Your wallet will thank you. I always knew there was a markup on bagged salads vs. buying a head of lettuce, but Trent over at The Simple Dollar has put it into concrete numbers for us.
Check out the article here.
Hey Devon, I bet you love this article:)
Trent highlights several different buy-fresh scenarios but I particularly liked this one:
Celery sticks? I can buy a bag of celery for $1.49 or I can buy about three containers of pre-sliced sticks for $1.99 each. I spend about four minutes cutting the sticks and it saves me $3.47 – or about $52 over the course of a full hour.
Eesh! I do prefer to buy produce as is, not pre-washed, pre-sliced, pre-etc..., but every once and awhile I do grab a bag-o-salad out of convenience, but it does add up, so thanks for the reminder!
Do you buy any of these convenience-packed produce options? How do you justify the costs?
3 comments:
Blick. Celery is nasty.
Not the celery part, turd! The MONEY-SAVING part!!!!
oh. lol.
i couldn't get past the large picture of celery.
:P
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