Veggies bought

/ hsoi

Earlier I wrote about our new veggie experiment.

We just returned from picking them up.

I have mixed emotions. 🙂

First, we see the box. It’s full. We open it. The smell of fresh basil overwhelms you.

Bliss. 🙂

Then you start to look through the box and… I felt a little disappointed. I mean, when you look at the pictures it seems like this bounty. And well, it is… but there’s no size reference, and so, everything’s small.

There’s no way this box will last a family of 5 for a week. Maybe a couple of days?

But I think I’m jaded by huge commercial, massive fertilizer, hormone pumped blah blah blah… so I’m expecting huge stuff. I mean, we’ve got a cucumber in the fridge from the HEB and putting that next to one of the cukes we picked up? It’s David and Goliath.

Then… I cut into a tomato.

O…M…G….

But this I knew. The flavor was wonderful, so much better than you’d get at the big store. But again, I knew this would be the case. If in fact the veggies were picked this morning for pick up today? Heck, can’t get much fresher than that.

I want this. Yes I do. Honestly tho, we’d probably need 2 boxes to feed the family. But wow… $66/week on veggies ($33/box)? Granted, Wife does the grocery shopping so I’m detached from the cost of such things, but it just seems expensive.

But at least now we KNOW what comes in the box. Wife needs to go to the grocery store tomorrow for some stuff anyways, and she’s been tasked with trying to do as much of an apples-to-apples comparison of what we got in the box vs. the prices of stuff in the store. It’ll have to be a guesstimate, since say I doubt HEB will have purple bell peppers. But, we’ll do the best estimating possible. If it comes out to being say $10 for all that? IMHO that’s not worth it since that’s a huge amount of money per month. But if it’s say $28 or more at HEB for the same? I’m fine with that price because it’s close enough, it’s better quality produce, better flavor, and all the other joys of it.

Hey… I’m head of the household and the money man, so I have to worry about these things. 🙂

Still… that tomato was sure yummy. Wife’s preparing supper as I type this. I can’t wait to see what she makes. 🙂

7 thoughts on “Veggies bought”

  1. Love your post and your contemplations. I got my own first box today — it was just a half share for us as we’re not all veggie lovers in my house. It does make you wonder about the costs, but the food is really worth it! I hope your wife made a great meal and you both have great fun with the weekly adventure!

    • Everyone makes a big deal now about “these tough economic times” but the reality is… we probably wouldn’t be in them if we were wise with our money ALWAYS. But I digress. Point is, we always need to mind our money.

      That said, it’s not necessarily a slam dunk that a $10 equivalent at the grocery store means we don’t do this… may just mean we have to shift financial priorities. I mean, based upon what was in our box last night, Wife made a ratatouille to go on the side with some other things and boy, if it wasn’t a step above purely because of the quality of the ingredients.

      So, I really WANT things to work out. Just have to ensure we can. 🙂

      Hope your experience turns out good as well. 🙂

  2. Interesting post. We’ll be heading to the farmer’s market at Barton Creek mall in the morning. Lots of grass-fed meat and fresh veggies. Prices are significantly higher than HEB, so we don’t get much. They have a small petting zoo with a baby goose, rabbit, turtle, and such things that my daughter loves.

    • We’ve done the farmer’s market thing too, but just never got religious enough about it…. go one weekend, forget to go for the next some weekends. It’s always fun, always so many great things there.

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