What do you spend on fresh fruits and veggies a week
 

One thing my wife and I don't really budget is our groceries. We tend to shop a few times a week and buy only the next two or three meals at a time. So I don't have a good feel for this.

I'm trying to do the math on joining a local CSA. What would you say you spend a week on fresh fruits and veggies?

not much.
I'd probably say $10?
dpending on what we're having for dinners etc

Probably in the $50.00 to $75.00 range.

We probably spend about $25 on next week's garbage.

$50

Probably about $50-$75

Less now that we're growing them.

Fig tree, lemon tree, lime tree, orange tree, peach, plum, olive.

Zucchini (huge - size of a man's leg below the calf), bibb lettuce, romaine, basil, rosemary, thyme, japanese eggplant, yellow squash, habeneros, poblanos, red and green bell pepper, roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, large heirloom tomatoes, spinach, artichokes.

I'm in. Send to my house please.

Don't care for fresh fruits and veggies or what?

do you really save any money?

My family eats a ton of fresh fruits and veggies. We do the CSA thing during the summer at the local farmers market. I have a fairly sizable garden as well, so I grow a lot of what I eat too.

Around $40 probably.

$25 - $40 every two weeks, do a lot more frozen veg (due to cost) than fresh. Most of our fresh veggies come out of the garden.

At the farmers market this morning I spent $11.50 on 3 bags of snap peas & 1 bunch of radishes

We do a lot of frozen veggies, too, as the "fresh" ones aren't too fresh anymore by the time they make it here. Fruit, potatoes and lettuce are the main produce items I buy, though I have no idea how much I'm currently spending.

$0 I eat food, not what food eats! :D

Probably $50. I think the advantage of a CSA would pay off in other parts of your grocery bill, though. If you have the CSA produce on hand, you're going to use it (at least you should). This is going to force you to make dishes featuring the vegetables, which then reduces cost in other parts of your grocery bill.

About $200 a week. We eat a bunch of fresh, and that is all we buy at the store. I buy a 1/2 a beef and a 1/2 hog from a friend and make this last about 1 year.

I find I spend more at a Farmers market than I do the local grocery store. I grow what I can, but the deer and squirrels continue to win

My grocery bill each week is around $30 and about 65-70% of my grocery purchases are fresh produce. So... $20.

My wife will only eat organic veggies, and she asked three tomatoes recently. I was stunned when I saw how much they cost per pound. Stunned as in "You've got to be ****ing kidding me!?"

What did they say?

Shoot the deer and squirrels and save on buying the hog.

Win win.

She asked if she was lagging behind. They replied, "yes. please catsup."

Or just shoot the cow & the hog & be done with it

cat soup? you sicko.

No idea. I'd have to save a receipt.

That's clearly what I said. You can literally take what I wrote and lay it over what you wrote and there would be no noticeable difference.

That being said catsup, or ketchup, is still not as good as cat soup. Especially with some great organic tomatoes.

I don't get it. What does "cats up" have to do with lagging behind? :shrug:

Shit.

LMAO

i like ocelot soup best

WHAT THE ****!!!??????!!!!?

I buy 20 dollars worth of banannas a week.

Seriously?

with sloth sauce

That's a lot of bananas. Smoothies?

If yer wife was Paula Deen she woulda axed em

OMFG PLZ STOP DIS GUIS HALP!!!!!!!

What?

Wife lonely maybe?

nah he's a chimpanzee

My wife has a juicer and drinks juiced vegetables and fruits. I can sort of tolerate it, but they're pretty gross.

Buttplugs

Mine, too. I bought her a Vitamix, which I think is Korean for "Congratulations! You just spent $700.00 on a ****ing blender!"

Green smoothie is about as far as I go in that direction. Not a fan of juices. Kale, pineapple, and banana blended with some ice is awesome, though.

Then why not toss in some carrots or cucumbers?

Friggen awesome ROFL

or some loochy?

Less pleasurable to nibble out

Nice. :clap:

Okay, where were we...

LMAO

Absolutely. But we eat fruit with every dinner and usually there's a salad as well.

$20 weekly on fresh at the farmers market and $20 bi-weekly frozen

Catsup ... catch up

Old, stupid joke. Made famous(er) in Pulp Fiction.

Hell no! The Vitamix rocks, way, WAY better than just a blender. And if your wife makes smoothies, they're notably better in a Vitamix.

I see. You're one of those philistines that pronounces catsup as "ketch up".

You actually pronounce it "Cat Sup"?

Makes me think of the Mr. Burns, "ketchup.....catsup...ketchup...catsup," scene.

My grandmother did

Yes

More like "cats up"

Neat. An overview of the etymology of each:

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Catsup_vs_Ketchup

More like Cats Sup

Rain Man needs to do a poll.

Probably

The bigger question is Heinz or Hunt's?

I used to be a Heinz man all the way. Once Hunt's put out their natural, no HFCS version, I prefer it. Heinz is soooo sweet, where Hunt's has a subtler sweetness and a spicier (not spicy hot) profile.

Neither. Simple Truth organic. We switched to it a few years ago, and forgot to take a bottle on a camping trip. So, I had to run out to find some. It wasn't available, so I just got Heinz. It was so sweet that we had to scrape it off the weiners.

I got a jar of homemade ketchup from the Mennonites farm stand many years ago when I was in Missouri.... holy balls was that awesome ketchup. I never found it again, and I've never been able to make it. I'd pay handsomely for more of it.

I thought the Hunt's natural was sweeter than the Heinz natural. :hmmm:

Interesting.

:hmmm:

I like Hunts better than Heinz. And though Hunts was writing, "no high fructose corn syrup," on the bottle they seem to have stopped. And I think if you check the back they list some other sweetener.
I almost never eat ketchup, though. It's kind of gross. Especially when it dries on a plate.

You have to get the "100% Natural" version to get no HFCS.

http://www.hunts.com/images/products...chup-20-oz.png

They switched their entire line away from HFCS a couple years ago, and then went back. Now you can find one version that's "100% natural" without the HFCS.

I prefer this one, though

http://i0.wp.com/eatcleanwithkate.co...size=300%2C300

Heinz is the better Ketchup, IMO, and you can get Simply Heinz if you want to avoid the HFCS.

**** John Kerry

:thumb: bananas are great! They feed the gerbils and they prevent them from escaping!

So you got a BJ on a camping trip?

I disagree. I (now) think Hunt's is better. Just a flavor preference.

nah.
I do a few veggies. But the only fruit I really like are Oranges. maybe a Fuji or Pink Lady apple. I really should buy/eat more though.