This week brought the start of more of a variety of veggies, with a sweet pepper, some pickling cukes and a few baby redskin potaotes, in addition to a bunch of zuchini. I really need to make up some of my ginger dipping sauce and start stir-frying my lunches, I still ahve a couple zuchini from last week! The Patty Pan squash is pretty cool- the newsletter said that we may possibly have one in the box (ours did!) and they would be rotating them through the boxes. I'm guessing those who didn't get the pattypan got additional zuchini.
I didn't know that zuchini could grow so fast- the newsletter mentioned that last week they harvested anything bigger than a finger, and I got some big zuchini- the largest was 2.6 lbs!
In the box this week:
Basil: 2.9 oz: $2.90
Bigger bunching onions: 11.8 oz $2.00
Zuchini: 3 big and 2 small 7.1 lbs total. $3.44 (at one farm stand large ones are $1 each, smaller are 90 cents/lb)
Patty Pan squash: 1.3 lb: $1.00 at least (I haven't seen these at the stands yet)
Sweet pepper: $0.50 (non-organic farmers stand pricing)
Pickling cukes: 5 small, 5.3 oz. $0.50 (at least, I have to check out local pricing on these, usually it's about $2/quart box)
Red baby potatoes: 3 small (and 2 tiny), 6.3 oz: $0.35 (I think it's about 90 cents a lb at the stands)
Total estimated value: $10.69
For the first week the value is "under" the average weekly cost, but much of what I am comparing it to is non-organic produce. IMHO this week is still a good deal, as long as we can polish off the zuchini as quickly as they give it to us!
