1) My favorite market is Earth Fare — I live in a town with no Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s!
2) I’m looking forward on taking this to the Farmer’s Market while it’s still open and stuffing it full of veggies.
Man, there’s already over 400 comments! Well, it’s worth a shot anyway. I live in a rural area and there aren’t many shopping options, so realistically I need bags for Athe local grocery store. I often forget my big canvas totebags that I use because they usually have a bunch of other junk in them! And I don’t go to the farmer’s market because I grow most of my own veggies. BUT this fall we’ll be signing up for a CSB (Community Supported Bread–just like a CSA but with bread!) and I love the idea of toting my fresh loaves home in these bags!
A – The Monday/Wednesday Farmer’s market at Government Center in Boston
B – More tomatoes! I finally got the slow-roasted tomatoes right and I cannot WAIT to do it again :)
Wegmans!
Their delicious bananas!
Living in Rochester, NY, I would have to say that my favorite place to shop is Wegmans. Just a regular grocery store, but they do it so well. I pined for Wegmans when I was living in Westchester and stuck shopping in tiny little A&P stores that didn’t have room to stock much. I would stuff my bags by stocking up on flour, sugar, nuts, etc. because I have dozens of recipes I want to try and I am much more of a baker than a cook!
I LOVE those bags – how fun to own a set!!
I love to shop at the Concord Market here in Toronto – I could fill these bags with the freshest and yummiest produce ever!!
My favorite place to shop in my town is either Wegmans (LOVE Wegmans) or the public market in Rochester – one of THE largest outdoor markets in the world.
If I win those super-cute-and-oh-so-practical bags, I’ll stuff them with fresh fruits and vegetables, especially apples right about now. Yuuuum.
Summer means each day brings a farmers’ market option in one near-by town or another but for over-all, year-round shopping, Idylewilde Farms is a hands down favorite – thanks for reminding me – it’s time for a visit!
What would go in the bag? Fresh squeezed juice, a rustic loaf of bread for grilling, lovely peaches or nectarines, jicima and snap peas for snacking, greens of some sort and a wedge of cheese.
Excellent bags!
I live in Ohio and Kreiger’s Market is my favorite spot to shop when the farmers’ markets aren’t open. I’d fill the bags with lots of local, organic produce and their excellent grassfed bison and local cheeses.
OH…these bags look like the answer to my prayers.
I have a blue bag from Ikea that is about to fall apart.
My favorite market isn’t in my town of Coshocton, it is in the next county over.
It is an Amish bulk food store, and I love to get all sorts of baking supplies that can not be found in the small town I am from.
a) Nashville’s Turnip Truck is small, locally owned, and staffed with SUPER friendly people.
b) I would stuff these bags with lots of fall apples!
The farmer’s market here in downtown Bay City, MI, has beautiful produce and flowers on display twice a week during the summer. It’s great to support local farmers!
Green onions, carrots, cantaloupe, bananas, berries… you name it, i’d stuff it!
Alas! There is no market in my town. No street lights or traffic lights either so I drive about 40 miles to Trader Joe’s where I could fill these wonderful bags with their cocoa yogurt and toasted almonds. These two products are solely responsible for my newly purchased sized-up jeans.
What a great give away…kudos! So my favorite place to shop around here is the GreenStar cooperative market. I would stuff my new bags with their amazingly tastey organic beets, breads and fresh cashew butter!
a) My favorite market is my local Farmer’s Market. It is great!
b) I’ll fill the bags up with fruits and veggies and other goodies from the Farmer’s Market!
a) our small, satellite Tues. farmer’s market
b) tomatoes and basil
We have a great market here in Atlanta, the Dekalb Farmers Market. I would definitely fill these bags with the last of the summer produce!
I love the Union Square Greenmarket! I would stuff these bags with pears and apples and grapes and cheese.
best market is gainesville, fl, a local owned grocery store, WARD’S. great produce (lots of local stuff), health food section/bulk item sections, my favorite as of late, the bbq they’ve been cooking on site, especially the pulled pork. oh, also, the best selection of potted herbs in town.
i’d fill the bag with raw peanuts, to bring home and boil for hours in salt water, some coffee/chicory, pulled pork and maybe a thai basil plant if they had one in stock.
Well, because it’s convenient and affordable, we shop at the commissary. But I hope to be able to get more of our produce from the local farmer’s markets as I settle into my new school and work schedule.
Right now, I would probably be filling the bags with fresh and frozen fruits because I am obsessed with my brand new blender and rocket popsicle molds. Yum, fresh smoothie pops…
I’m shopping deprived here in rural NH, but am anxiously awaiting the opening of a new Shaw’s in town where I would love to fill these lovely bags with all kinds of fresh veggies, cheese and staples!
I love shopping at Publix but we are moving to a no Publix zone so I will have to find a new love. I would definetly filll the bag with all the chocolate I could find
This is a terrific give-away.
I shop daily at Hannaford.
They have a very talented Sushi Chef and I eat Brown Rice Sushi 3 times a week.
I do like the organic and specialties they have to offer.
Love Smitten Kitchen..TY for all your hard work
My favorite market is Trader Joe’s. They have the best frozen stuff – artichoke/spinach dip, garden lasagna, “greens with envy” veggie mix. I would also include some black bean and corn salsa, and of course a few packages of 100 calorie dark chocolate bars!
I live in a bleak, industrial UK town and we don’t have farmers markets as such. What we do have is the Golden Mile – the closest thing to an Indian bazaar outside of India of authentic curry houses, gold emporiums, sari shops, and best of all: hundreds of Indian supermarkets selling cheap fruit and veg from India and sacks of spices and rices.
I would stuff those beautiful bags full of chillies, ginger, garlic, turmeric, dhaniya, cumin, mustard seeds, fenugreek, fennel and ajwan so I could spend my days making and eating curry — yum!
Union Square Farmer’s Market and all of the Green Markets throughout the NYC. I buy whatever is seasonal and try to find new items to experiment with. Sometimes I can’t help myself and buy too much and end up canning it (this year it was apricots) or find inventive ways to use up large quantities of the fruit or vegetable I fell in love with that day.
Hi Deb!
I love shopping at Whole Foods. I always find something a little bit different there, things that are ethnic or feel a bit counter-culturish, or that are just healthier versions of items I buy elsewhere.
I buy gallons of milk at a time for my kids and the supermarket bags are never quite trustworthy. I look forward to sturdy conveyance of my skim milk!
I became a member of our local co-op (River Valley Market) around 2001…and the store finally opened this past April! I would fill the bags with local produce, non-hormoney meat, and their vegan German chocolate cake!
I love the West Side Market in town, which ALWAYS features fresh produce and other local foods. I will fill those bags with an abundance of colorful fruits, vegetables, vegan goodies, and other great finds!! :-)
I wish there was a big open-air market in my area but there isn’t. So instead, I like to go to Lull Farm, a small market that sells local foods and their own produce and baked goods as much as possible (I guess it’s really more of a large farm stand). I love Trader Joe’s but almost never go as the closest one is a few towns away. I usually do most of my shopping, sadly, at Shaw’s.
Since I most enjoy baking, I would love to fill up my bag with baking ingredients. Possibly to bake a treat for my co-workers or to give away as holiday gifts.
I typically end up a our local supermarket, but I also love Dorothy Lane Market. DLM ends up being reserved for special occasion type menu items.
I am looking forward to fall so I would stuff the bags with apples, apple cider, pumpkin and other great fall foods.
What pretty bags!! We live in suburban Boston (actually closer to Providence RI) – I shop mostly at Whole Foods – would use the bags to fill up on the end of the season corn and some local apples. (oh, and some chocolate too….)
Since there is only one market in my city (the downtown Saturday morning farmer’s market) it would have to be my favorite. I would love to stuff all of the yummy local NB fruit and veggies in those bags!
We just moved up north from Texas so I enjoy Wegmans & Local farmers markets now. I would use the bag for everything! the random grocery stops, target stops, and with the weight they hold it would be great for holding wine & cheese too!
Oh! I miss Wegman’s too! But since I’m in Madison, WI, I’ll have to go with the Dane County Farmers’ Market, which is the biggest producer only market in the country.This week I’d like to stuff that bag with red peppers to roast and freeze for winter.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve wanted a bag like this but didn’t know the brand name to search.
What a wonderful giveaway! I live in an area with only chain markets, so my favorite places to sop is Holden Farms, a nice farm stand, and the local Farmer’s Market. I would fill the bags with produce and fruit.
a.) Greenbelt Farmer’s Market, My Organic Market, and our own little garden, which has been burying us in tomatoes, cucumbers, and hot peppers.
b.) Apples are coming in, and of course I’ll stuff them with the aforementioned home-grown produce!
I love to go to the Union Square Green market and stuff it full of fresh honey and vegetables and really fragrant apples and fresh flowers. I’m planning an adventure into the city with Lexi on Friday and that’s exactly where we are going. Wish us luck!
My favorite markets (sigh) would still be Wilson Farms and the Thursday afternoon Brookline farmers’ market (especially the Clear Flour bakery stand) and a Whole Foods arond every corner…but since I llive a few hundred miles too far away now, I’m so glad a friend told me about Wegmans. I would fill my bag with several kinds off apples, and an interesting cheese or two, and some other fresh produce, and their apple cider bread as soon as they start making it again.
I love London’s Borough Market. There’s nothing better on a Saturday morning than getting up early and wandering down for a wild boar sausage sandwich for breakfast, before spending an extortionate amount of money on award-winning pork pies, freshly made bread, organic meats and veg. Plus doing the odd bit of celeb-spotting on the side :)
I’d fill my bag up by going to Neal’s Yard Diary and buying an assortment of awesome cheeses!
P.S. Your site is brilliant.
1. My favorite market is the New Haven farmer’s market at Edgewood Park every Sunday morning. The people are so friendly and informative.
2. I’d probably stuff the bags with big, fat eggplants. Throw some plain yogurt, purple peppers and blueberries in there too. Oh! and some local creamed honey. Yum
a. the Grand Army Plaza greenmarket near my home in Brooklyn.
b. now that I’ve resigned myself to the fact that winter is coming, I suppose I could get excited about stuffing the bags with some heavy apples, potatoes, and beets. :)
How cool! I was just researching bags like this over the weekend. My favorite market is Thyme & Season here in Hamden, CT. It is a lovely little natural food store and they have wonderful organic produce. I’ve been buying a lot lately to make baby food for my seven month old son.
I love my local supermarket, Martin’s. I have a few of their reusable bags, but would love these. I would fill them with flour, sugar, butter and other baking yummies and go crazy making some of the many recipes I’ve bookmarked here and on other gorgeous foodie sites. Thanks for the giveaway.
My favorite market in the DC area is the Arlington Farmer’s Market on Saturdays. Local, sustainably raised produce, artisanal cheeses and breads, and meat products from exceptionally humane farms make for abundant options.
With that in mind, I’d welcome the opportunity to stuff these bags with produce from the market. Tiny tomatoes for the little bags, summer squash and leafy greens for the larger ones.
These bags are gorgeous!
I wish we had more Framers Markets to shop here, but sadly, we don’t. My favorite places to shop are Hannafords or Roche Brothers and I get all my spices at Penzeys. I get my meats at Chartley Butcher and seafood at Ocean Fresh.
I would fill my bags with a restock of Penzeys as well as my trips to the market for fresh fruits and veggies! And meats. And seafood. And… and….
We live in a small rural town so only have the regular grocery stores. I shop at Harris Teeter which is upscale for here. Those bags are adorable and would be great for hauling all my library books too.
My favorite place in the area…well hard to say. I grocery shop at Stop&Shop because that is what we have here. I have not found any fresh markets or really any place with good produce. The store seems to be improving, so my hopes are high :)
I love to stop at the many farm stands around all summer (Evansville, In) but mostly I shop at the Schnucks that’s about a block away from me.
If I had my druthers, I’d stuff those bags with as much as I could from our local kitchen supply store (Kitchen Affairs), I could wander around that place for DAYS drooling over all the pots and pans and knives and cookbooks and, well, y’all get the point. :)
My favourite shop is The Store in Edinburgh, Scotland – it sells the most amazing meat which is all raised on their farm, lovely organic fruit and vegetables, lovely chutneys and relishes, and some nice wines too. Plus the friendliest, most knowledgable staff.
I would fill my bag with some good bread, some cheese, some apples and some relish and a bottle of red – all for a warming autumnal picnic.
My favorite local market is the Fresh Market in Burlington, Vermont. They sell all sorts of delicious prepared foods, sandwiches, and the best baked goods in town. They also sell local veggies, wines, cheeses, and the new dough-rito (like pillsbury dough but better, as it’s homemade, and in more inventive flavors). Therefore, I would stuff my bags full of various goodies from the Fresh Market (especially their chocolate chip cookies).
I just moved to southern California, and I was so excited that I have a farmer’s market within walking distance! The Poway farmer’s market is definitely not the biggest, but it has everything I need!
Outside of the farmer’s market, I like to get things on sale…so probably my bag would be full of fresh sale items from the nearby Henry’s farmer’s market (a chain store).
