Do your home­work.  If you are crazy for bananas do some price com­par­isons from your avail­able sup­pli­ers includ­ing com­pet­ing gro­cery stores or prefer­ably the local farm­ers mar­ket. When con­sid­er­ing costs try to esti­mate what your weekly usage will be, how much dis­tance will be trav­eled to get them (fuel & time), and how long they will keep before going bad. Some­times when you weigh all three of those points together, cheaper doesn’t always mean its a sav­ings. Buy­ing them for .39 cents per lb doesn’t do any good if they are already turn­ing black before you pay for them. It also doesn’t pay off if you have to drive 25 miles each way to buy them.

We can wipe out some bananas with a fam­ily of four in no time. We learned to buy a large por­tion of them while they are still green. This helps sig­nif­i­cantly reduce re-stocking trips and fuel to the mar­ket or store. They ripen in no time (usu­ally) so that we have a new batch ready to eat just about every day. This is a skill to be learned through prac­tice. “peel on, peel off Danielsan”

BTW: This is another one you could get away with buy­ing con­ven­tional if you had to. You are going to peel it any­way so dont go broke if organic is too high for your bud­get right now. All in good time.  Organic is always best, but you have to make choices some­times and this is one where you can cut corners.

Lastly look into Fair Trade prod­ucts when­ever you can. You should be will­ing to spend a fair price for a fair prod­uct. The low­est price guar­an­tee always comes at the expense of some­thing, or more often then not,  some­one else..