This may not interest you in the slightest. But for some reason today, I thought it would be funny to share with you before & after pictures of my Market-bought carrots. We buy them by the kilo at the outdoor veggie stall. This is what they look like when we pick them out, straight from the garden:

We scrub them well, and this is the AFTER photo:

Aren't they HUGE and really dark orange?? We peel most of our veggies, just to be sure we are kept healthy. We eat carrots quite often in our home! But sometimes I really miss those convenient bags of baby carrots for $1.99 at Safeway.