My favorite market is the Burlington Farmers’ Market. Lots of fresh, organic products every weekend-yum! I would use these bags to stuff them to the brim with fresh produce like broccoli, squash, and coming soon in Vermont, apples as our apple season is rapidly approaching! Thanks for the opportunity to win some!
what cool bags! my favourite market would have to (without a doubt, hands-down) London’s oldest: The Borough Market. I’d stuff my RuMe bags with fresh fruit & produce, yummy cheese, to die for olives and the most gorgeous cured meat. Oh all this talk of food makes want to be there now :(
Wegman’s is an obsession for me…unfortunately it’s 35 minutes away, but I get there when I can. I’ve been using Chico bags for a while – carry two with me ALL the time. It’s great to be able to pull them out at the market. These new bags look interesting as well.
I suppose I’d be carrying fruit and CHOCOLATE in them.
every summer i can nearly completely avoid the grocery store by going to one of the oldest farmers markets in the country, the fulton street farmers market in grand rapids, michigan. my favorite things to sneak into the reusable bags are olive cheese from a local cheesemaker named lubbers, and garlic kielbasa from the beautiful women at crane dance farm.
Tonight I’m heading to the Bogart Farmer’s Market in Bozeman, MT. I’ll be buying up zucchini and honey and whatever other veggies look good. On non-farmer’s market days, I frequent the Bozeman Co-op, for everything from organic fruit to toilet paper.
Bacon! There’s a gal called the pig lady out here at our farmers market who sells delicious hand raised pork. Maybe some potatoes and onions to go with that. And my tupperware containers to pick roadside blackberries on my way home.
Just finishing a raspberry breakfast bar for um, pre-breakfast (delicious but more gooey than bar-like & I’m wondering what I could have done). I live in Nassau County and my favorite place to shop is Rottkamp’s-a real, live farm in Glen Cove. If I can’t get there, a local gardening center, Bayles, gets their produce. So I would stuff my bag with lots of fresh corn right from the field and use another bag for tomatoes. Unless I have the time to go to Brookville & fill my 3rd bag with the amazing ginger cookes from Young’s farm.
I like to shop at HEB in Katy Texas because they have organic meat, dairy and produce in addition to lots of ethnic food products. I would fill these bags with ground bison, kefir milk (plain), greek yogurt, blueberries, avocados, mangos, okra and tindora (Indian vegetable similar to cucumber and excellent in stirfries)
When I can I love to shop our farmer’s market.
And I would love to stuff a bag with all the fruits/veggies and honey I can carry!
I live in a tiny college town in the Berkshires in Western Mass, which narrows down my food shopping options quite a bit. It’s not much of a contest, though, because my favorite market is a tiny little co-op called Wild Oats (in no way affiliated with the chain). I’m pretty psyched to fill the bags with tons of local produce – it’s nice living in the middle of nowhere!
My favorite market to go to is the dekalb farmers market in atlanta, but since i have now moved to charlotte, i guess that cant be my favorite any more. i like the king’s street market here but it gets pretty crowded.
If i had these bags i would fill them full of fresh produce because as soon as the air gets a little nippy i get on a soup kick. and nothing is better than fresh soup!
1) Any farmer’s market!! The ones at the Ferry Building in SF are awesome, but of course I live on the wrong coast. We have some cool ones here in NJ though!
2) All the groceries this one girl needs in one bag!! That would be perfect.
Thanks Deb!!
My favorite store in Brooklyn, hands down, is Fairway. LOVE it. I’d use the bags to schlep as much delicious cheeses and olives as possible.
weavers way coop – mt. airy pa
favorite thing to stuff it with? fresh fruits and veggies of course! looking forward to fall and putting a big old butternut squash in there!
Hi! My favorite market here in Chicago is the one right in front of the Sears Tower. There’s just something so cool about a farmer’s market right in the middle of the city! And I would fill these bags with heirloom tomatoes and cheeeeeeese. And more cheeseeeee can you tell I love cheese?
- I love to shop at Wegman’s but shop at Trader Joe’s more often because it is closer to my house.
– I would fill these cute bags with ingredients for baking. Oh, and chocolate.
I frequent Central Market and Whole Foods quite a bit, but I do the majority of my shopping at Kroger on Mockingbird Lane in Dallas, TX. This store has come a long way from the regular grocery store chain. The prices are hard to beat! As for the bags, they would save me from the constant use of plastic. I always say I’m going to get paper or bring my own bags, but I never do. I need those sturdy handles on the plastic bags. Since I live on the second floor. Handles are key when unloading groceries.
Other than my own backyard garden I like to shop at Harry’s Farmer’s Market in Alparetta, GA. As far as what I would stuff these fun bags with? That’s the joy of these places, you never know what’s going to scream BUY ME.
we use a local market here that is just for local fruit and veg it is fantastic 6 miles from our village to lanark that is what i would put in the bags they look just the right thing for all we buy.
a few miles more we can buy organic meat beef, lamb,venison and pork all great tasting,we are in scotland by the way
What a great giveaway–thank you! I do most of my shopping at the local Meijer store. I would fill the bags with lots of fresh produce.
Favorite local market is Horrocks. Locally owned and fabuloso!
What immediately comes to mind to stuff it with are apples, French bread and an assortment of cheese.
I love the Monday farmer’s market here in Cambridge, MA, where the heirloom tomatoes are currently in abundance. My bags would be overflowing with the many varieties of these juicy goodies. I would also make room for a crisp bunch of amaranth greens, too! Thanks so much!
Central Market is my favorite store. It’s a bit pricey but has amazing food. I love the bakery! I would stuff these bags with french bread, homemade cheeses, and lots of greek olives. Maybe throw in a bottle or two of white wine. Yum!!!
I love getting fresh produce at the 38th & meridian farmer’s market here in Indy. I can’t wait to stuff this bag with fresh tomatoes for my hubby!
My favorite Market is Trader Joes when I visit the Atlanta area, and here at home, Whole foods.
If I win I can’t wait to stuff my new bags with some CHianti and eggplant, linguine and farmer’s market tomatoes!!
My favorite place tos hop is at our local Farmer’s Market on Saturdays. We just joined a CSA, so I would stuff all of our delicious produce in the bag. Tomatoes and onions and beans and okra and apples . . . . mmmmmm.
I like in St. Louis- home of Nelly and Provel cheese. My favorite market? The historic Soulard market down in Soulard. The area it rests in is historically beautiful and is the home of the St. Louis marde gras. I picture weaving in and out of the booths and deciding on fresh tomatoes from local farmers, pumpkins for this upcoming season and mums!
Love the bags! Love the site!
I love Wegmans! Their selection and customer service are awesome. They’ve really built up their “Nature’s Marketplace” section where I can buy organics and earth-friendly cleaning products. I’d fill up my bag with an end of summer picnic: fresh bread, cheeses, olives, fruit and wine (though we can’t get that at the grocery in NYS:( )!
Ooh! I tried for these on Not Martha, and sadly didn’t win. I don’t think random number generators like me very much. These seem to be the coolest thing to own! I could see myself using them quite a lot.
Where? Well, not my favourite place, as it is just the closest. I pass a grocery store every day on my way to and from work. I invariably stop in to pick up one or two ingredients to make that newest smitten kitchen recipe. *Grins*
My favourite place to shop would have to be Covent Garden Market here in my home city. No not *that* London Im afraid. Another one, that tries to be the real thing. Its a nice downtown market with all sorts of interesting vendors.
I’m sure you’d find my bag stuffed to the gills with all sorts of things. Avacados and cilantro lately. I don’t know why, but I’ve become obsessed! And now that the weather is slowly edging towards cooler temps, lots of root veggies, and things to make soups with. (I just found the cauliflower soup recipe, and am determined to try it!) And of course whatever the latest recipe here is begging me to try. *Grins*
So longwindedly, thats my entry. Im sure you’re meticulously reading all 501 posts.. and counting. *Grins* Actually.. from what I’ve read of you.. I really bet you are! *Waves*
MK
awesome! i love to shop at my monthly food coop. we order wholesale, unload the truck and drag it all home. we buy a lot of yogurt and need bags!
The Madison farmer’s market is to die for, especially in the fall! I can’t wait to fill these bags with loads of fresh apples, cider, and some Wisconsin cheese!
a) Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are my favorites places to shop, although they’re not actually in my town (at least 20 minutes for Whole Foods, and almost an hour for Trader Joe’s
b) and I would LOVE to stuff these bags with my local CSA produce, but anything -including baby products for my six month young daughter- will suit well in such cute bags!
The huge Asian market in Oklahoma city, I always buy jars of stuff I am not sure what to do with and sometimes make amazing interesting things with them. and sometimes make interesting things we don’t want to eat with them, and have been know to just admire them sitting in the cabinet till they are out of date.
My favorite market is the Mt. Pleasant Market in the neighborhood of the same name in NW DC. It’s not as crowded as its Dupont neighbor and this time of year I’m just getting excited about filling them full of every type of apple imaginable. Mmm… Honeycrisp.
My most favorite market is WEGMANS! I travel 50 miles each week to food shop there!
What I want to put in 1 of those shopping bags would be ….Scharffenbergers dark chocolate to bake up some biscotti.
528 comments already? Good Lord!
Anyway, I finally just moved into Manhattan after much longing from afar, and I’m so excited that the move puts me in such close proximity to the Union Square Greenmarket. I don’t dare go on Saturdays – ever – so I love that I have a job conducive to me going early in the mornings on Monday and Wednesday when it’s so much less crowded. This week I’m going to get apples, more corn, and fresh tomatoes. I’d love to pack a new bag with any of those things, though I’ll admit that I’ve been looking closely at the fresh eggs and the local meat. Yum!
Let’s see… My favorite place to shop? I live in Westerville, Ohio; we have tons of quaint little shops and restaurants in Uptown, and while I love to browse around there for hours, I’m not a “big shopper”. The most bags I tend to fill would be grocery bags and I do that shopping at Aldi once a week; I then hit Kroger to pick up the few things I am unable to buy at Aldi. What would I stuff these wonderful reusable RuMe bags with? Oh, my… let me count the ways… groceries — I’d keep most of thaem in my car htch for that! But they’d also end up carting newspapers back from MIL’s house (we recycle, she doesn’t have curbside), the bags would be useful for toting kids sports gear around, sharing books and magazines with friends, for lugging “my stuff” to and from events (crochet, books, other things to do). They’d work great for the kids to keep items in on long car trips, too. Oh, the things I could do with the RuMe bags… !
Hi –
My favorite places to shop are Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods. And farmers markets, of course. However, due to necessity my most frequent shop is Market Basket. Cheap, local and good.
I would carry all sorts of stuff like my frequent Target runs to my two year old daughter’s cache of things we need to take when we leave the house (dolls, books, water, cup, snacks, jacket, etc) to my husband’s stuff I usually end up stuffing into my pocketbook (wallet, glasses, bandana,book, camera) Think of how liberating it will be for him to carry his own things in the cool bag I’ll have in my pocketbook!
I’ve been BMOB (bringin’ my own bags) since 1971 when I was a member of one of the early food coops in Minneapolis. These RuMe bags are way cooler than the ratty things I still carry around suburban NY!! I love the local Saturday morning CSA market by the town dock, and sometimes I squeeze in a trip to the Union Square Farmers Market in Manhattan. Prize find is farm-grown GARLIC–ever since I read how much toxic chemicals are put on imported garlic I haven’t been able to buy grocery store garlic. Those bags would be great right now for all the sweet corn and tomatoes in season at the moment.
And my knitting! These would make some awesome knitting bags!!
Also we go to our Adirondack cabin every couple weeks, and have to bring along ALL our food as there are no grocery stores nearby. These bags would be so much more chic than the old cardboard cartons we use now.
Oh goodie, I hope I win!!!!
I would love to use these bags at my local Wegman’s and load them full of fruits and veggies!
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I like St George’s Friday Food Market in Belfast, northern ireland, and would be excited to stuff these bags with the most enormous veg
My favorite place would be our local green grocer. They have wonderful hard to find products. I would stuff the beautiful bags with fresh fall produce.
These bags look wonderful! The market I love would be Whole Foods here in the Washington DC area. The fresh veggies, fruit and cheeses would be in the bag. I also use these type of bags for any other shopping I may do, bread, wine/beer, Target etc. I love love them because they hold so much more than regular bags and are durable!
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I live in Chicago and am surrounded by about a million different markets, so picking one is difficult! In the summer time I like Green City Market for all of their fresh veggies. But since it is getting close to fall now, I suppose I’ll be making my way through Edgewater Produce and stuffing the bags full of apples for pies and cake and lots of cold weather cooking stuff like pasta and cheese and potatoes and cheese and cheese and cheese.
We currently live in the middle of nowhere so I don’t hav ea fancy market to tell you about. I’ll head to my local natural foods store and stokck up on produce for my son.
My favorite place to shop is a small produce store a few blocks away from my apartment, Sues in Philadelphia. They have a wonderful variety of fresh and local products each day.
I love to fill my bag with their fresh jersey tomatoes and peaches!
I love to shop at Trader Joe’s when I can brave the 40 mile trek with my three kiddos. Otherwise, you can find me at Wegman’s or the West Windsor Farmer’s Market.
I would love these bags and use them for everything from groceries, to pool stuff, to kid stuff. Is there anything you CAN’T use these bags for?!?
My favorite market is the St. Paul Farmers Market. Fantastic! I am looking forward to stuffing these bags with brussel sprouts, honey, cave aged goat cheese and fresh made bread. Yum!
1. My favorite market in Tamap FL is Whole Foods. We lack the gourmet type stores so this is my best place for selection.
