Fruit and Vegetable Van in the smaller towns.

These vans have been miracle workers for me -- just this past June in Riego del Camino on the Sanabres on a Sunday, a produce truck set up show in town and it had fruit and vegetables just as delicious as any market anywhere in Spain. Same thing happened unexpectedly in Castromonte on the Camino de Madrid. Both times I was pretty low on supplies and had no fresh fruit in my pack.

The problem of course is that you can't count on them unless you know their schedule, but I agree that when they appear, take advantage. Same is true for bread and pastry trucks, I have found that they usually carry extras as they do their delivery route.

Kiwi-family, I'm assuming that when you flagged one of these guys down, he saw that your group was as large as the population of the town he was driving to and realized you'd clean him out.

Buen camino, Laurie