"Hey Via! How long will you be in FL for? I would love to meet up, but I'm in Massachusetts at the moment. I will be back at the end of this month/beginning of September. Enjoy mango season!!! <3"

"Grow some?? Do you speak spanish? I'm sure there are farms with organic type farming practices... Mexico grows sooo much food. Most of what we get here in the U.S. comes from Mexico!"

"Also -- another thing (if conventional) could be that they are heavily waxed and sprayed with toxic chemicals, which is often the case."

"I have no problem with tomatoes because I get them all locally and grown with organic practices, and usually pick them myself ripe off the vines or close to ripe and allow them to truly ripen.

I cannot eat tomatoes that are unripe or grocery store…"

"Baby bananas we usually pass on because they are picked far too young and thin, bananas are supposed to be FAT!!! The best imported ones are the Manzano or "Apple" variety.

Red bananas if you're getting them locally I'm sure they're amazing. But…"

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I would say I am a champ at picking out some really tasty frozen durians, which is kind of sad because it means I have eaten A LOT of them and we all know that they may not be the greatest ones to be eating (even when they taste like vanilla…

"Welcome! I see you are in Ft. Lauderdale. You can always go to the Swap Shop...they sell lots of (conventional) produce there, cheaper than the grocery store, tropical stuff too.

To save money in general, buy in bulk/by the case. Otherwise you're…"

"Good advice! Pick your owns are EPIC because you can eat your weight in fruit for free, and the fruit is so much more nutrient dense!

Dumpstering is awesome. As long as you don't jump into the meat dumpster :[
I've dumpstered cases & cases of some…"

"Only if it's unripe & hasn't opened up on the tree."