2. I would love to use these bags for my trip to the local farmer’s market…tres chic. At the reate we are having hurricane scares it may prove more exciting to test its strength with bottled water and canned goods.
My favorite grocery store is Wegmans. It’s incredible. I can’t wait to fill these bags with tons of produce…and i want to put one to the test with a couple gallons of milk!
We don’t have anything in our town but I love the Morristown, NJ Farmer’s Market on Sunday. I would fill those bags with bread, cheeses, all types of good veggies and fruits, and seafood!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE reusable bags! A trip to Whole Foods takes at least two, on to the farmers market with at least two more. I would stuff my bag with a watermelon before they all disappear for the winter! A bag or bags that would fit in my purse would be amazing! Have never won a thing so maybe I’d better check out the website for ordering information!
As you’ll see from my website, I give a workshop for teachers called Small Changes; Big Returns, and this giveaway certainly comes under our theme. Who’d have thought when the plastic carrier bag first appeared that such a seemingly insignificant, little item would have had such a resounding environmental impact?
My favourite (note the Canadian spelling) way to shop is to head a farmers’ market. What Whole Foods tries to recreate at great expense to customers, I can enjoy open air almost every day of the week here in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the $ goes to the producer. Tonight’s feast — fresh salmon, sliced fresh tomatoes, fingerling potatoes, crusty sprouted wheat bread, a few late season raspberries, and butter tarts — all grown or baked in southern BC. When the season’s over and I have to head indoors, I make the trek to Thrifty’s in Tsawassen for their great service and wonderful selection.
What I love about these sacs is that they look almost as inviting in the back of your car as the food that’s inside them! Thanks for this.
I live in the luscious Bule Ridge Mountains of NC and my favorite place to shop is a family farm just across the TN line. Driving up the winding, and I do mean winding, often one lane road is a treat each time and what a reward to finally reach the Johnson farm. Pick it myself or get it already picked the fresh produce inspires me to rush home and start creating. Nothing like a fresh from under the hen egg. Humdrum is the supermarket Ingles on the way home. Stuffin the bags… oh my. Everything. I carry reuseable bags everyplace I go… on a trip they hold lots of items I don’t want to pack in the suitcase. At Malls every purchase can be squeezed in and best of all at the many craft fairs in this area I am prepared to tote every beautiful can’t live without item home to be enjoyed endlessly. They are always in my car!!! Jeannine
i live in jerusalem, israel and my favorite market is called ‘machane yahuda’. it’s a fantastic market that’s open every day and sells incredibly fresh fruits and veggies plus lots of little stores with clothing and accessories and fun apartment stuff. i would use the bag ever time i go shopping there since i always buy a ton of food from there and i have to take the bus
**also, i have a US address for deliveries so no worries!**
My favorite place to shop locally would be Fresh Market, although with tight finances I don’t get there nearly as often as I’d like. But if I were shopping there I’d load the RuMe bags with a ton of their gorgeous cheeses, fresh bread, several bags of Triple Chocolate nut mix, a lovely miniature layer cake, and some freshly ground coffee!
Of course the RuMe bag would work just as well at the Aldi down the street where I stock up on baking staples, dishwasher soap, and canned goods at rock-bottom bargain prices. :)
My favorite market is the little shop at Nexinscot Farm in Turner Maine. They make and bake a lot of yummy things. I would want tot include in my bag their cinnamon rolls and their dill pickles.
Where I live in Oh-hia-ia, there’s a wonderful gourmet market called (I kid you not) West Point, just like the military academy. The cheese! The wine! The organic produce! The European chocolate! I’d like to fill the bags with the makings of tiramisu, something I’m determined to make from scratch before 2008 ends.
I like to shop at the Grain Train when I’m home. It smells so good in there! But it can’t beat the Charlevoix apple festival’s market, which, even though it only comes once a year, is to die for. Juicy, softball sized honeycrisps, anyone?
I don’t get enough frest fruit here in the dorms, so I’d love to stuff the bags with fresh pinapples! I can never get enough.
We love to go to Detroit’s Eastern Market (we’re actually going this Saturday). My favorite items at the market definitely include cheeses from R. Hirt, Jr Co. Especially the Scottish Cheddar…YUM!
I love shopping at the Carrboro Farmers market for all my veggies and meats.
And since I need to bring my own bag to the market, I would stuff these bags with poblano peppers, onions, pork sausage, potatoes and maybe some cheese!
Sorgels Orchards in Wexford, PA! But now I’m a college student without a car so the closest thing I ever see to a farmer’s market is the baskets of waxy fruit in the dining hall – yuck
My favorite market on St Thomas has to be The Fruit Bowl. They have decent fruits and veggies for good prices — both of which are hard to find on an island! My other favorite place to get goodies are my friends and neighbors! In a tropical location we have tons of local items growing and everyone gives things away. Just this morning I found a passionfruit on my walk!
I’d fill a fabulous bag like this with all of my daily finds since most of the stores around here are stingy with their plastic bags which isn’t necessarily a bad thing!
Thanks for the opportunity Deb!!
I love the bag and hope to make more of an effort to end the countless plastic bags coming into my home. Believe me, the bag will be filled, as I leave our local Kroger store with all sorts of market items. As a grandmother(age 70) with a husband, college student, young solider, and a hungry teenager to feed, your bag will help me to be a “groovy grandma”
What a great idea! I live inOK, where everyone drives but I walk to do my shopping. These bags are perfect! I shop at Kamp’s and I try to buy only things that were produced in my local area. It’s not always easy, but I’m trying to be as green as I can and reduce my own carbon footprint.
I live in Montana and my favorite market is Whithy’s. It’s a natural food store.
I already use reusable bags when I shop but they aren’t pretty. I would love to have these and carry my groceries home.
I love shoppping here at Trader Joe’s in New York! I would love to fill my bag w/their awesome frozen foods like their mochi balls and their dumplings!
FYI, I tried using the code “SmittenDelight†at checkout on delight.com but I got the message “Coupon has expired”.
My favorite place to shop is the local farmers market because the food is so fresh. I would like to stuff the bags with all of the fresh fruits and veggies.
My favorite markets are Trader Joes and Sprouts. Safeway is also good but not as exciting. I am envisioning stuffing these bags with the beautiful citrus available at all the glorious citrus stands here in Mesa, Arizona. Grapefruit, oranges, lemons, and limes will look great in these darling bags.
I love to go to Central Market here in Houston and I would fill these bags with some of their bread and definitely some dried mango from thier bulk section.
We don’t have a lot of options in my little town, but I love going to our tiny farmer’s market. I’d fill the bag with fresh tomatoes, peppers, and other goodies!
There’s a great produce market in my neighborhood. They have a great deli section with not-too pricey feta and fresh mozzarella and ricotta. The people are super nice.
I would like to fill my bag with lots of apples and maybe some artichokes, which always poke me when I put them in regular plastic bags. Maybe they would behave themselves in one of these bags. Thanks!
I go to a VERY tiny university in an even smaller town, but there is actually a great Saturday Farmer’s Market. I would love to use these bags to lug around books and groceries – I’m looking forward to squash and pie pumpkins!
I live in a very small town and we only have regular grocery stores, so I travel to a town thirty minutes away to go to the Fresh Market, which is my favorites market. I would stuff the bags full of fresh baked bread, flowers, and lots of berries!!!
My favourite place to buy food would be the farmers market near the castle in Edinburgh, Scotland where i live.. I would obviously fill the bags with yummy pork and venison sausages along with juicy tomatoes bought from the market itself!
I love shopping at the Winter Park Farmers Market on saturdays. I would stuff these bags with the fresh produce and breads sold there.
I live in a small town in Ontario with only a handful of good markets to choose from! I love to go to the Bracebridge Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. I would love to fill these bags with fresh fall vegetables and fruit for a Thanksgiving meal.
I love the DeKalb International Farmers Market east of Atlanta. Not a true farmer’s market, but it has every fruit and vegetable from around the world and a wonderful selection of practically everything else.
I of course will be using these to grocery shop, but since they fit in my purse, they’d be perfect for clothes shopping, as well!
My favorite place to shop right now is The Fresh Market. Such great meats, cheeses, produce, etc. Makes my foodie heart go pitter-pat! I would fill those gorgeous bags with all the fresh veggies and meats I can! :)
My daughter’s always remind me to take our bags into all stores….even Target! We do get strange looks, but maybe not with these handy bags!
Our favorite market is Trader Joe’s or our local farmers market.
I would stuff these great bags with supplies for baking. You know how it is to lug around a bag of King Arthur flour & lbs. of organic apples or peaches to make hand pies. These would be most helpful for when we have a baking day! (I’ve infected my girls with the baking bug!!) Thanks for your wonderful blog & the chance at the bags.
I love to shop a local produce store called Discount Produce in Cincinnati OH.
Not only would I stuff it with produce but they also carry a good assortment of pastas, and wines. Right next door is a wonderful bakery that sells the best pretzels sticks and dips.
An excellent giveaway! My favorite shopping market is Reid’s grocery, a tiny independent store with its own butcher in the back. Been in the neighborhood for ages. As for goodies to stuff inside these bags, I’m partial to canned pumpkin (for pie, bread, anything really), eggplant, coffee and apples. Lots and lots of apples.
I like to go to my local farmer’s market on Tuesday afternoons! I would use the bags to carry the fresh squash, green beans, bread, and peaches that I purchase every week!
By the end of this month my favorite market will be Earthfare (a regionally-owned “earth friendly” supermarket), usually I only get their pleasure when I’m an hour or more away. And this one is within walking distance to my house (just over a mile, one way)
I am most-excited to stuff this with…food. I’m a sucker for wandering through the aisles and becoming intrigued with things I love or things I hope to love. All the cheeses… and the wine selection…and the chocolate…the bakery… did I say cheeses?…
I love to shop at the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto and I would fill my bag with lots of cheese and wine!
Costco! I work there and bringing home 29849284928 boxes starts stacking up every so often. I buy all my apples, strawberries, chicken, salmon, tilapia, shrimp, etc there. I love Costco, and I think them paying us really well is a ploy to get us to spend our paychecks there! =P
My favorite place to shop is the Union Square Green Market. I am currently obsessed with a stand that is at the market on Mondays and Fridays. I don’t know that farm’s name, but there is an asian woman who must be the owner who is always there cutting and cooking samples of her amazing produce. I try and bring a reusable Whole Foods bag with me, but it can’t always take the strain of my market shopping – so as we approach the cheese pumpkin season (my absolute favorite… can’t stop myself from buying them) I really need some sturdy and cute bags to take with me when I go shopping. Plus, I can’t tell you how great it would be to keep them all folded up in my purse at all times!
Our favorite market is our local grocery chain, Martin’s. It brings me exceptional joy to fit a pack of toilet paper PLUS anything else into a reusable bag. Or a six-pack of beer, a large bottle of juice, a half gallon of milk, and a two-liter of soda. Or, to be perfectly honest, anything.
My favorite place to shop…..I have 3. The Union Square Market, Trader Joes, and Whole Foods make it so much fun to shop for food. Now that my baby is on solid food, I stuff my bags with plenty of carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes to make baby food. Now that it’s September, I’m going to introduce butternut squash!
a. publix
b. cheese, lots of cheese. mainly my new favortie , goat gouda. yum.
I love the soulard farmers market in st. louis & trader joes whenever the market is closed. I would love to fill these bags with my favorite fruits & veggies, such as tomatoes, peaches, peppers, beets & mushrooms, as well as delicious meats like prosciutto & steak!
I love Trader Joe’s which isn’t far from home. I currently use two of their bags and two from Safeway AND two from Giant. I would be filling my bags full of fresh fruits and veggies.
The Fresh Market is my favorite place to shop…they have the best meat/seafood counter and I love thier bags of spices (much cheaper than ones at the grocery store and way more fresh). Meats, spices, and delightful cheese is what I’d fill my bags with!
My favourite market is St. Lawrence Market in downtown Toronto, but I love going to the Square One farmer’s market in Mississauga too. From St. Lawrence, my favourite things to bring home are an amazing jalapeno and artichoke dip, filet mignon and delicious berries for dessert. The Square One market sells my favourite kind of apples, Ginger Golds directly from Niagara, and we got an excellent recommendation for corn on the cob the other weekend.
My favorite place to shop is actually a route, not a single store- it’s the three block walk from my house that takes me to Trader Joe’s, the local butcher that’s been there forever, and the farmers market on Saturday, all on foot.
I’d LOVE to carry these on the route to stuff them full of a chicken for roasting, a bag of TJ’s knockoff pirate’s booty (which is too big to fit in the little bags I usually carry) and bunches and bunches of lettuce and greens.
I have a bag like that, not sure if it is a RuMe or other similar. It also lives in my purse so that I can pull it out to avoid getting another plastic bag. Would love to have some more. My favourite market isn’t in my town but within a relatively short drive – the St. Jacob’s market. I love to go and have hot apple fritters for breakfast and then stock up on teas, meat, cheese and fresh produce.
I consider late summer and early fall to be my holy season. This is the time in northern minnesota where the local produce is at it’s prime and our local farmer’s market it at it’s best. I wouild love to take these beautiful bags to the farmer’s market , where visiting with the farmers and other customers is also an important part of summer to me. I’d fill the bags with all their lovely produce, fresh flowers, breads and even buffalo meat.
i live in chicago and love to shop at the edgewater produce market, which is a large hispanic grocery store. you can get cotija cheese for 1/2 the price of the jewel across the street. that or the viet hao grocer on argyle, which has chinese black vinegar from every province that makes chinese black vinegar, sausause with indeterminable ingredients that is nonetheless delicious, and calpico hello kitty drinks.
if you mean what would i stuff it with right now, it would be pocky and a mango drink.
