Bounty Hunters

Last Monday Adam and I signed up for our first food co-op. It's a great (and cheap) way to eat healthy.
Today we got to go collect our bounty at 7:30 in the morning. That might not seem too early to some of you but with all the packing going on this week it was a little hard to get out of bed that early on a Saturday. We were able to get there a few minutes early so that we could be in and out and collected our goods in less than 20 minutes.

I wanted to find out just how much we saved when we got home. The Co-op only costs $15 bucks for each basket you purchase. This is the reaping of one basket:
1 celery
4 red peppers
2 stalks of broccoli
1 head of green lettuce
1 lb strawberries
1 lb carrots
4 lbs grapes (we got double because we didn't want a cantaloupe
3 lbs 10 oz bananas
3 lbs peaches
3 lbs pears
3 lbs 12 oz tomatoes
Total cost if purchased at the store: $30.18 (and most of this was on sale at the store)
Price paid with food co-op: $15
Check it out at www.bountifulbaskets.org to see if there is one near you! TOTALLY WORTH IT! You can get up to 3 baskets of fruit and veggies and select sites also offer bread baskets, ethnic specialties and sometimes even meat!