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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We get all of our organic produce and meat from a farm share for about $52/week and it's more than enough to feed us and a toddler. I don't even take the full allotment each week. If we take on an pair or have an extra house guest staying for the week, I can pick up more and still be within our alloted quota, so that stays at $52 - includes monthly meat, weekly produce, and eggs.

We get our dairy, any out of season fruits, dried fruits (for toddler snacking), plus the occasional pack of granola bars or something at a grocery store for about $30-50/week.

So our weekly "grocery" bill is actually quite low but cooking from scratch with vegetables that are fresh out of the ground can be really time consuming so we also order in or eat out twice a week. DH & I grab breakfast at work if we slept in too late to eat at home. Those little things + coffee really add up and make our overall food budget anywhere from $700-1000/month. We could definitely cut back if we were more organized, cooked on the weekend, or at least pre-chopped things on the weekend so it would be quicker to cook on weeknights. [/quote]

Where is this magical $52 produce and meat farmshare, and how much on average do you get each week.[/quote]

We're with Groundworks Farm (http://www.groundworksfarm.com/farm-share-options/winter-whole-farm-share/). We do their weekly produce, monthly meat, and weekly eggs (a dozen/week) which totals to $1240.70 for 24 weeks, averaging $51.70/week. We used to also get the cheese share and chickens, at which point you're at a "whole farm share" - getting a piece of all the farm's products - and that averages to $64/week. The monthly meat allotment is a lot - 17 points worth. Each lb of ground beef, lb of beacon or breakfast sausage, is 1 point. Steaks are 3-7 pts depending on size and cut. We get at least half of our monthly share if not more as 1 point items because that's what we like and we only make a steak or roast dinner twice a month or so, so the 17 points definitely is enough for our monthly consumption. If you eat only steaks and high end cut roasts then it may not last you as long.

For produce, the summer share is a lot of squash, greens, herbs, and melons. Right now we're in the winter share which is mostly root vegetables, greens, apples, veggies they were able to store from summer and a few things they jar themselves. For quantity, it's usually 1-2 huge bags of a leafy greens (sometimes 3 different kinds), a few pounds of different squash/root vegetables depending on season, 2-4 lbs of fruit, fresh herbs, onions, etc - we've never run out of veggies or greens in the year we've been using them. We occasionally like to have cauliflower which they don't grow on the farm so we'll pick one up every once and while but other than that, we get enough veggies for 4-5 people IMO. 
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