I live, work and shop in Brooklyn. My fav. place to shop if the Park Slope Food Coop.
Occasionally, little political issues flare up but its wonderful to feel like you’re a part of the community and to share in the cooperative spirit.
The produce, bulk and cheese sections rival many farmer’s markets.
I love it!
1. Troy’s Farmers market
2. Tomatoes,fresh mozz, and basil
Wow so many comments already! I shop at our local Giant foodstore, but I also enjoy the nearby Wegman’s (especially their sale flyer!). In season, I stop at the local roadside table’n'change jar, as well as the West Chester Farmer’s Market. I’ll even take my totes out to my veggie garden when I pick, so I’m as likely to stuff with my own zucchini, eggplant, and tomatoes, as I am with storebought (locally grown) cantalope and apples.
By the way, can’t wait to try the NYT Eggplant & Tomato confit with my homegrown beauties.
Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
geez, *sausage. sorry.
I always change my opinion on which market I like best downtown Toronto, but I think it’s because I like them for different reasons. On the weekend I was at Kenginston Market so currently it’s my favourite.
I would definitely pick up some ginger gold apples. I can only find them at farmer’s markers and they’re only in season for a couple of months so they are a real treat. I would then smile nicely and ask my bf to carry the apples home =) But only because my hands would be full carrying Cobs bread. Yes, that’s it, of course.
I shop at the Sentry in Menomonee Falls, WI out of convenience, but far prefer shopping at various farmer’s markets. A great thing about the store is that they actually pay you to use reusable bags – $.05 a bag. Which isn’t a big deal, but my 8 year old son loves being handed a quarter when we do our big shopping!
Seriously, those bags are pretty darn cute too!
We have a wonderful seasonal Farmers Market, called the West Windsor Farmer’s Market not far from here, every summer weekend, until Fall. I’d just love to stuff a RuMe bag with all the late season produce and some fabulous organic chicken and lamb chops! Then maybe later in the week I would head on down to Philadelphia to the Italian Market and load up on cheeses at DeBruno’s and spices and coffee and teas from the Spice Corner. I think I could keep all those bags busy…oh yes indeed!
My favorite place to shop is the Bypass Market about a mile from home. Fresh Sugar corn, Clinton Peaches, local honey, Alabama tomatoes….. I could go on but this post is making me hungry.
I currently use a large cloth bag for library books, but I could use more.
My favorite grocery store is HEB. I’m looking forward to filling the bags with things to cook fall meals with. Thanksgiving is probably my favorite time to cook.
I love to shop in the Strip District of Pittsburgh for food, spices, cheese and coffee! I love those bags and can’t wait to accumulate my purchases throughout the day and sling it over my shoulder! So much easier than carrying multiple bags.
I love my old Trader Joe’s. I moved to a new town but I still go back to visit it! I would fill the bags with cheap, yet good, beer and wine.
I usually shop the Farmer’s Market in our town, where I load up on fresh bread, local honey, organic tomatoes, melons, peaches and blueberries, or whatever is in season.
Oops! I posted above but Forgot to mention that I would stuff the bags full of greens, fresh bread, a jar of olives, some organic tomato sauce and nestle a bunch of bananas right on top.
The Coop doesnt provide plastic bags so these sure would be handy!
Any farmer’s market or roadside stand. Tomatoes, corn, apples, peaches, potatoes, sweet potatoes, berries, plums, melons, ….
As far as grocery stores go, it doesn’t get better than Wegmans in Rochester. As far as markets, the Rochester public market is good, but the Southwedge market is dedicated to all locally sourced food. I need a great set of bags to bring home all the wine, cheese, bread and flowers I buy each week.
My favorite markets in Minneapolis are the Midtown Farmers Market, the Seward Co-op, and Coastal Seafoods. I hope to stuff my bags with end-of-the-summer produce and ingredients for fall baking projects.
I love shopping at farmer’s markets, especially the small, Amish market that sets up around the corner from my house in Philly once a week in the summer. They provide just about everything I can’t get through my CSA- namely fruit, eggs, and corn!
Since I hit that market on foot I’m always in the market for a large, sturdy bag that I can pack full of produce. It’s almost squash season and those suckers are heavy!
My favorite place to shop in Cranston, RI is WHOLE FOODS.
I cannot wait to stuff the bags with fresh grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, extra-virgin olive oil, creme fraiche, semolina, white mushrooms, frisee, and CHOCOLATE!!!
My favorite spot to shop for food is the Green City Market here in Chicago. There are tons of farmers from the surrounding states that have wonderful products. I usually end up spending way more than I intended, but it’s always worth it. I would ideally fill my back with fresh corn, blackberries, blueberries, goat cheese, tomatoes and lettuce. Sadly, I think those days are near over for the season!
I love when our farmer’s market comes into season – St. Petersburg Farmer’s Market. I would love to stuff my new RuMe bag with all the goodies from the farmer’s market, including the homemake hummus; a fresh baked empanada, yummy fresh baked desserts, stone crab claws and just for my husband one of the “just roasted” turkey legs. I can’t wait!
My favorite market is publix. And I would love to fill these bags with fresh fruits and veggies!
I am from Cleveland and an ardent West Side Market fan. I work only a few blocks away and am looking forward to strolling over and filling these bags up with dinner goodies. Fresh Ohio City Pasta, great bread, Ohio City Roast Coffee, bacon…the list goes on and on.
I love to shop at our local grocery store County Market. Those lovely bags would be filled with fresh veggies, possibly some wine and a nice rib eye steak. I love bags of all kinds and would love to give these a good home. Thank you!!
I adore the Farmer’s Market at Dupont Circle. If this was two years ago I would have said Eastern Market, which I still go to often, but the Cheese Vendor at DuPont Circle, yum! But I would stuff it with Heirloom Tomatoes since it is the end of the harvest and sadly will have to wait 8 months before I can get them again. Great bags full of luscious tomatoes!
Yay! The Union Square Greenmarket rocks my world. Now that it’s all, I’d fill an entire bag with HONEYCRISP APPLES!
a)My favorite market is the local Farmer’s Market…because I get to see all of my foodie friends.
b)I like to stuff my bags with fresh baked pastries and fresh, in season produce from the local CSA farm.
I live in the Memphis area and to be very honest (grew up in NJ), there aren’t a lot of good places to shop for groceries. It is pretty depressing! I would take my bags on my soccer trips (soccer mom!) and fill them up with products I can’t find in Memphis. Luckly Nashville, Birmngham and St. Louis have
Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. I do hit the local Farmer’s Market and the apples are very good right now and would fill the bags up with them to make apple crostatas.
Wow, the commentors come out of the woodwork for nifty graft! Sadly, the hamlet I moved to doesn’t have lots of fab food stores, but we do have a farmers’ market, so I, like so many others, would fill my nifty bags (btw, I keep a Whole Foods tote in my car that I use at the grocery store) with lots of veggies this time of year, and perhaps a bunch of flowers poking out of the top, and what the heck, a baguette to make myself feel really cosmopolitan. At stores, when people ask if I want a bag, I say, “No thanks. Save a plastic tree.”
I’m a big fan of the farm stand and farmers’ markets we have here in southern Maine. But my absolute favorite market is actually a tiny bakery called Scratch Baking Co., which fortunately (& also unfortunately, for my waistline) is just a few blocks from my house. So I would fill my bag with some of their amazing bagels, a dozen local, farm-fresh eggs, some lovely local cheeses and of course WINE. Yum, yum.
Wow – this is as good a reason as any to de-lurk, no?!
I live in a tiny agricultural town in CO, so no choice market. But I love the fact that I can buy meat, dairy and produce from my neighbors.
I’d love to stuff these bags with things that I covet and can’t find in the little grocery store in town. Try buying a fennel bulb in a rural farming town!
My favorite spot to shop in Louisville, KY, is Paul’s Fruit Market, which is really close to my house. I would get lots of blueberries for my husband and homemade hummus for me; some giant cookies and the fresh bread they carry from a local bakery. Yummy!
Has to be . . . Trader Joe’s . . . . and I love to fill it with spectacular produce and of course . . their frozen food treats are my saviour when I have rehearsal and the kids need to do a “make your own dinner night” . . . .
I love to shop at the farmer’s market in Rockford, IL. Though it’s small, it’s the closest we come to a real outdoor market. And besides, when you’re done shopping, you can have lunch at Egg Harbor. Yum Yum!
I live in a small town and my favorite market is Roger’s Supermarket. We live in the Michigan fruit belt, so there is also many many little stands around town to buy the fresh fruits and veggies. I would love to have some bags to carry home my groceries and the fresh fruits, peaches, melons, corn, grren beans that we purchase, almost every day. I also love Smitten Kitchen. sincerely Carolyn
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What a great giveaway! I would most definitely use my new bag at Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge, MA, and of course during my regular trips to Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Oh, and the farmer’s market too!!
At the moment, I would stuff those bags with all the ingredients to make that delicious eggplant caponata you posted, and probably the raspberry bars from a few days back. Yum!
I love going to our saturday market – it’s small but they’ve got a great selection and they usually have some live music.
I’d definitely stuff the bags with the heavy stuff that never works in the plastic bags- flour, sugar, etc.
Whole Foods in Overland Park, KS
I look forward to stuffing the bags with my holiday baking ingredients!
My favorite place to shop for food has to be Remke Markets, only because of its close proximity to my home. The lines are short too. Lately I’ve been loading up on birthday items for all our September birthdays.
We have a Farmer’s Market in West Allis, which is a suburb of Milwaukee. I love to go there and get bushels of things to can! So far, I have made 55 pints of bread and butter pickles, 36 quarts of dill pickles, 16 pints of dilly beans, 17 quarts of crushed tomatoes, and 9 half pints of peach raspberry jam. I am going to make more jam tonight, while the peaches are still here. Except my husband ate one of the peaches, so now I need to find another one that is the same ripeness as the rest!
Would love to use these bags to shop there with!
During the summer and fall, my favorite place to shop in Chicago is the Green City Market. There is nothing better than a spending a sunny Saturday morning browsing the wonderful produce and then enjoying a freshly made crepe. I also love Pastoral, an artisan cheese shop. There are two Pastoral locations in the city, one right by my work and one right by my house. I haven’t decided whether this is a blessing or a curse.
Any reusable bag I own will be most often filled with farmers’ market bounty and library books.
We’re at the St Lawrence market almost every weekend here. My absolute favourite part is the farmer’s section on the north side, where you can walk through and fill your bag with the freshest of whatever’s in season and generate new ideas of what you’re going to make for dinner for the next few nights. I’d fill my bag with all that fresh produce, and then make a stop at Alex Farm Cheese for some stinky Brie de Mieux.
My favorite shop is a little co-op run by the YMCA. It carries lots of organics, locally grown produce, health foods, and spices in bulk.
As for those awesome bags, they’d probably get stuffed full of produce and cheese – that’s what we seem to spend the most on each shopping trip.
What fun!!!! Here on the prairie, we have to get by with HyVee and a great little co-op, Open Harvest. I would love to stuff those bages with cheese, garlic, bread, chocolate, and wine!
1) Just got a Trader Joes walking distance from my house in Atlanta so I’m going there with my new bag which will be stuffed with 2) ginger cookies, organic produce, coffee and wine!
We have a fabulous store called New Frontiers that could easily contribute many fresh veggies and herbs to my new Rume bags. Of course, I wouldn’t forget the Tall Americano and tiny bit of dark chocolate.
a) what your favorite market is in your city or town – our farmers market that happens 3 times a week in down town Lafayette
b) what you are most excited to stuff these bags with
Fresh food from the farmers market
I love the idea that these bags fold up the size of a coin purse. I have sewn a couple and seem to forget them from time to time because of their size.
I have two favorite markets – #1 is the Fresh Market, http://www.thefreshmarket.com, which I love for the awesome produce, bulk items, fresh bakery stuff, and prepared foods. #2 is the farmer’s market that just opened up near my house. It’s still developing, but we have a great selection of fruits, veggies, and free range meats every Thursday. I’m most excited to stuff my bags with fresh bread, jars of Nutella, cartons of berries, some lovely cheese, and a sack full of granola.
I live in a suburb of Cleveland, OH, so my favorite market by far is the West Side Market. It’s huge, but it has everything you could ever need… from delicious lamb shanks to fresh beautiful produce to homemade tamales and gyros (which hit you in the nose the minute you walk in their doors). I would rather hand my money over to local growers and butchers any day. Just another thing that makes Cleveland so great.
I’m most excited to stuff these bags with any of the above!
I love the farmers market in town, (yes, there is only one!). I can’t wait to put tomatoes and corn in it or apples or a pumpkin!
I occasionally stop by the market in Union Square, which I can get to during my lunch break. But in my town (Jersey suburbs), there’s a farmers’ market on Saturdays, which I try to get to every weekend (even if my boyfriend is sleeping). I could see these bags being great for groceries, holiday shopping (which seems to be coming soon), and generally having in my bag at all times, especially bringing tupperware and jackets home from work. But if they distribute weight nicely, these would be especially nice for book shopping (which I do a little too much of).
