Organic Basket of Produce For $25 – November 6

It is Saturday and that means that Thrifty Al gets up bright and early to pick up or basket of produce. After not being able to snag the organic basket for $25 for a few weeks – we were finally able to get one this week through our produce co-op called Bountiful Baskets. You can also get a conventional basket of produce for $15.

Here’s what we received in this week’s basket:

• 6 organic bananas
• 1 organic cabbage head
• 6 organic tomatoes (now sitting in our window sill to finish ripening!)
• 1  5-lb bag of organic potatoes
• 1 3-lb bag of organic apples
• 1 very full bag of organic grapes
• 2 organic green pepper
• 1 organic Bok Choy
• 2 organic cucumbers
• 1 organic celery bunch
• 1 head organic green leaf lettuce
• 2 organic Pomegranates
• 6 organic Kiwi (one not showing as the 5 year couldn’t wait to eat one as soon as Thrifty Al came home – they are her favorite!)

As we have mentioned many times before, we love to get our produce this way – especially when we can get such a great value for the organic produce which would cost us quite a bit more in-store!

You can see past examples of our produce baskets by seeing our previous posts here. Each week, it is a surprise what we will receive. But we love it!!

We have also posted this information before, but we wanted to keep posting it in these posts so that everyone reading can have some ideas on how to get involved with a produce co-op:

There are many produce co-ops and grocery co op groups and it’s various forms across the nation that you can join and be a part of.  A good place to start looking is at a the site localharvest.org (which id going to help you get organic local food) or coopdirectory.org (I am not sure how updated this site is as our area’s listings were old and many not listed, but at least worth a shot!) or search produce co-op your state under google and see what listings come up. Also, Money Saving Mom posted an article on how to start your own produce co-op, especially if you could not find one in your area.