(2 heads broccoli, 2 bunches romaine, pkg mushrooms, 4 orange peppers, bunch spinach, bag carrots, cantaloupe, pkg strawberries, 8 bananas, 9 tangelos--mix between tangerine and grapefruit, 7 apples, and 4 lemons--WOW!)
I've been wanting to do Bountiful Baskets for over a year now but have kept putting it off. Yeah, avoiding the $3 start-up fee. Pretty much everyone I know down here goes every Saturday to pick big.....bountiful baskets!....of fruits and veggies. I had split a basket 3 ways a while back but didn't really notice what kind of a deal I was getting because I didn't end up getting very much. A few weeks ago I saw a friend's basket and about died. I signed up for a whole basket by myself a week later and this is what I got! It fills up a whole laundry basket! Score! It took us 2 weeks to eat all of this food and some of it even started going bad because there was so much.
My neighbor and I decided to split a basket every week so it would be more fresh and we would actually have room in our fridges for everything. It's like Christmas every Saturday morning when we go see what yummy new things we're going to get. I love how we always get things that I don't normally buy at the store, either because I've never tried them or they're just too expensive. It's been fun to let my kids try new things. But then we also get things that we use regularly like romaine, bananas, strawberries, etc. pretty often. This week we got 2 mangos, 2 coconuts, asparagus, and "forelles" among other things. I always have to come home and google something--like forelles are the smallest kind of pear and have great flavor.
Anywho, in case you've never used/heard of Bountiful Baskets, I thought I'd pass on the word to help others like me who are just looking for a good deal. Each basket is $15, or you can get organic for $25, and you choose which weeks you get it. This week we also added homemade honey wheat bread, which is an extra $10 for 5 loaves. I can't even imagine how much this stuff would add up to in the store! The other day I went looking for strawberries at Smith's and 1 container was $4! Another benefit to Bountiful Baskets is that the food is more local than food in the grocery stores in order to support local farmers and smaller farms. Bananas would come from Mexico as opposed to Asia, and other stuff comes from Washington, California, Idaho, etc. Obviously summer is a great time for Bountiful Baskets because stuff might come from your own town. So look at the Bountiful Baskets website and see if there are pickup sites in your area. It's seriously like Christmas every Saturday (to nerds like me)!!
3 comments:
I LOVE Bountiful Baskets! My kids get so excited to come too and see what we're getting. Last time they could not wait to get home to start eating the apples so they each had one in the car. I also like that it gives us the opportunity to try new foods that I normally wouldn't buy. Artichokes (yuck! unless in a dip) Brussell sprouts (not too bad)
Kale (made a yummy soup)
Asparagus (had it before/never buy it/too expensive) I drizzled it with olive oil and broiled in the oven. Sooooo good!!!!
Have you tried their 9 grain bread? Delicious! How 'bout their granola? Delicious! Expensive and fattening so I don't buy it. I just stole some from the inlaws.
MMMM Bountiful Baskets. We love them, we always like to try the crazy stuff they put in there. Their Jalepeno Cheese bread is probably one of the best breads for toast ever.
So jealous. I tried to see if they had them in OK last summer, but no luck. They seem like such a great deal.
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