1) My favorite market is Wheatsville Food Co-op in Austin, TX. I go shop there on my lunch break at work since I live far outside town.
2) I look forward to stuffing my bags with more vegan items as I’m trying to modify my vegetarian diet.
Not much of a market here, but for a couple months out of the year they have one on saturday morning that’s pretty good. I’d fill my bags with all of the “necessary” fruits and vegetables my wife throws in the shopping cart.
I like going to Soulard Market – cheap prices for good produce, if you know what booths to go to. The market at Tower Grove Park is also nice – lots of organics, so higher prices, but all local vendors.
Peaches are just going out of season here, but that means apples are around the corner – I love Jonathon apples and other crisp, tart varieties. So apples!
A lot of my summer-time shopping is done at my CSA and the West Windsor Farmer’s Market. For other stuff, though, I generally go to McCaffrey’s which is a local grocery store. What do I want to stuff my bags with? Tasty things to eat, of course!
When I’m at home in LA, I love to shop at the local farmer’s markets, as well as Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and Sprouts. Now that I’m in school, in Newark, Delaware, I enjoy visiting the Natural Foods Co-op we have near campus. I really enjoy jogging, walking or biking to any of these places because it inspires me to buy healthy foods once I get there!
I would have many uses for these bags should I win them! Because I don’t have a car on campus, I typically have to wait until someone else is going to the grocery store so I can tag along. However, they usually don’t give me much notice, so I need to be ready at the drop of a hat. Being able to carry these bags in my purse with me at all times would be so convenient! Thanks so much!
I actually love going to our Whole Foods market. It’s the only place to find things like whole wheat pastry flour and really good produce. I would definitely fill the bags with lots and lots of produce…I’d pack it myself so I wouldn’t come home with a bag full of bruised produce. Sigh…heaven.
The place I probably go to most often is Target but one of my favorite places to shop is Tom’s Farmers Market. It’s a family owned and operated business and has everything from a gift boutique, bakery, produce and canning supplies, plants and gardening supplies, . . . I could go on. Tom is frequently seen hustling around the premises looking like he’s just climbed off his tractor (sometimes he has and the tractor is parked outside) with his constant companion Susie (an affectionate golden retriever). Love that place!
My favorite is the Union Square Greenmarket — I try to refrain from going four days a week, but I can’t always help myself. And I’d love to fill these bags with the first of the fall produce that’s trickling in: apples, squash, sweet potatoes, plums… yum.
a) we don’t have a nice market in our town and I miss them! so I have make do with the big Tesco supermarket. b) can’t wait to stuff these bags with finds from the local thrift stores – no good markets but the thrift stores are fabo and another way to reuse!
I love shopping at both Wegmans and the abundance of local farmers markets here in northern VA. I would fill several bags with delicious Honeycrisp apples….then come home and make pies – lots of pies!
I love to shop at the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto. Right now my bags are full of delicious local nectarines, pears and plums and there’s always more than my share of cheese.
I love your site!! My favorite place to shop in Ann Arbor, Mich. is in the Kerrytown Market – Saturday is the Farmers Market, full of fresh produce, baked goods, and beautiful cut flowers. Inside the Kerrytown Market is a butcher, fish market and wine shop. Depending the season my bag is always full of different stuff with the one exception of the BEST loaf of cinnamon raisin bread from a local Dexter bakery – forget the toaster, that loaf is almost gone by the time we get home!
in montreal the best market is definitely marché jean talon! i am looking forward to stuffing the bags with apples and squash and brussel sprouts. In other words, I’m psyched for autumn.
My favorite market is the Farmer’s market in
Huntington NY on Sunday mornings.
I would love to stuff the bags with all the beautiful fresh produce that they have along with the organice chickens and beef that they sell.
Denise
I live in florida, so my favorite market is publix. but in a month or so, the farmers market will be back.
the bags will be great for toting all the good stuff home!
a) zabar’s
b) greenmarket produce
We don’t have a ton of options in my town for “unusual” shopping so I am usually found at the big Shaw’s market. However I am trying to join a local co-op (eat local, right?) and so I am excited to stuff my bags with local produce and hopefully expand my vegetable horizons!
Here in Tucson, Sunflower is a fine market so I would use the bags there, but if you want to know where I would smile the biggest while using the bags, it would be while visiting a town with a really great open-air or farmer’s market. Roots and Central Market in Lancaster County, PA would definitely see me with these bags, as would any farmer’s market anywhere I travel because I always check out the local markets and if I won these bags, I would always pack them with me.
My favorite grocery stores in my area are Publix cause you just can’t beat the service. Whole Foods because they have the most interesting items and the best salad bar. Finally, The Fresh Market. I would fill up my bags with orange ginger beets from Whoel Foods, Fruit salad from Publix and Gaga raspberry sherbet from the Fresh Market.
We do most of our shopping at Publix and the farmer’s markets. I want to stuff the bags with produce and sweets!
Favorite market – oooo so many choices. I live in Philadelphia, so there’s the Italian Market, my own close by Clark Park Farmer’s Market, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and a number of other grocery stores. I go to different ones for different things. If it didn’t have to be a market per se, I’d say my favorite foodie place to go is our local Penzey’s, but… sticking with the script, I’d have to give actual favorite market status to … my local Fresh Grocer, which has the advantages of being close by, always open, free parking, and a decent selection of both parmesan _and_ laundry detergent. It must be my favorite, ’cause I go there the most often, right? ~grin~
And as for what I _most_ want to put in RuMe bags, the answer is Penzey’s spices. But if it must be marketplace stuff, canned goods and other heavy items. Maybe some ice cream. :)
I love our local farmer’s market in Charlotte, which has fresh produce in spring and summer and Christmas trees in December. And I would fill the bags with delicious fruits and veggies (especially peaches and asparagus) and the occasional delicious cheese (havarti with dill being my favorite…).
I love buying groceries from Fairway (in Manhattanville). It’s such a great place!! I would like to fill those bags with artisanal cheeses, bread, and some fruits. Then go to Central Park and have a great picnic!
I shop at Earth Fare in Augusta. Those bags would look real cute in my trunk stuffed chockful of hummus, berries, and pistachio gelato!
Since I moved to Milton, Ontario one of the the things I love best is the Milton Farmer’s Market. I go almost every Saturday and stock on fresh, local produce for the week. It’s really gotten me excited about cooking again. So of course, I would love to fill up these bags with some fresh fruit and veggies!
There’s a farmer’s market on Saturday right across from where I work. There’s one stand that sells a spicy eggplant salsa that is just amazing and that I haven’t been able to replicate even closely. I wouldn’t mind putting some of that in a bag to serve as inspiration to try again.
Hey there!
What an exciting post! Everyone loves useful giveaways.
Here in Cleveland, I like to shop at Zagara’s market — a small local grocery chain.
If I were to stuff something into those pretty bags, though — it would be gallons and jugs of dairy — milk and cream — for cheese-making from the local Save-a-Lot. They have the cheapest milk and eggs anywhere (up to a dollar cheaper for milk, sometimes!!) and we always make a stop there for these basics.
~I love going to Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and Fresh Market…
~I will enjoy filling my bags with lovely fresh fruits and veggies…aren’t they adorable?
Westside Market on Broadway up here in Morningside Heights! My bags will be full of flour, olive oil, cheese and herbs to make amazing flatbread pizza bianco!
>I would have to say my favorite place is my local farmers market (I’m still holding out for a co-op within , oh..I don’t know, 50mi of me!).
>And you can count on me stuffing such a great bag FULL of whatever seasonal veggies I can get my paws on.
On a side note, I’m pretty much a lurker & recipe swiper but I adore your site. I cannot tell you the number of people I’ve told about the cold-brewed iced coffee (I’m easily entertained, what can I say) and since you’ve posted the flatbread recipe I’ve made it at least 3 times!
a) We go to the farmers’ markets in Grand Junction and Palisade, Colorado every Thursday and Sunday. Most people are surprised to learn that western CO has so much agriculture. Palisade is famous for its peaches! b) At the Grand Junction market each week we head straight to the stand with the melons grown near the Utah border (they are so good that you will refuse to ever eat a store-bought melon again!). These bags are perfect for carrying the dewlicious, cantaloupe and yellow watermelons that we buy each week.
I’m in Syracuse, NY and there’s a little something called the CNY Regional Market. It’s a little commercialized, but if you poke around you can find the local, organic stuff. And I love to shop outside. I’d be filling these bags with the season’s last ears of sweet corn, some puffy kale, Heidelberg Bakery Bread, and frozen free-range bison hamburgers from PDH farm. Mmmm, yummy.
I live in NYC, and really love Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, but when I have the time, I LOVE the Union Square farmer’s market, which I’d dare to say is the best in the country! If I win this bag, I’ll definitely use it most for groceries, so all of the delicious fall and winter vegetables that I can’t wait for (I’m not much of a summer person- I grew up in Miami, so I’ve had too much!). It’d also be handy for when I (potentially soon!) go back to school.
Whole Foods or the local farmer’s market are my favorites. The bags always get stuffed with seafood, fresh veggies, cheese, a bottle (or two!) of wine and something decadent from the bakery.
My favorite places to grocery shop are Trader Joe’s and Busch’s… If I would stop being so lazy, I would probably head down to the Eastern Market in Detroit more often, bc they have some pretty fabulous stuff!
My current choice to stuff those bags would be PLUOTS… I just cannot get enough of them!
Oh, and I would stuff the bags with fresh local produce that is in season (something we don’t really have in Tucson, not like most people think of seasons anyway), fresh goat cheese, honey, baked goods and all the other wonderful cornucopia one finds at fresh, local open-air farmers’ markets.
I love the Baltimore farmer’s market under the fallsway, even though I don’t live there anymore :( They have a smokery that sells smoked salmon with all sorts of seasonings, a fantastic apple stand, cheeses, cured meats, live crabs, fresh beans and peas, amazing greens, pit beef, excellent coffee, and on and on… I’d stuff my bag with fresh limas, corn, smoked salmon, and Big Sky granola (which I haven’t seen for a while– wonder if it’s still being made?).
Thanks for giving everyone the oooportunity to try out these bags through a give-away. I would use these these bags to go shopping at our local veggie market called Vince’s Country Market. I would stuff them full of fresh seasonational fruits and veggies (Iwatermelon, peaches, machintosh apples, field tomoatotes, gresh greeen lattuce) and I would use the bag to pick up up books to read from the library.
a) My favorite market is the St. Norbert farmer’s market. It’s got amazing produce and local crafts. b) I’m most eager to stuff the bags with all of my groceries. I shop at a store that charges for plastic bags, so we always bring our own reuseable bags and plastic bins.
I love my beaverton farmers market outside of portland oregon, its smaller than the portland one but less crowded and the produce is just as fresh. Although my favorite thing to buy is the awesome cheeses and homemade soup.
I love our new community farmer’s market! It’s so neat to see neighbors gathered in one place! I’d fill the bag with produce and maybe some sweets. Yum!
What a great giveaway!
a) My favorite market is either my local supermarket (for fresh produce) or Trader Joes (mostly because all of their dairy is no-hormone).
b) What will I stuff the RuMe bags with? All of the ingredients for your one-bowl brownies, and ingredients for your lemon-yogurt anything cake — I am still experimenting with other delicious flavors. I have to admit, the lemon-yogurt cake has become a staple in our house for morning breakfast!
I live in Raleigh, and on Saturday mornings, there’s an outdoor market in a town square/shopping plaza where I love to take my dog and buy some of the most gorgeous vegetable and herbs I’ve been able to find here! I most look forward to being able to better balance the produce I buy while walking a very excited puppy who also loves to eat lots of vegetables.
I absolutely love White’s Market. I always load up on fresh produce and baked goods there.
a) the Currie baracks farmers market
b)soup season is here for me- so all good things for soup and can’t forget the chocolate!!
Well, in my opinion the best market is the one closest to me and that happens to be Harris Teeter (or the “teet” as I like to call it). I’m really into making homemade pizza these days, so I’d fill my bags with fun veggies and cheese to top my pizzas with!
My favorite grocery store to shop at here in Iowa (Fareway if I am craving Blue Bunny brand oj!).
By the looks of these bags I could fill them with gallons and gallons of oj!!!
I recently moved to the England from Richmond, VA and I have found some great farm shops and markets in the area. My two favorite are an amazing Farm Shop called La Hogue (http://www.lahogue.co.uk/) and the local Co-Op store in my village. From La Hogue these bags would be filled with my new favorite cheese that has become an obsession to say the least, Mature Cheddar Cheese with Caramelized Onions. Also local produce, chutneys, jams, jellies, dairy, and delicious sticky toffee pudding that they make onsite. From the Co-Op my staples like flour, sugar, juice, sliced bread, beer, toiletries and snacks for the kids! My Co-Op is doing away with plastic bags these would come in very handy when I go shopping. Plus I want to do my part to minimize my waste.
The Farmers’ Market in Durham, NC is one of those that require you either grow it or make it yourself and that you do that within a certain mile radius of Durham. It’s only open on Sat mornings, but oh how we love to go and stock up for the week. We would fill these lovely bags with fresh berries, veggies, cheese, even buffalo meat, flowers and the pies from Angel Farms (if they aren’t sold out by the time we get there!). We also would leave these in the car and in my purse for every other store we go shop at.
These are cute bags! I would stuff mine with bread, cheese and fresh produce from the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market in PEI.
