speaking of produce...

(*sorry that video in the post below automatically starts playing if you're on my home page... I may remove that so it's not so annoying...)

We got our two week ration yesterday and just for fun I decided to once and for all figure out exactly how much (if any) money I was saving on produce with this arrangement.
So I jotted down everything that was in our basket this week:

• 5 red delicious apples
• 8 plums
• 8 nectarines
• 1 bag green grapes (about 2.5lbs)
• 1 pint blueberries
• 1 lb strawberries
• 1 small cantaloupe
• 1 bunch bananas (about 2.5lbs)
• 4 big carrots
• 1 head romaine lettuce
• 1 bag prepared coleslaw
• 14 red potatoes
• 5 ears of corn
• 1 zucchini
• 1 eggplant
• 1 brown bag full of snap peas
• 1 brown bag full (heaping) of green beans

Then I went to the grocery store and walked through the produce section, writing down prices and weighing fruits and veggies to get a comparison.
Here are the prices at our closest grocery store:

• red delicious apples $1.49/lb
• plums 4/$2.50
• nectarines $1.99/lb
• green grapes $1.99/lb
• pint blueberries 4/$10
• 1 lb strawberries $2.99
• cantaloupe $2 each
• bananas .65/lb
• carrots $2.99/bag
• romaine lettuce $1.99/lb
• bagged prepared coleslaw $1.89
• 5# red potatoes $2.99
• corn 2/$1
• zucchini .99/lb
• eggplant .99/lb
• snap peas 2.99/bag
• green beans $1.49/lb

...which, according to my weights and measures and tallies, for the amount of produce we have in our kitchen right now would total approximately $53.50

And we paid just $22 for ours, which in our experience has been fresher and tastier than what we used to bring home from the grocery store and which includes taxes and delivery.

Now granted, I wouldn't normally have eggplant or coleslaw in my cart or pay $2.50 a pound for plums and nectarines... but still.
The price difference here??
Crazy.

That makes me not feel so bad about letting a zucchini go to waste here and there...


Anyone interested in joining or starting up a co-op??? :)