Planning a market basket and retail product at Gourmet Gorilla

The Agriculture Task Force took two trips to Gourmet Gorilla, the company that supplies CJA's meals.  In Laron's words, "what we did was talk about products we are going to make and sell in a famous store. We also talked about logos and the market basket we hope to do.  A market basket has a lot of foods that we and our buddy Gourmet Gorilla will sell to families...I had fun and it was like Fourth of July all over again."

Derrick calculated profits for different products in our market basket.



"As we were there we took a tour"--Artis

"Our second trip to Gourmet Gorilla we had more time to be in the kitchen.  It was like we were chefs.  We made tomato soup and strawberry jam.  It took a long time to make."--Derrick

We flavored our jam with real vanilla from real vanilla beans.  Artis takes a whiff.

Everyone got to take home some jam we made, and we gave the extras to teachers who inspired us to do this work.

We also made tomato soup flavored with bacon, and everyone took some home as well.  We hope to sell the jam and the soup we created in a grocery store near you.