We first started participating in the Bountiful Basket foodco-op about a month ago. What isBountiful Basket? Essentially it is an organization that provides fresh produceeach Saturday to its participants. Thecatch is that you don’t get to choose what produce will be in your basket comeSaturday. Generally it’s all good stuff. Every once in a while you will get a randompiece of exotic fruit or some giant potato looking thing, but most of the timeit’s just the same stuff you would end up buying at the grocery store. It is kind of nice that they don’t tell youwhat you’re getting, it gives you a variety of produce throughout the month andkeeps your meals interesting, although we do have A TON of celery in our fridgeright now from the past two weeks.
We pay $15 a week to participate. At first I was skeptical, but after the firstweek and seeing how full our basket was, I became a little more excited aboutthe money we might be saving. Each weekwe got our basket and I was consistently impressed, but I was still curious toknow the dollar value of our savings.
So this week I decided to compare what we got in our basketwith the prices of the same produce found at Walmart.
Here are my findings based on what we received this week.....
Not too bad! I think the savings of 36% definitely overshadows the downside of having uncertainty in what your basket will contain.
Visit www.bountifulbaskets.org to begin participating.
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