My favorite market is my local Athens Farmers Market. I want to fill these bags with all of these goodies
My favorite market is the Rittenhouse Square farmers market, although I’ll go anywhere that my favorite grower (Beechwood Orchard) does. I’d stuff my bags with blueberries and peaches (because in my fantasy world, they would never go out of season), lots of fresh mushrooms from the mushroom man, organic fresh herbs, and tart local apples.
I love Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. I’d be filling these bags with Ewephoria (or maybe Capra or Manchego or…) at the cheese shop, before buying some wine from the local PA winery store front. From there, I’d move over to the Amish booths and pick out strawberry-rhubarb jam, swing around to the PA Dutch bakers and buy some wet bottom shoe fly pie, get some fresh homemade pickles across the aisle and finally peruse the produce stands for the freshest of fresh ingredients for whatever fantastic recipes you’re dishing out here.
I love to shop at the Kansas City River Market and would fill the bag with fresh, local produce and ethnic goodies from the shops that line the perimeter of the market. The bags look great!
Hi Deb! My favorite place to shop is Trader Joe’s, though an occasional farmer’s market slips in there too. What would I put in the bag? TJ’s Honey-Nut Os, a couple containers of yogurt, and chips and guac. Oh, and some wine, can’t forget that!
- Borough market in London. Too much to choose from.
- Apples and mussells
I *needed* these as soon as I read they could be hauled over one shoulder. Delight.com’s postage to the UK is soooo expensive though – $45! – so I have my fingers crossed my number is randomly up, or else I’ll have to keep using my less-than-perfect reisenthel bags.
I love to shop at a little Italian market called Doris’. Very old fashioned and very good! In a few months, I will need that fabulous bag to carry oranges and grapefruit home from the groves we have in South Florida!
I’m from Iowa, where I shop at Wheatsfield, the local coop. I love filling my cart (and bags) with their fresh, free-range eggs, organic dairy products, bulk grains and dried herbs, and of course, fresh veggies and fruit. They always have the specialty products I need to prepare recipes I find online (e.g., chez Smitten Kitchen!) I especially support their philosophy of buying local whenever possible.Wheatsfield is currently raising funds to expand their building, which has occupied a narrow, double store in downtown Ames, home of Iowa State University. The new facility will have better parking, and even more room to expand the coop’s offerings. But I will miss the creaky wood floors and cozy surroundings of the old store, when they move. Reminds me of the local grocery in the town where I spent my childhood. Yes, the cost of change and “progress” sometimes means leaving behind old memories.
I LOVE reusable bags! I hate plastic bags with a passion now. Visiting family in Europe every summer since I was little taught me to never leave the house without your “plasa” in case you bought something. I am glad that we are moving toward this trend here in the States.
Hmmm. I live in the boonies, so Kroger is closest to me. Blah. Boring. We also have (about 20 minutes away) in town an independently owned Italian market called “Taorello’s”, which I also love. Favorite things are fruits, veggies. I’ve also always loved the look of a nice crusty French baguette sticking out of the top of the bag. :-D
Just the ease of using the reusable bags is amazing. I can fit SO much into them! And the ones I use also fit over my shoulder. I love them.
Thanks for doing this great giveaway, I have been trying to get in the reusable bag habit! My favorite market to shop at is the Eastside farmers market in Houston. It’s like going to a party every Saturday morning. There is always a live band and new booths of delicious foods! I would fill the bags with goat cheese seasoned with herbs de provence, some fresh bread and fresh flowers!
I am smitten just thinking of stuffing these bags with goodies from Gourmet Garage, the old standbys Gristedes and Morton Williams and also Garden of Eden!
Back story….a few weeks ago I decided to make your hummus and ice box cake recipes (for different events, around the same time) as well as tzatzaki sauce to serve with the hummus. Well, wouldn’t you know in typical nyc fashion I had to go to 4 STORES to get all of the ingredients! I finally found the elusive sesame seed paste at Garden of Eden, after treking all around with multiple plastic bags digging into my hands. Luckily the hummus (so nutty, loved it!) made it all worth it….but these RuMe bags will make my next all-around-town expedition much easier! Please pick me and make my marathon grocery shopping easier! :)
My favorite place to shop is a tiny Asian grocery a few blocks from my house. I love entire stores dedicated to ethnic foods! I would love to fill the RuMe bags with all kinds of delightful rice, nori, Asian produce…yum. Now I’m hungry!
I would love to use these bags at our local grocery store, Haggars. I would probably fill it up with ice cream and other sweets, but i will throw in some good stuff too!
Since I live in California’s central valley, the farmstands are the best markets available: farmer’s market quality produce available next to the fields where it was all grown!
Right now, I would really love to cart home the full complement of ingredients for the roasted acorn squash pizza that you made last year, Deb. That was just splendid, and well worth the (admittedly not strenuous) effort!
I am a big fan of the Lansdowne Farmer’s Market here in Ottawa, Ontario -it’s a new one, only three summers old, and it’s our first “must be local” market, which we’re quite proud of. I am most looking forward to stuffing my bags with loaves of delicious breads from the Art-Is-In Bakery here in Ottawa (cheddar-jalapeno! sundried tomato and basil! classic sourdough!) as well as some of their decadent chocolate almond cookies. Oh, and a dozen ears of late sweet corn, while we’re buying things you put butter on.
I live in Birmingham, Alabama–you would think that we wouldn’t have much in the way of good food shopping, but we do have this wonderful neighborhood market called Tria (triamarket.com). It has hard-to-find goodies, local produce, a lovely wine section, and great meats and cheeses (even bresaola!). It’s a little gem among all the Piggly Wigglys! I can’t wait to stuff my bags full of the last crop of summer squash and tomatoes, and all the fixins for spicy chili for the first cool night of fall…
p.s. i am drinking my cold-brewed coffee right now and LOVING it. I’m hooked!
Though I am relegated to the far outposts of Queens and work on Long island, I have found a true slice of the Big Apple. Fairway Market in Plainview (yes, just like the one on the West Side) is fantastic, huge and actually beats the pants of its West 70-something sister in terms of prices.
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a) The West Island farmer’s market is my favourite place to shop. I love being able to walk amidst baskets of fruit and vegetables. Unfortunately it’s a seasonal pleasure. In the winter I still visit my favourite butchers (La Preference) and deli (Cavellero’s) inside the West Island market, but I count the days until the farmers market opens again.
b) I love to fill the bags with fresh ingredients. Through the spring and summer I enjoy filling them with vegetables as they come into season. In the fall, it’s the ingredients for making chili and salsa.
I love shopping at the Whole Foods in Bedford, MA but it is a once and a while splurge, especially now that we have twins!! I think all of my fresh fruit and vegetables that I use to make my boys’ baby food would look fabulous!!
What a great great giveaway! These are the perfect Farmers Market bags for my Saturday shopping. I’m going to fill them with the local veggies and local cheese made in my hometown! Thank you again!
Wow, over 600 responses! You should hold more contests, brings all the silent readers (such as myself) out of the woodwork…
a) Kensington Market in Downtown Toronto where you can get everything from fresh european cheeses, meats, and bread; to an international tour of spices; to local fruits and veggies; to fair trade espressos, coffee, and teas; to a quick bite of jamaican goodies, vietnamese noodles, and vegan sandwiches.
b) a one-way ticket back to Toronto since I’ve temporarily transferred to De Pere, WI where there are weekly farmers markets but they lack the variety of a big city daily market. (The bags would also be stuffed with everything vegetarian I could get my hands on too.)
My guilty treat is shopping at the Borough Market. It’s only a bridge away from my office and pretty much the only reason I’d work in the City. Sure, it’s expensive and you have an 80% chance of stepping on a small dog – but it’s one of the only places I can buy barramundi and Spanish ham carving.
Since we’re on the subject of ham, my bags would be stuffed with ibérico ham from the greatest tapas supplier in the world, chocolate misshapes (ugly delicious cheap chocolate) from a local chocolaterie and an ostrich egg because I never ever remember to bring a bag large enough to fit.
My favorite market is the Union Square greenmarket, though I usually end up with the one at Borough Hall, which is maybe 1/10th of the size but perfectly fine. When I go today, I’ll be looking for figs and bitter greens and some good bread.
Cool! By reading what others wrote, I found out who lives in my area. I also loooooooove Russo’s, one of those 30 year old markets that still keeps their prices low, and every time I go, I fill up to the brim with real Prociutto da Parma, cheese, fresh bread, and veggies, fruits, and greens greens greens. These people keep me eating healthy. Oh, and I forgot, fresh cut flowers for less than $5 a bunch!
My favorite market is the Wooster Square Farmers Market in New Haven, CT–wonderful, friendly, informative farmers, great fruits and vegetables and meat and eggs and baked goods and honey. Plus, the market takes food stamps. I would use this bag to stock up on some produce from the Yale Farm and some eggs from Four Mile River Farm. There’s nothing like a really fresh egg, poached, with some simply-prepared vegetables on the side.
Here in Houston we shop at the El Canino market as well the Farmers Market behind it. We bring home fresh avocados, tomatoes, limes, leeks, onions, and all kinds of peppers!
Why not join in?! I love love love our local Wegmans! I’m there several times a week and not always for shopping since my knitting group likes to gather there too.
In Philadelphia, the best place to shop is the Reading Terminal Market, if/when I win ;) I will be stuffing it full of the freshest Amish-borne produce on this side of the country. How fun!
Oh, I just saw Josh from PA too!! Grabbing some fresh cheese from the Italian Market, and some lovely wine from one of our awesome state-regulated liquor stores sounds pretty fabulous too- Philly represent!!
Bags!Great idea! I always forget mine. I shop mostly at Trader Joes. Would fill my bags with lots and lots of wine, maybe some cheese, procuitto, dates mmmmm, the list could go on…….make a smitten meal
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I usually run to one of Chicago’s downtown farmer’s markets for lunch and to pick things up for dinner. For regular shopping, I go to the Treasure Island (”America’s most European grocery store!”). However, I’m most looking forward to stuffing these bags with housewarming gifts (in the form of kitchen gadgets and new shoes!) for myself.
We have no car, but luckily there several small markets in our neighborhood; my favourite is the Italian grocer a few blocks away. These would be fabulous to take home my veggies, and homemade Italian cookies!
My favorite market is the Farmer’s Market in Asheville , NC. I would stuff my bag with lots of their wonderfully flavored coffees and their freshed baked goods.
My favorite place to shop in my town is the weekly farmers’ market on Saturday mornings. I would fill the bags with tomatoes, squash, hopefully there is still basil coming, greens, greens, greens, garlic pickles and cranberry-walnut and/or prosciutto bread.
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My favorite little market is Terhune Orchards in Lawrenceville, NJ. It is everything a family owned farm should be! I would stuff those bags full of delicious apples, tomatoes and green beans.
The Boston Farmer’s Market! I’d fill them up with fresh produce each weekend… and then haul them the two mile trek home!
I love using reuseable bags! And I love to fill them with vegtables, vegtabvbels and more vegtables!!!!!!!!! Not to mention fruit, in season…..the more colorful the better. I live in NJ and there are few Farmer’s Markets in my area, so although I shop at the A&P/Whole Foods near me, I’m always in my car scouting out Markets for fresh produce.
By the way. I love your site.
I love shopping for fresh local produce at the Soulard Farmer’s Market in downtown St. Louis. I can’t wait to fill these bags with fresh apples for a French Apple pie and homemade applesauce!
1. My favourite farmers market to shop at is the Brewery Market here Halifax, NS!
2. I would stuff these bags full of wonderfully tasty fresh bread and cheese from the market and maybe some freshly baked croissants…mmmm
I love to shop at the Union Square Greenmarket in New York — even though I live near the Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza market, I have given up on it — I just find better stuff and the people are friendlier at Union Square.
As for what I can’t wait to stuff in the shopping bag for fall? Definitely squash — all different types — I am already eyeing a couple of soup recipes.
I love to shop at the North Tonawanda (NY) farmers’ market. Tons of fresh produce, honey, breads, delicious coffee…makes getting up early on Saturday morning fun! I can’t wait to stuff my bags with all sorts of fresh veggies and crisp New York apples!
let’s see, favorite market is Weaver Street Market in Carrboro and I would stuff the bag full of cheese, because cheese is good.
I love Central Market in Austin. I wannt to stuff the bags full of beautiful fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and fresh baked bread. Yum.
There is a lovely little fruit and vegetable market in the Bronx on Lydig Ave. The produce there is so inbelievely fresh and delicious and very inexpensive. I can get double the amount that I would at a regular grocery store for the same amount. Each week when I go I typically have a recipe in mind from a food blog that I read and make a special mental note to not forget that item. Last week I needed eggplant to make the caponata. It was a hit!
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My favorite place to shop is Trader Joe’s, but we don’t have one in Nashville yet. We’re getting one in a month thank goodness!! As for now, my favorite place to shop would have to be the local international market.
I would love to stuff these bags with money, but I’ll settle for local veggies from the Farmer’s Market for now. Thanks!
1) My favorite “market” is the farm where I do a work-share, Johnson’s Backyard Garden in Austin, TX.
2) I can’t wait to stuff these bags full of fall vegetables, like broccoli and butternut squash, and a zinnia poking out the top!
