To keep you regular...

I recently joined a food co-op.

For those unfamiliar with this notion, it's a group of people who each contribute a small amount of money, and then food is purchased at wholesale cost and distributed evenly among all the contributors.

Basically, it's an awesome way to get lots of food for little money.

My co-op deals mainly in produce. For example, this is what I got last week for $17:


















3 red peppers
1 pint cherry tomatoes
16 oz. baby carrots
1 head red leaf lettuce (huge!)
1 bunch spinach
1 bunch scallions
12 Utah peaches
9 apples (Honeycrisp, I think)
4 pluots
7 bananas
1 cantaloupe
1 pineapple

This makes me very happy (although I'm waiting for Debbie Meyer to stop by with some of her Green Bags...we cannot eat 7 bananas before they turn to mush!).

It's worth way more than $17. And we didn't get anything totally unusual.

We love having ripe fruits and vegetables in the house. You just feel...better...when you eat unprocessed, fresh-from-the-earth foods.

It's definitely worth googling to find out if something like this exists near you.

Now, does anyone know of a toilet paper co-op? Because between potty training and all this fruit, I could sure use a deal...