Angie claims that we have organically eaten away all of our money. It is true. Let me give you an example:
We went to the Central Market the other night and we bought 18 Organic Pink Lady Apples. Any takers on how much they cost?
I am putting this here at the risk of people saying that I don’t wisely spend my money. Ok, here goes……18 organic apples = $33.00. Yes. We bought these apples on Friday night and I think we have 14 or so left. We usually eat 2-3 apples a day, or 18 apples in a week. If we eat $33.00 of apples a week, that means during the month of June we could spend $132.00 on APPLES.
Something is seriously wrong with this picture. Either, I am insane for buying those apples and the store people laughed all night that someone actually spent that kind of money on them, or the cost of eating organic is too high. Please bless the answer is B.
So what is one to do? Get a second job to buy organic? Tell the kids apples are too expensive and they can have Oreos (after all, you get about 36 Oreos for $2.50 or so)? Buy non-organic, which becomes harder and harder to do the more I read and research Autumn’s corn allergy?
We will keep buying organic cause I feel like we have to and I feel good about it, BUT if I even see a hint of an apple being thrown out, these kids are dead. If you ask for a coveted sacred apple, you will eat it and fully enjoy it, even if you are eating the apple while wearing your coat around the house…after all, we need to save money to eat apples!
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OH YIKES!!! We have a local high school here that was fined $20,000 for accidently leaving the soda pop machine plugged in during the lunch hour. Mind you, it is plugged in other times during the day without consequence, but not for lunch. Nevermind, that the kids can cross the street and get their soda pop at a local business, or how about New York City wanting to ban anything larger than a 16 oz soda in their city. The world is screwed up! The best advice I can give is to build a hot house in your back yard and grow your own fruit and vegetables. Whoever "they" are out there, "they" don't want us to be healthy - even if "they" disguise it by silly rules or super inflated costs!
Don't you have a farmer's market in your area where you can buy organic at a much cheaper rate because it doesn't have to go through all of the channels? You know everyone needs their piece of the pie. LOL! I would think in your neck of the woods there would be tons of apple farmers that you could get some fresh produce from? Anyway...YIKES that is crazy to spend $30 on apples. Hope you find a solution.
Hugs!
Aunt Cathy
Remember Bountiful Baskets? The gal that hosted that now does her own...Arlington Produce Co-op. $30 bucks for one basket of veggies and one basket of fruits. It is every other week still on Saturday mornings. Sometimes they also offer just an organic fruit basket for $15, when that is offered I usually buy two. Last time the fruit basket contained strawberries, 2 honeydew melons, 5 to 6 bananas, a mango and about 10 small apples.
I still do the Bountiful Baskets and they have an organic basket now too (it isn't that cheap but better than what I spent on just apples!) We just go through the apples so fast and it is the only thing we all like. I am excited for the summer farmer's markets to start. Hopefully I can find some apples at a better price :)
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