Bazaaring here is just a part of daily life. Thankfully we arrived in the dry cooler winter months which is the garden season so there is typically a decent amount of produce available in the local bazaar.
(Local Malumghat Bazaar - the boy weighing the kilo of tomatoes I am buying for 12 taka)
We are starting to stock up on some produce, such as freezing the broccoli, bell peppers & beans from our garden, as well as having 25kgs of tomatoes bottled this week as we are told that fresh produce gets scarce during the rainy season. Although the garden produce may start to dwindle then, that is when the Fruit season will start to ramp up. We are very excited for that right now since the only local fruit we have is Banana (the apples and oranges we have are imported from India/China). We are very excited for mango & lychee season.
(Dhaka, DIT 1 Market - Has many products we can not get locally - broccoli, bell peppers, etc. as well as a good amount of out of season produce - not to mention decent chocolate)
Marketing for meat is another challenge in itself. The local bazaar only has cows butchered two times a week so to get something fresh we have to know what day and to go early while it's still fresh. With this being said we have actually not purchased any beef since we have arrived in country. Chicken is always available as they sell the chicken whole and alive - we just have to kill and clean. Thankfully we have house help to make some of these things a bit easier. Fish is also typically available locally, the quality goes from excellent to very questionable.
(Photo: Meat Market in a larger city about 2 hours north)
(Holly with 25 kgs of fresh tomatoes ready for bottling)
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