I noticed that more and more people are picking up boxed lettuce and other greens. The convenience is just so attractive. The cost is a small deterrent against the time it will take to wash and trim the greens.
Let's think this through. Immature greens are picked before they mature, cut, washed, dried and packaged neatly for twice the cost of the mature greens, some of which you will trim and throw in the compost pile. I'm looking at the time it takes to get the boxed greens to my supermarket, versus the dirty greens that come to me straight from the farm.
Time is the issue. Not the time it takes you to trim and wash. But, the time it took for those greens to get to your table. Think about it. One day to harvest, one day to wash and trim, another to package, another to travel to your supermarket. Four days versus your five minutes to prepare the farm greens.
I'm not considering the fact that immature greens do not have the same vitamins and nutritional values as mature plants.
Do you want to save the planet and save money? Eliminate travel and packaging and eat stuff that comes to you directly from the local farmers.
No to boxes, bags or any other contrivance! Give me fresh and unwrapped * any day!
ReplyDeleteEliminate all travel and time costs and if you want small leaf salad then grow your own for the price of a mixed salad leaf pkt in an old plastic tray on your windowsill and that way you can just cut and come again.
ReplyDeleteI'm a farmer's market fan. Wish they were easier to come by.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you. On occasion, I have bought bagged lettuce and half of it was already rotten in the bag and it was not expired. Fresh is always best!
ReplyDeleteRight there with you...can't wait to get some in the garden.
ReplyDeletei'm against boxed ones to... i have most of the veggies in our garden, at our native. it's why i love to go there often :)
ReplyDeletesometimes it's my only alternative.
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