Well, my favorite market for browsing and tasting and occassionally buying here in Ann Arbor, MI, when I’m really embracing my inner and outer foodie, has got to be Zingerman’s Deli! But for everyday shopping, the farmer’s market and Arbor Farms–a great local natural foods store with beautiful local organic and regular produce, deli, grass-fed locally-raised meats, etc. are my go-to, along with Trader Joe’s. And I would like to stuff these wonderful bags with all of that fresh produce and meats and dairy, with a big bunch of flowers on top and perhaps a lovely bottle of wine mixed in! And maybe a pint of ice cream too.
I love shopping at Whole Foods. I would love to fill the bag with all the ingredients for a wonderful fall meal-pomegranate glazed pork tenderloin, roasted acorn squash, a salad with grapes, apples and walnuts and a pumpkin chocolate tart!
I’d like to say I shop faithfully at the St. Paul Farmer’s Market, but the crowds are incredible and I have my own vegetable garden. So the place I go the most to shop is Whole Foods in St. Paul. And what do I buy? Lots of butter, eggs and chocolate!
I love to shop at the Green Market in Piedmont Park in downtown Atlanta, which is only open in September. I would definitely use these bags for my weekly shopping and to carry bread and yummy cheeses!
I’ll admit to being borring and say that my favorite place to shop is Whole Foods. BUT! That’s because the *finally* opened one in my town (closest was 45 minutes away until 2 months ago). And personally? I’m looking forward to filling those pretty baggies with vanilla ice cream mochi and 20 year old balsamic vinegar for dipping. *NOM*
a) My favorite place to shop is the weekly farmer’s market at The Triangle in Austin. In addition to great food, they’ve got great live music as well!
b) Hmmm…fresh hatch peppers, artisan goat cheese, champagne tomatoes, local raw honey, Central Texas melons…and that’s just the beginning!
1) My favorite market is a new produce stand down the street, Quest Produce. They just popped up with all my favorite fruits and veggies.
2) I’d love to fill these bags full of my granola making supplies…mmm pounds of oats and honey…
I just moved to a new city (Chicago) and haven’t found a new favorite market yet. These bags would be great to take on my explorations and useful for dragging home goodies when I do find a favorite!
Another vote for the DeKalb Farmers Market in Decatur, GA. I would fill my bag with cheeses, fresh baked goods, herbs and spices. All the while enjoying the diversity of people who work there from all around the world.
My favorite place to shop is Idylwilde Farm Stand in Acton, MA. Well, it isn’t really a farmstand. It is more of an upscale market with an emphasis on produce. My second favorite place is Market Basket. This is a totally downmarket grocery chain, but their prices and selection are incredibly good. Also, most of the people who work there are very pleasant and down to earth. I never feel like I’m being fleeced when I shop there.
Trader Joes and I love their organic items.
I love the good deals at Trader Joe’s, but enjoy shopping at the State Farmer’s Market in Raleigh most of all. There are wonderful local cheeses and meats that put anything at Whole Foods to shame!
It’s not in my town, but close enough: Trader Joe’s.
Stuff into the bags: cheeses, breads, and a bottle of wine or two.
We have a store called Lyman’s Orchard, in Middletown, CT. It smells so good when you walk in, with the aroma of freshly baked cider doughnuts. I want to stuff a bag with crunchy, tart Macintosh apples from Lyman’s. I am sad summer is over, but SO happy with harvest season.
like so many other people my favorite place is the farmer’s market. there are two small ones nearby and i like them both for different reasons.
i would definitely be filling my bags with fall foods…squash and pumpkins and things like raisins and nutmeg to make fall desserts! yum! i’ve been looking forward to this time of year since last year!
My favorite market is (like many others) the Farmer’s Market at the Botanic Gardens in Memphis.
I will fill my sacks with my delicious CSA that I get every week from Jill and Keith at Whitton Flowers and Produce http://whittonflowerandproduce.com/
We don’t have any great markets – but there are a lot of little fruit/vegetable growers in the area. So I’d pop in on a few of them and fill up with the great local produce.
My favorite market is Richey’s in Corvallis. It’s a small, family-owned store. They have a family member with a farm – they grow their own produce and it’s fantastic! A couple of doors down is LePatissier. I would use the bags to take home enough cheese danish to make my butt the size of Jupiter! I’d also use the bags to carry home all sorts of locally produced food from the local farmer’s market.
1. Patel Brothers in Jackson Heights
2. Ginger Beer and Black Seal Rum.
I love the Kingston Farmer’s Market, in Kingston, Ontario. It’s now just 3 blocks from my new apartment, so I can stuff bags full of squash and melons without having to walk for 25 minutes to get them home! My back and stomach (and boyfriend) are all much happier.
I love going to the Elmwood-Bidwell Farmers Market about a mile from my house every Saturday morning. So I am most excited about filled these bags with produce and meat and breads from the Farmers Market.
In the winter months, I love to shop at local produce stands such as the one at the Swap Shop – Florida produce is fresh out of the fields and abundant. Choosing my favorite market is somewhat more difficult — it’s been 20 years since I shopped at a Wegman’s store in Rochester, NY, but the vast array of produce, incredible meat and fish and amazing product lines even that long ago make me still miss the store here in Fort Lauderdale.
The bags cry out for produce – right now fresh winter squashes, crisp apples and perhaps some rib-eye buffalo steaks to throw on the grill.
My favorite market is all the farmstands you pass on the way out to the east end via Montauk Highway. I’d use my earth friendly bags to hold all the local corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and berries!
PS – love the blog, it totally inspires me to get a good meal on the table… even after a long day at the office.
First: I am a Whole Foods fanatic. However, that being said, I’d probably tote these cute little totes out to China Town here in Manhattan on my way home.
Second: Since I’m going with China Town, I’ll have to tell you what filled my bag the last time I wandered through: a gross of dragonfruit (well, 6 dragonfruit to be exact), some blackberries and a roasted duck.
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I adore your site, shop at EarthFare here pretty compulsively as it’s walking distance from our house and has fabulous gorgeous produce PLUS employs that guy with the cute brit accent, the one I just try to keep talking no matter what…
My bags are always stuffed with veggies and fruit and have to spend time drying themselves out so I need a rotating stock. I do love the little ones that squeeze into my little purse though. These look lovely.
1.) My favorite store to shop is that of a local farmer, Dickinson’s.
2.) They always have exceptional deals, and I bet I could fill two of those awesome bags for $25 with fresh basil, mozzarella, corn, tomatoes, scallions, onions, peppers, pears, apples, bananas and peaches.
I’m in Allen, Texas and we don’t have a ton of liitle markets to choose from but my favorite is Sprouts. It’s like an indoor farmers market and has the best produce. I go at least once a week. I like to go on my lunch hour and so I have to carry all of my treastures up to the third floor until it’s time to go home. Texas heat is too much to leave your veggies in the car even if your windows are down.
Love all the specialty stuff that I can get at Wegman’s, but it’s far from home, so I usually get regular groceries from my local Giant. At this time of year, I’d stuff my bag with apples, honey and potatoes for kugel!
1) I love Publix Supermarkets, mainly because my hubby is a meat cutter there.
2) Today I would love to fill it with stuff to make a magarita pizza. But that could change in 5 minutes.
We live about two blocks from the local farmers’ market. It’s not big, but you sure can’t beat it for convenience! I will, of course, fill the bags with healthy fruits and vegetables, not yummy homebaked goods ;)
Really, I love the Asian markets on St. Clair in Cleveland; I’d stuff the bags with barbecued pork and high-quality soy sauce.
Here in the back of beyond (little Frankfort, KY), the one and only Farmer’s Market is terrific. Since it’s across the street from my office, I’m usually there a once or twice a week to get fresh fruit, produce, eggs, herbs, flowers – you name it. The kids like to go on Saturday morning, too.
Right now I would be most excited about stuffing a bag or three full of corn – it’s the end of corn season, and I always stock up on Silver Queen and Peaches & Cream to freeze for the winter.
I like our trader Joes. I would fill my bags with Peanut Butter Cookie Lara bars, some Salad, some pita bread and of course come CHOCOLATE!!!
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My favorite market is Whole Foods and the local CFAM farmer’s market in Colorado Springs.
I would stuff the bag with the instant espresso powder for the spiced brownies and the goodies for the ratatouille tart.
In Washington, DC, I love heading over to Calvert-Woodley to stock up on fresh cheeses, pasta, and wine!
The Lincoln Square farmers’ market in Chicago. (And Trader Joe’s when that market’s not open …) I’d stuff the bag with perfectly ripe peaches, blueberries and basil. And some chocolate, too …
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Heather
I love to shop at the Head House Square Farmers Market in Philadelphia. It’s an outdoor, but covered market in an area called the Shambles which was the site of old colonial markets. I’d stuff my bag with gorgeous fresh heirloom tomatoes and bread and pasty from the Wild Flour stand.
1. I have grown to love Bravo food market in Astoria, Queens. When I first moved to Astoria I was limited to Fresh Direct (which is a beautiful thing, but there’s nothing like picking out your own produce and seeing all of the gorgeous colors and patterns in a real life market) but now that this market opened I’m, well, smitten. My favorite food isle has everything from Ukrainian paste, bags of fava beans the size of my hand (a slight exaggeration), Irish instant soup mixes, brown sauce (hands down my fav condiment), organic items, and tons and tons of bags of lentils, special flours, etc. Added bonus, at the deli counter I can get two medium balls of fresh mozz (just enough for your pizza recipe) for $1.50!!
2. I always have an extra bag inside of all of my purses/work bag. You never know when you’ll find yourself loaded down with 10 sketchbooks for a fundraiser for Free Arts or extra clothes to change into for an after-work Mets game or filled with a crazy array of fresh salads and fruit for lunch that day or bringing home day lilies dug up from mom’s backyard in VA back to NYC on the Chinatown bus or whatever else life throws my way…
I’d have to go with Kensington Market in Toronto. And since fall is just around the corner, shopping is all about the autumn harvest: beets, apples and squashes! Thanks SK.
I’m boring. I love my Whole Foods in Boston and would stuff the bags with all sorts of veggies, meats, and treats from there.
My favorite store in Madison, WI is the Dane County Farmers Market! It is simply one of the best markets in the country. Hands down!
Lately, I have been stuffing my bags with Cauliflower to make a roasted cauliflower mash with white truffle oil…this mash is simply better than mashed potatoes if you can believe it! If you want the recipe let me know. Everyone absolutely loves it.
I also put my cat Bonzai in the bags too. She loves to hide in them and be carried and swung around in them.
the farmer’s market in harrisonburg va & hopefully soon our new food coop- fingers crossed. looking forward to getting some more raw honey, goat cheese & things that i can’t get at my csa.
My favorite store to shop in is either the local farmers market or Wegmans. I would love to fill the bags with fresh veggies.
I love my local farmer’s market on Long Island, where I would lug back my body weight in apples, Croatian olive oil, homemade chevre, and Long Island corn. Luckily, I work out alot!
I live in great big suburbia!!! So we don’t have many unique markets, but I do love to go to Trader Joe’s, but I get m get my usual stuff from Giant. I would love to keep these bags in my car for those trips!!
My fav. shopping destination in DC is the Dupont farmers market. It has everything and all the bright colors of produce inspire me to cook more. I’m also going to try my hand at canning (for the first time this fall), so these bags will help me carry my produce home safely before I prepare to can!
Don’t have a favorite place but do most of my shopping at ShopRite and Stop & Shop. I’d stuff those bags with normal groceries that we seem to go thru at a rapid rate!! PLEASE PICK ME!!!
These looks so great! I’ve been looking for a reusable bag that is strong and folds up really small to fit in my purse. I like to bring my own bags to the Farmer’s market in Huntsville, AL. The Farmers always thank me for bringing my own bag. Wouldn’t these be the talk of the Farmers! :-)
I have to admit that I usually shop at the local Associated, I never can seem to make it to the farmer’s market before my cash runs out. I went to Stew Leonard’s once in Yonkers and had a super fab time. If I had a reusable shopping bag, I’d fill it with Greek yogurt, fresh corn, ripe apples, stone fruit, sweet potatoes, and heaven knows what else.
1. The Produce Place in Nashville is awesome!
2. I’d fill my bags full of peaches, watermelon, coffee, and plum/walnut greek yogurt.
We have a small farmers market in the town of Haddam and I would love to use these bags not only for their veggies and baked goods but also using it to transport my vegetables to family and friends!
I love to shop at Dorothy Lane Market. I’d fill my bag with DeCecco pasta, olive oil with meyer lemon, and berries, then I’d make my way over to pick up some crusty breads. Next, I’d dash to the cheese and get a hunk of parmesan. Finally, some bit of dark chocolate.
Trader Joe’s where i would fill up the bags with their frozen naan, fresh mozzarella and tomatoes
My favorite place to shop is at our Tuesday afternoon farmers market, though I seriously wish there was a Trader Joes around here! And I would stuff the bag with ingredients for s’mores!
The Farmer’s Market in Madison is my favorite place to get fresh vegetables, local meats and cheeses, homemade jams and relishes, and delicious pastries. It happens every Saturday morning around the Capitol building during the summer months and is a great relaxing way to spend a Saturday morning. I would use the bags for the Farmer’s market and all my other shopping and can’t wait to stuff it with apples for brewing cider.
I love shopping at the Dekalb Farmers Market in Atlanta. Going there is like a food expedition! Live fish swimming in giant pools and pulled out fresh for cutting…HEAVEN! Especially since I don’t have to cut them up! Fresh spices by the aisle, all at CHEAP bulk prices. It has so many foods that I never know where to begin and can easily spend too much in one trip. I love it!
These form-follows-function shopping bags are such a great answer to the question “How can I carry just a little bit more home from the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia? The Amish stalls with home smoked hams! The organic apples! The cheddars and chevres! The beautiful lettuces! I’ll be happily perrered by questions on the bus home – “Where can I find those great shopping bags?” Thank you, Deb, and thank you RuMe!
The Farmer’s Market at Northpark Mall in Davenport, IA is the best. I usually stuff my bag with amazing blackberry cinnamon rolls and yukon gold potatoes, but in addition, I bought home-grown honey last week that is the best!
Well, my favorite market is Eastern Market, but I find myself frequenting my local downtown farmer’s market more often (it’s so close!). Lots of great produce and fresh bread. I’m excited to stuff a bag with all the great fall veggies that are out, and the apples as well. Oh man, and a loaf or two of 10 grain bread. SO GOOD.
Here in Evansville, IN we have a farmer’s market downtown every Friday during the summer months. It’s a great place to get fresh, local produce and baked goods. I’m most excited about stuffing the bags full of squash and eggplant.
1) Park Slope Food Co-op. It doesn’t get better than that.
2) I’d stuff those bags with my favorite salad items: arugula, beets, sprouts, shaved fennel and walnuts.
I just moved to Beverly, Mass. and am still exploring the markets around me. We just found Meadowbrook Farm Stand in Hamilton, have yet to explore Green Meadows Farm (also in Hamilton), and hopefully discover others. Henry’s of North Beverly is looking mighty fine, and I’m already a fan of the Grand Trunk in Newburyport. And I STILL have exploring to do!
If I had those bags, I would stuff them with Israeli couscous, goat cheese, mushrooms, spinach, heirloom tomatoes, and a fine bottle of red.
I love the farmer’s markets in Chicago, there are so many. I guess my favorite is the Green City Market but my neighborhood market in Hyde Park is just fine. I also used to love the one at the Federal Plaza–I could just walk over from work at lunch and they have a ton of vendors.
Hmm, what to stuff them with…based on the weather, I’d say apples but if I could go back in time it’d be berries all the way.
A contest sure brings out the lurkers! I like the Green Market in Union Square! The beautiful fresh vegetables will fill up the bag nicely…a little fresh bread on top.
Oh, I loves me some Whole Foods, I do, I do! As for what I’d be filling up my bags with, let’s see … local and/or organic meat and produce for my babies (nine-month-old twins, can’t be feeding them pesticides and hormones – eek!), ingredients to have on hand to always be able to make those wickedly delicious one-bowl brownies*, and whatever other yummies pique my interest as I’m walking around. Because, really, what doesn’t give me the hungries at that store?! Also would really love to throw out all my spices and replenish my stock at the nearby Penzey’s.
* I mean, really. I’ve got some sitting on my counter right now, and they are the first thing that my husband and I go for at 6 am when we’re stumbling to the kitchen to make bottles. They are evil. Yet wonderful. I hate them. Yet I love.
Favorite market: Tower Grove Farmer’s Market in St. Louis.
Fill the bag with: Blackberries; just one more week of blackberry season, please, please, please.
I live in Cambridge, Mass., and while they’re open, I love going to the local farmers markets in Union and Central squares.
I would fill the bags with eggplants, tomatoes, beets, squash, and fresh bread.
My favorite place to shop is Trader Joes. They have great prices and all sorts of great foods that you can’t find anywhere else. I would love to use these bags to carry all my TJ goodies home in style.
1. Union Square Greenmarket.
2. My groceries from Zabar’s and Fairway that has to make it back to the East Side!
ohh! we have a wonderful farmers market in baltimore underneath the JFX. and i want to cram every last apple they sell into these bags!
I really wish I had a cool farmers market around me because I would love to stuff some Italian eggplant in the bags if I won some!
I guess I will have to settle for having the coolest bags at Wal-mart and Aldi’s (if I win!)
favorite markets in the upper connecticut river valley: hanover food co-op and killdeer farm stand. GREAT local stores.
i would fill my bag with local produce from the farm stand and from the farmers’ market! and all my groceries and wet kids clothes and swimming gear and picnic stuff and hiking gear and skiing gear and …. i could go on and on!
The Middlebury Co-op — and I would stuff them all full of the last of the sweet summer corn so that I’ll remember to freeze some for winter.
By far my favorite shopping destination in Atlanta is the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market. They have one of the best selections of Japanese foods (not to mention any other country you want…they even just added an Eastern European section) in atl and more asian-oriented veggies than the DeKalb Farmer’s Market.
I’d fill it with veggies to my heart’s content!
I live in a small town so very few options on markets. I go to the farmers market in season and Brookshires most of the time.
a) We have the Capital City market every Saturday here in Boise, at least Spring through Fall. It’s probably nowhere near as nice as ones in San Fran or NYC, but I still like it!
b)These bags look so versatile that I will stuff them with everything from the regular grocery store… and whatever else I may need a nice big bag for!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I shop at the Williamsport Outdoor Grower’s Market on Saturday mornings in central PA. Also at Amish farm stands in my area.
My bag will be overflowing with peaches!
Ohh… picking one market is tough, but I’d have to say Holiday Market in Canton, MI is my favorite. I currently use a few of their re-usable bags and keep em with me. I’d put a ton of fresh olives, a few bottles of great wine, and fresh sashimi grade Yellow fin that my fish monger often holds for me.
Hehe. I’m drooling just thinking about it.
Great that RuMe is doing this.
I recently discovered a South American market in my prairie city (Winnipeg). I’ve been stocking up on hot peppers and masa farina!
Being in Iowa, there are a TON of Farmer’s markets going on most everyday of the week in most cities. My two favorites are in Des Moines: one in Valley Junction and the Downtown Farmer’s Market in Des Moines proper. It’s about a 40 minute drive for me but very well worth it. I would fill these bags with tomatoes, corn on the cob, green peppers , mushrooms, Kettle Corn, fresh salsa, free-range eggs, the best goat cheese I have ever tasted, a wonderfully overstuffed Gyro with all the toppings and, for dessert, chocolate brownies and apple pie! :) Oh wait…I forgot about the pumpkin bread…ok, we’ll get that in there too!
Great…it’s only 8:30 and I want lunch now…. :)
I love central market in Fort Worth TX or the farmer’s market!
I would love to put all of my heavy fall veggies and fruits in there… can’t wait for apple season!
My favourite market is Publix. They just opened a couple in the town where I live. They are also the only store in the area that carries Red Rose teabags, which is what I plan to fill the shopping bags with. That and Breakfast Bread from their bakery.
1) I love shopping at Trader Joes — but my town only has one, and it isn’t close enough to frequent everyday! I find myself shopping most often at Target loading up on diapers and formula….
2) Of course, I’ll be filling the bags with diapers and formula most of the time, but on occasion, wonderful “natural” food from Trader Joes!
The Norwich Farmers Market would be my favorite place to use these bags. Filled to the brim with grass fed beef, artisian cheeses, home spun wool to knit those christmas gifts, and gallons of maple syrup. That way I can keep my hands free to hold the tasty samosas that they sell there!
a) The dupont circle farmers market.
b) All my yummy finds from the farmers market…and everywhere else!
Me! me! I want to play! I have two: Foodies Urban Market in the South End of Boston where I would be excited to fill my RuMe bag with all my funky staples that I can’t find in my ‘hood. (don’t ask).
Out of the city, I like to go to Tendercrop Farm in Newbuyrport for local produce, meat, and herbs/flowers.
Wow, look at all the people who read your blog!
Here in Asheville NC I like to fill up my grocery bags at the local Bi-Lo, purely out of convenience. Sometimes I make it to the farmers market, but usually not.
I would fill a RuMe bag with bottles of my hubby’s favorite diet cola beverage.
i’m only slightly embarrassed to admit this. :-)
I enjoy shopping at the local farmer’s market and food stands. When I was in college, my favorite place to shop was the St. Peter Food Co-op. Always my top choice when shopping there…the fresh fruit. It’s pumpkin canning season here at home…so my bags will be full of pumpkin–for pies, bread, biscotti, and pumpkin chili!
I shop the greenmarket at Union Square at least twice a week. I usually plan my meals around whatever I pick up there – except when the need for a tomato-basil-mozzarella salad takes over the shopping list.
I’d love to have a set of RuMe bags to stash all my carrots and blueberries and cabbages in. Oh, and to carry all my Rubbermaid containers home from work after I’ve devoured all the yummy leftovers for lunch!
1. I love the Austin Farmer’s Market; I don’t shop there enough. But my second favorite store is local food co-op Wheatsville, which can be somewhat of a farmer’s market since they try to sell produce from the area.
2. I would use these bags to stuff them full of the brightest colored chard, greenest zucchini, peaches, wads of fresh basil and spinach and arugula. The list goes on; and every now and then, I’d probably use the bag as a impromptu knitting bag.
1. I love shopping at Trader Joes! It’s my favorite place to get snacks.
2. I would use my bags to carry my CSA share (tomatoes and zucchni galore right now! ), plus a loaf of bread and a wedge of cheese.
Our area is seriously deprived of good markets, so I’ll go with our local farmer’s market! Always unique and basil as cheap as it comes…
I’d stuff these bags with tons of fresh fruit and veggies! Which I’m sure my husband will be thrilled about.
My favourite market is the Troy Waterfront Farmer’s Market, because I can walk to it from my dorm. I don’t have a car, so I end up carrying things a lot. I’d probably stuff it with the usual fresh artisan bread and apple cider, and maybe some in season fruits or vegetables.
I’ve wanted these kind of bags for ages! These look both functional and beautiful, too!
(a) I have to say, my favorite place to shop in town is Trader Joe’s. There’s always something there to delight me.
(b) I’d most like to stuff these babies with, oh, avocados, eggs, lamb, maybe a roaster chicken…so many things.
I love a little local grocery store called Sendiks. Great produce and their prices are generally better than the big chain store here.
I’d definitely fill those cute bags with fruit….can’t keep enough of it in the house for my kiddos :)
These bags are wonderful! My favorite place to shop right now is Lewin’s farmers market, it’s a huge warehouse stuffed with all fresh and local produce. I can’t wait to fill my bags with gourds and apples because it’s starting to feel like fall!
I love the farmer’s market in our neighbourhood in Heidelberg. Recently I made my first pumpkin soup and I really liked it. So I can’t wait to put another pumpkin in that bag! ;)
a) Farmer’s market in Redlands, CA
b) At this time of year, it’s the peaches, avocados and fresh tomatoes. Yum!
What a fun give-away! My favorite local market is Crosby’s in Salem, Mass. – it’s locally-owned, smaller and more convenient than the Super Stop & Shops that seem to dominate this area, and has wonderful local produce and a great natural foods selection. I also have to put a mention of WEGMANS in here. It is by far the best grocery store I’ve ever shopped – clean, bright, well-organized, scads of super fresh produce, great deli, fantastic bakery, and friendly, incredibly knowledgeable employees. Yes, I worked there in highschool and college (and they gave me a scholarship for school). Good employer too. Sadly, they’re mostly in NY state and Penn – none in Massachusetts yet. I miss shopping there so much, and go visit every chance I get when I’m home visiting the parents.
What would I put in the bags? Well, definitely ice cream to start – I’m pregnant and it’s been a huge staple this summer. And fresh veggies and fruit! and weekly groceries in general.
I love these bags – so much cuter than the canvas ones I have now, and I love that they fold up so small so I can’t forget them on the counter at home (like I do half the time now).
Thanks! And thank you for all of the fabulous recipes and the entertaining stories! I’m addicted to your blog.
My favorite is the Italian Store in Arlington, VA. I love their Italian sausage and fresh bread :)
I would love to take these wonderful bags to Henry’s Marketplace and fill them up with beautiful produce!
I would LOVE these bags to take to my local farmer’s market here in Jackson, MS, to stuff with fresh Mississippi tomatoes, sweet potatoes, field peas, and anything else in season.
I have a strange love of grocery shopping so most non-warehouse grocery stores are lovely but, of all fine food buying establishments, I absolutely adore the Mill City Farmer’s Market (www.millcityfarmersmarket.org). The location is gorgeous and they have the most amazing mini donuts!
I would stuff my delightful bag with all kinds of leeks, root veggies, squash and japanese eggplants for a fall soup(it’s cold in Minnesota) and perhaps some plums to try a certain dimply plum cake recipe… :)
ps. in raptures over your blog Deb!
Trader Joe’s is my favorite local store, but I’d use these bags for all of my grocery shopping! I like being able to stuff more things into a bag.
I love the Harvest Co-op in Cambridge, MA. And I would fill the bag with lots and lots of apples to make applesauce with cardamom…. I can’t wait. Thanks to you and RuMe for the giveaway!
1. My favorite market is Caputo’s in Elmwood Park. They have a great selection of produce and interesting international foods.
2. Bananas (my daughter’s favorite) and fresh made croissants!
new zealand and australia ;)
Wow, seems like my odds are slim.
My favorite market in Pittsburgh is either the cheese counter at the Pennsylvania Macaroni Company or Tokyo Mart Japanese Market in Shadyside. Sushi fixins will definitely go in this bag first if I am lucky enough to win one. Eel, mochi rice, nori, red bean paste, nato. Mmm… I think I need to go to Tokyo Mart anyway…
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